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Reut R. Cohen
I have never seen Muslims take to the streets in protest of injustices in the Arab world by fellow Muslims. There was no condemnation by Muslims in America and the UK regarding their Arab-Muslim brothers who have committed genocide against the Africans in Darfur. When Lebanon indiscriminately bombed a Palestinian refugee camp in 2008, Muslims didn't take to the streets. Neither did American Muslims protest the actions of Egyptian soldiers who have shot at Palestinians attempting to cross from Gaza into Egypt. I certainly did not see a single protest condemning acts of aggression and genocide against Kurds by Turkey and Iraq.
I did see a lot of despicable protests when Israel, a sovereign nation, went into Gaza in late December 2008 to stop terror attacks against the civilian population in southern Israel. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks. Hamas' acts of terror left Israel with no choice but to take stronger measures to defend its citizens. During rallies I heard Muslims telling Jews that they should be "used as fossil fuel" and I was told to go back to Poland. I am not from Poland and neither is my family (we are indigenous Middle Eastern Jews who were made refugees from countries like Iraq and Syria due to Islamic aggression).
These same Muslims who shouted antisemitic obscenities are now calling for divestment from Israel on various American college campuses.
Despite the best efforts of antisemitic and anti-Israel activists, including some gains among church groups, divestment campaign in the U.S. have been largely unsuccessful. Regardless, divestment campaigns needs to be condemned as they are largely illogical and spread lies.
Israel accepted the notion of a Palestinian state back in 1948 when even the Arabs did not wish for it. Israel uprooted Jewish settlements and gave land to Egypt and Jordan in return for peace treaties. Under the Oslo Accords Israel granted Palestinian autonomy and received non-stop terror in return.
The real reason for the lack of peace has nothing to do with fraudulent charges of human rights violations against the Jewish state where the rights of all citizens, regardless of nationality or religion, are protected. In the struggle to defeat Israel, those that do not hesitate to use terror as a weapon certainly have no difficulty in distorting the truth, even it is in the form of a divestment petition on a university campus.
Here are some advertisements that were in the New York Times in 2007 which point out the hypocrisy of divestment and boycott campaigns in the UK:
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In the process of deleting "spam" messages, I accidentally deleted the following message. I have copied and pasted the message below as it was sent to my inbox. My response will follow this comment.
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Joachim Martillo has left a new comment on your post "Divestment Campaigns Illogical, Fallacious":
I recently blogged Not Enemy Israeli Jews from Arab Lands by Rachel Shabi.
The Zionist rampage through Gaza was completely wanton and an expression of ethnic Ashkenazi genocidalism.
Not only does Nuremberg law define attacks on racist, murderous genocidal Zionist invaders, interlopers, and thieves by the native population to be completely legal, but corpus of Nuremberg decisions even supports the the obliteration of the criminal Zionist colonist population, which has no more rights under International law than a thief, who invades a home and kills or drives out practically all the residents.
Posted by Joachim Martillo to Reut Cohen at February 25, 2009 3:10 AM
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Joachim,
Many, if not most, of the IDF soldiers who were involved in the recent Operation Cast Lead were ethnically Sefaradim/Mizrahim (a group which has a very long record of fighting for Israel).
Characterizing all Zionists as “ethnic Ashkenazim” is wishful thinking and seems to be rooted in a desire to paint Jews in Israel as “white supremacists.” As someone who has spent much time in Israel and among my own community in the United States, I can safely assert that Sefaradim/Mizrahim take pride in our unique, indigenous heritage and the State of Israel. The presence of Middle Eastern Jews predated both the rise of Christianity and Islam in the Middle East and Arabia.
As for the recent war, Gazan Arabs shot at Israeli civilian targets for over 8 years despite warnings. There is no excuse for shooting over 12,000 rockets and mortars at Israeli cities. If Mexico bombed San Diego over a period of nine years, America would certainly not tolerate that. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks. Hamas' acts of terror left Israel with no choice but to take stronger measures to defend its citizens.
If the Arabs in Gaza had but stopped shooting, there would have been no Operation Cast Lead. In fact, Israel may have once again supplied employment to Gazan Arabs.
Gazan Arabs are NOT indigeneous to Gaza. The Arabs there are descendants of Arab Colonialists from Arabia.
By definition, “Zionism” is a term coined in 1896 to describe an international philosophy maintaining that Jews should have a single national homeland in the Middle East where they would not have to worry about discrimination, pogroms, or other persecutions, but be able to live peacefully. Today, 22 countries are officially Muslim and 48 countries maintain Muslim majority populations (this statistic is growing). It is detestable for someone who is from one of these countries to call for the annihilation of the single Jewish state which is the size of New Jersey. This unreasonable condemnation of Zionism is even more ridiculous when one considers that Zionism allowed for the creation of a country which is tolerant of all individuals and minorities, including Muslims. While Muslims today serve within the Israeli government and enjoy a higher standard of living than any other country in the Middle East, the remaining Jews in Islamic countries live in fear of persecution. Of course, the consensus among radical Muslims present at rallies is that Jews should all go back to Poland or Russia. Yet more than half of Israelis are Middle Eastern. In 1945 there were up to one million Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa — many living in communities dating back more than three millennia. Today, there are only a few thousand remaining as Jews became unwelcome in their own countries. Jews experienced vicious pogroms at the hands of Arab governments sparking a mass exodus of Mizrahi Jews to modern-day Israel. The land confiscated from these Jews, furthermore, is more than five times the land mass of Israel accepted by the international community today (minus the settlements). These Jews are not ethnic Ashkenazim, yet they still fight for Israel and love Israel.
Best Regards,
Reut R. Cohen
I took a look at Joachim Martillo's profile and the guy pretty much writes that he has "business interests" which spur him to write drivel that borders on antisemitic. Clearly he has an agenda- one rooted in his business. For a man who claims he is responsible for Americans having access to the internet, it is rather silly to suggest through his writing that Israel is responsible for all of the problems in the world. As for hi-tech and innovation, Israel is second to the Silicon Valley in Nor Cal. Therefore I would say that we need Israel more than we need you.
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