the Territories
Background Paper Prepared by Operations Directorate, IDF Spokesperson
Information and Public Relations Branch
5 November 2000
The latest outbreak of violence initiated by the Palestinians in the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip has resulted in serious economic strains
on the Palestinian population within those areas.The Economic Price Paid by the Palestinians as a Result of the Violence in
the Territories
Background Paper Prepared by Operations Directorate, IDF Spokesperson
Information and Public Relations Branch
5 November 2000
The latest outbreak of violence initiated by the Palestinians in the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip has resulted in serious economic strains
on the Palestinian population within those areas. These economic
difficulties are the direct result of the ongoing violence against
Israel instigated by the Palestinian Authority leaders through the
official media channels of the PA. This is done in order to achieve
goals which the Palestinians failed to attain through the negotiation
process.
Israel has made every effort not to impair Palestinian economic
activity. However, with the escalation of violence, enforcing a
blockade on Palestinian cities and banning the entry of Palestinians
into Israel became a security necessity. These preventative measures
were taken in order to prevent suicide attacks in light of the
release of Hamas murderers from Palestinian prisons (among them
terrorists with considerable experience in preparing explosive
charges). These measures have had a number of effects resulting in
economic damage.
The Palestinian Workers Union estimates that this accumulated loss of
income by Palestinian laborers who are unable to work in Israel,
reaches $6,000,000 per day. These workers cannot find alternative
work within the Palestinian Authority, while their jobs in Israel may
be lost permanently to foreign workers. This only adds fuel to the
fire, increasing their hatred for Israel.
Another result is the loss of income derived from Israeli
procurements in the local markets, mainly by Israelis seeking
inexpensive products and produce. These markets generate $100 million
a year to the local economy. The longer the situation continues, the
greater the damage.
Furthermore, huge quantities of goods intended for the Palestinian
Authority remain undelivered in the Israeli port of Ashdod. This is a
result of the Palestinian demand that its security personnel be
allowed through the Karni Passage into Israel, to take delivery of
the goods, without undergoing any form of security check. Israel
cannot allow such hazardous entry into its border, which would
increase the risk of terror attacks on Israeli civilians, especially
when it is known that Palestinian officials are involved in arms
smuggling. Therefore the goods remain where they are.
The Palestinian agricultural sector is also paying a hefty price for
the violence - especially now, in a year during which Jewish
religious law requires that Israeli land lie uncultivated. If
violence had not erupted, the Palestinian Authority would have
constituted Israel's main source of agricultural products during the
next year. Given the current situation, not only will that produce
not be sold to Israel, but even the normal quantities will not be
exported to Israel which will import this produce from other
countries, in order to meet demand.
Other economic repercussions of the violence include cessation of
development of the Gaza Port and the Gaza Electric Plant, both
projects that were set up in cooperation between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority.
Any current water or electricity failures are not dealt with because
maintenance crews are unable to enter the region. Some of these
failures are caused by deliberate sabotage by Palestinians who damage
water pipes to an Israeli settlement, overlooking the fact that the
pipes also supply their own village.
The hardest hit and primary bearers of the economic burden are the
Palestinian people rather than the Palestinian officials. Over the
past two weeks, as the situation escalated, hundreds of millions of
dollars were pledged to the Palestinian Authority by foreign Arab
nations. The bulk of this money will not trickle down to the
Palestinian population, but rather will remain in the coffers of the
Palestinian Authority and those who control it. Hence, while the
Palestinian population is bearing the economic burden of the
violence, some Palestinian leaders among whom are those responsible
for the vicious incitement, are reaping economic benefits from it.
For instance, Muhamad Dahlan, one of the leading figures calling for
violence against Israel, continues to amass wealth. Mr. Dahlan, it is
well known , controls the Palestinian side of the Karni Passage, and
as such collects a "toll" from all who pass through.
Jamil Tarifi, who is responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs,
has failed to coordinate economic and health related activities with
the Israeli authorities. Rather, he has chosen to focus on importing
cement from Jordan.
