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Updates
from AIJAC
British
and Arab Antisemitism
December
20, 2001
Number 12/01 #09
Barring unexpected
developments, this will be the last Update for this year. AIJAC is closed
over the Christmas and New Years public holiday period, but will re-open
on Jan. 7, and Updates will resume at that time.
In view of
this, I hope readers will excuse an unusually long Update. The heart of
it is a large compilation of media comment from the Middle East in the
aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, prepared by the American anti-racism
organisation, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Given our past frequent
reference to the problems of antisemitism and anti-Americanism in Middle
East media, I thought it would be good for readers to have access to a
large body of examples to illustrate what we are talking about. Some of
you might not want to read the whole lot, but I hope you will at least
dip in a toe and have a look at a few examples. (If you go the ADL website,
http://www.adl.org you can also have a look at some of the rather nasty
cartoons that accompany the report.) However, before you do that, you
should certainly read the article by British journalist Barbara Amiel,
the wife of Canadian media tycoon Conrad Black, below. Amiel points out
how anti-Israel sentiments have made open antisemitism acceptable for
much of the British elite, but that Arafat's behaviour and the Sept. 11
attacks are starting to open people's eyes.
Have a good
holiday, everyone.
Daily
Telegraph, Dec. 18, 2001
What those
in the London salons don't -- or won't -- see
Barbara Amiel
LONDON -
In a column in last week's London Spectator, Petronella Wyatt noted that
"since September 11 anti-Semitism and its open expression has become respectable
at London dinner tables."
This is an
accurate observation and cannot be avoided by simply staying at home.
Recently,
the ambassador of a major EU country politely told a gathering at my home
that the current troubles in the world were all because of "that sh-tty
little country Israel".
"Why," he
asked, "should the world be in danger of World War Three because of those
people?"
At a private
lunch last month, the hostess - doyenne of London's political salon scene
- made a remark to the effect that she couldn't stand Jews and everything
happening to them was their own fault.
When this
was greeted with a shocked silence, she chided her guests on what she
assumed was their hypocrisy. "Oh come on," she said, "you all feel like
that."
Once that
remark would have cost her licence as a serious political hostess, but
clearly she believes the zeitgeist is blowing her way.
The editor
of a major British newspaper came to our home, and I can tell Petronella
Wyatt that it can be just as awkward with good friends at lunch as it
is with strangers at dinner.
The editor
is a decent man but his paper habitually blames Israel's "opposition to
peace" for the problems in the Middle East and lectures them to negotiate.
"But, look," he was asked, "Arafat does not believe in the right of the
Jewish people to a state. How can the Israelis negotiate in that situation?"
The editor
replied with disarming honesty: "You have put your finger on the weak
point in our argument."
All this
is not as bad as it seems. True, these remarks are exceptionally painful
for some British Jews who feel beleaguered aliens in their own land. For
myself, it merits only a shrug.
One is irritated
when, as last October, the community hall of a north London synagogue
burnt down in what police labelled a racist arson attack and the matter
barely rated a mention except in the Jewish press.
The Monday
after the triple suicide bombings in Israel that killed 26 and injured
around 200, the Evening Standard turned to Charles Glass, an old anti-Israel
hand. Glass wrote: "Palestinians kill Israelis. Israelis kill Palestinians.
Who killed first? No one remembers and it does not matter."
For the past
25 years, I've watched sad-faced Israeli activists trudge around Western
capitals with heavy hearts beating under ill-fitting suits. They carry
folders of transcripts and videotapes to document the misrepresentations
in the press and the moral hypocrisy of the world towards Israel.
They want
to win the war of ideas on its merits. Their attention to detail in translating
the hate literature of the Middle East and the hate-filled speeches of
its leaders is commendable.
It's enlightening
to read, for example, their studies of Syrian and Palestinian Authority
school textbooks that explain to young schoolchildren that the Jews are
a people made up of rapists, murderers and thieves.
It is sad
to learn that such PA textbooks are used by the UN in its schools for
Palestinian refugees. But something new is "blowin' in the wind".
Today, after
years in the media desert, Israel's experts and front-line activists are
slowly finding some media doors opening to them. They may think it is
their own perseverance. But I think it is the daisy cutter effect.
For years,
I said that Jews were out of fashion and I understood why. The world was
sick of the Middle East problem: why should it be inconvenienced by the
cost and the ripple effect of terrorism?
The West
defeated the Third Reich and we Jews were no longer in need of a lifeboat:
indeed, today we would probably be safer just about anywhere rather than
the Middle East. But events in the past year or so changed the equation
and our rehabilitation has begun. The Arab/ Muslim world overplayed its
hand.
Their first
wrong move was the rejection of prime minister Ehud Barak's offer in 2000.
Even if you looked at that proposal from an Arab point of view and believed
that a Palestinian state comprising 95 per cent of the West Bank and a
shared Jerusalem was not sufficient, you couldn't possibly argue that
such a deal should be rejected out of hand.
The second
mistake was launching the Al-Aqsa intifada after rejecting that deal.
Eventually, the world saw that it was not Ariel Sharon's walk on the Temple
Mount that caused the new intifada (a walk pre-cleared with the Muslim
authorities) but Arafat's decision to escalate violence for tactical reasons.
The greatest
error of all was when bin Laden, acting in the name of the Arab/Muslim
world, decided - with a total incomprehension of what this would entail
- to blow up Lower Manhattan and blow it up at a time when the American
administration was in the hands of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and not Clinton
and Gore.
The Arab
street remained silent at best or cheered the WTC bombing even as some
of their leaders made ritual condemnations of it. Almost overnight, a
blindfold fell off America's eyes. Appeasement didn't work.
The problem
was not Israel's intransigence, nor even the conflict that comes from
Israel's existence: the problem is Islamism.
Islam itself
is split between Islam as a religion that can be essentially peaceful
- endorsing the qualities of charity and mercy - and militant Islam (Islamism),
which is intolerant and expansionist. Islam periodically goes into this
expansionary phase and is now in one.
That is why
in the past few years some mosques in the West have seen violent incidents,
including murders, as radical mullahs fight moderates for supremacy. Militant
Islam wants to be the dominant force in the world.
Its crusade
has Muslims fighting Christians in Indonesia, Sudan and Pakistan. Christians
in Lebanon have largely fled. Muslim fights Muslim in Algeria. Islamism
has been on the move all right, but it hasn't a chance now, because it
finally woke up America.
It took the
blowing up of three planes on an airstrip outside Jordan by Palestinian
terrorists in 1970 to turn the world's attention to the Palestinian question.
One regrets to say that it has taken a lot more violence to get the world
to focus on the true nature of Islamism.
Powerful
as the truth may be, it needs a nudge from 16,000lb daisy cutter bombs
once in a while. The Arab/Muslim world's intransigence comes into sharper
focus when we see the Americans liberate Afghanistan from the Taliban
in six weeks and a cornered Arafat unable to go to the bathroom without
the risk of being blown into the next world.
Nothing succeeds
like powerful bombs, as bin Laden explained in his latest video release.
"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will
like the strong horse," he said.
