Pallywood - "according to palestinian sources"...
Richard Landes' examination of "news" created in Palestine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8ANySuSuk
Al Durah - "according to palestinian sources II"...
Pallywood Strikes Again!
Richard Landes provides an update the creative "journalism" from "Pallywood," as well as the Al Durah trial...
Philippe Karsenty on Al Durah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J63FZz6k2Wo
Pallywood Strikes Again 2: France2 vs. Evidence
Following the ruling in favor of Philippe Karsenty in his appeal against France2, Richard Landes examines the evidence in the Al Dura case and other examples of "Pallywood" journalism
Pallywood: Gaza Beach "Massacre"
Icon of Hatred - al durah
terça-feira, 23 de março de 2010
sábado, 20 de março de 2010
PALLYWOOD - Palestinian Media fraud Industry
What is Pallywood?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallywood
http://thestupidleft.blogspot.com/2007/07/pallywood.html (Português)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallywood
http://thestupidleft.blogspot.com/2007/07/pallywood.html (Português)
| The term "Pallywood" refers to the staging of scenes by Palestinian journalists in order to present the Palestinians as hapless victims of Israeli aggression. They are able to succeed in this endeavor in large part due to the credulity and eagerness of the Western press to present these images, which reinforce the image of the Palestinian David struggling valiantly against the overpowering Israeli Goliath. Pallywood has led to astonishing lapses in Western journalistic standards in which badly staged scenes regularly appear on the news as "real events." Staged desperationYou've probably seen dozens of pictures of Palestinian women crying. The wire services love 'em, decent people sympathize with them.We all were misled once or more.  Have a look now for a second behind the scenes. Here is a revealing photo that slipped through the ideological filters, showing the scene as a Palestinian woman performs for a hungry battery of cameramen, staged carefully in front of a picturesque section of the security wall. By mere coincidence she chose the English inscription where to cry. One look at the smiling child on the right side makes it clear that this kid well understands the cheating media circus. Is it possible that hundreds of news editors and human right organizations do not?" |
terça-feira, 16 de março de 2010
O relato de Mosab Yousef
"O Hamas não pode fazer as pazes com Israel. Isto é contra o que o deus deles ordena."
Mosab Hassan Yousef, filho de um dos líderes do Hamas, revelou ao jornal Haaretz que trabalhou durante dez anos como espião para a inteligência de Israel, ajudando a identificar células terroristas e a prevenir dezenas de atentados contra israelenses. Mosab, de 32 anos, renunciou ao Islã, converteu-se ao cristianismo em 2007 e foi morar nos Estados Unidos.
Em entrevista ao Telegraph, Mosab reprovou a brutalidade do Hamas, que "está usando civis, crianças, o sofrimento diário das pessoas para atingir seus objetivos". E salientou: "Os palestinos têm uma imagem ruim perante o mundo, mas eles são pessoas muito boas... eles são enganados, e a imagem ruim é causada por sua liderança. Eles precisam de ajuda, precisam que parem de mentir para eles e para o mundo".
As revelações de Mosab foram divulgadas no fim de fevereiro. Alguns dias depois, integrantes da Autoridade Palestina e do Fatah reuniram-se em El Bireh, cidade palestina vizinha a Ramallah, para dedicar uma praça pública à memória de uma mulher que, em 1978, comandou o ataque terrorista mais mortífero da história de Israel.
O nome da moça é Dalal Mughrabi. Tinha 19 anos e liderava uma brigada palestina que saiu do Líbano, num barco, e aportou numa praia entre as cidades de Haifa e Tel Aviv. O grupo matou um jornalista americano, seqüestrou um ônibus, tomou outro e partiu para a chacina. 38 civis israelenses foram mortos, 13 deles crianças.
Uma pessoa ingênua poderia supor que a Autoridade Palestina, ao celebrar o 32º aniversário do assassinato de civis israelenses e homenagear a líder dos assassinos, sinaliza que não quer a paz com Israel. Mas a opinião abalizada do governo Obama e do beautiful people internacional é outra: quem atrapalha o acordo de paz é Israel, ao cometer a barbaridade de construir casas para judeus em Jerusalém Oriental. Assim não dá.
