Sunday, June 05, 2011

Apartheid, the Mahdi and the Surprise


By Tuvia Brodie

Once again, the official Palestinian daily Al Hayat al-Jadida has printed yet another Arabic propaganda attack, calling Israel “the Israeli apartheid state.”

Apartheid is a dirty word. It suggests oppression and institutionalized hatred.

Arabs –and their friends—have adopted the word as a fashionable description for Israel.

Jews don‘t agree with this characterization. But that’s not news: Arab and Jew don’t ever seem to agree.

But there is one thing they might agree to: there will be no apartheid in the new ‘Palestine’.

At first glance, the white-only National Party of 1940’s South Africa and the Hamas-Fatah alliance in the Palestinian territories seem similar: both share a strident, even vicious animus towards a homogeneous group each sees as impure and tainted: the black in South Africa and the Jew in Israel.

But as similar as they might appear, a closer look reveals that they are different.

To understand the difference, consider that—while this is not commonly noted-- an ‘apartheid’ political system, such as the prototype in South Africa, will have two major, easily identifiable components. First, there will be laws and regulations designed to force a specific group to remain subservient; and second, those laws and regulations will be supported by a persistent and aggressive propaganda-style attack from both national media and national religious leaders.

The laws and the negative propaganda will be omnipresent—in the churches, the media, the schools, the legislature, the neighborhoods and the marketplace.

There is no respite.

Generally speaking, if only one of these two components is active, the label, ‘apartheid’ may not fit. This is why, for example, the laws and regulations in Arab countries that keep women subservient are typically not called ‘apartheid’: the propaganda-style attack is absent, and the oppressive laws are simply considered to be unique to local culture.

In my opinion, it is not just the existence of repressive law that creates the ugliness called apartheid; it is the public, religious and omnipresent demonization that goes with it, that transform the legal restrictions into something so ugly.

So while white South Africans wanted to oppress blacks with both these components to enforce political repression, the modern Arab Muslim is not interested in treating the Jew this way, for an important reason: he sees the Jew as being reserved for a different consideration altogether.

What appears to separate the National Party of the 1940’s South Africa from the modern Arab is intent: the white-only South Africans wanted only to oppress; the Arabs want to eradicate.

The Arab intent for the Jew has nothing to do with political animus. It has nothing to do with apartheid. It is religious.

Islam, like Christianity, believes in a Messianic era, with a ‘Final Days’ period preceding the Messianic period. For Islam, the key Messianic figure is the twelfth Imam, also called the Mahdi. As with Christianity, evil plays a role in the Islamic Messianic vision, and for much of today’s Islam, Israel and evil are connected. Iran President Ahmadinejad made this clear recently when he said that the return of the Mahdi is near, but the major blocking point is Israel; the evil stain called Israel must be removed before the Mahdi can come. As William Wagner, senior professor at the Golden Gate Baptist Theology Seminary has said (as quoted on CBN.com), Israel must be destroyed in order to usher in the Mahdi.

That’s the script. There’s even proof that the days leading up the Mahdi are already here: the UN is turning against Israel; the US now toys with Israel the way a cat toys with a mouse before dining; the PA is about to create another Muslim state where Jews will be expelled —and best of all, nobody objects to any of this, not the UN or the US or the EU; indeed, not even Israeli leaders seem to object.

It could take a few more years before Ahmadinejad gets his nuclear arsenal—to help move things along-- but by then there should be six million Jews in Israel, and the prospect of killing six million Jews excites: the Nazis killed six million but nothing happened; Iran can kill six million and the Mahdi will come!

This is an epic story. The Palestinian Authority is so excited that they have begun printing maps showing their ‘ Palestine’ in place of Israel.

In one sense, Israel is already gone.

The beginning of the end has begun. Why should the Arabs be concerned about apartheid?

They bring good news: there will be no apartheid in the new Palestinian state.

The UN will love that.

Of course, there is a problem here. There always is with big ideas.

Along with the good news, there is, for the Arab world, also bad news.

The bad news is, this movie has a surprise ending: the Jews win.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Arab apartheid / Muslim apartheid are the largest 'apartheid systems', that exist today. All non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims are second class citizens. Among minorities that feel the wrath of the bigoted Arab-Muslim world include:

* Berbers (native N. Africans, before Arab invasion).
* Copts (indigenous Egyptians suffer from both: Arab racism and Islamic bigotry).
* Kurds (Examples include: [Saddam's] Iraq and Syria.
* Blacks, in Arab lands or in Arab ruled Africa like the genocide in the Sudan and slavery in both Sudan and in Mauritania.
* Asians, particularily in the Gulf Arab states. [Sex slaves or "plain" slaves).
* Maronites-Christians [Native Lebanese] suffer from both Arab ethnic racism and religious bigotry, like the massacres in the 1970s by local Muslims and by Palestinian/Syrian forces.
* Assyrians, are/have been being persecuted both racially and religiously. Still very much marginalized in Iraq, for example.
* Iran is not an Arab country but racism is huge against Kurds, Jews, Turkmens, etc.So is anti-non-Muslim bigotry against Christians, Bahai, Zoroastrians and other in the Islamic republic.
* Turkey is also a Muslim non-Arab country and Kurds, Greeks, Armenians and other ethnicities have been through much suffering, genocide. Still there's great wide racism againt non-Turkish ethnic grpups. Turkey's policy in Cyprus has also been recognized as a real Apartheid by many. All non-Muslims are automatically branded as "foreingers" at the "moderate" Islamic supremacy of Turkey.
* Al-Akhdam in Yemen.
* Gypsies in Jordan.

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From anti-Jewish Apartheid:

- The Arab racist apartheid against the Jews attempted genocide ever since the 1920s, (Like Mufti of "Palestine at his incited massacres, and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood who called simply 'to kill Jews').
- Chased out a Million Jews in the late 1940.
- Has boycotted and demonized [every logical defensive action is branded "racist"] the Jewish democratic-free-equal-to-all state only because it's the "other". It is neither Muslim nor Arabs.
- The Arab racist world continues to play with Arab-Palestinians (grandchildren of Arab immigrants) like ping-pong against Israel.

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AND THE BEACON OF APARTHEID HAS THE AUDACITY TO CHARGE MULTI-RACIAL ISRAEL'S BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY [THAT OFTEN GIVES PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ITS ARABS OVER JEWS] WITH THIS TERMINOLOGY?

THE ARAB DECEPTIVE PROPAGANDA MACHINE THAT ACTS AS IF ARAB-ISLAMIC GENOCIDAL CAMPAIGN IS NOT OBVIOUS TO DETERMINE ISRAEL'S EXTRA SECURITY MEASURES [INCLUDING AN ANTI-TERROR / ANTI-MASSACRES WALL].

As if we don't know the 'Arab oil lobby's power' over the UN, international organizations and some African officials to go along with the Arab propaganda.

Even promoter of the apartheid-slur J. Carter admitted on CNN: "I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis." http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/12/acd.02.html

Last but not least:

Isn't it true that the anti-Jewish "apartheid" slur campaign is: 1) to demonize Jews and 2) to hide the real apartheid practice by the Arab-Islamic world?