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Monday, October 02, 2023

Senior Kuwaiti journalist and editor tells Saudis that Palestinians have been using them for decades

Ahmed Al-Jarallah, owner and editor-in-chief of Kuwait's Al Seyassah newspaper as well as a couple of other newspapers. . For years he has advocated that the Arab world make peace with Israel. It appears that Palestinians have tried to assassinate him twice, once in 1985 when he was shot six times and also in 2003 when a letter bomb was sent to his office.

Last week he wrote another blistering attack on Palestinians and advised Saudi leader Mohammed bin-Salman to pursue his own interests and ignore those of Palestinians.

The Palestinian issue is no longer an Arab issue after the signing of the Oslo Accords between the PLO and Israel. Rather, it has become an Israeli-Palestinian affair, and therefore necessity requires everyone to look at their reality and their interests, and not cling to slogans, which are mere pipe dreams.

Let us put it bluntly: The peoples of the Gulf Cooperation Council no longer accept putting the interests of the Palestinians before their affairs. The GCC members have suffered from financial and political blackmail, and delayed our own development, for the sake of the slogan “liberating Palestine.”...We are not at all concerned with what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank, because it has become a source of political investment for the highest bidder, and an Iranian-Israeli game played by Palestinian hands. This is why the leaders of Gaza kiss the hands of the Iranian guide - he has become their benefactor, in return they take advantage of the aid provided by the Arab Gulf states to build and own palaces in Monaco and other European cities, and they spend huge sums of money on gambling tables. Because they are convinced that “your uncle’s money doesn’t matter to you.” [A Gulf expression that people freely spend money that is not theirs]

Today Israel has become a fait accompli, supported by European countries and the West, with weapons and money, and its leaders had a clear plan, which was to recover the land of their ancestors, as they claimed, while the people of the land were abandoned when they were displaced to the diaspora, and slept for decades on promises to return within a month or two, and today that promise is 75 years old, and generations were born in the diaspora who do not know Palestine except through slogans and songs.

On the other hand, the rest of the PLO's leaders have become wealthy people who live like kings, and their children have become businessmen, and they have their own projects, and their weddings cost millions, all of it from Arab, especially Gulf, donations, while we received nothing but insults and threats in return.

The late (Kuwaiti leader) Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad, may God have mercy on him, was also the top supporter of Arafat and the Palestinians, and they were employed in Kuwaiti departments, as if they were Kuwaitis. So what was Arafat’s reaction when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait?
On that day, he demanded that Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad be arrested and forced to sign a confession to relinquish rule of Kuwait. He incited that “the road to Jerusalem passes through Kuwait,” and his organizations wreaked havoc on earth, including murder and heinous crimes against Kuwaitis.

Since 1967, Palestinian organizations have devoted themselves to terrorizing Arabs, killing many of them, hijacking planes, and practicing terrorism under the slogan of “reminding the world of the issue.” Some Arab leaders also exploited it for their own ends...In Iraq, the young King Faisal and the leaders of the state were also brandished with the same slogan. Instead of pointing the gun at the Israelis, it turned to Jordan and Lebanon, and they killed tens of thousands of people.

What have we gotten from the “cause” other than the calamities? Iran has come to rule four Arab capitals, and it has been helped in this by those investing in Arab blood under the slogan of the “Palestinian Cause,” who shed blood in Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, and practiced terrorism against the Gulf states, starting with the assassination of UAE Foreign Minister Saif Ghobash to the Beirut port bombing.

We have received nothing but bad news from the “cause,” and to this day there are those who invest in it for personal gain. Therefore, we must approach matters in the right way, and see how the inimitable Arab leader, the late Anwar Sadat, understood the dimensions of this situation, and worked to liberate Sinai, the Suez Canal, Sharm El-Sheikh and Taba, without war, but through negotiations. Because the whole world supports Israel, as a result of the childish terrorist acts committed by the Palestinians themselves.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, you have nothing more to do than look at the Palestinian groups, and to whom each of them sold the slogan “Liberating Palestine,” and what benefits their leaders are getting, to know that these people have forgotten their country for decades, and have other goals, and to realize that the world will not wait, and the Palestinian factions, which have reached 20, live on political blackmail. Those who do not submit to them are assassinated, their image is distorted, or they are insulted. At the same time, they live a comfortable life in Israeli cities, and they have their own companies in Israel.

While we were chanting for Palestine, they were planning to kill us, and while we were diverting our own money to them, they were spending it on sabotaging our country, and they declared “Allahu Akbar” every time Saddam Hussein fired a missile at Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Prince bin Salman, listen to the Friday preachers in Gaza and the West Bank, and the insults hurled at the House of Saud, your father, you personally, and all the peoples of the Gulf.

Israel did not commit ten percent of the crimes committed by Palestinian organizations against us, which is why we say on behalf of most of the Arab Gulf peoples: Be wise and trust in Allah.

Notice that there is nothing pro-Israel in this essay - just anti-Palestinian.

(h/t TMoran via Yoel)

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Islamic Jihad's Palestine Today has a column by Palestinian editor and writer Khaled Sadiq lamenting that the Saudis have turned their back on Islam - and on traditional Muslim antisemitism.

Saudi openness transcends all boundaries and drifts toward the Jews

The Saudi openness in many areas is drifting like a huge torrent. There are no barriers to it, and it transcends all borders. ....

In the Friday sermon delivered by the imam and preacher of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, in which he discussed the duty of dealing well with the Jews, and how the Messenger Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him) was kind to his Jewish neighbor.

Then came the fatwa of the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh, that fighting or killing Israelis in the precincts of Al-Aqsa Mosque is not permissible according to Islamic law, and that the Hamas movement is a “terrorist” movement that wants evil for the people of Palestine, and that the demonstrations that began in many Arab and Islamic countries were in support of Al-Aqsa and the Gaza Strip are merely demagogic actions with no good and no hope.

