MidnightCall Magazine
In this issue:
- Before the Last Flood — By Norbert Lieth
- Gaza Flotilla: Aggression or Self-Defense? — By Arno Froese
- Far East AsiaTrendsToday – Part III:Geo-prophecy or Geopolitics? — By Wilfred Hahn
News From Israel MagazineIn this issue:
- The Myth of the Al-Aqsa Mosque: Part 1 — By Herbert Novitsky
- ON THE HORIZON:
- Obama Honors Jewish Heritage Month
- Building an Electronic Human Brain
- ‘Iran Critics Must Get Rid of Nukes,’ Says Turkish PM
- Israel Joins Prestigious OECD Club
- Israel Accepted after Unanimous Vote
- Spy Satellite Successfully Launched
A Brave Little Voice Highlights Anti-Jewish Incitement
Canadian Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler, a Liberal party representative, has stated that the Palestinian Authority, including its Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, is guilty of purveying hatred of Jews. He also lamented that the official PA incitement is being ignored by Western governments and media outlets.
Saying that Hamas, with their charter’s “genocidal objective, anti-Semitic ideology and terrorist instrumentality,” is not alone in its incitement in the PA public sphere. “I’m talking about the Palestinian Authority,” said the Mount-Royal MP at a press conference. He added that the “culture of incitement” harms not only Israel, but also the PA Arabs themselves.
Cotler recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Israel, where he also met with PA officials and told them that “hate breeds hate. If you have a culture of incitement and hate, you’re going to create a culture of hate that is pervasive in a Palestinians society itself.”
Cotler cited several examples of anti-Jewish incitement in the PA. Among the most egregious offenses, he noted, were those promoted by official PA government outlets and officials, as well as by Arab academics.
“People don’t realize that Abbas signed a law, on the very day there was a suicide terrorist attack in December 2005 against Israel, providing monthly stipends for the families of suicide bombers. In January 2007, Abbas addressed a large crowd that was estimated as being over 100,000, in which he said “the sons of Israel are mentioned in the Koran as those who are corrupting humanity on Earth.”
According to the Canadian MP, “Abbas has never recognized Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state.” The official PA media, meanwhile promotes anti-Israeli libels and “breeds hatred and contempt for Jews.”
Cotler said that he was working on a draft legal indictment of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which he’d like to present to the United Nations on September 22 of this year. He would like to see Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, France and Israel, among others, work together to bring Ahmadinejad to an international court for Iran’s domestic human rights abuses, support of international terrorism, and incitement to genocide against Israel.
-virtualjerusalem.com, 21 August 2008
Unfortunately, this courageous voice of a noted politician will not be heeded because it is politically inopportune. Enormous sums of money are being donated to the much-praised Palestinian cause without realizing that a large part of it is being used to fuel the unbridled hatred against the State of Israel and the Jewish people. This article really exposes the “despiteful minds” of many Arabs and their leaders as recorded in Ezekiel 36:5: “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.”
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