With the outbreak of violence, the Palestinian Authority requested
the transfer of payments due from the Israeli Finance Ministry. It
should be noted that these funds are allocated to paying salaries of
Palestinian Authority personnel and Palestinian security forces
salaries, and do not go to improve condition the general Palestinian
population.
It is clear that the recent events in the West Bank and Gaza have had
a major impact on the economic situation of the individual
Palestinian. The Palestinian population who are incited to violence,
suffer the consequences, while their leaders enjoy their status and
continue to thrive.
0011061000110611/6/00 0:00:0012/30/99 21:51:41MK Sarid supports international observer presence in territories - JerusalemMK Sarid supports international observer presence in territories - Jerusalem
to be divided
Aaron Lerner Date: 6 November, 2000
Meretz MK Yossi Sarid told Israel Radio this morning that he supports
an international observer presence in the territories if it met
certain conditions.MK Sarid supports international observer presence in territories - Jerusalem
to be divided
Aaron Lerner Date: 6 November, 2000
Meretz MK Yossi Sarid told Israel Radio this morning that he supports
an international observer presence in the territories if it met
certain conditions. He expressed a preference for an American team.
When asked if such observers should also be in Jerusalem, Sarid
replied that the sovereignty over Jerusalem would be divided wit the
Palestinians.
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0011061100110611/6/00 0:00:0012/30/99 21:52:42Ha'aretz: Anxious settlers demand IDF reverse decision to cut West Bank troop strength Ha'aretz: Anxious settlers demand IDF reverse decision to cut West Bank
troop strength
Ha'aretz Services (Bulletin) 6 November 2000
Officials of the YESHA settlers council are demanding that the army step up
operations against Palestinian militants and Tanzim militiamen, and beef up
its presence in the West Bank and Gaza, reversing a reported decision to
trim troop strength in the embattled areas, Israel Radio reported Monday.Ha'aretz: Anxious settlers demand IDF reverse decision to cut West Bank
troop strength
Ha'aretz Services (Bulletin) 6 November 2000
Officials of the YESHA settlers council are demanding that the army step up
operations against Palestinian militants and Tanzim militiamen, and beef up
its presence in the West Bank and Gaza, reversing a reported decision to
trim troop strength in the embattled areas, Israel Radio reported Monday.
The settlers voiced fears that violence in the territories would only
increase if the army thinned its presence, with the settlers as a prime
target.
It said YESHA representatives learned of the planned troop reductions during
a Sunday meeting with overall West Bank commander Major General Yitzhak
Eitan.
. The IDF Spokesman's office told the radio that there had not been a change
in troop deployment, and that the decision would be made at the end of the
month, following a re-assessment of the situation.
0011061200110611/6/00 0:00:0012/30/99 21:53:23Nadav Shragai: Oslo supporters ignore devastating results and disaster that would have been worse if Camp David had been implemented Nadav Shragai: Oslo supporters ignore devastating results and disaster that
would have been worse if Camp David had been implemented
Oslo was mere child's play By Nadav Shragai Ha'aretz 6 November 2000
The Israeli memory is short, maybe shorter than any other nation on earth.Nadav Shragai: Oslo supporters ignore devastating results and disaster that
would have been worse if Camp David had been implemented
Oslo was mere child's play By Nadav Shragai Ha'aretz 6 November 2000
The Israeli memory is short, maybe shorter than any other nation on earth.
However, the stubborn determination of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and some of
his cabinet ministers in sticking to the "Camp David understandings" as a
basis for negotiating with the Palestinians, even after the events of the
previous month, seems to indicate more than just poor memory.At Camp David,
Barak was willing to pay the price of humiliation for the sake of peace
between the Palestinians and the Israel.Yet, in the end, all he ended up
with was humiliation and war.
