Posted on 12/13/2007 10:32:10 AM PST by PRePublic
Arab racism must go
There will be no peace around here before Arabs view Jews as human beings
Jackie Levy Published: 12.03.07, 17:34 / Israel Opinion
Despite all the ceremonial declarations uttered in Annapolis, my attention was drawn to a small story about the organizers tasked with planning the seating arrangements. As those were peace talks, and as all of us want peace, the organizers were warned about the need to ensure that no Syrian or Saudi official unintentionally encounters some Zionist pest.
This was indeed a large venue, but still, people (just like monkeys) sometimes have to go to the bathroom or wash their hands. In short, they may have to pass through a narrow corridor where, you never know, you may encounter one of those – well, here the speaker is supposed to venomously utter the word: “Zionist.”
Syria’s motives for attending the conference were quite clear. They came to score points and extricate themselves, as much as is possible, out of the axis of evil. In short, they came because of Syrian issues – all the rest didn’t quite interest them, and it was not easy for them as it is. But to bump into an Israeli?! A Jew! Face to face, with no Condoleezza or a sea of officials around. Just you and I. Now that’s way too much, being forced to exchange glances or even mumble something. This is where we draw the line.
After all, Arabs are honorable people, and the Israelis, on top of all the other trouble, have this bad habit of using such incidents in order to suddenly show friendliness, utter some kind of silly joke, and then tell everyone about it. Years after Annapolis, some Israeli minister or advisor could write in his memoirs how he made a quick comment to the Syrian official about the crappy American coffee, and yes, he thinks he saw a hint of a smile on the Syrian’s face – for a moment there, the Israeli will say, we were able to overcome the raging conflict and just be two men, Khaled and I, yearning for some good coffee.
The end of the story is that it was not easy at all to arrange the chairs. Sophisticated algorithms were utilized and multifaceted maneuvers previously only known in Astronomy were used, so that under no circumstances would an Arab and a Jew come in contact or some share kind of proximity that could hurt the feelings of the nation.
Our enemies are racist Simply put, our enemies, among other things, are quite racist. As opposed to some stigmas, it turns out that arrogance is not an Israeli monopoly. It’s amazing how the Arab world managed to convince the West that the racist hatred is merely legitimate religious sensitivity that must be taken into consideration.
We should also take a moment to consider the fact that for us these things always sound like a silly joke. We treat it the same way we ridicule the Arab refusal to compete against Israeli athletes. None of us, with the exception of the margins of the far Right, have a problem meeting an Arab, shaking his hand, or showing sympathy for him.
The thing is, on their side it’s an absolutely serious matter. It’s hard to believe that anyone in the Arab media was joking about the seating arrangements.
For years we’ve been reprimanding ourselves over our attitude to Arabs and our racist jokes. Yet while we were busy reprimanding, we almost failed to notice that something changed around here. When was the last time you heard a derogatory term like “towel head” being used seriously, without any sarcasm? When was the last time an Israeli film featured an Arab character that was less than divine?
Meanwhile, the exact opposite is happening on the other side. And no, we’re not talking about a minor issue. Even if all the roadblocks will be removed, there will be no peace around here as long as Muslim Arabs don’t view Jews as human beings.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3478505,00.html
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I'm tired of people referring to Arabs as Semites. I constantly hear the excuse from Jew-haters that Arabs can not possibly be anti-Semitic because they, ...
http://www.somebodyhelpme.info/semites/semites.html
If you woke up one morning and either all the arabs were gone off this earth, or all the jewish were gone off this earth; under which scenerio would you feel safest?”
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Excellent point, pretty well sums it up.
I didn’t use to have real bad feelings for arabs. After 9-11 and their reaction or lack of empathy I do have a serious
problems with them.
And no govt. re-education program will change that.
I'm not sure how that matters.
The author's point - "there will be no peace around here as long as Muslim Arabs don’t view Jews as human beings."
doesn't change one bit.
That is also total nonsense.
What is it exactly that makes it nonsense?
Feel free to be specific, because from where I sit, arabs, as a whole are a bloodthirsty bunch of savages the earth could survive quite well without.
Is it ALL Arabs who despise Jews- or just MUSLIM Arabs?
All this obfuscation with semantics puts lipstick on the pig.
Islam gives it’s followers PERMISSION to hate and do violence- more than permission, it orders it!
The obedience of the follower isn’t the point- the fact that a ‘religion’ orders evil and hatred is. One cannot subscribe to an evil philosophy and reject it at the same time.
There can be-and will be- no peace between Islam and anyone. Islam wants the ‘peace’ of dominance and utter subjugation. It wants the ‘peace’ of obedience or death.
There are two definitions of ‘peace’ here- and we refuse to see that ours is not theirs.
There’s no such thing as arab. Whatever bedouins moved out of Yemen 1500 years ago are just as diluted as any other group. They even have French blood and Mongol along with everything else.
Semitic is not a race.
Yeah, it’s actually pretty darned strange especially considering how everybody is some of this and some of that and nobody is any particular thing.
Yes. It's always so cool to argue meaningless semantics when everyone around you knows what an arab is.
Nobody knows. Also, nobody knows what the argument is about except that oil is the immediate cause.
It’s sad but I’ve often thought to myself: Even though there are millions of innocent Muslims, what would be the greater loss to the world—18-25 million Jews or the 1 billion Muslims?
At this point I’d have to say the arts, science, entertainment and basically every intellectual aspect of human endeavor would be the poorer were the Jews to disappear.
When contemplating the loss of the world’s Muslims, I can only think the world would be a much happier, much more peaceful place and that women would be somewhat more respected and free and that we could go back to nation-state against nation-state in world affairs.
Ahhh, but there will!!! For three years after the peace accord and right about 7 years after the peace accord for ever....
So you keep claiming. If you're going to do nothing but argue useless semantics, bother someone else.
No way. This in incredibly 7th century.
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