"Some of
the media said that in Holland, in one of the centres, the number of people
who accepted Islam during the days that followed the operations [attacks
on the WTC and the Pentagon] were more than the people who accepted Islam
in the past 11 years."
Bin Laden
understands the power of a successful show of force all right, though
he seems slow to grasp that America's horses are stronger than his.
Don't worry,
Petronella. It is both sad and true that the consequences of super-liberalism
led to suicide bombers and intifadas in Israel and to the attacks in America.
But the US has shown it is no paper tiger.
All those
people bad-mouthing the Jews and Israel will quieten down. You are looking
at the tail end of the train but the engine has already turned a corner
and is going in the opposite direction.
Nothing succeeds
like success. America is driving this train and the world will get on
board - though the last carriage may be those London dinner parties.
Barbara
Amiel is a columnist with London's Daily Telegraph.
SEPTEMBER
11 AND ARAB MEDIA:
THE ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-AMERICAN BLAME GAME
The ongoing
anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-Israel demonization in the Arab and
Muslim media intensified following the September 11 attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The blame-Israel,
blame-America conspiracy theories proliferated, with widely circulated
rumors of Israeli/Zionist/Jewish responsibility for the attacks and the
subsequent Anthrax-laced letters. Other articles in the Arab media offered
justification for - even delight at - the attacks because of American
foreign policy.
Such accusations
and depictions have long been present in the Arab and Muslim media. Incendiary
anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-Israel articles and caricatures appear
with regularity in newspapers of countries who are American allies, and
with whom Israel has peaceful relations or who are negotiating partners.
Since 9-11,
media outlets in the countries and entities which have joined the U.S.
coalition against terrorism - Egypt, Syria, Iran, Jordan, Palestinian
Authority, Qatar, Lebanon, Pakistan - have printed and broadcast stories
and opinion that belie their government's cooperation with Washington.
ISRAEL
TO BLAME FOR SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS/ANTHRAX SCARE
"An
Israeli government spokesman reported a few days ago the news of arresting
a number of Israelis by the US intelligence bodies in Florida. This
might seem strange but what is more significant is the deliberate ignorance
by the Israeli government of the reason for the arrests. The Israelis
did not even mention the reason or the case for which their subjects
were detained. The point is that a big quantity of the Anthrax germ
was held with the Israelis when they were arrested. Moreover, the detainees
had 15 charts of the New York Trade Center and eight charts of the Pentagon
building which were attacked on September 11th. This is in addition
to other six charts of the White House, which was among the would-be
targets of the September 11th attacks. According to discreet US reports,
the charts found with the Israelis had accurately drawn the Pentagon
building and the World Trade Center and defined their geometric projections,
as well as, precisely depicted the many floors. Further, some data included
in the charts define the itineraries of civil passenger planes and their
destinations!!! The question is: Why does the American Administration
accuse others of the September 11th attacks even there is no evidence
that proves the accusation of others? This is not in defence of others,
but a logical analysis of realities. The Israeli government may find
pretexts to get its subjects out of the circle of suspicion despite
the fact that the documents and the deadly germ found with them are
sufficient to place them in the dock as terrorist Number One, who have
the ability to carry out attacks such as those of New York and Washington.
It would be easy to accuse others since the Zionists have a tremendous
influence in the US decision-making circles, but the Americans shouldnt
have taken the easy way to launch war against a poor nation under the
pretext of terrorism at a time when the Israelis have been practising
the ugliest acts of terrorism against the defenceless Palestinian people.
Uncle Sam shouldnt have connived with the Israeli terrorist acts,
particularly that they have documents relevant to the attacks. We just
ask Uncle Sam to face reality not to fight windmills in Afghanistan
or elsewhere!"
-Syria Times,
Syrian newspaper, November 14, 2001, by M. Agha
"Six
Israelis suspected of involvement in the attacks on New York and Washington
were arrested in the US, to be later released. This confirms our strong
suspicions about the involvement of Israels Mossad in the ugly
crime. If we look carefully into this matter, we find no more influential
sides in the US that the Israeli Mossad agents, who have the ability
to penetrate and the capability to execute with high efficiency."
- editorial
in Okaz, Saudi mass-circulation daily, posted November 6, 2001 on The
Times of India online, http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=947236290
"Bin
Ladens Al-Qaida is a possible suspect, but I would also
suggest the involvement of the Israeli Mossad. The scare may be an attempt
to shift attention from greater Israeli atrocities in the Palestinian
territories."
- Al-Ahram
Weekly Online, Egyptian newspaper, October 25-31, 2001, article entitled
"Whos doing it?" by Mamdouh Attiya, who is purported to be an expert
on global strategic matters and weapons of mass destruction.
"The
Syrian official [Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Turki Mohammad Saqar] said
that the racist Zionist regime will be the beneficiary of the recent
incidents and added that one day after the September 11 attacks on New
York and Washington, Israel killed 12 Palestinians and was proud of
it. He also said that there are reliable evidence to prove that the
Israelis have been involved in these incidents and added that no Jewish
employee was present in the World Trade Organization buildings on the
day of the attack, and Sharons visit to the U.S. was postponed
before the incident."
- Tehran
Times.com, Iranian newspaper, October 25, 2001; Islamic Republic News
Agency (IRNA), October, 24, 2001
"Everyone
is assuming that Islamic terrorists are to blame for the Boca Raton
Anthrax incident. We believe that the terrorists are actually Zionists
. . . The envelope sent to the Boca Raton news service with the "Star
of David" charm appears to also come [from] Zionists. They, the Zionists,
want to silence us because they do not like what we write. Everyone
is assuming that the dangers we face is from Islamic terrorists, but
our experience has been different. We fear Zionist terrorists more."
- Syria Times
online, Syrian newspaper, October 16, 2001, reprinting an article under
the headline, "Anthrax Terrorists May be Zionists," by Hector Carreon,
head of the Nation of Aztlan, a fringe California-based Hispanic nationalist
organization that has published several anti-Semitic articles in the past
year in its online publication, La Voz de Aztlan.
"The
September 11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Centre (WTC) in New York
and Pentagon in Washington were masterminded by an international Zionist
organization, The Elders of Zion, as a reaction to the strong
condemnation of the religio-ethnic cleansing policy being carried out
by the Israelis in the Palestinian territories at the 3rd UN Conference
against Racism recently held in the South African town of Durban. According
to an article published in a Lahore-based Urdu weekly, The Jihad
Times, the 300-member apex Zionist body consisting of peers of
the Judaism in the world, decided to avenge the anti-Israel bashing
at the Durban moot. It tasked the Zionist-controlled FBI and the Israeli
secret agency Shabak, just second to Mossad, to carry out the devastating
attacks, writes the weekly on the basis of strong evidence." "The Shabak
officials were preparing films of the attack and were jubilant over
the success of the operation and were seen dancing on the occasion."
"The Israeli consulate . . . immediately contacted the Jews in the FBI
high command on the issue who directed the investigators not to make
the incident public through [the] media." "Another extremely important
information leaked out was that around 4,000 Israelis working in the
World Trade Center had been issued a secret directive before the incident
not to report for duty on September 11 which they complied with. This
is evident from the fact that not a single Israeli or American Jew working
in the WTC was reported killed or missing. The EoZ [Elders of Zion]
is learnt to have instructed the Zionist controlled media to unleash
a vilification campaign against the Muslims portraying them as the perpetrators
of the attacks on the U.S. cities."
