PM Netanyahu on International Human Rights Day
This Saturday, December 10, is International Human Rights day. It’s a day when, as Prime Minister Netanyahu notes, ONE nation in the Middle East can stand tall. Watch the Prime Minister’s message:
Comments (30) »Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at 12:55 PM | Stand for Israel
Egyptian Islamic Jihad official on Christians: “I will exterminate them”
The ouster of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt has brought to the fore all sorts of unsavory characters, including Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato, an official in Egyptian Islamic Jihad who was freed from prison after Mubarak was forced from office. In a recent interview with an Egyptian newspaper (translated from Arabic by the good folks at MEMRI), Shehato had this to say about the possibility of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians in post-Mubarak Egypt:
Interviewer: “Are you against blowing up churches?”
Shehato: “Yes and no. The Christian is free to worship his god in his church, but if the Christians make problems for the Muslims, I will exterminate them. I am guided by the shari’a, and it stipulates that they must pay the jizya tax while in a state of humiliation…”
Interviewer: “These positions of yours frighten us, as Egyptians.”
Shehato: “I will not act [in ways] that contradict my faith just in order to please the people… We say to the Christians, convert to Islam or pay the jizya, otherwise we will fight you. The shari’a is not based on [human] logic but on divine law. That is why we oppose universal, manmade constitutions.”
With people like Shehato jockeying for power in Egypt, the prospects for Egyptian democracy do not — to say the least — look bright. Pray for Christians in Egypt, and for all in the country who truly long for and work for a free, democratic state.
Comments (34) »Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 at 7:02 AM | David Kuner
Netanyahu reaches out to the world on YouTube
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is appealing to ordinary citizens around the world ask him questions on YouTube.
The PM’s YouTube channel features Netanyahu speaking in English with Arabic subtitles, in the hope of reaching out to an Arab speaking audience. Though everyone is invited to send the questions to the Prime Minister, Arabs living in the Middle East are especially encouraged.
The Prime Minister’s office related that they have received several dozen questions from Arabs web users who have expressed their desire to see peace between Jews and Muslims.
Comments (7) »Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 11:02 AM | Amichai Farkas
Obama to offer aid to the Arab world
U.S. President Barak Obama is set to deliver a speech today to the Arab world that will reset America’s relationship with Muslim countries. Reportedly Obama will try to steer the “Arab Spring” – which is reshaping politics in the Middle East – towards democracy by offering new aid packages to Muslim countries, with the hope of stabilizing the Middle East during a time of great change in the region.
In Israel, most people I speak to are less hopeful that the “Arab Spring” will usher in a new era of democracy and stability. They don’t view the revolutions that have taken place in countries like Egypt and Tunisia the same way that many other western countries do.
Israelis are concerned that the new regimes likely to rule in places like Egypt will be more hostile to Israel and the West than the previous regimes. While former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak played a pivotal role in keeping peace with Israel and keeping the Muslim Brotherhood – a terrorist organization – at bay, a new regime in Egypt will likely bolster extremism against Israel and the West.
If countries like Egypt are taken over by hardline Islamists who detest the West it will only lead to more fanaticism and instability. We hope that Barak Obama addresses these threats in his speech to the Arab world, and sets conditions on U.S. support.
Comments (29) »Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at 10:37 AM | Amichai Farkas
Anti-Jewish cartoons emerge after Goldstone retraction
Caricatures in several Arab newspapers suggest that Jews pressured Goldstone into changing his controversial findings:
Comments (4) »Judge Richard Goldstone’s now-notorious Washington Post mea culpa, retracting several findings of his United Nations-sponsored inquiry into Operation Cast Lead, has ignited new flames of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in the Arab world, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
“Just as the original report was celebrated by Arab cartoonists as ‘proof’ of the evil nature of Israel and Jews, so too has the decision by Judge Richard Goldstone to reconsider his findings inspired another round of hateful caricatures and stereotypes in the Arab Media,” said ADL’s national director Abe Foxman. “Newspapers across the Arab world have responded to the Goldstone developments with a series of hideous caricatures, many of them viciously anti-Semitic.”
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 at 1:50 PM | David Kuner
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