Saudi Arabia ended the era of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice [the "Morality Police" - EoZ] ....Then the artistic openness came after the creation of a body they called the Entertainment Authority, and it was headed by one of those close to the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, who entrusted it to Turki Al-Sheikh, who began holding singing and dancing concerts in the Kingdom, and called the dance concerts “Halal Disco,” and called for the freedom of Saudi women. [The "Halal nightclub" was shut down its first night - EoZ.]

And using new means to promote this culture, such as opening cinemas, theaters, and opera houses. The “Culture Authority” will play a major role in this, focusing on instilling new concepts in society, and starting from a young age, until a generation emerges different from the previous generation.

As for the present time, the state must benefit from the skills of graduates of American and European universities in whom it has invested millions of dollars abroad to promote education in its new face, and its concepts derived from abroad, and not from the teachings of the great Islam. It is a real coup aimed at removing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from its origins, history and traditions. Derived from the teachings of Islamic Sharia, and the goal behind all of this is to achieve change in political positions, shift the Kingdom’s policy towards “Israel”, accept it, coexist with it, establish alliances between them, and common relations based on mutual interests, and create an alliance led by “Israel” to protect the Arab countries.

Over the years, certainly since 9/11, there has been great Western interest in Islamic fundamentalism. But for some reason, Palestinian Islamist organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad have never been placed in the same fundamentalist bucket as Iran, the Saudis, Al Qaeda and ISIS. Their aim at destroying Israel was always considered more understandable and legitimate, even when their own theology has been indistinguishable from those of fundamentalist groups in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Here we are seeing a Palestinian media outlet condemning the Saudis of being too modern, too accepting, not misogynist and not antisemitic enough.

And as always, this will be ignored or contextualized by Western 'experts" who agree with the Palestinian Islamist groups that the morality of their desire to destroy Israel outweighs their desire to wipe out Jews or to keep their people (and especially their women) enslaved under fundamentalist Islamist rules.

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10/01 Links: The Palestinian Authority admits there’s no ‘Israeli occupation’; Newsweek Ignores Arafat’s Terrorism, Excuses Abbas’ Antisemitism

From Ian:

The Palestinian Authority admits there’s no ‘Israeli occupation’

The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Arabs ended 30 years ago. Don’t take my word for it. Just ask the Palestinian Authority.

The PA recently submitted a request to UNESCO to recognize the city of Jericho as a “Palestinian heritage site.” In its description of the history of the region, the PA’s request refers to “the time of Israeli Occupation (1967-1994).” Thus, the PA has acknowledged, in writing, that Israel’s occupation there ended in 1994.

The same phrase appears in another PA-UN document. In 2008, the PA asked the United Nations to help improve its tax-collecting policies. After a two-year study, the PA’s Finance Ministry and the United Nations Development Program published a report titled “Diagnostic Study of Property Tax in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

The report surveyed the history of tax collection in the area, so it was forced to acknowledge the changes between the years that Israel occupied Palestinian Arab cities and the years after the occupation ended. Thus, on page 49, we find Section 6.1, which is titled “Taxes in the occupied Palestinian territory – Israeli Occupation (1967-1994).”

(Thanks to the noted legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich and the “Elder of Ziyyon” blog for finding these documents.)

Why does this matter? Because there is an entire cottage industry of pundits, politicians, and advocacy groups whose agenda depends upon claiming that there is an “Israeli occupation.”

They need to be able to point an accusing finger at Israel, in order to justify their demand for Palestinian statehood. They need to be able to portray Israel as an oppressor in order to excuse Palestinian Arab violence. They need to pretend Israel still occupies the Palestinians, in order to make it seem as if Israel is to blame for their lack of elections and civil rights.

Of course, anybody who visits any city in the PA-governed territories, can see with their own eyes that there are no Israeli soldiers. No Israeli military governor. No Israeli military administration. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin withdrew them all, three decades ago.

New Zealand’s Labour Government to Recognize a Palestinian State after October 14 Elections

Justice for Palestine and Alternative Jewish Voices on Sunday reported with considerable glee an announcement by New Zealand’s ruling Labour Party that if it is re-elected on October 14, it would recognize the State of Palestine by inviting the Head of the General Delegation of Palestine to present his credentials as an Ambassador to New Zealand.

Labour gained 50% of the vote in the 2020 election, increasing its presence in the House of Representatives to 65 seats, and marking the first time that a party has won enough seats to govern alone since 1996. It was a landslide victory, with Labour winning “virtually every single electorate,” gaining the support of centrist swing voters. On January 19, 2023, PM Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as party leader and prime minister, and Chris Hipkins replaced her on January 22.

As of the October 17, 2020 elections, Labor has 65 seats in parliament, or 50.01% of the votes, the National Party has 33 seats (25.58%), ACT with 10 seats (7.58%), the Greens 10 seats (7.86%), and the Maori Party has 2 seats (1.17%).

Only two weeks later, on February 6, PM Hipkins met with the Head of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, Izzat Salah Abdulhadi.

Last Wednesday, PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi met with New Zealand Representative to Palestine Barney Riley as well as Abdulhadi at the PLO Headquarters in Ramallah. According to WAFA, they discussed, naturally, “the rapid escalation of Israel’s flagrant violations of international law and conventions.”

New Zealand would be joining 139 UN member states, out of 193, who already recognize Palestine as a state, even though it does not exist. In reality, in parts of Judea and Samaria there is an autonomy under the control of the Palestinian Authority, which was established following the Oslo Accords of 1994, while in the Gaza Strip Hamas has been in control since June 2007, after it forcibly removed the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority claims sovereignty in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip but in practice, it lacks many political powers. Over the past 30 years, the PA depended on Israel for significant parts of its budget, including tax and customs collections. There is cooperation between the PA security forces and the Israeli security apparatus, but it is fragile and inconsistent.

In September 2014, Israel and New Zealand clashed after New Zealand had assigned an ambassador to Israel and to the Palestinian Authority. Israel did not allow Ambassador Jonathan Curr to present his credentials, saying that would violate Israel’s “well-known policy” of not receiving diplomats who are also received by the PA. New Zealand ended the conflict by appointing separate diplomats to Israel and the PA.

