Fewer than 2% of (Gaza and northern Samaria) settlers sign up for voluntary evacuation

Globes ^ | 27 December 2004 | Zeev Klein

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Fewer than 2% of settlers sign up for voluntary evacuation

20 families from Pe'at Sadeh and five families from other settlements have agreed to move to Moshav Mafki'in south of Ashkelon.
Zeev Klein 27 Dec 04 10:34

Fewer than 2% of settlers in Gush Katif and northern Samaria have signed up for voluntary evacuation with SELA (the disengagement administration). 20 families from Peat Sadeh in the southern Gaza Strip and five families from other settlements have agreed to move to Moshav Mafki'in south of Ashkelon.

The families to be evacuated have not yet received any money from SELA. Holocaust survivors from Hungary founded Mafki'in after World War II. 51 families, mainly elderly, now reside in the moshav.

Prime Minister's Office director general Ilan Cohen and SELA head Yonatan Bassy yesterday convened a special press conference in Jerusalem to mark the first signing up of 25 families from Gush Katif for voluntary evacuation. The evacuation must take begin March 1, 2005, and all the families will be moved to Mafki'im by May 1.

Bassy said, "The residents of Pe'at Sadeh took responsibility for their fate. They want to leave together, not separately. We considered bringing a representative of Peat Sadeh, but pressures and threats prevented this, which we regret."

In response to reporters' questions, Bassy said only a few of the 1,500 families slated for evacuation had contacted SELA to receive advance payments and compensation. Even fewer settlers have signed agreements. Since SELA was set up three months ago, 40 of the 100 enterprises in the Erez industrial zone have applied for compensation. Bassy said the settlers felt that the compensation was insufficient. He warned that that time was running out for the settlers, for two reasons: the date for evacuation is approaching, and there are only a limited number of alternatives. The first settlers contacting SELA will get precedence.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on December 27, 2004

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cleansing the land from the monkeys

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Are you calling Israelis/Jews living in Gaza "monkeys"? If so, what kind of anti-Semite are you?

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-II- APES AND PIGS

I will begin with some current statements made by Islamic fundamentalists, who

would frequently refer to Jews as the sons of apes and pigs.

Such descriptions can be heard in sermons at mosques in the Palestinian territories, in

speeches of Saudi religious leaders, as well as in Iraqi sermons:

On the 5

th

of May 2001, after Mr. Shimon Peres visited Egypt, the Egyptian al-

Akhbar Internet paper stated that “lies and deceit are not foreign to Jews. The best

evidence that Jews go back on their word is their denial of the principles on which

they signed in the Oslo and the Madrid Accords. For this reason, Allah changed their

shape and made them into monkeys and pigs”.

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/antisemitism/arabpress0501.html

On the 13

th

of December 2002, Palestinian television used the occasion of the Muslim

month of Ramadan to broadcast programs with a distinctly anti-Jewish theme,

including a sermon in which Jews were called “the brothers of monkeys and pigs”.

The sermon opened with: “Praised be Allah, who has cursed [the Jews], the brothers

of monkeys and pigs, by a flow of curses that will go on until the Resurrection of the

dead.” In one of his sermons, the Saudi sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, imam

and preacher at the al-Haraam mosque – the most important mosque in Mecca –

beseeched Allah to annihilate the Jews. He also urged the Arabs to give up peace

initiatives with the Jews because they are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the

world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the

offspring of apes and pigs.”

http://www.alraialaam.com/20-04-2002/ie5/frontpage.htm#03

In another sermon (19

th

of April 2002), the same imam declared “Read history and

you will understand that the Jews of yesterday are the evil fathers of the Jews of

today, who are evil offspring, infidels, distorters of [others'] words, calf-worshippers,

prophet-murderers, prophecy-deniers... the scum of the human race 'whom Allah

cursed and turned into apes and pigs...”

www.alminbar.cc/alkhutab/khutbaa.asp?mediaURL=5544

Comparing between the ancient and the contemporary Jews, seems to be a central

issue in these sermons.