The great Jewish thinker Ahad Ha'am once commented: "A mistake that turns
out to be a success is still a mistake." This statement is even more true if
the mistake turns out to be a mistake. The obstacle course known as the
"Oslo process" that has proved to be an empty shell, was only the road to
hell (even if the road was paved with good intentions). The hell that we
were almost led into, only a few months ago, was the "Camp David
understandings," which Barak, even today (incredible as it seems), is
finding so difficult to abandon.
In the last month, one third of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - territory
designated Area A - was a base for attacks, for terrorism, for gunfire and
for other forms of combat directed against Israel. Over the past few weeks,
dozens of Palestinian terrorists with huge quantities of Jewish blood on
their hands were set free into this very territory. Furthermore, the
"industry" of Palestinian terrorism and bomb-making has been renewed over
the last few weeks in this territory, from which extremely powerful
explosive devices and human time bombs were sent into Israel during the
so-called Oslo years.
At Camp David, an irresponsible Israeli prime minister proposed that Israel
would increase by 100 or even 200 percent the extent of territories under
Palestinian jurisdiction. At Camp David, the Palestinians were nearly
granted the potential - which they do not hesitate to use - to increase
terrorist attacks and shootings against Israeli targets by 100 or even 200
percent.
If, during the past few weeks, the Palestinians fired no shots at
Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood, the only reason was that they thought that
Beit Iksa, which is adjacent to Ramot and which was proposed to them, is not
worth the trouble. The Palestinians also did not fire at another Jerusalem
neighborhood, Pisgat Ze'ev. Massive pressure exerted on Barak prevented him,
five months ago, from handing over to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat the adjacent community of Anata. At Camp David, Arafat replied "This
is not enough" to the offer of the two communities of Shuafat and Beit
Hanina, which are adjacent to Pisgat Ze'ev.
The prime minister did not manage to hand over to the Palestinians Abu Dis
and Al-Azariya. As Barak has said, "Jews have never prayed to return to
these during their two thousand years of exile." Thus, shots were not fired
at Jews who attended the funerals of loved ones under a hail of rocks at the
Mount of Olives cemetery.
At Camp David, reference was made to the establishment of a Palestinian
Civil Guard and to Palestinian community policing in the Old City of
Jerusalem, but, at the very last moment, we were spared the "exalting" sight
of Palestinian police officers firing on Israelis from atop the walls of the
Old City.
Only a few weeks ago, Barak transferred the Temple Mount to the jurisdiction
of Palestinian General Intelligence Services chief Tawfik Tirawi and
Palestinian security personnel for a few hours. The Temple Mount became a
conflagration. The plaza before the Western Wall was cleared of its Jewish
worshipers. Israeli police officers were wounded and many Israeli Jews felt
that they had reached the very depths of humiliation. At Camp David, such an
arrangement came very close to becoming institutionalized.
Jerusalem's Jewish residents have drunk only a small portion of the poisoned
drink prepared at Oslo. Life in Jerusalem has been drastically transformed -
shots fired at Gilo; a municipal economic crisis; Atarot industrial zone on
the point of collapse; rerouted bus lines, and in some cases a total
suspension of service on certain bus routes; shooting incidents and
explosive devices in the Rehavia quarter and in the Mahaneh Yehuda
open-stall marketplace. Marketplaces and holy sites in Jerusalem have become
deserted zones. Every evening helicopters are in the air and the sounds of
explosions on the ground sharply disrupt the peace and tranquillity of the
city's residents.
This is the "Oslo way." This is the multi-staged process, the Hudaybiyah
procedure, as Arafat and his followers have themselves termed the "Oslo
way." However, in contrast to the "Camp David understandings," which
Israelis were spared at the last possible moment, the "Oslo way" is mere
child's play.