Revealed: Hundreds of millions of shekels added to Israeli aid to Palestinians

Israel has recently slashed the gasoline tax it had been collecting from the Palestinian Authority by 50% as well as taken other measures to ease the financial situation in Ramallah, Israel Hayom has learned. The 1994 economic accords between Israel and the Palestinians stipulate a 3% rate but Israel has recently decided to collect only half the amount, at 1.5%, as shown in a recent document signed by the IDF Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories office several days ago. This will save some NIS 80 million ($20 million) for the PA on an annual basis.

Other measures that Israel has taken to help the Palestinians financially since the start of 2023 add up to some NIS 270 million ($70 million). This includes more transfers of taxes collected on behalf of the PA, amounting to a major upgrade compared to about half a million shekels only three years ago. This, despite many of the goods ostensibly being sent to the PA never making it there because of a fraudulent ploy by importers.

Other financial measures have totaled some NIS 350 million ($90 million) since the new government has been sworn in.

The Biden administration has been pressuring Israel to increase the aid to the Palestinians' economy, saying that the PA is on the verge of collapse. But the Israeli willingness to play along despite PA leader Mahmoud Abbas continuing to pay terrorists has outraged some US congress members, with some saying that the president's increase of aid to the Palestinians runs against US law (and specifically the Taylor Force Act, which prohibits funding to the Palestinians so long as the "pay-for-slay" policy continues).

Israel Hayom has also learned that as part of the efforts to bolster normalization with Saudi Arabia, the US has placed immense pressure on Israel to make it take "steps toward bolstering the PA," which include letting Riyadh send funds to Ramallah. However, there are ways being explored to ensure these do not make it to terrorists' hands.

09/29 Links Pt2: Sukkot is the time to set aside our differences and make progress; Pompeo tops list of Israel’s Christian allies

From Ian:

JPost Editorial: Sukkot is the time to set aside our differences and make progress

The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks called Sukkot the festival of insecurity. Sukkot, he argued, is a metaphor for the Jewish condition not only during the 40 years of wandering in the desert but also the almost 2,000 years of exile and dispersion.

“I have often argued that faith is not certainty: faith is the courage to live with uncertainty,” Rabbi Sacks explained. “I find that faith today in the people and the State of Israel. It is astonishing to me how Israelis have been able to live with an almost constant threat of war and terror since the state was born, and not give way to fear.”

He quoted the Rashbam, Rashi’s grandson, as saying that Sukkot exists to remind us of our humble origins so that we never fall into the complacency of taking freedom, the Land of Israel, and the blessings it yields, for granted.

“Today’s Israel is a living embodiment of what it is to exist in a state of insecurity and still rejoice,” Sacks stated succinctly. “And that is Sukkot’s message to the world.”

The 21st century, he predicted, will one day be seen by historians as the Age of Insecurity. “We, as Jews, are the world’s experts in insecurity, having lived with it for millennia,” he wrote. “And the supreme response to insecurity is Sukkot, when we leave behind the safety of our houses and sit in sukkot mamash (literally), in huts exposed to the elements. To be able to do so and still say, this is zeman simchatenu, our festival of joy, is the supreme achievement of faith, the ultimate antidote to fear.”

Faith is the ability to rejoice in the midst of instability and change, traveling through the wilderness of time toward an unknown destination, Sacks concluded.

This year, when both Israel and the Diaspora are so deeply divided, it is incumbent upon us to set aside our differences and come together on Sukkot to celebrate the 75 years of our independence as well as our resilience as a people and replenish our faith for the future.

Chag Sameach (Happy Holiday)!

A Sukkot Guide for the Perplexed, 2023

Ahead of Sukkot, which begins on Friday, here are some interesting facts about the holiday:

1. Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, derives its name from the first stop of the Exodus — the town of Sukkot — as documented in Exodus 13:20-22 and Numbers 33:3-5. Sukkot was also the name of Jacob’s first stop west of the Jordan River, upon returning to the Land of Israel from his 20 years of work for Laban in Aram (Genesis 33:17).

2. Sukkot is a Jewish national liberation holiday, commemorating the Biblical Exodus, and the transition of the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt to liberty. It also celebrates the ongoing Jewish in-gathering in the Land of Israel. The Exodus from Egypt inspired the US Founding Fathers and also the abolitionist movement.

3. The construction of the Holy Tabernacle, during the Exodus, was launched on the first day of Sukkot (full moon).

4. Sukkot underscores the gradual transition from the spiritual state-of-mind during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to the mundane of the rest of the year, and from religious tenets of Judaism to the formation of the national, historic and geographical Jewish identity.

5. The seven days of Sukkot — a holiday celebrated in the seventh Jewish month, Tishrei — are dedicated to seven supreme guests-in-spirit and notable care-takers: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David. They were endowed with faith, reality-based-optimism, humility, magnanimity, principle-driven leadership, compassion, tenacity in the face of daunting odds, and the mentality of peace-through-strength.

6. Sukkot features the following four species (Leviticus 23:39-41): one citron (representing King David, the author of Psalms), one palm branch (representing Joseph), three myrtle branches (representing the three Patriarchs), and two willow branches (representing Moses and Aharon, the role models of humility), which are bonded together, representing unity-through-diversity and strength-through-unity.

Helen Mirren attends UK premiere screening of Golda

Dame Helen Mirren has attended the UK premiere of Golda ahead of it's release in cinemas.

The actress, 78, plays Israel’s first female prime minister Golda Meir in the biopic, which is released on October 6.

The biopic is set during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Egyptian and Syrian forces launched an attack on Israel on the High Holy Day.

It examines the decisions the politician made during the height of the 19-day war, which saw 2,656 Israeli soldiers killed.

In an interview in Israel in July, Dame Helen described preparing for the role of playing Meir by reading her autobiography and watching footage of the former Israeli PM.

The actor added she “didn’t know a lot about Meir” but recalled “the feeling of triumph and satisfaction" that a woman had been elected to lead Israel for the first time.