A Saudi sheikh, Ba'd bin Abdallah Al-Ajameh Al-Ghamidi, in one of his sermons in

Taif, explained that “The current behavior of the brothers of apes and pigs, their

treachery, violation of agreements, and defiling of holy places ... is connected with the

deeds of their forefathers during the early period of Islam – which proves the great

similarity between all the Jews living today and the Jews who lived at the dawn of

Islam.”

www.alminbar.cc/alkhutab/khutbaa.asp?mediaURL=4331

I will consider one last example. According to Education in Saudi Arabia, a 1995

book published by the Saudi Cultural Mission to the United States, the roots of the

contemporary Saudi education policy date back to the 18

th

century when Abd al-

Wahhab called for the return of Muslims to the fundamentals of Islam as preached by

the Prophet Muhammad.

The book cites 236 principles that explain how students should promote loyalty to

Islam by denouncing any system or theory that conflicts with Islamic law.

The students are also taught to understand Islam in a “correct manner,” how to

establish and spread Islam throughout the world, and how “to fight spiritually and

physically for the sake of Allah.” One of these principles of the Saudi education

system has been the teaching of hatred of Jews and Christians. A textbook for eighth

graders explains why Jews and Christians were cursed by Allah and turned into apes

and pigs. Both Jews and Christians have sinned by accepting polytheism and therefore

have incurred Allah's wrath. To punish them, Allah has turned them into apes and

pigs.

On the 7

th

of May 2002 the Saudi television channel Iqraa featured a talk show called

“Modern Muslim Woman,” in which a three and a half years old girl was interviewed.

The interview was filmed by state-controlled Saudi television and broadcast to

Muslims around the world. This is how the interview was conducted:

- What's your name?

- Basmallah.

- Basmallah, how old are you?

- Three and a half.

- Are you a Muslim?

- Yes.

- Basmallah, are you familiar with the Jews?

- Yes.

- Do you like them?

- No.

- Why don't you like them?

- Because . . .

- Because they are what?

- They're apes and pigs.

- Who said they are so?

- Our God.

- Where did he say this?

- In the Koran.

At the end of the interview, the girl was blessed by the following words:

May our God bless her. No one could wish Allah would give him a more

believing girl than she is. May Allah bless her and her father and mother. The

next generation of children must be true Muslims. We must educate them now

while they are still children so that they will be true Muslims.

http://memri.org/video/segment1_basmallah.html

The idea of the Jews as descendants of pigs and apes is drawn from the Koran that

knows to tell about a group of Jews who did not keep the Sabbath and were

consequently punished: God made the members of this group as despicable as

monkeys, pigs and idol worshipers.

The story is told in the 7

th

chapter of the Koran, verses 163-166:

[163] Ask them concerning the town standing close by the sea. Behold! They

transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath. For on the day of their Sabbath their

fish did come to them, openly holding up their heads, but on the day they had

no Sabbath, they came not. Thus did We make a trial of them, for they were

given to transgression...

[165] When they disregarded the warnings that had been given them,

We rescued those who forbade evil;

but We visited the wrong-doers with a grievous punishment,

because they were given to transgression.

[166] When in their insolence they transgressed (all) prohibitions,

We said to them: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”

Koran 2: 65-66 reads:

[65] And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of

the Sabbath;

We said to them: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”

[66] So We made it an example to their own time and to their posterity,

and a lesson to those who fear Allah.

Commentaries do not explain the process of this transformation, but rather present the

reader with anecdotes to demonstrate it, while mentioning also rats and lizards. Thus

we find the next story, put in the mouth of the prophet:

We were in an army with the Apostle of Allah . We got some lizards. I roasted

one lizard and brought it to the Apostle of Allah and placed it before him. He

took a stick and counted its fingers. He then said: A group from the children of

Isra'il was transformed into an animal of the land (reptiles ?), and I do not

know which animal it was. He did not eat it nor did he forbid (its eating).

(Sunan Abu Dawud 27/3786).

It is interesting to mention that such transformation into pigs and monkeys could be

also the fate of Muslims who immersed themselves into the carnal pleasures of this

world. Allah would supernaturally transform them into monkeys and pigs:

I heard the Prophet saying, “From among my followers there will be some

people who will consider as lawful illegal sexual intercourse, wearing of silk,

drinking alcohol and listening to music. … Allah will transform them into

monkeys and pigs. Thus they will remain to the Day of Resurrection”

JEWS IN THE KORAN AND EARLY ISLAMIC TRADITIONS Dr. Leah Kinberg ... http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/jewish_civilisation/kinberg_jews_koran.pdf