Had the "Camp David understandings" been implemented and had the Palestinian
community of Jabal Mukkaber (which is situated opposite the Jewish
neighborhood of East Talpiot), Sur Baher (situated opposite the kibbutz of
Ramat Rachel), and Wadi Joz and Sheikh Jarrah (situated opposite the Israeli
government compound in East Jerusalem and opposite the neighborhood of
Musrara) been transferred to the hands of someone - whom Barak and Regional
Development Minister Shimon Peres still stubbornly refuse to call an enemy -
the bloody clashes and the destruction in Jerusalem would have been on a
much greater scale.
Recent events have amply demonstrated that former science minister Benny
Begin, who has often been depicted as a prophet of utter pessimism was,
after all, merely a realist
0011061300110611/6/00 0:00:0012/30/99 21:54:04Ha'aretz: (Israeli) MK Dehamshe denies he incited against police, AG presses on with probe against MK Barakeh for calling on Israeli Arabs to participate in intafada Ha'aretz: (Israeli) MK Dehamshe denies he incited against police, AG presses
on with probe against MK Barakeh for calling on Israeli Arabs to participate
in intafada
Ha'aretz Correspondents By Ori Nir, Baruch Kra and Gideon Alon Ha'aretz 6
November 2000
While police questioned MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe (United Arab List) for
several hours yesterday about an alleged incident of incitement, Attorney
General Elyakim Rubinstein insisted that an investigation on similar
allegations should be opened against another Arab MK, Mohammed Barakeh
(Hadash).Ha'aretz: (Israeli) MK Dehamshe denies he incited against police, AG presses
on with probe against MK Barakeh for calling on Israeli Arabs to participate
in intafada
Ha'aretz Correspondents By Ori Nir, Baruch Kra and Gideon Alon Ha'aretz 6
November 2000
While police questioned MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe (United Arab List) for
several hours yesterday about an alleged incident of incitement, Attorney
General Elyakim Rubinstein insisted that an investigation on similar
allegations should be opened against another Arab MK, Mohammed Barakeh
(Hadash).
Dehamshe was questioned by police in Jerusalem on suspicion of a number of
offenses - verbal incitement toward acts of violence, defamation of a public
official, and obstruction of policemen. Dehamshe denied all allegations;
police officials contend that the MK "lied shamelessly" throughout the
questioning.
A month ago, when Police Northern District Commander Alik Ron announced
plans to launch an investigation of an Arab MK on suspicion of incitement,
Dehamshe quickly announced in the media that Ron's allusion was to himself.
Subsequently it was established that Ron was in fact thinking of MK Barakeh,
but this clarification did little to stem Dehamshe's anger concerning police
actions. "We will hit or forcibly attack any policeman, and break his arms
if he comes to demolish an Arab house," Dehamshe said in the incident under
investigation. "We're on the brink of an Israeli Arab Intifada due to Alik
Ron's incitement," he added.
Dehamshe's criticism of house demolition procedures derived from the
destruction of two homes in a non-recognized Bedouin community close to the
Nahaf village, in the Galilee. While demolishing these two houses, police
forcibly held back residents who tried to prevent the policy from being
enacted. Dehamshe made the controversial remark about "breaking the arms of
policeman" in the context of an argument about the right of any person to
defend himself and his home.
Dehamshe reiterated this argument while speaking to reporters yesterday: "We
have a basic right to defend ourselves; our rights extend to homes not being
destroyed, and our arms and legs not being broken by the police. That right
includes self-defense, and breaking the arm of anyone who comes to break our
arms, and to destroy our homes."
About thirty Islamic Movement members staged a demonstration in support of
Dehamshe while the MK was being questioned at the Jerusalem police station.
Before entering the station, Dehamshe declared that the police represent "an
instrument of fascist policy," and of a policy which "oppresses" Arabs in
Israel. The police, he added, are responsible for Israeli Arab casualties in
recent weeks.
Meantime, Rubinstein rejected complaints voiced by politicians from Israeli
Arab parties concerning his decision to recommend that the state prosecutor
assess whether there is cause to indict MK Barakeh on incitement charges.