- excerpts
from an article entitled "Zionists Could Be Behind Attack on WTC and Pentagon,"
posted October 14, 2001 on the Web site, www.islamweb.net/english, which
is registered to the State of Qatar Ministry of Endowments and Religious
Affairs. The "facts" in this posting are attributed to the Lahore-based
Jihad Times.
The results
of an opinion poll commissioned by the Pakistani Web site, http://www.Paknews.com,
reported that 71 percent of respondents thought it was a "possible fact"
that 4,000 Jews failed to report to work on September 11 because they
had advance warning of the terrorist attacks. (The Washington Post, Oct.
13, 2001)
"Following
the incident, Muslims and Arabs stopped feeling that is was safe to
leave [their homes in America]
Muslims do not feel safe even going
to the hospitals, because some Jewish doctors in one of the hospitals
poisoned sick Muslim children, who then died . . . Although the Americans
suspect that the Zionists are behind the act [the terrorist attacks],
none had the courage to talk about it in public . . . The Jewish element
is as Allah described when he said: They disseminate corruption
in the land, We know they have always broken agreements, unjustly
murdered the prophets and betrayed the faith. Can they be expected to
live up to their contracts with us? There people murdered the prophets;
do you think they will stop spilling our blood? No."
- Egyptian
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Gameia, the Al-Azhar University representative
in the U.S. and former Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque
of New York City, in an interview for the Web site www.lilatalqadr.com,
an unofficial Al-Azhar University site, October 4, 2001 (The Middle East
Research Institute (MEMRI), October 17, 2001, No. 288)
"Atta
Sr. accused the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, of being behind
the New York and Washington Attacks."
- Al-Ahram
Weekly Online, Egyptian newspaper, September 27 October 3, 2001,
by Jailan Halawi
"To
many Arabs, the culprit was obvious: the Mossad, Israels intelligence
service. Who would be the beneficiary of this? asked a columnist
in Al-Arabi newspaper, mouthpeice of the Nasserist Party. The
Mossad, of course. This assumption should come as no surprise:
after watching Israels behaviour in the region for many decades,
when things blow up, Arabs naturally assume Israeli involvement. The
conspiracy theorists adduced plenty of other circumstantial evidence
to support their claims. Sharon had a golden opportunity to tarnish
the image of the Arabs and Muslims and cause a deep schism in Arab/American
relations, they said. Advocates of this theory also pointed out that
the Mossad has targeted American interests before, ever since the 1960s."
- Al-Ahram
Weekly Online, Egyptian newspaper, September 27 October 3, 2001
by Omayma Abdel-Latif (story on the family of Muhammad Atta, who is believed
to be key organizer of the September 11 attacks)
"Ex-chief
of the Egyptian Intelligence Service Amin Hweidi said the Israeli Mossad
may have a hand in planning the destructive attacks in New York and
Washington. . . Hweidi said he did not rule out an Israeli role in the
US bombings whether by the Mossad or other Israeli intelligence services
because Israel is the only beneficiary of all what has taken place."
- Syrian
Times online, Syrian newspaper, September 27, 2001
"Why
not suspect Mossad of having sought to shake the United States and the
world, upon directives from (Israeli Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon who
wants to divert attention away from his aggressive plot, and link the
attacks to the Arabs, the Muslims, and Osama bin Laden. If Osama bin
Laden really had at his disposal such fantastic capabilities, sophisticated
electronic talents and a meticulous organisation, as they (the Americans)
claim, he would have directed all that against Israel for the simple
reason that it is closer."
Ath-Thawra,
Syrian government newspaper, September 19, 2001 (AFP, September 19, 2001)
"With
the announcement of the attacks at the World Trade Center in New York,
the international media, particularly the Israeli one, hurried to take
advantage of the incident and started mourning 4000 Israelis who work
at the two towers. Then suddenly, no one ever mentioned anything about
those Israelis and later it became clear that they remarkably did not
show up in their jobs the day the incident took place. No one talked
about any Israeli being killed or wounded in the attacks. Arab diplomatic
sources revealed to the al-Watan newspaper published in Oman that those
Israelis remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General
Security Apparatus, the Shabak, the fact which evoked unannounced suspicions
on American officials who wanted to know how the Israeli government
learned about the incident before it occurred, and the reasons why it
refrained from informing the U.S authorities of the information it had.
Suspicions had increased further after Israeli newspaper Yadiot Ahranot
revealed that the Shabak prevented Israeli premier Ariel Sharon from
traveling to New York and particularly to the citys eastern coast
to participate in a festival organized by the Zionist organizations
in support of the "Israel". Aharon Bernie, the commentator at the newspaper,
brought up the issue and came up with a negative conclusion, saying
"no answer". He then asked about the clue behind the Shabaks position
in preventing Sharons participation, and again without giving
an answer. Bernie added that Sharon, who was delighted for having his
speech on top of the festival agenda, asked the head of the organization
to mediate and convince the Shabak to change its position, but his attempts
were in vein. The next day after Sharons secretary officially
announced that Sharon would not participate the incident took place.
For its part, the Israeli Haaretz newspaper revealed that the
FBI arrested five Israelis four hours after the attack on the Twin Towers
while filming the smoking skyline from the roof of their companys
building. The FBI had arrested the five for "puzzling behavior". They
are said to have been caught videotaping the disaster in what was interpreted
as cries of joy and mockery."
- from the
English language version of the Web site of Lebanons Al-Manar Television
posted September 17, 2001.
"The
Arab wise-guys (referring to those who condemned the attacks) are granting
the US who has opposed them in all international forums and in
all arenas of the war permission to attack their peoples and
their friends, especially in light of the fact that the American investigators
are restricting their investigation to [suspects with] Arab names, as
if the Arabs are entirely to blame
It never occurs to the US that
there are others who benefit more from the attacks on the US cities
than the Arabs and the Muslims. I refer mainly to Israel, especially
since one of the suspects mentioned by the media lived in occupied Palestine
and could very possibly have been used by Israel
"
- excerpts
from an article by University of Lebanon lecturer Mustafa Juzo, published
in Al-Hayat (London), September 17, 2001 (MEMRI, September 20, 2001, No.
272)
"You
must look inside. F-16s dont scramble in time, though they had
18 minutes after the first plane hit the World Trade Center. Radar gets
jammed. Transponders are turned off. A flight to Los Angeles turns to
Washington and is in the air for 45 minutes, and the worlds most
sophisticated air defense doesnt go into action. I tell you, it
was a coup [attempt], and I cant say for sure who was behind it,
but its the Israelis who are creating so much misery in the world.
The Israelis dont want to see any power in Washington unless its
subservient to their interests, and President Bush has not been subservient."
- Major General
Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistans intelligence service, in an
interview with Rob Nordland of Newsweek, September 14, 2001.
