Pockets
of Sanity Emerge in Crazed Palestinian Attacks
by IPT News • Oct 22, 2015 at
3:12 pm
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As anti-Israel propagandists take to social media with memes and
statements supporting the "Knife Intifada," it is refreshing to
hear voices of reason in the Arab world describe the situation
realistically.
"When someone dashes off to stab an Israeli youth passing on the
street, or a settler crossing at the traffic light – this is not
resistance," Egyptian editor Ibrahim Issa wrote, according to a translation released Thursday by the Middle East
Media Research Institute (MEMRI). "There is no nobility in it, and it
does not serve the cause of liberation. It is only an expression of a flood
of rage that has overcome, blinded, and drowned reason."
Issa faulted Islamists who use religion "as a tool to rip and
divide countries to pieces [and] to declare Allah's creatures apostates ...
and calls on its youth and those it has misled to kill themselves as [a
form of] jihad in the path of Allah. But this path never leads to
Palestine."
Similar sentiment came from a Kuwaiti columnist with a more peaceful
viewpoint.
In a piece for Al Watan, also flagged and translated by MEMRI, writer 'Abdallah
Al-Hadlaq called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to
condemn the attacks and stop incitement against Israelis. Not only is it
ineffective, but it is wrong. He called it "embarrassing" that
the international community was unable to confront "Palestinian crimes
against Israelis [and] the continued series of stabbings against
them."
"Israel has a right to defend itself and kill the Palestinian
terrorists, whatever their age, whether they are children, adolescents,
men, or women," Al-Hadlaq wrote. Inherent in the conflict is a
Palestinian "lie versus the clear, open, Israeli truth."
Al-Hadlaq previously has been critical of Hamas, MEMRI reported. In this
case, Al Watan took the article down in the face of negative
reactions.
On Israeli television last week, Arab-Israeli broadcaster Lucy Aharish lashed out at Arab leaders for failing to act to quell
the violence. "I don't understand," she said, "even if the
status quo has been broken, which in reality is false ... does that allow
someone to go and murder someone else because of a sacred place? Or because
of religion, or because a Jew went there to pray in the house of God? I
don't understand it and can't comprehend it."
"What God are they speaking of that allows for children to go out
and murder innocent people?" Aharish asked. "What woman puts a
hijab [on] and prays to God, takes a knife out and tries to stab innocent
people? I don't understand it and I don't justify it in any way. I can't
accept it. Not even excuses of frustration."
She blamed weak Arab leadership for stoking tensions and "inciting
thousands of young people to go to the streets. You are destroying their
future with your own hands."
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