Dame Helen's casting as Meir has reignited a debate about whether or nor non-Jewish actors should take on Jewish roles.

Commenting on the subject, the veteran performer, who is not Jewish, has said she does "believe it is a discussion that has to be had" and that questions about her playing Meir were "utterly legitimate."

Dame Helen has portrayed Jewish characters in the past, including in the 2023 war drama White Bird, in which she played a woman who survived Nazi-occupied France as a youngster with the help of a non-Jewish boy from her school and his family who sheltered her.

In the 2015 film Woman in Gold, she starred as Maria Altmann, a Jewish refugee living in California who fought the Austrian government to reclaim a painting of her aunt by famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt.

Speaking of her Meir role, she added: “Golda Meir was a formidable, intransigent and powerful leader.

“It is a great challenge to portray her at the most difficult moment of her extraordinary life. I only hope I do her justice!”

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— Qunts News Network (@QuntsNews) September 28, 2023

Have a great Sukkot! I'll be offline until Sunday night.

(Artwork by Stable Diffusion AI)

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75 years ago: The first Arab split between Gaza and the West Bank

The split between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is not the first time that the West Bank and Gaza divided Palestinian loyalties.

In 1948, the Nazi collaborating Mufti of Jerusalem worked with Egypt to create the "All Palestine Government" in Gaza. Transjordan;'s King Abdullah was against this, saying that he represented the Palestinians. And the Arab world split between the two sides.

From the Palestine Post, September 22, 1948:

Countering Abdullah's protests. the Mufti and his family declared statehood from Gaza a week later:

Formal notice of the formation of an independent Arab state “for all of Palestine” was given today to the United Nations in a cable from Cairo signed by Ahmed Hilmi Pasha, premier of the newly-established Palestine Government, which has its seat at Gaza. The cable reads:

“The Arabs of Palestine, who are the owners of the country and its indigenous inhabitants, and who constitute the great majority of its legal population, havesolemnly resolved to declare Palestine in its entirety and within its boundaries as established before the termination of the British Mandate an independent state, and constituted a government under the name of the All-Palestine Government, deriving its authority from a representative Council based on democratic principles and aiming to safeguard the rights of minorities and foreigners, protect the Holy Places, and guarantee freedom of worship to all communities.”

The "Palestine" they declared included all of Israel.

Most of the Arab League ended up recognizing this All Palestine Government, except for Transjordan. No other nation did. But despite this supposed recognition, everyone knew it was a puppet government - it wasn't involved in the armistice negotiations between Egypt and Israel that included drawing Gaza's borders, and it was not involved in aiding its own refugees nor in negotiating with UNRWA. Egypt was the ruler of Gaza in every real sense and everyone know it.

Later, Transjordan annexed the West Bank. Because no Arab leader really wanted a Palestinian state.

The connection between Gaza and the West Bank was always somewhat artificial. It was just as clear in 1948 as it has been in recent years.

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09/29 Links Pt1: What Iran’s penetration of Washington means; US-Saudi Defense Pact Tied to Israel Deal, Palestinian Demands Put Aside

From Ian:

Caroline Glick: What Iran’s penetration of Washington means

Reporters, Republican lawmakers, Iran policy experts and other NIAC critics are routinely attacked as McCarthyites, nativists and racists.

Consider the case of former NIAC official Sahar Nowrouzzadeh. Nowrouzzadeh served as director of Iran affairs in Obama’s National Security Council. She was considered one of Obama’s closest advisers on Iranian affairs, including the nuclear negotiations, and worked under Malley. In the closing days of the Obama administration, she was appointed director of Iran and the Persian Gulf region on the State Department’s policy planning staff.

After conservative media organs reported her position in early 2017, then-President Donald Trump’s Iran envoy Brian Hook demoted her. Nowrouzzadeh eventually left government.

Rather than accept Hook’s move as the proper response to Obama’s 11th-hour effort to seed his officials in Trump’s administration and undermine Trump’s ability to pursue his own policies, the media establishment pilloried Hook for refusing to accept Obama’s closest Iran aide as the senior professional staffer responsible for crafting Trump’s Iran policy. Hook was accused by the media of nativism and bigotry for taking this routine action.

Perhaps it was the Washington establishment’s hatred for all things Trump, or perhaps it was the success of Iran’s propaganda efforts executed by members of the IEI and NIAC. But whatever the reason, the fact is that over the past decade and a half, the Washington establishment has embraced Iran regime agents and struck out against anyone who points out their disloyalty to the United States.

And that brings us to the most alarming aspect of the story of Iran’s massive footprint in official Washington: its acceptability.

Whether the Washington establishment wants to admit it or not, the fact is that Iran is America’s enemy. It has been in a state of war with the United States since 1979. It waged—and won—terror wars against the United States through its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is the largest state sponsor of terrorism and designated as such by the State Department. It is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles to attack America with its incipient nuclear arsenal. The Iranian regime may want to cut a deal with Washington, but it doesn’t want to bury the hatchet. It wants to make a deal with Washington to build a more powerful hatchet.

The Washington establishment’s refusal to acknowledge this reality—let alone support policies aimed at weakening Iran or preventing it from becoming a regional hegemon and nuclear-armed state—indicates something horrible about the state of that establishment. It has become so mesmerized by its ideology and its partisan biases that it refuses to see the danger.

This state of affairs is dangerous for the security of the United States. And it sends a clear message to Israel and other U.S. allies threatened by Iran. Unless Washington cleans its house, it must be considered compromised.

Seth Frantzman: How Iran gets ‘more bang for the buck’ in influence ops

Racism and orientalism: How Iran uses Western biases to win support
Supporters of the deal said they were merely pro-diplomacy. However, from Iran’s perspective, a lot of this work aided the regime’s narrative and its demands. For instance, stories about an Iranian “fatwa” against nuclear weapons were trotted out to play on people’s beliefs in the West that Muslims are guided by religious edicts.