Convém ouvir as palavras de quem entende o assunto de dentro. É Mosab Yousef quem diz: "O Hamas não pode fazer as pazes com Israel. Isto é contra o que o deus deles ordena. É impossível fazer as pazes com infiéis, e ninguém sabe disso melhor do que eu. O Hamas é o responsável pela morte dos palestinos, não Israel. Eles não hesitam em massacrar pessoas numa mesquita ou em atirar pessoas do 15º andar de um edifício, como fizeram no levante em Gaza. Os israelenses nunca fariam coisas desse tipo. Eu digo com certeza que os israelenses se importam mais com os palestinos que o Hamas ou o Fatah".
Publicado no jornal O Estado.
Bruno Pontes é jornalista - http://brunopontes.blogspot.com
Mosab Hassan Yousef, filho de um dos líderes do Hamas, revelou ao jornal Haaretz que trabalhou durante dez anos como espião para a inteligência de Israel, ajudando a identificar células terroristas e a prevenir dezenas de atentados contra israelenses. Mosab, de 32 anos, renunciou ao Islã, converteu-se ao cristianismo em 2007 e foi morar nos Estados Unidos.
Em entrevista ao Telegraph, Mosab reprovou a brutalidade do Hamas, que "está usando civis, crianças, o sofrimento diário das pessoas para atingir seus objetivos". E salientou: "Os palestinos têm uma imagem ruim perante o mundo, mas eles são pessoas muito boas... eles são enganados, e a imagem ruim é causada por sua liderança. Eles precisam de ajuda, precisam que parem de mentir para eles e para o mundo".
As revelações de Mosab foram divulgadas no fim de fevereiro. Alguns dias depois, integrantes da Autoridade Palestina e do Fatah reuniram-se em El Bireh, cidade palestina vizinha a Ramallah, para dedicar uma praça pública à memória de uma mulher que, em 1978, comandou o ataque terrorista mais mortífero da história de Israel.
O nome da moça é Dalal Mughrabi. Tinha 19 anos e liderava uma brigada palestina que saiu do Líbano, num barco, e aportou numa praia entre as cidades de Haifa e Tel Aviv. O grupo matou um jornalista americano, seqüestrou um ônibus, tomou outro e partiu para a chacina. 38 civis israelenses foram mortos, 13 deles crianças.
Uma pessoa ingênua poderia supor que a Autoridade Palestina, ao celebrar o 32º aniversário do assassinato de civis israelenses e homenagear a líder dos assassinos, sinaliza que não quer a paz com Israel. Mas a opinião abalizada do governo Obama e do beautiful people internacional é outra: quem atrapalha o acordo de paz é Israel, ao cometer a barbaridade de construir casas para judeus em Jerusalém Oriental. Assim não dá.
Convém ouvir as palavras de quem entende o assunto de dentro. É Mosab Yousef quem diz: "O Hamas não pode fazer as pazes com Israel. Isto é contra o que o deus deles ordena. É impossível fazer as pazes com infiéis, e ninguém sabe disso melhor do que eu. O Hamas é o responsável pela morte dos palestinos, não Israel. Eles não hesitam em massacrar pessoas numa mesquita ou em atirar pessoas do 15º andar de um edifício, como fizeram no levante em Gaza. Os israelenses nunca fariam coisas desse tipo. Eu digo com certeza que os israelenses se importam mais com os palestinos que o Hamas ou o Fatah".
Publicado no jornal O Estado.
Bruno Pontes é jornalista - http://brunopontes.blogspot.com
sábado, 13 de março de 2010
Old News: Haaretz, not a shred of decency
Shame on ‘Haaretz’
By Isi Leibler November 12, 2007
We frequently boast that notwithstanding its limitations, the Israeli media is unfettered by government intervention and could serve as a role model for a free press in any democracy.
As in most Western countries, Israeli journalists are inclined to the Left and substantially outnumber the more conservative-minded. In fact, one constantly hears complaints that to hold right-wing views is a major stumbling block in obtaining promotion in the media world. But that is not unique to Israel.
