I am still amazed at how thoroughly stupid some Arab academics are ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, April 18, 2025

I am still amazed at how thoroughly stupid some Arab academics are

Ibrahim Ibrash is a professor of political science at Al Azhar University in Cairo and a former culture minister in Egypt.

In the Palestinian Sama News, he asks, "Why does Israel refuse to stop the war?"

The answer cannot be something simple like "because Hamas hasn't released the hostages." No, that is too simplistic for the esteemed professor. He starts off expanding on the question:

Despite all the flexibility offered by Hamas in the Cairo negotiations over the past two days, Israel continues to refuse to stop the war. This is because Israel's problem in the Gaza Strip and in waging a war of genocide and ethnic cleansing was not Hamas, its weapons, or the kidnapped Israelis.

Israel's goal is broader than that, and it found in Hamas's Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa an opportunity to achieve or accelerate it. Its goal is not to end Hamas's military presence and recover its kidnapped soldiers, as Netanyahu declared, but rather to have much greater objectives.

Oh? What exactly is it?

To find out, we go on a Biblical detour:

One of the Jewish religious books, (1 Kings 4:24), which dates back to the reign of Solomon, as the Jews claim, states: “The borders of the Kingdom of the Jews end at the borders of the city of Gaza, which was never included in the Kingdom of the Jews. After that, it remained the property of the Palestinians. Since that date, Gaza has been cursed by the Jews.”

We will not delve into the above text at length, but assuming it is authentic, it confirms, on the tongue of the Jews themselves, two facts: the first is that when the Hebrews came to Palestine, they found the Palestinian people there, and this refutes all their claims that there is no people called the Palestinian people; and the second is that Gaza has a history of struggle that extends back to ancient times and has not stopped.

The verse citation is wrong and the quote is wrong as well - Kings 5:4 mentions Gaza as one of the edges of Solomon's kingdom, and nothing beyond that.

And of course this professor cannot tell the difference between Philistines and Palestinians.

Finally, he says the real reasons Israel is at war:

Because Gaza is all this past and present, and because Gaza is also the only seafront for the Palestinian state in the event of its establishment, and because there is oil and gas in its waters, and because Gaza refuses to be separated from all of Palestine and has responded to the call of duty when our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank called for help, and because this entity wants Gaza and its problems to divert attention from the main battlefield in the West Bank and Jerusalem... For all of this, it has hatred towards it and plans to destroy it and accomplish what the early Hebrews were unable to do, as their religious myths say, in addition to thwarting the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem.

It is hard to explain why Israel withdrew from Gaza to begin with when it had all these plans!

Ibrash, perhaps mimicking Egyptian thinking, goes on to say that Hamas is idiotic for not putting down its weapons and fleeing!

Finally, if Hamas had not started its "flood" and abandoned its stubbornness and obstinacy at the beginning of the negotiations, it would have been possible to disrupt this strategic Zionist plan and all these losses and destruction would not have occurred. But now I fear that matters have reached a point where even Hamas handing over all the kidnapped Israelis and giving up what remains of its weapons will not deter the enemy from implementing its goals and things will not return to the way they were. Herein lies the dilemma of Hamas and the dilemma of the Palestinian cause. The only solution is a serious Arab and international official and popular movement to force Israel to stop the war, even if temporarily, in exchange for Hamas giving up its weapons and leaving the Palestinian scene militarily and politically.

Because he believes that Israel's goal is to eradicate all Palestinians and flatten Gaza, the idea of Hamas laying down its arms and leaving Gaza are presented as a compromise!