"What
happened is, in my opinion, the product of Jewish, Israeli, and American
Zionism, and the act of the great Jewish Zionist mastermind that controls
the world's economy, media, and politics
The goal of the suicide
operations in New York was, in my opinion, to push the American people,
President Bush, and NATO to submit even more to the Jewish Zionist ideology
and the historical goals [it has held] since the Basel Congress in 1897,
under the Zionist-Jewish slogan of 'Islamic terror'
We have said
in the past that Jewish-Israeli-American Zionism is leading the region
to disaster, and that it is trying to lead the Americans and its worldwide
allies to world disaster. Perhaps what happened on American [ground]
is the beginning of the world disaster."
- Al-Dustour,
Jordanian newspaper, September 13, 2001, by columnist Ahmad Al-Muslih
(MEMRI, September 20, 2001, No. 270).
"Who
committed the attacks? Terrorists. Then fingers are immediately pointed
at Arabs and Islam, as if those who accuse us were already mobilizes
to do so. We as Arabs, Muslims, Christians, are not terrorists. It is
Zionism and Zionist organisations in the western world who are making
false accusations against us."
- Ath-Thawra,
Syrian government newspaper, September 13, 2001 (AFP, September 13, 2001)
"Maybe
some will think that I am hallucinating things when I speak of Jewish
Zionist hands behind the terrible event that struck at the US. Maybe
[they will say] that this is one of many hands. But anyone following
the reactions has noticed one headline: the American-Zionist-Israeli
'Holy Alliance' indicate that "international terror" is to blame. By
international terror, [this alliance] means, first and foremost, Islam
and the Arabs
In a lengthy interview with the Arab League representative
in Paris for the [Egyptian] French-language Al-Nil television channel,
[the representative] refrained from pointing directly at the Jews, because
as an official he cannot do such a thing before an investigation reveals
it, but he [implied] it
We must direct all diplomatic and media
efforts not only towards washing our hands of it and denying our involvement
from the defendant's seat but also to [launching] a counter-campaign
that will shift us to a stronger offensive position."
- Al-Dustour,
Jordanian newspaper, September 13, 2001, by Lebanese-Jordanian Holocaust
denier Hayat Al-Hweiek 'Atiya (MEMRI, September 20, 2001, No. 270)
"It
is clear that Israel is the one to benefit greatly from the bloody,
loathsome terror operation that occurred yesterday, and that it seeks
to benefit still more by accusing the Arabs and Muslims of perpetrating
this loathsome attack
Only Israel does not fear the discovery
that the Jews are behind this operation, if indeed it was so; who in
the US or outside it would dare to accuse them, as every blow to them
means talk of a new 'Holocaust?' They, more than anyone, are capable
of hiding a criminal act they perpetrate, and they can be certain that
no one will ask them about what they do."
- Al-Dustour,
Jordanian newspaper, September 13, 2001, by columnist Rakan Al-Majali
(MEMRI, September 20, 2001, No. 270)
"I
personally eliminate the possibility that Arab and Islamic organizations
stood behind these acts
Why [couldn't it be] that Zionist organizations
perpetrated it, so that Israel could destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque while
the world was preoccupied with what happened in America
?"
- Al-Rai,
Jordanian newspaper, September 13, 2001, by columnist Jihad Jabara (MEMRI,
September 20, 2001, No. 270)
"I
say that Israel benefits from the explosions
We all know that
there are extreme religious groups in the US who believe that the coming
of the Messiah is near, and who aspire to purify Americans of all their
human crimes. Among them are those who believe in committing suicide
in order to reach Paradise, through punishing the human race. Mass suicide
of entire groups has already occurred. We do not know whether Jews as
well, more precisely the Mossad, have not had a hand in what happened,
out of evil and dangerous intentions."
- Al-Dustour,
Jordanian newspaper, September 13, 2001, by columnist Mussa Hawamdeh (MEMRI,
September 20, 2001, No. 270)
MUSLIMS/ARABS
NOT TO BLAME FOR SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS
"Management
and coordination of these attacks would have needed a long period of
study and planning which would have been impossible unless some people
inside the United States had cooperated and even masterminded the incidents
. . . These attacks would have been impossible without the cooperation
of some elements inside the security forces of the United States."
- Abbas Maleki,
director of the Caspian Sea Studies Office, quoted in an article in Tehran
Times.com, Iranian newspaper, October 22, 2001, entitled "September 11
attacks impossible without help of U.S. groups."
"Osama
bin Laden and those with him have said what indicates that they stand
behind this carefully planned act. We, in turn, ask: Are bin Laden and
his supporters the only ones behind what happened or is there another
power with advanced technical expertise that acted with them?"
- Prince
Sultan, Saudis Defense Minister, in an interview published in Kuwaits
as-Seyassah newspaper, October 22, 2001 (Reuters)
"Anti-terrorism
efforts should not sideline efforts to identify the psychological and
political roots of this phenomenon. U.S. officials intend to define
terrorism as a phenomenon unrelated to U.S. policies and limit to the
hard-line Islamic groups. Consequently, the U.S. is trying to evade
its responsibilities in creating this phenomenon. Currently, there are
two sorts of terrorism in the world. First, state-sponsored terrorism,
the best of which in the world is the Zionist regime which is supported
by the U.S. and the UK. Over the past fifty years, the Zionist regime
has been the main source of disorder and insecurity in the Arab World."
- The Tehran
Times.com, Iranian newspaper, October 16, 2001, fabricating a quote of
former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.
"I
dont think it would be contentious to say that the unprecedented
disaster witnessed by New York and Washington the day before yesterday
was planned and executed by American citizens. The list of potential
perpetrators resentful on American foreign policy is tediously long,
but there is plenty of evidence to suggest that neither the Palestinians
nor the Serbs were implicated . . . Those who violated the quintessential
symbols of the most powerful country in the world the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon, the White House could not have been Palestinians,
who are in no position to contemplate, let alone implement, anything
more than acts of sabotage designed to pressure America to alter its
unfair Middle East policy"
- Al-Ahram
Weekly Online, Egyptian newspaper, September 13-19, 2001, article entitled
"An Inside Job?" by Salah Montasser
"There
is a possibility that this was an [act of] ancient retribution
The US declared war on Japan, and used the atomic bomb for the first
time, against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [The bomb] killed more than 221,983
Japanese, and was the cause of the Japanese defeat and the end of the
war in 1945. Has the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki been resurrected
sixty years later?"
- Tishrin,
Syrian newspaper, September 13, 2001, by columnist Hassan M, Yussef (MEMRI,
September 20, 2001, No. 270)
"[Perhaps]
the perpetrators of the attack belong to local American militias
It could also be that they are young people who hacked into the computer
directing internal air traffic and aimed the airplanes at painful targets
"
- Al-Safir,
Lebanese newspaper, September 12, 2001, by columnist Nur Al-Din Sate
(MEMRI, September 20, 2001, No. 270)
CELEBRATION
OF SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS/ANTHRAX SCARE
"The
truth is that I wondered how to begin! Should I greet you [i.e. anthrax],
or should I curse you? Should I hold my tongue?
I will begin by
saying: Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown horror
in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of boastfulness!