The way Iran has used racism and orientalism in the West to gain influence in this overall process is notable, as in this “fatwa” example. A 2013 Al-Jazeera article in English claimed that “Iranian leaders have pledged to never make nuclear weapons, which they consider a violation of Islam.” The fact that any media repeated this clearly-bogus claim was evidence in itself that the readers were being manipulated. In fact, the stories of the “fatwa” against nuclear weapons have now disappeared from any discussion about Iran’s current enrichment of uranium, perhaps because these kinds of stories don’t entice the Western, English-reading audiences like they used to.

Today, the controversy in the US is whether Iran’s foreign ministry was actually guiding the narrative and “lobby” regarding Iran, or whether these were merely individual voices who believed in diplomacy and happened to correspond with Iran’s regime. In fact, the discussion has taken on more pointed questions about whether Iranians in the West are being “smeared” for pushing for diplomacy or having contact with the regime.

For the regime, it isn’t always necessary to plow money to influence operations in the West. Sometimes, it can simply get local organizations to fund projects, and it benefits because it may be in the shared interest of some voices in the West to push for “diplomacy,” and for Iran to receive that support.

Iran invests in people, not projects
Tehran’s methodology of playing on Western needs in the era of the Iran deal to let the US extricate itself from the Middle East is a methodology Iran has used across the region. Iran’s regime invests in people, not projects. It doesn’t build dams and universities or housing, rather it finds individuals such as Hassan Nasrallah, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and others to facilitate its work in places like Lebanon or Iraq; its investment is in the long term.

Once it gets locals, it then expects them to do the hard work of building up Iran’s influence. Iran doesn’t necessarily have to pay off these locals; in fact, one selling point of the regime is the apparent modesty that their friends have. For example, Qasem Soleimani always dressing in modest clothes.

Tehran has different methods for different places, but the overall strategy remains the same: “more bang for the buck.” The regime doesn’t have much money and Iran’s economy often slouches from crisis to shambles.

But Iran has what to sell, providing Russia with cheap drones to terrorize Ukrainian civilians, and stirring trouble in Syria among tribes opposed to the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. In the West, Iran used to get influence by selling stories about how an Iran deal would prevent “war.” Today, Tehran has largely failed in its influence campaign, but the stories about 2014-2015 show how Iran got more bang for its buck than many regimes that try to influence the West.

Via Pressreader: Eugene Kontorovich: Unesco Writes Jews Out of Ancient Jericho The Palestinians have literally paved over this important historic site.

"It’s no surprise that some international institutions want to turn Jewish heritage to dust," writes @EVKontorovich, "but it’s a shame that the U.S. is a party to the demolition."https://t.co/RJBhpWemmr
— Josh Feldman (@joshrfeldman) September 29, 2023

Here's some insane and quite explicit antisemitism from columnist Ali Al-Khalidi in Iraq's Buraitha News (but not the same person as a popular TV host with that name):

The Jews entered the Arabian Peninsula coming from the West of the Levant, from the land of Jerusalem (now Palestine), after the birth of the Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him, seeking the impact of the final Prophet, whom Christ preached that after him the messages would be concluded with the Prophet Ahmed.

The Jews indirectly controlled a large part of the political decision-making in the Peninsula and its environs, and they also penetrated the religion since the time of pre-Islamic times, by creating early Israeli narratives and stories about Islam, which were contrary to what previous religions had said about the Muhammadan religion, which preceded the dawn of Muhammadan Islam. Their concern was to reveal the identity of the Final Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and to succeed in killing him in the cradle through a program of assassinations that they had prepared in advance, even though the Jews did not have an explicit military arm there, the Jewish money had a clear influence on the types of weapons used to kill the Prophet, in terms of the types of toxins imported from non-Arab regions.

The Jews continued their path of treachery and deception after the failure of their campaigns against the Prophet, may God bless him and his family, and they repeated this with Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, and their secret interference in mobilizing the Arab tribes continued, until the year 1800 AD, when the Jewish Al Saud family was planted with an Arab name to officially control the peninsula. The Arabs, and after the Jewish Sauds tightened their grip on new parts of the Islamic countries, after destroying them in wars using oil money, Hajj and Umrah, began declaring explicit loyalty to the Jews (normalization) through which obedience and subordination were given to the infidels, contrary to what Islam commanded, as God Almighty says in Surat Al-Ma’idah, verse 51: “Do not take the Jews and Christians as allies, allies of one another. And whoever of you befriends them is indeed one of them. Indeed, God does not guide an unjust people.”

The aforementioned noble verse made it clear that whoever takes the Jews as a friend has disbelieved and left the religion of Islam and is no longer his religion....

The final end of the Jews’ guardianship over the necks of the oppressed will be at the hands of the Awaited Imam Mahdi, peace be upon him, as he will purify the earth of their filth and fill it with equity and justice.

Buraitha News might be a second-tier news site but often these types of media reveal what people think far more accurately than the professionally edited major news sites.

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Three years after they were signed, it is clear that the Abraham Accords were a game changer in the region, despite the many "Middle East experts" who tried to downplay ignore or disparage them.

But as the Saudis position themselves to make some sort of agreement with Israel, we see a more fundamental change taking place in the Arab world, one that has not been explored but that is even more important than normalization with Israel is.

From the time of their independence to today, most Arab nations have been mired in a prison of their own devising: of looking at the world through an honor/shame viewpoint. Instead of admitting mistakes they twist defeats into victories. Instead of compromising they insist on "honor" even when that results in more misery for their own people. Instead of looking for win/win solutions they look at the world as a zero-sum game where if the enemy wins, then by definition they lose.

Israel was a major part of this groupthink. Israel's very existence is the definition of shame - a small number of historically weak, second-class Jews defeated the combined armies of the mighty Arab world, and Israel's continued existence was regarded as a constant reminder of the profound shame they felt and an impetus to one day right those wrongs. Peace was impossible with a nation whose very existence reminds them of their shameful defeat.