The attorney general said that "we aren't persecuting Knesset members, or
anybody else. Using means at our disposal, we are endeavoring to do our duty
in the struggle against forms of verbal violence that are liable to lead to
physical violence."
The attorney general adamantly denied that he enforces two sets of
standards, one for Jews and one for Arabs. Together with State Prosecutor
Edna Arbel, Rubinstein said, he has "ordered equal enforcement concerning
Arab and Jewish violators, both with respect to arrest policy, and
indictment."
Right-wing Knesset members vehemently denounced Barakeh's statements calling
on Israeli Arabs to take part in the Al Aqsa Intifada. MK Michael Kleiner
(Herut-National Movement) said that "Palestinians of Israel have raised
their heads." The Arab population in the country, he explained, should be
"returned to its natural place" as a minority which is entitled to enjoy
rights so long as it is loyal to the state, but which cannot be eligible for
these rights if it isn't loyal to Israel.
MK Zevulun Orlev (National Religious Party) issued a complaint against
Barakeh to the Knesset's Ethics Committee.
On Barakeh's behalf, MK Tamar Gozansky stated that her Hadash party
colleague is the target of a delegitimization campaign of monstrous
proportions waged by certain MKs, the police, the attorney-general and some
media figures.
0011061400110611/6/00 0:00:0012/30/99 21:54:27Ha'aretz: Golan settlements prepare for possible Hezbollah attacksHa'aretz: Golan settlements prepare for possible Hezbollah attacks
By Sharon Gal Ha'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 6 November 2000
Security procedures at northern Golan Heights settlements have been beefed
up in response to the kidnapping by Hezbollah of three IDF soldiers at Har
Dov and to reports about the intentions of the Shi'ite organization to
continue its hostile activities along the northern border.Ha'aretz: Golan settlements prepare for possible Hezbollah attacks
By Sharon Gal Ha'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 6 November 2000
Security procedures at northern Golan Heights settlements have been beefed
up in response to the kidnapping by Hezbollah of three IDF soldiers at Har
Dov and to reports about the intentions of the Shi'ite organization to
continue its hostile activities along the northern border.
Exemplifying the trend, a security team of residents of Moshav Neveh Ativ
has been re-assembled, two years after it was dismantled; in addition, bomb
shelters in the settlement are staying open and are being kept well stocked
in accordance with orders issued by the Northern Command of the Israel
Defense Forces.
More stringent security procedures on the Golan have included the shutting
down of the Mount Hermon site, although the Northern Command has promised to
reconsider this policy as the winter progresses and the ski season begins.
In addition, Golan settlements have been asked to take various steps in the
name of added protection. Some have balked; residents of the Nimrod
settlement, for example, refused to allow soldiers to stand guard at the
entrance to the community.
Ha'aretz has learned that the Northern Command has ordered the residents
team at Neveh Ativ to prepare itself along the lines of the emergency squads
in communities in the Upper Galilee, along the Lebanon border.
Some 10 residents of Neveh Ativ, most of them newly-discharged from the IDF,
volunteered to join the squad and will receive M-16 rifles and other types
of defense equipment.
Two weeks ago, the members of the squad trained at a firing range and were
briefed by IDF officers.
The four families which live in Nimrod, formerly an IDF outpost that became
a civilian settlement two years ago, opposed recommendations for the
deployment of guards and the implementation of other stepped-up security
procedures.
Since the Har Dov kidnapping, the residents of Nimrod said yesterday, "the
army has been on the go. There are more soldiers in the region now."
None of the residents of Nimrod volunteered to be issued with rifles. The
IDF has stated that if the need arises, soldiers would be quickly dispatched
to provide defense for the small settlement.