The majority of Israelis who read a newspaper on a daily basis read one of the tabloids. In that sense, the broadsheet Haaretz stands alone. It presents as a serious liberal newspaper and aspires to assume the mantle of a Hebrew-language counterpart to The New York Times. Despite a limited circulation, it is extraordinarily influential and read by most opinion makers.
Its news coverage and access to inside information exceeds that of the tabloids. However, whereas it carries superb pieces on culture and society, with especially insightful articles on religious issues, its frequent endorsement of radical policies does tend to increasingly link Haaretz with fringe rather than mainstream opinion.
Indeed, many would even argue that a considerable proportion of Haaretz editorials and op-ed columns are politically off the wall. Its op-ed and magazine articles demonizing Israel and inclined toward post-Zionism are increasingly being quoted by Arabs and anti-Israeli propagandists. In fact, a man from Mars observing the level of the newspaper’s frequent vitriolic condemnations of Israeli governments could understandably be misled into believing that some Haaretz writers are consciously acting as propagandists for the Palestinian cause.
Current editor David Landau is an observant Jew wearing a black kippa. He made aliya from London and is a highly talented writer. His book on haredim published in 1993 to this day remains the best reference work on the subject in the English language. And the English edition of Haaretz was unquestionably his brainchild.
I first met him in March 1987, when he was a senior staffer at The Jerusalem Post, then being edited by Ari Rath and Erwin Frenkel. Landau had been sent to cover the second Asian Jewish Colloquium of scholars in Hong Kong, which I had organized on behalf of the World Jewish Congress and the Asia Jewish Pacific Association.
Since he assumed the role of editor at Haaretz, the newspaper’s traditional bias relating to the Israel-Palestinian conflict has intensified.
Landau concentrates much of his wrath on religious Zionists, regarding those who settled across the Green Line as messianic lunatics and the greatest threat to Israel. This obviously makes him a darling of the ultra-Left.
Today Landau allegedly even refuses to correct articles containing blatantly false information if they conflict with his political agenda. According to the Web site of the highly respected American Jewish media watchdog organization CAMERA, not only did Landau decline to consider its complaints regarding alleged falsehoods published in Haaretz, he even went on record informing the JTA that “as a matter of principle” he had instructed his staff not to respond to criticism from CAMERA because they were a “McCarthyite” organization.
Needless to say, this casts an ugly shadow on a daily newspaper purporting to represent the highest levels of journalistic integrity. It is now widely accepted that many policies promoted by Haaretz are effectively supportive of Israel’s adversaries.
In fact, Nahum Barnea, the distinguished Yediot Aharonot columnist, went so far as to describe senior Haaretz journalists Gideon Levy, Amira Haas and Akiva Eldar as failing to pass the “lynch test” - i.e., even failing to condemn Palestinians when they murdered two Israelis in a lynch mob in Ramallah at the onset of the second intifada.
More recently, consistent with frequent Haaretz depictions of Israel as a racist entity, the paper’s chief Arab affairs expert, Danny Rubinstein, told a UN body that Israel was indeed an apartheid state.
Of course, behind this torrid situation stands the publisher of Haaretz, Amos Schocken, who is personally convinced that Israel does indeed practice apartheid.
But it was only recently that Landau threw away all semblance of journalistic integrity and publicly confessed to crossing the ultimate red line that distinguishes reputable journalism from propaganda.
According to The Jerusalem Post, at the recent Russian Limmud Conference in Moscow, Landau, one of the few non-Russian-speaking participants, dropped a bombshell. He stunned those present by boasting that his newspaper had “wittingly soft-pedalled” alleged corruption by Israeli political leaders including prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, when, in the opinion of Haaretz, the policies of those leaders were advancing the peace process.
When participants challenged him concerning the morality of such an approach, Landau responded with the extraordinary assertion that “more immorality happens every day at a single roadblock [in Judea and Samaria] than in all the scandals put together.”
He then unashamedly assured those present that Haaretz was ready to repeat the process in order “to ensure that Olmert goes to Annapolis.”
Even former Bolsheviks in the audience must have gasped at such views, openly stated, which incorporated all the hallmarks of the Stalinist era.