This self-defeating mindset was so prevalent that the West, instead of undermining honor/shame as the single biggest obstacle to peace, accepted it as immutable and even adopted it to an extent. When Secretary of State John Kerry insisted in 2016 that no peace was possible between Israel and Arab nations without a Palestinian state, he was accepting honor/shame thinking as US policy.

When the Abraham Accords were announced I was one of the few who noticed that this was a major blow against the honor/shame, zero-sum mentality that was considered an integral part of the Arab world. Not only that, but honor/shame has been a major impediment to progress in the Arab world.

The UAE and Bahrain exposed Kerry's "hard reality" as being wildly wrong. They revealed to the Arab world a true "hard reality:" that Israel exists and it will not be destroyed militarily , economically or politically.

But they also showed the rest of the Arab world that they no longer need to be shackled by the myth that "honor/shame" is honorable. The UAE, Bahrain and Morocco have benefitted from their normalization with Israel, and the insults from the Palestinians and Iran - usually centered on trying to shame them - have not landed.

Palestinians still try to invoke shame to get the Arab world to do their bidding, but it no longer works. The success of the Abraham Accords has paved the way for other Arab countries, from Lebanon to Iraq to Saudi Arabia, to allow the conversations about whether it makes more sense to accept Israel than to be at war. Even the holdouts like Algeria, Libya and Tunisia feel shakier in their insistence on honor/shame thinking, publicly insisting or passing laws against normalization - something that shows that they are worried that their worldview is crumbling.

The Emiratis and the Saudis have realized that if their countries are going to progress and survive in a post-oil world, they need to change their thinking. The concept of "honor" has been used for decades as an excuse to repress their own people and maintain power. That won't work in a connected world where they are not only competing against each other but with every other country and region. Accepting Israel as an economic and military powerhouse that is integrated in their own Middle East makes more sense than wasting resources trying to destroy Israel and replace it with another failed Arab kleptocracy.

More broadly, it is impossible to imagine any Arab leadership in technology or other fields without the ability to admit and learn from mistakes, something that honor/shame thinking cannot accept.

In that sense, the Abraham Accords have been just the beginning of a sea change in Arab thinking, not just about Israel but about everything.

What about the Palestinians? Their leaders, like all Arab leaders, have a choice: truly accept Israel's existence and normalize relations with it which would improve their lives in myriad ways, or remain imprisoned in an honor/shame mentality. It isn't that the Gulf countries have abandoned them; the Gulf countries are simply leaving them behind because of their own self-harming choices.

This is not to say that the future is all rosy. There are plenty of things that could go wrong. But at this time, the Abraham Accords has been the spark that is slowly turning the Arab world away from the medieval mindset of honor/shame, and that alone is a reason for celebration.

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Palestinians are actually celebrating the anniversary of the second intifada. Only one reason makes sense.

On Thursday, Palestinian websites and social media celebrated the beginning of the second intifada.

Yes, celebrated.

They have twisted the wave of terror into a fiction that the suicide bombers blowing up children in pizza shops is an example of how "the Palestinian people sacrificed thousands of martyrs, wounded and prisoners in sacrifice for Al-Aqsa."

What, in fact, was accomplished?

- About 3,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces

- About 580 Palestinians killed by other Palestinians

- Thousands of Palestinians arrested

How about Al Aqsa? How well was that defended?

Well, in 2000, Jews could not easily visit the Temple Mount at all, and the Israeli police did not go up there to protect them. Now, scores of religious Jews visit and quietly pray there every weekday and the Israeli police go up as needed to preserve order. every year, more Jews visit.

Doesn't sound like much of a victory from the Muslim perspective.

Others say that the intifada was a victory because it united all Palestinians. But Hamas and Fatah split in 2007, and have remained separate since then, so unity is not the reason they are celebrating.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians lost their jobs in Israel as a result of the terror spree. The unemployment rate skyrocketed from about 7% in early 2000 to as high as 35% in 2002 and it has never gone below 20% since.

Moreover, in September 2000, Palestinians were closer to having their own state than at any time in their short history as a people. The intifada helped destroy those chances, and even the Israeli Left that had pushed so hard for peace became disillusioned with their "moderate partners."

So why are the Palestinians celebrating? Their lives are worse by every possible metric.

Here's why:

Because they succeeded in murdering about a thousand Jews, most of them civilians.

That is their "victory."

As long as they manage to kill Jews, all their own deaths and misery and political prices are worth it.

Palestinians are overwhelmingly and institutionally antisemitic. Every poll proves this. Their public celebrations every time a Jew gets killed even now proves it. Antisemitism is not coincidental with their behavior, but a major driver. And their fond memories of the second intifada is merely one more proof of the centrality of Jew-hatred to their very identity - a proof that the West is still reluctant to admit.

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09/28 Links Pt2: Israel’s ‘democracy’ protesters destroy their own platform; Jews Are Not "Stealing" Judea; Israel to Host UEFA U-19 Soccer Championship in 2027

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips Israel’s ‘democracy’ protesters destroy their own platform

The protesters claimed they were resisting the haredim. But those who turned up to pray on Yom Kippur weren’t haredim. They were the same kind of people who pray in Orthodox synagogues everywhere—in the Diaspora as well as in Israel—which routinely separate men from women.

What this demonstrated was not just hatred and fear of the ultra-Orthodox but hatred and fear of all observant Jews. This was expressed most graphically in Haaretz by its columnist Gideon Levy.

In a commentary on the Yom Kippur disturbances, Levy blamed all “knitted kippah” wearers—in other words, the modern Orthodox—for either constituting or supporting the “settlers” in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, all of whom he falsely characterized as violent zealots who harass and attack their Arab neighbors.

He went even further: “Yes, the knitted kippah has become a symbol that sparks resistance. The knitted kippah makes its wearer a suspect until proven otherwise. They have no right to benefit from liberalism. They are its enemies.”

So, for Levy, the modern Orthodox—who include IDF officers, judges, journalists, politicians, officials, businesspeople and many others—have no human rights and are in effect enemies of the people.

