I have known David Bedein since the 1980’s when both our families lived in Safed. Over the years he has consistently worked hard to bring out the real intent of Arafat, Abbas, Palestinian Authority and Hamas. This is usually the information no one wants to hear because of the imagined sounds of Peace transmitted through the diplomatic channels by the U.S. President, Sec. of State Kerry and with the encouragement E.U. members.
I want peace between the Palestinians and our Country. I want peace that will be a serious peace that will respect borders, encourage economic cooperation, and most importantly convey good will between both entities. I do not usually make my personal views known so explicitly in this forum but today I feel compelled. Especially since the linking of settlements and Middle East unrest is directly connected to the rhetoric by the Foreign Minister of England and the U.S. Administration.
Yes we need to make peace with former enemies. Yes we need to compromise over land and borders. But if the leadership of the former enemy is still very much invested in the destruction of the State of Israel then what are we truly negotiating? Sometimes I think in spite of the “known” truth we should still move forward as we appear to be doing, and attempt once again to get the Palestinian leadership to sit down and discuss some kind of arrangement. Even if their real intent is to become a fifth column on our door step as they wait for the opportunity to destroy us. I believe that we have the capability and the capacity to end this facade if it manifests. But in order for this exercise to continue it is of utmost importance to KNOW the truth about the messages the Palestinian leadership condones and encourages. We must ALL be informed and be forewarned. Thus David Bedein provides us with a glimpse into the world of the P.A. and the messages their media outlets convey in Arabic to their people.
By David Bedein
This week, a Global Forum Against Anti -Semitism will convene in Jerusalem
The time has come for the Global Forum to consider the fact that a new anti-semitic state is now in formation.
Imagine, if you would, if any nascent nation-state, anywhere in the world, was in formation, and that it had taken on the following features:
- Selling land to a Jew would be defined as a capital crime.
- Its new constitution would not allow for juridical status for Judaism and Jews would not even be allowed to live in the country.
- The school system would inculcate children to make war on the Jews.
- Those who murder Jews would become the heroes of the new country.
- The designated head of state earned his Ph.D. on the basis of a published thesis that millions Jews who were murdered during World War II were actually executed by the Zionists, who were allies of the Nazis.
The reaction to such a “state in formation” would be an outcry from all of the Jewish groups that monitor anti-Semitism.
Yet there has been no outcry from most Jewish groups in the case of the proposed Palestinian Arab state, based on the ideology of the Palestine Liberation Organization, even though the proposed state possesses these six characteristics, as described above.
However, there are a some influential non Jews who have expressed concern about the anti-Semitism of the nascent Palestinian Authority.
A case in point. Ten years ago, our agency covered a briefing for a visiting United States congressional delegation provided by the former Vatican representative to Israel, Archbishop Pietro Sambi. The Papal Nuncio warned US lawmakers that the new Palestinian Authority approved draft state constitution, funded by USAID, provided no juridical status for religions other than Islam in the new Palestinian Arab entity.
The Papal Nuncio also warned that the Palestinian Authority had adopted a Shariah law. that was modeled on Sharia law that rules in Saudi Arabia, which dictated absolute supremacy of Muslims., as matter of law.
Archbishop Sambi provided the text of that proposed PA constitution, with the hope that Jewish groups which would object to such a proposed Palestinian state constitution.
In addition, Archbishop Sambi initiated a Vatican study of the new PA textbooks, which the Vatican would determine to be anti-Semitic in nature.
As a result of the Vatican study of the PA textbooks, the Italian government withdrew its money from Palestinian Ministry of Education textbook project.
An expert whose research is impeccable on this subject is journalist Dr. Arnon Groiss, who earned his PHD in Islamic studies at Princeton, and who worked for ten years as a researcher for IMPACT.se, also known as the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, where Dr. Groiss became an expert on Arab school books.
Over the past year, Dr. Gross made presentations for staffers and members of the US Congress and the Canadian Parliament, where he showed how the new textbooks of the Palestinian Authority, instead of educating for peace with Israel, promote the “armed struggle” to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine.
From these textbooks, Groiss showed that the PA curriculum teaches the following fundamentals:
- Jews are foreigners and have no rights in Palestine.
- The Jews have a dubious, and even murderous, character.
- Israel is an illegitimate usurper that occupied Palestine in 1948 and 1967.
- Israel is the source of all kinds of evil done to the Palestinians.
- Peace with Israel based on reconciliation is not sought.
- Armed struggle for liberation is encouraged instead.
- The exact area to be liberated is never restricted to the areas taken by Israel in 1967..
- Jihad and martyrdom are explicitly encouraged.
The list of accusations against Israel appearing in the new Palestinian Authority schoolbooks includes more than 25 allegations, including:
- Israel contributes to Palestinian social ills and family violence.
- Israel causes the increase of drug abuse cases in Palestinian society.
- Israel pollutes the Palestinian environment.
- Israel usurps Muslim and Christian holy places.
- Israel strives to obliterate the Palestinian national identity and heritage.
Over the past two years, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, a 34 year Republican veteran of Congress, announced that he would lead a campaign for the US to condition aid to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority on the nullification of the anti-Semitic curriculum of the Palestinian Authority.
Rep. Smith’s initiative was reminiscent of Archbishop Sambi, who died two years ago while serving as the new Papal Nuncio in Washington.
Archbishop Sambi was never afraid to take a stand on the official anti-Semitism which he discerned in the Palestinian Authority,
It remains to be seen whether mainstream Jewish groups will follow the lead of Rep. Smith and the late Archbishop Sambi, to make such demands of the Palestinian Authority.
Sometimes it takes a courageous gentile to speak up, so that Jews will not hesitate to follow their example. Perhaps the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism will toast the legacy and the message of Archbishop Pietro Sambi, whose warnings about the anti-semitism of nascent Palestinian Arab entity should be heeded.
ALSO:
“Let every person know
that I do not compromise”
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
On May 10, 2013 Palestinian Authority TV rebroadcast a video containing the following political statements as printed text on the TV screen:
“Let all religions know that I do not make truces”
“Let every person know that I do not compromise”
“Let all of humanity know that we are proud of [our] patriotism”
“Let all the nations know that we are proud of [our] aspirations”
“Let Palestine know that I am madly in love with it”
“Let Jaffa (Israeli city) know that I will return to it”
“Let all religions know that I do not make truces”
“Let every person know that I do not compromise”
“Let all of humanity know that we are proud of [our] patriotism”
“Let all the nations know that we are proud of [our] aspirations”
“Let Palestine know that I am madly in love with it”
“Let Jaffa (Israeli city) know that I will return to it”
Each text appeared on the screen with pictures of mostly unidentified old buildings, implying that they, like Jaffa mentioned in the last statement, are inside “Palestine” and that the PA is claiming them.
Also significant are the political messages that the PA will neither agree to a truce nor compromise.
Palestinian Media Watch has documented that it is PA policy not to recognize Israel’s existence or right to exist.
Each text appeared on the screen with pictures of mostly unidentified old buildings, implying that they, like Jaffa mentioned in the last statement, are inside “Palestine” and that the PA is claiming them.
Also significant are the political messages that the PA will neither agree to a truce nor compromise.
Palestinian Media Watch has documented that it is PA policy not to recognize Israel’s existence or right to exist.