0011061500110611/6/00 0:00:0012/30/99 21:55:34MEMRI: Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood LibelMEMRI: Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel
Special Dispatch - Egypt
November 6, 2000
No.MEMRI: Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel
Special Dispatch - Egypt
November 6, 2000
No. 150
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Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel
The Blood Libel the claim that Jews use the blood of Christians to make the
Matzah (unleavened bread) eaten at Passover is an ancient accusation
against the Jewish people. In modern times, this claim has surfaced in the
context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1984, long-time Syrian Defense
Minster and Ba'athist leader, Field Marshal Mustafa Tlass, wrote a book
entitled 'The Matzah of Zion' about the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel which he
described as an historical event that was researched and verified by several
European Universities. More recently, in November 1999, Al-Usbu' Al-Adabi,
a weekly of the Syrian Arab Writers Association, published an article
mentioning the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel.
With the continuing Israeli-Palestinian violence, these accusations are
resurfacing. In a television debate on the Qatari based Arabic cable news
channel Al-Jazeera, the Palestinian Liberation Army Mufti, Sheikh Colonel
Nader Al-Tamimi, claimed that there can be no peace with the Jews because
they use and suck the blood of Arabs on the holidays of Passover and Purim.
In this appearance, Al-Tamimi also called for the overthrow of Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak - prompting the Egyptian government to call for a
boycott of Al-Jazeera and close its offices in Egypt.
However, Egypt's government press is in the agreement with Sheikh Al-Tamimi
about the Jewish use of Arab blood for religious worship. The government
daily Al-Ahram - the leading paper in Egypt - published a full-page article
by columnist 'Adel Hamooda entitled, "A Jewish Matzah made from Arab Blood."
Following are excerpts from this article:
The Murder of Father Toma
"Every time I see the children of the stones in occupied Palestine as they
spring like blood from the arteries I remember my grandfather who used to
gather all the neighborhood children in his home in Alexandria to give them
candy and tell them the tale of the Jew who slaughtered a boy and made
Passover Matzah from his blood. Then, drunk with lust and barbarity, they
devoured it."
"I thought that my grandfather's story was a fairy tale like the story about
the wicked witch who turned children into frogs. But when I matured and
read. I found out that the story of the Jewish blood Matzah is true [and]
that all its details are recorded in the Shar'i [Islamic Religious] Courts
in Damascus, Aleppo and Hama in 1840. The French Orientalist Charles
Laurand published these details in a book called The Murder of Father Toma
and his Servant Ibrahim Amara. The book was translated to Arabic by Dr.
Youssef Nasrallah and published in Cairo in 1898."
"On February 7, 1840 the French Consul-General in Damascus complained to the
Ottoman Governor that two days earlier Father Toma went to the Jewish
Quarter. When his servant Ibrahim Amara discovered that Father Toma [was
missing]. he went to look for him in the Jewish Quarter and also did not
return.. The police found one of Father Toma's leaflets in the shop of
Suleiman, an Israeli barber who lived near the synagogue. .[Suleiman,]
after being whipped, admitted that Father Toma was in the Jewish Quarter
with a group of Rabbis including Moshe Behor Yehuda, Moshe Abu Al-Afia,
Yosef Laniado, David Harari, and his two brothers Isaac and Aaron. Then he
admitted that all of them went to David Harari's home. The barber Suleiman
confessed that he was invited a half-hour after sunset to Harari's home and
was asked to slaughter the handcuffed Father Toma. He said he could not do
it, but the men promised him gold and silver coins. He still did not agree
and they told him that whoever does it pleases God and will enter Paradise
and will play with the female of the whale whose meat God promised that
righteous Jews will eat on the day of resurrection."
".They threw Father Toma on the ground, put his neck on a basin, and
slaughtered him. They were very careful to make sure that not a single drop
was spilled. Then they moved him to another room, burned his clothes, and
cut his body to pieces, which they put into a sack and threw to the sewage
near the Jewish Quarter."
Interrogation Excerpts
The Barber Sulieman's Interrogation
"Question: Did they pay you?
Answer: They promised to pay me if I keep silent. If I reveal it, they will
blame me for the murder. They promised the servant who witnessed the murder
that they would arrange a wife for him."
"Question: At what time did the murder occur?