Levy is well-known for his virulently anti-Zionist views. However, bigotry and discrimination against traditional biblical believers is standard among secular liberals. In both America and Britain, Christians are discriminated against for holding conservative beliefs about sexuality that accord with their religious teaching.

Progressive Judaism, meanwhile, seeks to appropriate liberal dogma as Jewish values, even though such universalizing precepts may be inimical to Judaism.

This accords with the fixed liberal belief that religion is responsible for all bad things, such as oppression, selfishness and obscurantism, while all good things such as freedom, compassion and rationality come from secularism.

In fact, all those good things and many more come from the Hebrew Bible, while it is secularism that undermines or destroys them.

Secular Israelis spitting hatred at the ultra-Orthodox fail to grasp that if it hadn’t been for people like that, there wouldn’t still be a Jewish people. The Jews survived over the centuries despite overwhelming odds because enough of them remained faithful to their religion.

Being faithful instead to democracy, feminism or judge-made human rights is not a recipe for cultural survival. A glance at how secular and supposedly liberal, rational, Western society is currently destroying itself through rancorous division, irrationality and intolerance shows what happens when a culture renounces the biblical precepts that are the source of its most precious values.

The disgraceful scenes in Tel Aviv carry a message that resonates far beyond Israel’s internal convulsions.

Jonathan Tobin: Tel Aviv violence: The dark side of Israel’s ‘democracy’ debate

In this week’s episode of Top Story, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin speaks about events in Tel Aviv over Yom Kippur in which secular “pro-democracy” protesters disrupted a prayer service in Dizengoff Square. According to Tobin the problem is not just the intolerance it displayed but the way it illustrated the hypocrisy of Israel’s Supreme Court.

Tobin pointed out the court has intervened in the past to protect the right of non-Orthodox women to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, whether or not it conformed to the traditions of the place. But in Tel Aviv, it inexplicably upheld the legality of a municipal statute that for all intents and purposes banned Orthodox Jewish prayer in public spaces without any concerns for the rights of individuals to practice their faith.

According to Tobin, those who claim that those crying “democracy” are somehow defending a truly liberal cause must rethink their valorization of a movement that seems more intent on suppressing their opponents than in defending individual rights.

The Caroline Glick Show - In Focus: Tragedy on Yom Kippur: The Anti-Jewishness of the Left

In this week’s In Focus, Caroline discussed two seemingly disparate, but deeply interconnected events: The leftist assault on Jews attempting to pray on the Eve of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv, and other places throughout the country, and the establishment of a pseudo academic institute in the U.S. – the Institute for the Study of Critical Zionism, whose purpose is to institutionalize Jew hatred in the U.S. and transform the Jews into the enemy of everything good and pure in the progressive ecosystem.

From FranceInfo:

During their student life, 91% of young Jews have already been victims of an anti-Semitic act, reveals an Ifop study published Thursday September 28, commissioned by the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF). It ranges from anti-Semitic jokes to aggression. “Anti-Semitism is the daily life of Jewish students ,” warns the UEJF on X (formerly Twitter), which denounces a “terrible observation.”

According to this survey, 7% of Jewish students have already been victims of a physical attack of an anti-Semitic nature, including 3% on several occasions. 43% say they have already suffered an attack relating to Israel (physical attack, verbal threats). A little less than half of Jewish students (45%) have been the victim of an anti-Semitic insult at least once. Most often, Jewish students say they are victims of anti-Semitic jokes or remarks: a "schoolboy" joke about the Shoah or Jews (80%), a remark conveying stereotypes about Jews (89%). These anti-Semitic acts take place on the premises of the university or school (67%), on social networks (32%), as part of a course (27%) or even during a student evening (24%).

Stereotypes seem to die hard at university. Thus, according to Ifop, 19% of students consider that Jewish students have it easier than others to pay their tuition fees. They would also have an easier time working in finance or the media, according to 18% of students.

More than half of Jewish students (53%) also say they are seeing an increase in violence from the extreme right within universities in France and 84% say they are witnessing an increase in violence from the extreme left in universities. 83% of Jewish students believe that this violence from the extreme left represents a significant threat to Jewish students, compared to 63% regarding violence from the extreme right.

Faced with this observation, 36% of Jewish students surveyed say they have already hidden the fact of being Jewish for fear of anti-Semitism and 33% say they have changed their behavior after being confronted with anti-Semitism.

65% of Jewish students also believe they lack information regarding the means implemented in their university or school to combat racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. 73% even consider that they do not have enough information on the disciplinary procedures opened in the event of racist or anti-Semitic aggression.

The UEJF expresses its concern about this drift. 77% of students of Jewish faith or culture thus believe that anti-Semitism is widespread in universities and Grandes Ecoles in France, 91% of Jewish students consider that hatred of Israel is also widespread on faculty benches, ahead of racism (67%), sexism (59%) and homophobia (54%). A feeling that is not shared by students as a whole. According to the survey, 28% of them consider anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel to be widespread phenomena in universities and colleges, behind in particular sexism (63%).

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This Palestinian Has Had Her Kidneys Harvested By Israel Six Times (PreOccupied Teritory)

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Ramallah, October 3 - Nadia Shifa, 30, has felt the abuses and indignities of the Occupation more than most of her compatriots: whereas they all suffer from mobility restrictions and military incursions, she must also deal with the recurring phenomenon of the IDF and other security forces who drug her, kidnap her, and remove her vital organs, each time with fatal consequences.

The mother of five from a village just outside this de facto Palestinian capital city - Palestinians officially claim Jerusalem, Israel's capital, as theirs - has lost count of the number of times Israel has removed her kidneys, lungs, liver, heart, eyes, and even all the skin on her face, plus assorted other irreplaceable bodily tissues, to sell on the international black market.

"Obviously they can't use it themselves because they're not native and not related to the native people here," she observed. "So it can only be for profit. We're talking about Jews, after all. I've died eleven times so far. the international community does nothing. The Jews control the international community, with their banks and media, so we'll get no help. Even the Arab world is too busy to do anything but posture. Which I would do, too, if Israel hadn't taken my spine again."

