Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News, said it is vital to honor the victims.The enemies of Arab unity have books to look up how to defeat the Arab world? What books might those be?
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He praised the resistance as the sole protector of Lebanese civilians.
"The Israelis are not able to get across one foot into our country [Lebanon],” he said. “And that is because brave people who were ready to pay the ultimate sacrifice, taught them a lesson that we cannot forget our martyrs and we shall never forget who our enemy is."
Siblani stressed the importance of unity to safeguard the community from the challenges it is facing. He said the resistance defeated Israel in the 2006 war when the second Qana massacre was committed; hence the enemies of the Arab World are reverting to the divide-and-conquer strategy to prevail.
"The only way they could defeat us is dividing us," Siblani said. "They went to their books and they searched for a way to do it. Unfortunately, they have found it— sectarianism."
To get the answer all you have to do is find out how Arabs describe the famous forgery the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. This article, which is typical in Arab media, describes the first, third and fourth protocols as saying that the Jews will use liberal ideas to destroy the power structures of governments, causing civil wars and sectarian chaos.
Hamas says essentially the same thing in its Charter, article 32:
World Zionism, together with imperialistic powers, try through a studied plan and an intelligent strategy to remove one Arab state after another from the circle of struggle against Zionism, in order to have it finally face the Palestinian people only. Egypt was, to a great extent, removed from the circle of the struggle, through the treacherous Camp David Agreement. They are trying to draw other Arab countries into similar agreements and to bring them outside the circle of struggle.Sibliani tries hard to hide his overt antisemitism, but this little comment reveals that it is an integral part of his worldview.
....The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.
If he denies this, then the easiest question to ask him is...what books was he referring to?
By the way, imagine the outcry if a non-Arab media mogul would say something like this. But since he is an Arab, the same standards do not apply.
(h/t Dan)