It is surely scandalous for the top editor of what purports to be a reputable and prestigious daily newspaper to publicly proclaim - and take pride in - having deliberately “soft-pedalled” and possibly even covered up acts of corruption by senior political leaders in order to promote his own political agenda, and, moreover, boast that his paper would continue to do so in the future.
Could one, for instance, visualize The New York Times suppressing information about an American president involved in corruption out of a desire to promote the administration’s foreign policy objectives? No newspaper of integrity in the world would tolerate an editor making such an outrageous statement.
The Israeli Press Council code of ethics contains clauses explicitly condemning such practices. Article 40 (and 16a): “A newspaper or a journalist shall not refrain from publishing information where there is a public interest in its publication, including for reasons of political, economic or other pressures.”
Article 7: “Mistakes, omissions or inaccuracies which are in the publication of facts must be corrected speedily…”
If in the face of such violations of their charter by the editor of one of their most prestigious newspapers the Press Council fails to publicly condemn such behavior, it should be dissolved and the public must demand an accounting.
Exploiting a newspaper as a propaganda vehicle for a clique of leftist ideologues willing to do anything, including suppressing or “soft-pedalling” information about potentially criminal actions in order to pursue a private agenda must not be tolerated in a country which purports to adhere to ethical and democratic norms of conduct.
By Isi Leibler November 12, 2007
We frequently boast that notwithstanding its limitations, the Israeli media is unfettered by government intervention and could serve as a role model for a free press in any democracy.
As in most Western countries, Israeli journalists are inclined to the Left and substantially outnumber the more conservative-minded. In fact, one constantly hears complaints that to hold right-wing views is a major stumbling block in obtaining promotion in the media world. But that is not unique to Israel.
The majority of Israelis who read a newspaper on a daily basis read one of the tabloids. In that sense, the broadsheet Haaretz stands alone. It presents as a serious liberal newspaper and aspires to assume the mantle of a Hebrew-language counterpart to The New York Times. Despite a limited circulation, it is extraordinarily influential and read by most opinion makers.
Its news coverage and access to inside information exceeds that of the tabloids. However, whereas it carries superb pieces on culture and society, with especially insightful articles on religious issues, its frequent endorsement of radical policies does tend to increasingly link Haaretz with fringe rather than mainstream opinion.
Indeed, many would even argue that a considerable proportion of Haaretz editorials and op-ed columns are politically off the wall. Its op-ed and magazine articles demonizing Israel and inclined toward post-Zionism are increasingly being quoted by Arabs and anti-Israeli propagandists. In fact, a man from Mars observing the level of the newspaper’s frequent vitriolic condemnations of Israeli governments could understandably be misled into believing that some Haaretz writers are consciously acting as propagandists for the Palestinian cause.
Current editor David Landau is an observant Jew wearing a black kippa. He made aliya from London and is a highly talented writer. His book on haredim published in 1993 to this day remains the best reference work on the subject in the English language. And the English edition of Haaretz was unquestionably his brainchild.
I first met him in March 1987, when he was a senior staffer at The Jerusalem Post, then being edited by Ari Rath and Erwin Frenkel. Landau had been sent to cover the second Asian Jewish Colloquium of scholars in Hong Kong, which I had organized on behalf of the World Jewish Congress and the Asia Jewish Pacific Association.
Since he assumed the role of editor at Haaretz, the newspaper’s traditional bias relating to the Israel-Palestinian conflict has intensified.
Landau concentrates much of his wrath on religious Zionists, regarding those who settled across the Green Line as messianic lunatics and the greatest threat to Israel. This obviously makes him a darling of the ultra-Left.
Today Landau allegedly even refuses to correct articles containing blatantly false information if they conflict with his political agenda. According to the Web site of the highly respected American Jewish media watchdog organization CAMERA, not only did Landau decline to consider its complaints regarding alleged falsehoods published in Haaretz, he even went on record informing the JTA that “as a matter of principle” he had instructed his staff not to respond to criticism from CAMERA because they were a “McCarthyite” organization.
Needless to say, this casts an ugly shadow on a daily newspaper purporting to represent the highest levels of journalistic integrity. It is now widely accepted that many policies promoted by Haaretz are effectively supportive of Israel’s adversaries.
