Monday, May 28, 2007
Amir Abdel Malik Ali: "Victory or Martyrdom"
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- Reut R. Cohen
- I am a journalist and researcher, and have written numerous research and investigative pieces. My work has been published with several notable organizations, including CAMERA on Campus, the Jewish Policy Center, Pajamas Media, and the Investigative Project on Terror. My interests include ethics and epistemology, history, economics, and international relations. I graduated from the University of California, Irvine with distinguished honors, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English. Presently I am pursuing a Master's degree at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism in the field of Broadcast Journalism. I can be reached at Reut AT reutrcohen DOT com.
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6 comments. Leave a comment:
i think u broke a rule,the sign behind Amir Abdel Malik Ali says no audio or visual recording!
Riffing off of this quickly, I was wondering what the responce to Alaa Alomer's commentary in the New U was/is. I find it odd that he went to such lengths to define "racism" in a very limited sense. "Jews" have been considered a race for centuries and the Jewish race has been persicuted for almost as long. Similarly, the idea of being "martyred" in the popular context means to die in the service of Allah. That's what most educated people have come to know the term to mean, so the assumption that Malik used it in that context is very understandable. Alomar also states that statistics on thier tacky wall are from the U.N. I think we all know how often they've turned out to be wrong. Remember that whole "no genocide in Darfur" report? I'm just saying. Under that same line of thinking, anything reported to have come from the A.P. in the middle east has to be questioned seriously. Their credibility was shredded for the last time during the Israeli/Lebanon skirmish. Lastly, he talks about a "war going on between the Palestinians and Israelis". If it was a real war, the Palestinians would have been religated to the pages of history decades ago. Like he says, no one fights a war to lose...I don't remember Israel losing a war it fought yet.
Anonymous: I didn't tape at the event. The video was uploaded by an MSU member (just click the video and it will take you the original). I guess the MSU broke their own rules.
They are selective about who can videotape at events (only MSU members or Muslims) despite the fact that there is no policy with the University of California that prohibits taping at a public event.
Phixit: The obvious issue I saw with the article is that the author suggests the MSU is against Zionism and not necessarly against Israel. It's laughable, actually.
MSU members explicitely assert that Israel is a Zionist State and assert their "anti-Israel" stance. Doesn't sound like they are pro-Israel to me!
Also, in January 2007, an MSU member expressed his wish that "Israel will soon be wiped off the map."
See video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5158780407631950723&q=daniel+pipes
Therefore, if the MSU asserts publically that they want Israel to be wiped off the map, assert their "anti-Israel" stance, and bring pro-terror (freedom fighting, according to the MSU) and blatantly anti-Semitic (i.e. the Jews are responsible for everything) speakers to campus, just how are we supposed to characterize their group?
I'd characterize them as a fubar organizations along the lines of the Branch Davidians, but that's just me. Further more, in the War of '48, Israel was fighting Syrian, Iraqi, Trans-Jordanians, Lebanese and Egyptian soldiers who's movements were hindered by including Palestinian irregulars. Point of fact: Israel has never gone to war against the Palestinians, just the countries that use the Palestinians for their own ends.
Hi Reut, love your blog.
I think Amir is right, for the arabs in Gaza there is only two choices, and Israel and all Jews should help them make the right one, Martyrdom, Lets help them by martyring them all right now. A couple tactical nukes should do (don't waste any IDF lives). That will stop the rocket attacks.
Depending on how the ones in the West Bank act, we can help them out to!
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