Nadia's suffering encapsulates the Palestinian narrative: they face rapacious genocide and ethnic cleansing that has reduced their population in the land from over a million in 1948 to only ten million as of last year. "They take everything from us," she lamented with a shake of the head, which Israel took from her last year. "Everything precious and vital, they steal. I want my pancreas back! I've already died from diabetes without it!"

Her travails recall the case of a Gaza man who, several years ago, died six times at the hand of IDF snipers, tanks, drones, and other violent Israeli methods, who loved to regale journalists with the tale, which differed each time he told it, depending on the western media outlet interviewing him.

Human rights NGOs cite Nadia's case in frequent reports on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. "We need to help her and the millions of others under the oppressive Israeli yoke," acknowledged Omar Bashir of Human Rights Watch. "Nadia is but one of many. I can show you the stories of Palestinians murdered by the millions, genocided so thoroughly that not even forensic scientists have been able to document, locate, or corroborate any of it."

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09/28 Links Pt1: Where Are the Palestinian Concessions for Peace?; US Congress Palestinian Authority on Notice for ‘Pay for Slay’ Terrorist Payments

From Ian:

Bassam Tawil: Where Are the Palestinian Concessions for Peace?

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was quoted on September 15 as saying that "normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.... needs to involve a two-state solution." Most Palestinians, however, take quite a different view of the matter.

[A] public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Palestinians are opposed to a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and opposed to the so-called two-state solution. The Saudi two-state solution envisages the establishment of an Iran-backed Arab terror state next to Israel. Israel already has such a terror state next to its border: the Gaza Strip, ruled since 2007 by Iran's proxies, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

On August 25, the American media outlet Axios reported that Blinken told Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer that the Israeli government is "misreading the situation" if it thinks it will not have to make concessions to the Palestinians as part of any Saudi deal.

If anyone is misreading the situation, however, it is Blinken, who thinks that Israeli concessions would convince the Palestinians to accept an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel. As the results of the PCPSR poll showed, the Palestinian public is not impressed with the proposed concessions.

If the Palestinian Authority is currently unable or unwilling to prevent terror groups from attacking Israelis, it is truly delusional to think that it would be more diligent in controlling security in any new areas it received from Israel. Abbas has not been willing to send his security officers to arrest or kill the terrorists based in the cities of Jenin and Nablus. He knows that if he does, his people will condemn him as a "traitor" and "collaborator" with Israel, and quickly dispatch him to "drink tea up there" with the Egypt's murdered President Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated for brokering his country's 1979 peace deal with Israel. Moreover, Abbas will not go against the terrorists as long as they do not physically go against him.

Most of all, the idea of transferring more land to the Palestinians is terrible because sends a message to the Palestinian Authority that, after it failed to combat terrorism in land under its control, it will be rewarded with even more land.

As the poll illustrates, support for anti-Israel terrorism among the Palestinians has risen from 53% (three months ago) to 58% today. That is why it is unrealistic to expect the Palestinian Authority to take any measures to disarm the terror groups in the West Bank. Unlike Blinken, Palestinian leaders are aware of the massive support for terrorism among their people. Unlike Blinken, Palestinian leaders also know that were it not for Israel's presence in the West Bank, Iran and its terror proxies would have taken complete control of the area a long time ago and ousted Abbas, just as they did in the Gaza Strip in 2007.

In addition, the Palestinian Authority, through its "Pay-for-Slay" program, proudly rewards terrorists who murder or wound Jews. In just one year, "Ramallah paid out around NIS 600 million ($187 million) in salaries for Palestinians imprisoned, jailed, or killed by Israel in 2020, according to a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official."

So, while Blinken is talking about the need to involve the "two-state solution" in a Saudi-Israeli deal, 67% of Palestinians oppose it.

CAMERA Letter in the WSJ The PA Isn’t a Peace Partner

Your editorial (“’Even Hitler,’ Says Palestinian President,” Sept. 7, 2023) is right to note the virulent antisemitism of Mahmoud Abbas, who heads both the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah movement. For decades, Abbas has spewed antisemitic propaganda. So has the Palestinian Authority, whose official media and educational arms actively promote anti-Jewish violence.

These actions violate both the terms and spirit of the Oslo Accords, which birthed the PA in the hopes that it would be a “partner for peace.” But they are far from the only violations.

The PA has failed to prevent the rise of terrorist groups under the areas that it controls. Indeed, not only has Fatah praised recent terrorist attacks, elements of Fatah, notably the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, have perpetrated them.

Members of the PA’s Security Forces, trained and backed by the United States, have also carried out attacks throughout the years. This too is a violation of Oslo, in which Palestinian leaders promised to renounce terrorism and to resolve outstanding issues with Israel in bilateral negotiations. They have failed to do so. Yet, instead of meeting with consequences, these transgressions have been overlooked by multiple U.S. administrations, including the current one.

The PA isn’t a peace partner. Three decades after its creation, it is time to stop pretending like it wants to be one.

From the Siasat Daily:

In solidarity with Palestinians and rejection of normalization with Israel, Syrian boxer Mohammad Mlaiyes has withdrawn from the Asian Games currently being held in China, due to the presence of Israeli referee.

The 19th Asian Games are currently being held in China.

Mlaiyes was set to face Bahraini counterpart, Danis Latypov in the preliminary round of the men’s over 92-kilogram division of the continental event. The coach, Mohamed Ghosoun, submitted an objection to the referees committee.

The referees committee refused to respond to the Syrian objection. This prompted Mlaiyes not to get in the ring and then withdraw, after which the referee announced the victory of the Bahraini boxer Laptov.

“Syria, its territories, nation and blood are much more precious than any medal or tournament. It is a country of dignity, pride and resistance against the Israeli occupation,” the boxer told reporters.

Other reports say that the referee's name is Naim Ramaj, but according to this boxing site Ramaj lives in Croatia.

So this entire episode may be an excuse for the Syrian to avoid a fight - and make himself look like a hero.

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