I often wonder what motivates such hatred of Israel and Jews by many in the Arab world. It has become all to apparent that the hatred of Jews in general and particularly Jews living in their homeland is intolerable to them. But from where does this attitude come from? Where are its origins ? Is this a culture of extremism ? Does the Koranic teachings encourage this kind of jubilation?
Only questions prevail at this time for me. I have my own ideas about this kind of phenomena that is all too quickly excused by many in the West for any of a variety of reasons. But in the end it is pure hatred that oozes out from the cultural identity that many Arab’s share in their respective countries included is their link and identity through the Koran. Is this their contribution to this unprecedented anti-Semitic rage?
This commentary comes from CIF’s Adam Levick on this topic.
Muslim.net, owned and operated by Aljazeera Publishing, published a series of posts about the fire raging through Northern Israel which can only be described as a celebration of the death, carnage, and misery caused by the blaze. Though the post is in Arabic, Google Translate, along with the grotesque imagery, provides sufficient context to conclude that the prose and accompanying photos indeed represent a celebration of the death of Jews.
CiF Watch is posting this to highlight a fact that is painfully obvious to many – but is frequently ignored by those (like the Guardian) who are not capable of assimilating information which doesn’t conform to preconceived notions of immutable Arab victimhood and Israeli culpability: that the problem of Jew hatred in the Muslim/Arab world is simply unparalleled (in depth and scope) in the modern world. (Indeed, Muslim.net is far from the only Arab media outlet celebrating the death and destruction caused by the Carmel fire.)
Historian Robert Wistrich has referred to anti-Semitism in the Arab world as comparable to Nazi Germany at its worst, and while any hatred is unjustifiable, those who would actually compare the problem of Islamophobia in Western countries to anti-Semitism in the Arab/Muslim world (for instance) are, at best, horribly and tragically misguided.
One only need to occasionally visit the sites Palestinian Media Watch and MEMRI to understand that, unlike in the West (where often even mild expressions of bigotry are socially unacceptable), anti-Semitism in much of the Arab/Muslim has no risk of public opprobrium and, indeed, is quite normative behavior.
After much discussion we decided not to publish the grotesque images nor link to the specific page on the Muslim.net website which contains the photos out of respect for the families of the victims.
However here is a photo, of an injured victim of the fire, published on the Muslim.net site but which was originally published by Reuters.
Here’s the accompanying text at Muslim.net (again, from Google Translate):
What follows, however, is the text which accompanied the horribly graphic photos we’re not showing of (what are presumably) the charred dead bodies from the Carmel fire. (You’re free to search the site yourself if you doubt the authenticity of our report).
From the Jerusalem Post this latest on this very same event.
“Many in the Arab world seem to be happy with the big fire that has been raging in northern Israel over the past few days. Many Arabs also strongly condemned Egypt and Jordan for agreeing to help in extinguishing the blaze.
Others called on Israel’s enemies, particularly Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah, to seize the opportunity and try to wipe Israel off the face of earth. Only a few readers and viewers expressed sympathy with Israel over the tragedy and loss of many lives.”
Here are a few of the comments the post found on the Arab news sites: ““This is the right time for Iran. If one fire has caused panic in the Zionist entity, where are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hassan Nasrallah? And where is Syria? One rocket could set thousands of fires.”
“Allah gives time, but never neglects. The Israelis are being punished for their deeds. We hope their end is nearing.”
“Sounds strange that Arabs are sending aid to our enemies. Allah is punishing the Jews by making the fire. No military force or US veto can stop the fire.”
“Thank God for this new Holocaust and shame on the Egyptian authorities who rushed to save the Zionists while continuing to lay siege against our brothers in the Gaza Strip.”
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From A Soldiers Mother we have the following:
This is Terrorism
Elie said those words in anger last night as we watched the flames consuming our land, our precious and beautiful land. Many decades ago, a representative of Burma came to Israel. Burma is, apparently, a land covered in trees. To find place for the growing population, they have an aggressive deforestation plan, to rid the land of the trees so that people can live.
The representative of Burma came and was so impressed by our wide open spaces with no trees, that he commented on how amazingly successful our deforestation plan was. In reality, according to history, our “deforestation” plan is thousands of years old, and never really ours. When the Romans came to our land more than 2,000 years ago, destroyed the Holy Temple and took many of our people into slavery, they salted the earth, to curse it and make it barren.
There are many statistics. If I were trying to be thorough, I would do research and point to sites to prove the numbers I say here – perhaps later I will add them. For now, I’ll tell you that I remember hearing that only Israel, of all the nations in the world, has MORE trees today than 50 years ago. We have no deforestation plan. It is our love of the land that drives us, year after year, to plant new forests and trees, to care for them, to cherish them.
We have lost over 5 million trees. The tragedy of this knocks us to the ground. If you are not Israeli, I do not know if you can comprehend the incredible agony of the heart that we Israelis are feeling today. We take such pride in our forests, our trees. They are an expression of our love. It causes such pain to watch them burn, hour after hour, day after day, as the flames are fanned by the winds. I could say the same and more at the thought of the 42 people who have been killed in this fire, the wounded, the homeless. More than trees, these are people and yet both the people and the land break our hearts.
Two stupid, careless boys from a Druze village have been arrested for setting the fire. What they were doing was definitely illegal – burning garbage in a forest. Was it deliberate? We don’t yet know. In all honesty, few think it was deliberate, few want to believe it possible. Elie calls it terrorism – it is his love of the land that brings this harsh verdict, but there is more.
In the last 48 hours, there have been more than 20 arson attempts by Arabs to set fire to our land – the latest this morning near Jerusalem. They know that from all over the country, firefighting equipment has been sent north. Little remains to protect other areas. It is all we have to give. Countries around the world, even those that still call themselves enemies – Turkey, Egypt, Jordan…have joined the Greece, Cyprus, Italy, France, Russia, the United States – forgive me if I have forgotten someone, we are so grateful.
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