Your gentle touch has made the U.S.'s life rough and pointless. You
have filled the lady who horrifies and terrorizes the world with fear,
and her feet almost fail to bear [her weight] in horror and fear of
you. Because of you, she has lost confidence in the moment in which
she lives, or in which she will live . . . In sound mind, I thank you
and confess that I like you, I like you very much. May you continue
to advance, to permeate, and to spread. If I may give you a word of
advice, enter the air of those symbols,' the water faucets from
which they drink, and the pens with which they draft their traps and
conspiracies against the wretched peoples
Turn the bodies of the
tyrants into matches burning slowly and gradually, so that they understand
that the truth belongs to Allah and that they should give those entitled
to rights their rights."
- op-ed article
in Al-Risala, Gaza-based Hamas weekly, November 7, 2001, by columnist
Dr. 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, entitled "To Anthrax" (MEMRI, November 7, 2001,
No. 297)
"As
a lawyer, I say to Suspect No. 1, as the American government calls him:
Oh Osama . . . you are a hero in the full sense of the word. [You possess]
all the manly virtues, those [virtues] lacking in the half-men who control
the Muslim and Arab resources (i.e. Arab rulers). For this reason, you
will continue to live in our hearts and in our minds . . . Allahs
peace, mercy, and blessings are upon you; no peace, no mercy, and no
blessings on the traitors and cowards who have been blinded to the truth
by the pleasures of domination. May you eradicate American and its infinite
justice; victory to Islam and the Muslims."
- Afaq Arabiya,
Egyptian-based journal of the Muslim Brotherhood, September 26, 2001,
by Dr. Ahmad Al-Magdoub (MEMRI, October 4, 2001, No. 281)
"Although
some were sorry about the killing of innocent Americans in Washington
and New York, most of [our] people derived satisfaction from the insult
to the American pride, and from the shaking of faith that the American
cowboy, Little Bush, places in the intelligence apparatuses and their
agents throughout the world. There was nearly an Egyptian consensus
on the matter, except for a few ministers who, in their hypocrisy, rushed
to the American Embassy to ostentatiously offer their condolences."
- Al-Ahrar,
Egyptian opposition press, September 25, 2001, by retired general Sallah
A-Sin Salim, advisor at the National Center for Middle East Studies (MEMRI,
October 4, 2001, No. 281)
"Millions
across the world shouted in joy: American was hit! . . . This call expressed
the sentiments in millions across the world, whom the American master
has treated with tyranny, arrogance, bullying, conceit, deceit, and
bad taste like every bully whom no one has yet put in his place.
True, thousands of innocents became victims . . .among them Egyptians
who had immigrated to the U.S. in search of opportunity and [a better]
life; but what can a person do when the neighborhood bully gets [a blow]
from behind that shakes his very existence, insults his dignity and
humiliates him? Obviously [the person] is glad, even if it is wrong
to rejoice . . ."
- Al-Maydan,
Egyptian independent weekly, September 24, 2001, by Dr. Nabil Farouq (MEMRI,
October 4, 2001, No. 281)
"President
Dubya Bush will continue to struggle between threatening to launch a
crusader war and apologizing to the Muslims . . . Apparently, he doesnt
want to understand that he is reaping the thorns sown by himself and
all his predecessors in Palestine, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, the Sudan,
Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Japan. Behind every act of destruction is
a little American demon . . . America cannot see the fate that awaits
it, despite everything that happened on that bloody Tuesday; America
is on its way to collapse, like all the empires of oppression throughout
history. If only our generations would have the chance to witness that
dramatic spectacle . . ."
- Al-Maydan,
Egyptian independent weekly, September 24, 2001, by editor Issam
Al-Ghazi (MEMRI, October 4, 2001, No. 281)
"He
[Bush] declares that anyone who does not support him supports terror,
and woe betide anyone who supports terror . . . This kind of declaration
can only come from leaders of Hitlers ilk . . ." "If Osama bin
Laden is proven to be involved in the attacks on the U.S., I will make
a statue of him and set it in my home; I will also hang his picture
in my office. Because he has proven to us that the U.S., which we thought
was an undefeatable force, can be humiliated."
- Al-Ahrar,
Egyptian opposition press, September 24, 2001, by columnist Salim Azzouz
(MEMRI, October 4, 2001, No. 281)
"For
many long years, American made many people in the world cry. It was
always [America] that carried out these acts; now, acts are being carried
out [against it]. A cook who concocts poison must one day always taste
that poison! The world has discovered that the strength of the oppressed
is great when the situation becomes unbearable . . . The city of globalization,
with its economic, political, and military symbols, has collapsed, and
the theory of globalization will be buried with the establishment of
the false coalition."
- Al-Ahram
Al-Arabi, Egytian weekly, September 22, 2001, by columnist Ali Al-Sayyed
(MEMRI, October 4, 2001, No. 281)
"
'Allah
Akhbar,' shouted the hero
The arrogance sunk in the filth
In the East, none shed a tear for you, Allah decreed the vengeance against
you. If Allah had not wanted it, it would not have happened. Return
to the path of righteousness, for the eye of Allah follows you
"[16]
- Afaq Arabiya, Egyptian-based journal of the Muslim Brotherhood, September
19, 2001, by columnist Wahid Gahshan (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No.
274) o"In the eyes of Muslims, the US is a force of oppression, thus
the Muslims see what happened as divine retribution, carried out under
the supervision of Allah by unknown soldiers. America practically said
to the world: Only I will teach you who is Allah. Allah wanted to teach
it a lesson
If not for what happened, if the lion had not been
wounded in his den, we would think that our prayers were in vain and
we would despair
The Americans thought they could not be defeated
They preferred the apes (i.e. the Jews) to human beings, treating human
beings from ooutside the US cheaply, supporting homosexuals and usury.
They have forgotten that in this universe there is a God whose punishment
no one escapes
Allah came because they did not expect him, bombing
their hearts with horror
"
- Afaq Arabiya,
Egyptian-based journal of the Muslim Brotherhood, September 19, 2001,
by columnist Ammar Shammakh (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"However,
another truth is that most Arabs, and perhaps also most of the Third
World, did rejoice, not because of the killing of thousands of innocent
Americans, but because of the penetration of the bastion of American
colonialism and the offensive within its home turf. No one thought for
a moment about the people who were inside the tallest of the world's
towers as they burned; everyone thought of the American administration
and rejoiced at its misfortune, while its leaders scrambled to find
a place to hide. There is a large degree of hypocrisy and idiocy. Does
anyone think that the CIA does not know how much it is hated by the
Arab people, and how happy the oppressed people in the Third World are
at the tragedy that has struck it? [Therefore, there is no point] in
our trying to prove to them that the Arab people are not gloating over
the American misfortune. Can anyone really believe that a people of
whom the US has killed hundreds and thousands times the number of people
killed in New York and in Boston [sic], is sorry, and is not happy,
when he witnesses this smack to the face of its most bitter enemy?"
- excerpts
from an article by University of Lebanon lecturer Mustafa Juzo, published
in Al-Hayat (London), September 17, 2001 (MEMRI, September 20, 2001, No.
