Truth Is Not Racism

Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001

From: mark rosenblit <markrosenblit@home.com>

To: Hartford Courant <letters@courant.com>

Columnist Amy Pagnozzi called Israel's President Moshe Katzav a racist because, in the aftermath of last month's bludgeoning murders of two Jewish teenagers in a cave near Tekoa by a group of "Palestinian" Arabs, he essentially declared that "Palestinian" society embraces Evil (which remarks he later clarified as referring only to "Palestinians" employing or supporting terrorism).

As if to endorse President Katzav's declaration, official Palestinian Authority Television, on June 8, 2001, broadcast a sermon by Sheik Muhammad Ibrahim Maadi in which he praised the June 1, 2001 suicide slaughter of 20 Jewish teenagers at a Tel Aviv nightclub and called for more such suicide attacks.

Here is an excerpt from his sermon: "Woe upon whomever will not raid, and not tell tales of raids. Woe upon whomever does not give his children Jihad [Holy War] education... Blessed is he who fights Jihad in the name of Allah, blessed is he who goes on a raid in the name of Allah, blessed is he who dons a vest of explosives on himself or on his children, and goes into the depth of the Jews in their sinful discotheque. I ask of Allah that we see the Knesset building collapsing on the heads of the Jews."

If President Katzav's declaration is the Truth, then -- however politically incorrect it might sound to squeamish ears -- it is not Racism.

© Mark Rosenblit

[Note: Despite United States President George W. Bush's public pledge to sire a second state for "Palestinian" Arabs (the first such state being Jordan), and despite Israel's (ill-considered) formal consent thereto, the "Palestinian" Arabs' official embrace of Evil continues to this very day. For example, on June 13, 2003, in the immediate aftermath of the horrific June 11, 2003 suicide bombing aboard a Jerusalem bus which murdered 17 souls and wounded over 100 additional innocents, Gaza Palestine Satellite Channel Television, an official television station of the Palestinian Authority, and Gaza Voice of Palestine, an official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, both broadcast a sermon by Sheik Ibrahim al-Mudayris in which he implored Allah to annihilate the Jewish people and the United States. Here is an excerpt from his sermon: "O Allah, punish our enemies. O Allah, destroy those who have harmed us. O Allah, destroy those who harm Muslims. O Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. O Allah, destroy the United States and its allies." -- Mark Rosenblit, June 18, 2003]

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