Israel: the choice
Israel gets a BAD press Perhaps some of it is justified—lsrael’s
government is no more godly than Britain’s—but
European media seem to accept uncritically the relentless flood of Arab
propaganda that targets the West. In fact there is a vast gap between the
public statements of Palestinian leaders for the English-speaking world,
and what they say in Arabic to their own people on television, in the
mosques, and in Islamic schools. In this edition of
Prophecy Today,
we seek to counter propaganda with contributions from objective writers
who are careful observers of Middle-East affairs. We set the scene with
quotations straight from the mouths of Palestinian Authority religious
leaders and educators of Muslim children. They reveal chilling, cynical
strategies and goals that are never reported by the politically correct
press:
TV preachers – Islam style
‘We the
Palestinian nation, our fate from Allah is to be the vanguard in the war
against the Jews until the resurrection of the dead, as the prophet
Muhammad said: ‘The resurrection of the dead will not arrive until you
will fight the Jews and kill them.”—Dr. Muhammed Ibrahim Madi, Palestinian
Television, 30 March 2001.
‘The
Jews are the Jews... They are all liars. They are terrorists. Therefore it
is necessary to slaughter them and murder them, according to the words of
Allah. It is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews in any
place and in any land. Make war on them any place that you find yourself
Any place that you encounter them, kill them. Kill the Jews and those
among the Americans that are like them. The Jews only understand might.
Have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere.’— the preacher Dr.
Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiah, a member of the Palestinian Sharianic (Islamic
religious law) Rulings Council, and Rector of Advanced Studies, the
Islamic University, Palestinian Television, 13 October 2000
‘Blessed is he who fights Jihad in the name of Allah, blessed is he who
[goes on] raids in the name of Allah, blessed is he who dons a vest of
explosives on himself or on his children and goes in to the depth of the
Jews and says: Allahu Akbar, Blessed be Allah. Like the collapse of the
building upon the heads of the Jews in their sinful dance-hall, I ask of
Allah that we see the Knesset collapsing on the heads of the Jews.’—Dr.
Muhammad Ibrahim Madi, Friday Sermon, Palestinian TV, June 8, 2001.
TV politicians – Islam style
‘We are
discussing the current problems and when we speak about Jerusalem it
doesn’t mean that we have forgotten about Hebron or about Jaffa or about
Acre... we are speaking about the current problems that have priority at a
certain time. It doesn’t mean that we have given up... We have announced a
number of times that from a religious point of view Palestine from the sea
to the river is Islamic.’ [Note: Jaffa and Acre are Israeli
cities.]—Sheikh lkrima Sabri - The Palestinian Authority appointed Mufti
of Jerusalem and Palestine on Palestinian Television, 11 January 2001.
‘All of
the agreements entered into [with Israel] are temporary, until the decree
comes from Allah and until the destiny from Allah is realized.’—Dr.
Muhammed Ibrahim Madi., Palestinian Television, 28 July 2000.
‘We
exaggerate when we say ‘peace’... what we are speaking about is ‘Hudna’, a
temporary ceasefire.’—Arab Knesset Member Abdel Maleh Dahamshe,
Palestinian Television, 1 September 2000.
School lessons—lslam style
‘Patriotism in Islam: In Islam, it is not improper for a Muslim to love
his homeland. To the contrary, Islam encourages this, and established its
defence as an obligatory commandment for every Muslim if even a centimetre
of his land is stolen. I, a Palestinian Muslim, love my country
Palestine... Islam considers anyone who is killed while defending [the
land] a martyr of the highest order.. .‘—Islamic Education, sixth grade,
Part A, p. 67-68, September 2000.
While
this hate-filled rhetoric pours from mosques and textbooks into the minds
of Islamic people, western sympathies are being manipulated by biased
reporting in the media. What does this mean for the future? Is there any
hope of peace in the Middle East when the declared objective of Islamic
leaders is to drive all Jews out of the region and to destroy Israel?
With
rising tension between India and Pakistan, and in many other parts of the
world, the conflict in Israel could escalate worldwide. It is not easy to
understand what is happening in Israel and the Palestinian territories or
to appreciate the true nature of the conflict—hence our special feature
‘Israel: the Choice’. |