272)
"There
is no reason to rejoice at the misfortune of the American people, who
have not yet understood that five million Jews are not worth the sacrifice
of all these victims... The US's position in the Arab-Zionist conflict
causes Arabs to rejoice over every disaster visited upon the American
government, though not on its people, because that government has gone
too far in its oppression."
- Al-Ahrar,
the Egyptian Liberal Party Daily, September 17, 2001, by Nasserist writer
Adel Al-Gouhari (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"We
have been prohibited from showing the happiness and joy that we feel,
so as not to hurt the Americans' feelings although in this case,
rejoicing is a national and religious obligation. The US is Israel's
protector. When it collapses in the blink of an eye, and we see the
heroes as they flee in horror a prohibition on rejoicing is a
decree that the public cannot observe
"
- Al-Ahrar,
the Egyptian Liberal Party Daily, September 17, 2001, by columnist Salim
Azzouz (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"I
considered hiring a professional mourner, so as to adjust myself to
the international atmosphere [of] hypocrisy and weeping over the victims
of the explosions in America. But I knew that even those [professional
mourners] who charge by the hour would refuse, even if I promised $100
for every tear. God, what will I do now? How can I write an article
without cursing those terrorists who launched a war not only against
the US, but against Western culture? How can I refrain from calling
them wild, barbaric, Tatars, people who want to turn back [the clock
of] civilization and progress to the days when we struck two flints
together to make a fire? How can a columnist who thinks America got
its just desserts a punishment that suits [its crime of] sucking
the blood of peoples [how can he] be saved from the guillotine
of the hypocrites
The lies inundate you from television screens,
as [the hypocrites] express sorrow, donate blood, and place their intelligence
systems at the disposal of the cardboard master
America weeps.
Let it seek professional mourners by itself. I beseech you, do not participate
in this demonstration of sorrow. If you are murdered by a bully, it
is a humiliation; if they force you to march in his funeral procession,
it is the zenith of humiliation. Pardon us, America; we have no tears
left to share in your sorrow."
- Al-Usbu,
Egyptian-based pan-Arab opposition weekly, September 17, 2001, by deputy
editor Magdi Shandi (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"[Those
moments of] exquisite, incandescent hell were the most beautiful and
precious moments of my life. The towers, the walls, [symbols] of the
[American] regime, were a modern, terrifying monster infiltrated by
a brave and stinging hornet
This mythological monster was terrible
in its pain, in its screams, and in its fall, that resembled Hell. All
the media
broadcast these images for us over and over. The generations
of the past, and, with Allah's help, the generations to come, will envy
us for having witnessed them."
- Al-Usbu,
Egyptian-based pan-Arab opposition weekly, September 17, 2001, by columnist
Muhammad Mustagab (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"No
man with human feeling can derive pleasure from the sight of the victims'
bodies being torn apart, burned, and crushed under the ruins. Allah
has created all human beings to live on this land under an umbrella
of peace, love, and beauty. But some fools and idiots distort these
lofty values and try to impose their behavior, their sick ideology,
and their malignant idiocy
One of these was little Bush, whom
cursed fate placed on the throne of the government of the superpower
that rules the entire world. He is a tyrant; playing golf at his ranch,
he smiles and is filled with joy when news reaches him of the number
of Arab victims in Palestine, among them women, children, and the elderly.
But Bush was woken from
his dream of false power by this blow,
from which, I think, he will never recover. What happened in America
has never happened before in the history of the human race. Nevertheless,
the devil hastened to weep over the ruins, and to call on the world
to stand beside the superpower, the symbol of civilization and democracy
Oh Bush, drink from the bitter cup of the blood of your people, so that
you will [come to] know that Allah is just!"
- Al-Usbu,
Egyptian-based pan-Arab opposition weekly, September 17, 2001, by columnist
Farouq Abaza (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"In
all honesty, and without beating around the bush: I am happy about [what
happened to] America; I am happy about the great number of American
dead. Let them accuse me of whatever they want. It doesnt matter
and it does not lessen the happiness and excitement that overwhelm me.
No one can make me take back what I say, no matter what their claims
and explanations. All the innocent citizens who were killed are victims
of Americas barbarism and terror, ranging over half a century
. . . Count up the number killed by American weapons in the world and
compare it to the number of those killed in the US; you will find that
the number of [American dead] is much less than one percent [of the
latter]. I have a right to rejoice; I have a right to be filled with
happiness; the Americans are finally tasting the bitterness of death."
- Al-Arabi,
Egyptian Nasserist weekly, September 16, 2001, by columnist Ahmad Murad
(MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"Yes,
we have the right to rejoice. This was the first step in a thousand-mile
journey towards defeating America by a knockout."
- Al-Arabi,
Egyptian Nasserist weekly, September 16, 2001, by acting editor Abd Al-Halim
Qandil (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"I
cannot hide my feelings; I cannot restrain my joy. For the first time
in my life, I witness with my own eyes the defeat of American arrogance,
tyranny, conceit, and evil. For the first time, I ask myself: has Allah
finally answered the prayers of the mothers, the pleasing of victims
in Palestine, Iraq, and Libya? . . . Should I lie and be hypocritical
like the others, condemning the killings of civilians, expressing my
sorrow over the American and other victims, or praying and donating
blood?! . . . I do not want to pray for the Americans or donate my blood;
I do not want to condemn what happened. America is the one who killed
them, as it killed us in Iraq, and as it continues to slaughter us in
Palestine."
