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Sunday, March 20, 2016
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: How Roger Cohen makes his case for equating anti-Z...
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: How Roger Cohen makes his case for equating anti-Z...: So Roger Cohen of the Times begins by providing anecdotal evidence from one student (he thinks that just because the student is at Oxford...
*** OK,
here is my response as an anti-Zionist: 1) no, anti-Zionists don't deny
the historical bond between Jews and the holy land. I would never also
deny the long Jewish presence in Palestine. But I don't think that the
Jews who belonged to Palestine in 1917 and who constituted less than
10% of the population and who owned less than 3% of the land of
Palestine deserved a homeland atop the existing Arab Palestine, or that
the aspirations of the 10% should disregard the aspirations of the 91%
of the population (the "existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine",
as they were outrageously referred to in the Balfour Declaration of
1917). 2) I also don't deny that there is a link between the murder of
Jews in Europe and the foundation of Israel, but don't think that it was
just to penalize the Palestinian national community for a crime that
they didn't commit. It is not anti-Semitic to believe that the
establishment of a Jewish state should not take place at the expense of
the Palestinian Arab nation. That is not anti-Semitic, no matter what a
student at Oxford told Roger Cohen.***
*** OK,
here is my response as an anti-Zionist: 1) no, anti-Zionists don't deny
the historical bond between Jews and the holy land. I would never also
deny the long Jewish presence in Palestine. But I don't think that the
Jews who belonged to Palestine in 1917 and who constituted less than
10% of the population and who owned less than 3% of the land of
Palestine deserved a homeland atop the existing Arab Palestine, or that
the aspirations of the 10% should disregard the aspirations of the 91%
of the population (the "existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine",
as they were outrageously referred to in the Balfour Declaration of
1917). 2) I also don't deny that there is a link between the murder of
Jews in Europe and the foundation of Israel, but don't think that it was
just to penalize the Palestinian national community for a crime that
they didn't commit. It is not anti-Semitic to believe that the
establishment of a Jewish state should not take place at the expense of
the Palestinian Arab nation. That is not anti-Semitic, no matter what a
student at Oxford told Roger Cohen.***
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The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: The Maronite church in Lebanon protects pedophiles...
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: The Maronite church in Lebanon protects pedophiles...: .
The Maronite church in Lebanon protects pedophiles: Lebanon bans Spotlight under pressure from the church
The Maronite church in Lebanon protects pedophiles: Lebanon bans Spotlight under pressure from the church
This is clear: none of the Western media, and none of the correspondents
of Western media in Beirut, ever bother to cover a story of repression
and censorship by Christian religious authorities. The story is only
sexy if the censorship is at the hands of the Muslim religious
authorities. The Maronite church is one of the oldest censorship and
repression authorities in the entire Middle East region. It also famous
for protecting pedophiles. One of the most famous priests of the
church, who was in charge of children choir and composing hymns, is
Mansour Labaki. He also ran camps for children and was accused and
convicted (by a Vatican's commission of inquiry) of molesting his own
niece. But complaints about Labaki have been ignored for many decades
(he also was aligned with right-wing Israeli-sponsored militias during
the war). But when Labaki started to take children to France, his
molestation reached French children and only then the Vatican was
compelled to act. There was a long investigation which proved the
charges against him. What did the Maronite church for punishment: well,
the Lebanese state did not take any action and the Maronite church was
left to exact the punishment. What was the punishment? He was told to
spend time in a mountain resort to "meditate". The Maronite church just
banned the movie Spotlight. It also run campaigns of persecution
against Jehovah's Witnesses and against what it calls "satan
worshippers".
of Western media in Beirut, ever bother to cover a story of repression
and censorship by Christian religious authorities. The story is only
sexy if the censorship is at the hands of the Muslim religious
authorities. The Maronite church is one of the oldest censorship and
repression authorities in the entire Middle East region. It also famous
for protecting pedophiles. One of the most famous priests of the
church, who was in charge of children choir and composing hymns, is
Mansour Labaki. He also ran camps for children and was accused and
convicted (by a Vatican's commission of inquiry) of molesting his own
niece. But complaints about Labaki have been ignored for many decades
(he also was aligned with right-wing Israeli-sponsored militias during
the war). But when Labaki started to take children to France, his
molestation reached French children and only then the Vatican was
compelled to act. There was a long investigation which proved the
charges against him. What did the Maronite church for punishment: well,
the Lebanese state did not take any action and the Maronite church was
left to exact the punishment. What was the punishment? He was told to
spend time in a mountain resort to "meditate". The Maronite church just
banned the movie Spotlight. It also run campaigns of persecution
against Jehovah's Witnesses and against what it calls "satan
worshippers".