In fact, Nahum Barnea, the distinguished Yediot Aharonot columnist, went so far as to describe senior Haaretz journalists Gideon Levy, Amira Haas and Akiva Eldar as failing to pass the “lynch test” - i.e., even failing to condemn Palestinians when they murdered two Israelis in a lynch mob in Ramallah at the onset of the second intifada.
More recently, consistent with frequent Haaretz depictions of Israel as a racist entity, the paper’s chief Arab affairs expert, Danny Rubinstein, told a UN body that Israel was indeed an apartheid state.
Of course, behind this torrid situation stands the publisher of Haaretz, Amos Schocken, who is personally convinced that Israel does indeed practice apartheid.
But it was only recently that Landau threw away all semblance of journalistic integrity and publicly confessed to crossing the ultimate red line that distinguishes reputable journalism from propaganda.
According to The Jerusalem Post, at the recent Russian Limmud Conference in Moscow, Landau, one of the few non-Russian-speaking participants, dropped a bombshell. He stunned those present by boasting that his newspaper had “wittingly soft-pedalled” alleged corruption by Israeli political leaders including prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, when, in the opinion of Haaretz, the policies of those leaders were advancing the peace process.
When participants challenged him concerning the morality of such an approach, Landau responded with the extraordinary assertion that “more immorality happens every day at a single roadblock [in Judea and Samaria] than in all the scandals put together.”
He then unashamedly assured those present that Haaretz was ready to repeat the process in order “to ensure that Olmert goes to Annapolis.”
Even former Bolsheviks in the audience must have gasped at such views, openly stated, which incorporated all the hallmarks of the Stalinist era.
It is surely scandalous for the top editor of what purports to be a reputable and prestigious daily newspaper to publicly proclaim - and take pride in - having deliberately “soft-pedalled” and possibly even covered up acts of corruption by senior political leaders in order to promote his own political agenda, and, moreover, boast that his paper would continue to do so in the future.
Could one, for instance, visualize The New York Times suppressing information about an American president involved in corruption out of a desire to promote the administration’s foreign policy objectives? No newspaper of integrity in the world would tolerate an editor making such an outrageous statement.
The Israeli Press Council code of ethics contains clauses explicitly condemning such practices. Article 40 (and 16a): “A newspaper or a journalist shall not refrain from publishing information where there is a public interest in its publication, including for reasons of political, economic or other pressures.”
Article 7: “Mistakes, omissions or inaccuracies which are in the publication of facts must be corrected speedily…”
If in the face of such violations of their charter by the editor of one of their most prestigious newspapers the Press Council fails to publicly condemn such behavior, it should be dissolved and the public must demand an accounting.
Exploiting a newspaper as a propaganda vehicle for a clique of leftist ideologues willing to do anything, including suppressing or “soft-pedalling” information about potentially criminal actions in order to pursue a private agenda must not be tolerated in a country which purports to adhere to ethical and democratic norms of conduct.
domingo, 28 de fevereiro de 2010
Hamas Founder's Son Spied for Israel
Here’s a surprise from the Middle East: the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef spied for Israel for more than ten years.
Yousef converted to Christianity and has a book about his undercover work coming out
— which doesn’t make Israel’s security service Shin Bet happy. But the revelations in the book will be much more damaging to Hamas; about the terrorist group, Yousef said this to the Times Online:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged today.
Codenamed the Green Prince by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence on an almost daily basis from 1996 onwards and tracked down suicide bombers and their handlers from his father’s organization, the daily Haaretz said.
Information he supplied led to the arrests of some of the most wanted men by Israeli forces, including Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader often tipped as a potential president who was convicted of masterminding terrorist attacks, and one of Hamas’ top bomb-makers Abdullah Barghouti, who is no relation of the jailed Fatah chief.