- Al-Arabi,
Egyptian Nasserist weekly, September 16, 2001, by columnist Nur Al-Huda
Zaki (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
"The
American government had contaminated my humanity, and I began to say
to myself, when I saw the masses fleeing in horror in the streets of
New York and Washington, 'Let them drink of the cup that their government
has given all the peoples [of the world] to drink from, first and foremost
our people
" "When the twin towers collapsed and the New York skyline,
which had been obstructed by them, was revealed to me I felt
deep within me like someone that was delivered from the grave; I [felt]
that I was being carried in the air above the corpse of the mythological
symbol of arrogant American imperialist power, whose administration
had prevented the [American] people from knowing the crimes it was committing
My lungs filled with air and I breathed in relief, as I had never breathed
before." "A few minutes later, I again thought about the people under
the ruins, and I began to say to myself: 'What sin had these innocents
committed?' I was sorry that my humanity had been contaminated by Zionist
America and by world Zionism
But, a few minutes later, the media
informed me of new facts: 'Arabs and Muslims were blamed, and were even
threatened by retaliation." "This brought me back to the spiritual tomb,
in which I am overwhelmed by the aggression, the arrogance, the racism,
and the distortion of facts. Inner strength, that saves me from drowning,
has helped me to again breathe above the surface of the grave: we will
return, we will live, we will win, and we will realize justice for the
world, because we are willing to sacrifice ourselves for rights, justice,
and the humanity of the world
" "The American people must awake
and see the image of [its] policy
a filthy policy that dishonors
its owners
That hour on September 11 should be significant for
the American decision makers; it must lead to a reexamination of [American]
ideas, policy, and strategy. It may be that [this event] will also reach
the American mind, whose real humanity has been blocked by military
and economic might
"
- excerpts
from an editorial in Al-Usbu' Al-Adabi, the Syrian Arab Writers Association
newspaper, September 15, 2001 by its chairman, 'Ali 'Uqleh 'Ursan (MEMRI,
September 25, 2001, No. 275)
"Oh,
yeah, guys, Her Royal Highness America has taken this defeat; she has
turned out to be a paper tiger, and the Americans [have turned out to
be] no more than a gang of delinquent children. It transpires that Bush
who treated us like servants in his court is no head of state,
but a mouse leading a gang of mice. At the moment [this] occurred in
New York and Washington, he left for parts unknown
Oh yeah, guys,
they told us that he who stings America ends up in the grave. They told
us that [America] protects the Arab royal families. They told us that
[America] can find a black ant on a dark night in the parched desert;
that it has the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world that
can detect what happens in our bedrooms an apparatus that knows
what kind of underwear the president of Iraq [wears]
It has been
proven that it was all an illusion
"
- Al-Ahrar,
the Egyptian Liberal Party Daily, September 14, 2001, by columnist Salim
Azzouz (MEMRI, September 21, 2001, No. 274)
MEDIA
CONTROLLED BY ZIONISTS/JEWS
"However,
where the discussion threatens to touch upon issues considered 'sensitive'
to the judaized establishment which controls TV and radio, it is carefully
stage-managed so that 'dangerous' viewpoints are excluded. This is particularly
noticeable where discussion concerns matters of the Jewish State of
Israel and its not so very glorious aspects, when relating to doubts
concerning the alleged mass-slaughter of Jews during WWII and when some
one tries to discuss the power wielded by the Jewish minority." "One
TV programme on British TV a short time ago was devoted to the subject
of anti-Semitism, which was presented as being on the increase
throughout Europe, including Britain. . . Of course, anti-Semitism
itself is a misleading term deliberately adopted by the media-controllers
so as to suggest that those thus labeled want to ill-treat innocent
Jews, even kill them, for no reason than that they are Jews!, whereas
the vast majority of people described as 'anti-Semites' simply oppose
what they see as excessive Jewish power all over the world and in the
Zionist state in particular."
- excerpts
from an article entitled "Jewish Control of the Mass Media in Britain,"
posted November 12, 2001 on the Web site, www.islamweb.net/english, which
is registered to the State of Qatar Ministry of Endowments and Religious
Affairs.
"It
is crucial, in the battle against the Jewish racist totalitarianism,
to have a basic knowledge about the Jewish media-dictatorship-monopoly
and about the political power the Zionists possess and who are - as
Jewish political actors - the leaders of this Jewish power."
- excerpts
from an article entitled "The Jewish Theory to Rule the World Through
the Mass Media" posted November 11, 2001 on the Web site, www.islamweb.net/english,
which is registered to the State of Qatar Ministry of Endowments and Religious
Affairs.
"Thomas
Friedman, a Jew, accuses Saudi Arabia and Egypt of not being with the
US in its war on Afghanistan. The Washington Post even questions the
legitimacy of the government in Egypt by saying that the elections were
not fair, that freedom of expression is suppressed and that the political
situation is in peril." "There is no doubt that after World War II,
the world Jewry has been trying to be as close as possible to the decision-making
processes in the West in general and the US in particular Congress,
the Senate and the Pentagon. Zionism convinced the Western world that
communism was their enemy No. 1 with Islam occupying the second position.
As communism is no longer a threat, Islam is the No. 1 enemy and such
a canard is unfortunately believed by many Westerners." "Moreover, as
Zionism is surviving on lies, it exploits every opportunity to target
Islam and this is evident following the September attacks on the US.
Therefore, the US media that are controlled or dominated by Zionists
continue attacking Islam, Muslims and Arabs taking advantage of the
fact that the prime suspects in the attacks are Arab or Muslim." "The
enmity between the West and Islam is growing due to the lies spread
Zionism. Zionists claim that Arabs and Muslims are against Israel. They
choose to ignore the fact that Israel is an alien outpost in the Arab
world. It was Jews who occupied Palestine and displaced its original
people." "Still Zionists are trying to make it appear that the just
struggle of the Arabs for restoring their rights and land is not only
directed against Israel but also against the Western world and that
Israel is the best guardian of the Wests interests in the Middle
East. So, it is not surprising that the Zionist media tried to equate
the September attacks on the US with the legitimate struggle of the
Palestinians against Israel and call the Palestinians terrorists. Zionists
are trying to poison Arab-US relations to further their own interests."
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt believe in open diplomacy. They
have their own perceptions on Afghanistan. It is in Israels interests
to create a wedge between the West and Arab world. The Western countries
should ponder whether it is in their own interests to swallow the Zionist
version of everything."
- Arab News.Com,
Saudi English language daily, posted on November 5, 2001, by Hassan Tahsin,
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=10309
"Since
September 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington, Zionist circles
have been almost uncontrollably emitting their profound contempt of
Islam . . . From occupied Al-Qods, to London, to New York, to California,
Zionist, or Zionist-controlled press, has been propagating one message:
kill the Muslims, kill the Arabs, kill the terrorists! . . . All of
a sudden it seemed as if Zionist and pro-Israeli editors and anchormen,
who have a history of poisoning western public opinion with concocted
lies and myths about the Palestinian cause, finally seized the long-awaited
opportunity to display their deep grudge for Islam and Muslims."
- Iran Daily,
October 29, 2001 quoted in an Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) article,
October 29, 2001
"The
Jews can and do control the American media from the Washington Post
to CNN, but they cant control the flow of the internet. We saw
how the American media covered the intifada, and we see now how it is
covering the war in Afghanistan. The western media cant be trusted,
it is subservient to big money and Zionist circles."
- statement
by the Palestinian Journalist Association reported by the Islamic Republic
News Agency (IRNA), October 25, 2001
"These
are the facts of Jewish media control in America. Anyone willing to
spend several hours in a large library can verify their accuracy. I
hope that these facts are disturbing to you, to say the least. Should
any minority be allowed to wield such awesome power? Certainly, not
and allowing a people with beliefs such as expressed in the Talmud,
to determine what we get to read or watch in effect gives this small
minority the power to mold our minds to suit their own Talmudic interests,
interests which as we have demonstrated are diametrically opposed to
the interests of our people. By permitting the Jews to control our news
and entertainment media, we are doing more than merely giving them a
decisive influence on our political system and virtual control of our
government; we also are giving them control of the minds and souls of
our children, whose attitudes and ideas are shaped more by Jewish television
and Jewish films than by their parents, their schools, or any other
influence."
- excerpts
from an article posted in English on the Palestinian Daily Press Review
section of the Palestine Ministry of Information Web site on September
24, 2001 alleging a complete Jewish monopoly of the U.S. news media.
CRITICISM
OF THE U.S.
"The
U.S. is the enemy of the democratic aspirations of the Arab peoples,
it is the friend and protector of dictatorships and autocracies; it
is the number one schemer against development in the Arab world. With
regard to the media attack on Saudi Arabia, I maintain that Riyadh is
doing the right thing. Refraining from joining the Americans . . . is
counted in the tally of the Saudi governments good deeds."
- Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, Palestinian Authority newspaper, October 17, 2001, by Palestinian
Authority official and columnist Adli Sadeq (MEMRI, October 25,
2001, No. 291)
"The
U.S. and terrorism suffuse a foul atmosphere throughout the world. The
smiles have disappeared from the faces of the peoples, who wait, across
the world, for the disaster that either terrorists or the U.S. will
visit upon them. The U.S. has become like the terrorists."
- Al-Akhbar
daily, Egypts government press, September 25, 2001, by columnist
Ahmad Ragab. Some of the quotes are taken form the Egyptian media reports
in the daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi.(MEMRI, October 4, 2001, No. 281)
ON GIULIANIS
REJECTION OF THE SAUDI PRINCES OFFER
"The
Jewish lobby fears the convening of such a conference [to combat terrorism].
It has been trying to equate Palestinian resistance with terrorism,
which is unacceptable, illogical. The Palestinian people have a legitimate
right to resist and regain their land. I call on the Jewish lobby to
be logical. Support for Israel should not be blind. Blind support is
damaging and foremost among those it damages is Israel for this way
of acting can only heighten hostility toward Israel."
- Egyptian
President Hosni Mubaraks interview with Melhim Karam that appeared
in Egypts Al-Ahram Weekly, October 25-31, 2001 and in Lebanons
Al-Hawadith, La Revue du Liban and Monday Morning (Al-Ahram Weekly Online,
25-31 October 2001; Haaretz, October 25, 2001)
"New
York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was obsessed by his hatred of Arabs even
before the terrorist attacks on New York. He hides his first name, chosen
for September 11 And Arab Media: The Anti-Jewish And Anti-American Blame
Game 17ohim by his Italian father, so as not to remind the Jewish voters
of the infamous Rudolph Hitler [sic]. This is why he prefers to shorten
it to Rudy."
- Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, Palestinian Authority newspaper, October 17, 2001, by editor
Hadez Al-Barghouthi (MEMRI, October 25, 2001, No. 291)
"The
words of [Prince Al-Walid] did not, of course, please the Jewish lobby
in the home of the largest Jewish community in the world. Because the
governor [sic] of the Big Apple is a Jew, he refused [to accept the
donation] and caused a storm. Giuliani said: The Princes
declarations are grievous and irresponsible; these Arabs have lost the
right to dictate [to us what to do]. What we (America) must do is kill
6,000 innocent people. By Allah, I am amazed at your act, you
Jew; everything Prince Al-Walid said was true . . ."
- Al-Riyadh,
Saudi newspaper, October 15, 2001, by columnist Mahmoud bin Abd Al-Ghani
Sabbagh (MEMRI, October 25, 2001, No. 291)
"The
problem is with Giuliani, not with the declarations of Prince Al-Walid
bin Talal, With his idiotic behavior, Giuliani denied the victims of
the building that collapsed the aid they need. He sacrificed the public
interest for a private interest, manifested in his desire to draw closer
to the Jewish electorate . . ."
- Al-Riyadh,
Saudi newspaper, October 15, 2001, by columnist Dr. Abd Al-Wahed Al-Hamid
(MEMRI, October 25, 2001, No. 291)
"The
whole issue is that I spoke about their position [on the Middle East
conflict] and they didnt like it because there are Jewish pressures
and they were afraid of them."
- statement
by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, published in the daily Okaz, Saudi
mass-circulation daily (AP, October 13, 2001) on why Mayor Giuliani rejected
the Saudi $10 million donation
"In
this circle might also be the two insults the American government directed
at Prince Al-Walid bin Talal . . . one by the Zionist New York mayor
whose public feelings go far beyond what Israel demands of him, and
another by the spokesman of the American State Department."
- Al-Safir,
the pro-Syrian Lebanese daily, October 13, 2001, by editor Talal Salman
(MEMRI, October 25, 2001, No. 291)
ISRAELIS/JEWS
AS NAZIS/HOLOCAUST DENIAL
"Today
the leaders and rulers of Israel imitate Hitlers state machinery
in many respects. Zionism is going down the path of Nazism, which leads
towards new horrors of mass extermination, tortures, executions, the
degradation of democratic liberties and the humiliation of human beings.
Despite all this the Israeli Zionist leaders find full support from
the US and the EU. This is not only hypocrisy. This policy encourages
the Zionists and those encourage such actions are in a way or another
collaborators with the criminals."
- Syrian
Times online, Syrian newspaper, October 20, 2001, by Aref al-A
"
Oh
beloved of Allah
We must always remember who the Jews are, what
they believe regarding Allah, what their position is regarding the prophets
and apostles, and what they say about them in their holy books
that is, in the books they claim are holy. [We must always remember]
their view of the Prophet Muhammad, and their corruption in the world,
particularly in the Arab and Islamic world." "Oh beloved of Allah
One of the Jews' evil deeds is what has come to be called the
Holocaust,' that is, the slaughter of the Jews by Nazism. However, revisionist
[historians] have proven that this crime, carried out against some of
the Jews, was planned by the Jews' leaders, and was part of their policy
These are the Jews against whom we fight, oh beloved of Allah." On the
other hand, [what is our belief] about the Jews? Allah has described
them as donkeys who must carry the books of the Torah but they
have not carried them. Our belief, which is true, about the Jews is
that Allah is angry at them. They are cursed with the curse of Allah
in this world and in the hereafter. Therefore, we say to them out of
friendship: 'Oh Jews, come to your senses, return to the true faith;
you must convert to Islam
" "Our belief is that this war, between
us and the Jews, will continue to escalate until we vanquish the Jews
and enter Jerusalem as conquerors, [and] enter Jaffa as conquerors.
We are not merely expecting a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its
capital; we are heralding [the creation of] an Islamic caliphate with
Jerusalem as its capital
" "Oh beloved of Allah, as we always say:
When the battles between the Muslims and infidels begin, the martyrs
and the slain Muslims will reach Paradise
in contrast, those who
die not for the sake of Islam, after the deliverance of the message
of the Prophet Muhammad
will end up in the fires of Hell
"
- excerpts
from the Palestinian Television broadcast of the Friday sermon by Sheikh
Ibrahim Madhi at the Sheikh Ijlin mosque in Gaza, September 21,
2001 (MEMRI, September 25, 2001, No. 206)
TRADITIONAL
ANTI-SEMITIC IMAGES BLOOD LIBEL
In a satire
program aired November 17, 2001 on Abu Dhabi television, one of the most
popular stations in the Arab world, an actor impersonating Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon ordered soldiers to shoot captured Arabs and drink
the blood of Arab children. In the Abu Dhabi television program, the Sharon
impersonator sat opposite what appeared to be an Israeli citizen - dressed
as an ultra-Orthodox Jew with kippah and sidelocks - and displayed bottles
containing Arab blood. In another scene, an actor playing the role of
Dracula is seen about to sink his teeth into "Sharon," who is portrayed
as a terrorist throughout the skit. Immediately, the camera shifted to
a news broadcast in which the newsreader reports that Dracula is dead,
and that the cause is the fact that he drank "cruel, cold and polluted
blood." The newsreader then concludes: "Sharon has taken responsibility
for the incident."
Prepared
by the ADL International Affairs Division November 2001
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