Egyptian columnist: Jews need to realize that October 7 was a punishment from God, not from Hamas

You know that anyone who has a raging desire to find reasons to justify the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis on October 7 is an antisemite. 

Hisham Al-Najjar is a columnist in both Egypt's major newspaper Al Ahram as well as for Al-Arab, a London-based Arabic news site. He has appeared on a number of TV interview shows, and is apparently a professor. He is anti-Hamas and anti-extremist, but as we will see, he is also an antisemite.

In Al Ahram, he writes that the massacre was the Jews' fault for not learning the proper lessons from previous slaughters of Jews. 

Israel's root problem is that it has embraced the idea of ​​conspiracies and intrigues, and is under the illusion that others are plotting against it to erase it from existence. Thus, it has developed a psychology of hatred, constant morbid fear, hatred, and seeking revenge. The Jews - starting from the punishment inflicted on them by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II, the King of the Levant, Antiochus IV, and the Roman King Titus, and continuing through what the Nazi regime did until the Al-Aqsa Flood attack - were accustomed to attributing the tribulations that befell them to the enemies, and they did not realize at any time that this was from God - even if it was in the hands of humans - to stop corruption and reform themselves.

The heavenly books confirm that all these events are planned by God. He does not send His punishments through angels, but rather they are implemented by humans, and all the bearers of these holy books have a special divine law, the summary of which is that when corruption and injustice spread in their societies, God sends down urgent punishments on them so that they pay attention and reform themselves. If the Jews had realized this, the spirit of repentance would have arisen in them and someone who would correct would have arisen among them. Mistakes and changing the course, and be humble and become normal human beings whose actions and reactions are characterized by rationality within the human components around them, but they saw that these persecutions were the result of intrigues and conspiracies, so a spirit of negligence, rebellion, and arrogance was born in them.

So therefore, if tens of thousands of Gazans are being killed, it must be because of something they did t deserve it, right? This is all divine punishment! Israel is innocent!

Somehow, I don't think that the "lessons" that Jews are supposed to learn from being slaughtered is the same as the lessons for Muslims. I don't think there are too many op-eds saying that the huge death tolls in inter-Arab wars are proof of Allah's taking sides. I wonder what sins he attributes to Egypt for its defeats in 1956 and 1967 (1973, too, but Egypt regards that as a victory.)  

If any Muslim says that Israel's existence is a reason for retrospection and repentance by the Arab world,  or that 1948 and 1967 are proof that God supports Israel over the Arabs I'd love to see it.. 

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