Yousef converted to Christianity and has a book about his undercover work coming out
— which doesn’t make Israel’s security service Shin Bet happy. But the revelations in the book will be much more damaging to Hamas; about the terrorist group, Yousef said this to the Times Online:“Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis,” he told the daily. “That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a cease-fire, and no one knows that better than I. The Hamas leadership is responsible for the killing of Palestinians, not Israelis.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
sábado, 9 de janeiro de 2010
Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence further to Arab proposal for Jewish Homeland March 3, 1919
http://hegabs-nekabs.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_06.html
http://www.crethiplethi.com/agreement-between-emir-faisal-husseini-and-dr-weizmann/historical-documents/2009/
A letter from his His Majesty King Feisal Ebn Hussein,
king of Syria and Iraq to
Felix Frankfurter, associate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann:
DELEGATION HEDJAZIENNE,
Paris, March 3, 1919.
DEAR MR. FRANKFURTER:
I want to take this opportunity of my first contact with American Zionists to tell you what I have often been able to say to Dr. Weizmann in Arabia and Europe.
We feel that the Arabs and Jews are cousins in having suffered similar oppressions at the hands of powers stronger than themselves, and by a happy coincidence have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals together.
We Arabs, especially the educated among us look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organisation to Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.
With the chiefs of your movement, especially with Dr. Weizmann, we have had and continue to have the closest relations. He has been a great helper of our cause, and I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and revived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist. Our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both. Indeed I think that neither can be a real success without the other.
People less informed and less responsible than our leaders and yours, ignoring the need for co-operation of the Arabs and Zionists have been trying to exploit the local difficulties that must necessarily arise in Palestine in the early stages of our movements. Some of them have, I am afraid, misrepresented your aims to the Arab peasantry, and our aims to the Jewish peasantry, with the result that interested parties have been able to make capital out of what they call our differences.
I wish to give you my firm conviction that these differences are not on questions of principle, but on matters detail such as must inevitably occur in every contact of neighbouring peoples, and as are easily adjusted by mutual good will. Indeed nearly all of them will disappear with fuller knowledge.
I look forward, and my people with me look forward, to a future in which we will help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually interested may once again take their places in the community of civilised peoples of the world.
Believe me,
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) Feisal. 5th MARCH, 1919
http://www.crethiplethi.com/agreement-between-emir-faisal-husseini-and-dr-weizmann/historical-documents/2009/
A letter from his His Majesty King Feisal Ebn Hussein,
king of Syria and Iraq to
Felix Frankfurter, associate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann:
DELEGATION HEDJAZIENNE,
Paris, March 3, 1919.
DEAR MR. FRANKFURTER:
I want to take this opportunity of my first contact with American Zionists to tell you what I have often been able to say to Dr. Weizmann in Arabia and Europe.
We feel that the Arabs and Jews are cousins in having suffered similar oppressions at the hands of powers stronger than themselves, and by a happy coincidence have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals together.
We Arabs, especially the educated among us look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organisation to Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.
With the chiefs of your movement, especially with Dr. Weizmann, we have had and continue to have the closest relations. He has been a great helper of our cause, and I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness. We are working together for a reformed and revived Near East, and our two movements complete one another. The Jewish movement is national and not imperialist. Our movement is national and not imperialist, and there is room in Syria for us both. Indeed I think that neither can be a real success without the other.
People less informed and less responsible than our leaders and yours, ignoring the need for co-operation of the Arabs and Zionists have been trying to exploit the local difficulties that must necessarily arise in Palestine in the early stages of our movements. Some of them have, I am afraid, misrepresented your aims to the Arab peasantry, and our aims to the Jewish peasantry, with the result that interested parties have been able to make capital out of what they call our differences.
I wish to give you my firm conviction that these differences are not on questions of principle, but on matters detail such as must inevitably occur in every contact of neighbouring peoples, and as are easily adjusted by mutual good will. Indeed nearly all of them will disappear with fuller knowledge.
I look forward, and my people with me look forward, to a future in which we will help you and you will help us, so that the countries in which we are mutually interested may once again take their places in the community of civilised peoples of the world.
Believe me,
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) Feisal. 5th MARCH, 1919
quarta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2009
Prof. Irwin Cotler about Jewish Refugees from Arab States
Canadian MP and former Minister speaks about an issue overlooked by the both International Community and Israel itself. Israel Channel 11, 23.2.08
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