Answer: I think it occurred at dinner or a little after... The priest was
held above the basin for 30-45 minutes until all of his blood poured into
it."
"Question: Did blood dribble from the bag?
Answer: No they kept every drop the way they guard gold or the Talmud."
"Question: What for?
Answer: They use it to make Matzahs."
Aaron Hariri's Interrogation
"Question: How did you slaughter him?
Answer: We brought him into David's home and with everyone's consent we
killed him to take his blood. After we bottled the blood we sent it to
Rabbi Moshe Abu Al-Afia. We did it from the conviction that blood is an
essential component in the implementation of a religious edict."
"Question: How is blood used in your religion?
Answer: It is used to make Matzah."
"Question: Is the blood distributed to all the Jews?
Answer: No there is no need for it, the blood is kept with the Chief Rabbi."
Rabbi Moshe Abu Al-Afia's Interrogation
"Question: How is the blood used? Is it put in the Matzah, is it given to
the whole Jewish people?
Answer: The blood is put into Matzah, which is not given to everyone, only
to the most Orthodox Jews. They send flour to the Chief Rabbi Yakov Antebi
who kneads the dough himself and puts the blood into it secretly without
anyone knowing it. He sends Matzah to whoever sends him flour."
"Question: Did you ask the Rabbi if he sends the blood to Rabbis in other
countries or is it for Syrian Jewish residents only?
Answer: He told me he is obliged to send blood to the Jews of Baghdad."
"Question: Was the intention to kill a specific priest or any Christian?
Answer: They wanted the blood of any Christian, but they took Father Toma
because he fell into their hands accidentally."
Talmud Permits Crimes Against non-Jews
"After Rabbi Moshe Abu Al-Afia finished his testimony he asked to convert to
Islam, chose the name Muhammad Efendi and wrote, with his own hand, a letter
to the Governor explaining everything that happened. He mentioned that the
use of blood for Jewish Matzahs is found in an ancient holy book [the Arabic
name for the book is unclear] which no one renounces."
"The amazing thing is that none of the Rabbis who committed this terrible
crime repented or felt that they committed a crime. The explanation for
this is found in the Talmud. According to the Talmud, Jewish souls are more
precious to God than other souls, because the souls of non-Jews are devilish
and resemble animal souls. They believe the non-Jews are like dogs,
donkeys, and bulls and that their homes are mangers and that they are
profane souls whose lives are worthless which is why it is permitted to
murder, slaughter, cheat, deceive, steal from, and beat them, rape their
wives and mock them."
"These [Jewish] convictions justify in their eyes, the murder of Father Toma
and his servant Ibrahim Amara. This also explains what we see on TV screens
where Israeli occupation armies kill children mercilessly while chewing gum
as if they are on a trip or at a ball. not as if they kill human beings,
rather as if they were killing stray animals in accordance with the
religious law set forth in the Talmud."
Israelis Using the Blood of Palestinian Children
"The bestial drive to knead Passover Matzahs with the blood of non-Jews is
[confirmed] in the records of the Palestinian police where there are many
recorded cases of the bodies Arab children who had disappeared being found
torn to pieces without a single drop of blood. The most reasonable
explanation is that the blood was taken to be kneaded into the dough of
extremist Jews to be used in Matzahs to be devoured during Passover."
"If what is written in the Talmud is implemented then every devout Jew who
keeps the Lord's edicts is forbidden to live in the cities that are holy for
the Jews [Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberius] unless he eats one of the
blood Matzahs. Otherwise he will be like the idol worshippers, the Muslims
and the Christians. whose food Jews may not eat. Whose good deeds Jews may
not mention, whose daughters they may not marry, and in whose tombstones
they may not touch even though they are allowed to drink from their blood."
(3)
Endnotes:
(1) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 66, "Anti-Semitism in the Syrian Media,"
November 27, 1999.
(2) Al-Jazeera (Qatari), October 24 2000.
(3) Al-Ahram (Egyptian government), October 28, 2000.
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