(Excerpts from Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology by Raphael Israeli; Frank Cass, 2003
Chap 8 - The Jews, Zionism and Israel: An Evil Unto Itself)

Anti-Americanism and Blatant Antisemitism

...Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the supposed mainstays of moderation, pro-Western partnership and sources 'of peace initiatives' in the Middle East, are also the most venomous sources of not only anti-American pronouncements, but also of blatant anti-Semitism. Once again, these are not occasional and sparsely spread preachings by obscurantist fanatics, or frustrated and deprived individuals, but the systematic teachings crystallized by politicians clerics, professionals, intellectuals, opposition diehards and strategists, who shape public opinion, and are in turn shaped by it. How much more so in the Muslim fundamentalist writings, some of which we have perused before, and which in themselves have an impact on non-Muslim writings in this regard. At the heart of the Egyptian establishment and consensus, for example, is the weekly October-founded and directed by one of the most notorious anti-Semites in the Arab world, and a close associate of President Anwar Sadat: the Christian, Anis Mansur - which published the following opinions on Jews by a retired general, Hassan Sweilem. This is straight from the platform of the Hamas and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion:

"Throughout history, since Emperor Justinian and down to Hitler, Europe's rulers had been trying to rid themselves of the acts of violence, barbarism, corruption, conflict mongering, and other deeds that Jews were, and are still, in the custom of performing in European societies - like, for example, their domination of monetary systems, treasuries, banks and commercial monopolies, which has caused widespread bankruptcy and economic destruction. They also diffuse drugs, prostitution, trade of women as sexual slaves, and alcohol. They have also monopolized the gold and precious stone trade, paid bribes to rulers and extorted them throughout history."

"The Jews stood behind wars and internal strife, and that caused European rulers to expel them and kill them. For example, the Crusader armies, passing along the Rhine basin on their way east, massacred them and burned their houses as an act of repentance to their God. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, they collected the Jews in a synagogue and burned them alive. Their kin in Russia suffered a similar fate - They were expelled from France, England, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Slovakia, Austria, Holland and finally from Spain, after they underwent the Inquisition trials for their conspiracy to penetrate Christian society like a Trojan horse - The Jewish conspiracy to take over Europe generated civil revolutions, wars and internal strife - The Cromwell revolution failed in 1649 England, following the Jewish conspiracy to drag England into several wars in Europe - Then the French Revolution broke out, which the Jews had planned, based on the first conference of their rabbis and interest-loaners that had been convened by the first Rothschild in 1773 in order to take over all the world resources - That 'conference' adopted 24 Protocols, among which was the 'uprooting of the belief in God from the hearts of the Gentiles, distracting peoples by distributing among them literature of heresy and impurity, destruction of the family and the eradication of all morality'."

And so on and so forth ad nauseam, evincing the primitive, delusive and bigoted minds of the writers and of those who facilitated or allowed those utterings to gain 'respectability' by being published in a truly respectable magazine. The Jews were 'credited' in that article with putting Napoleon on the throne and then of causing his demise, of the 1775 war between England and the nascent United States of America, of establishing the Bank of America in 1881 with a view to controlling the wealth of the fledgling United States, and then of kindling the fire of the American Civil War. He told the story of how the Protocols were written by a 'German rabbi in 1770, financed by Rothschild', again in order to 'destroy all governments and religions, spread anarchy and revolutions, kindle wars, take over the wealth of nations, spread corruption among the youth, and control rulers by implanting in their governments Jewish ministers and advisers'. This sick mind goes on: the Jews ordered the start of World War I, and got the United States involved by spreading the rumour that an American ship had been sunk by the Germans. During that war, they prepared the ground for the rise of both communism and Nazism, as a follow-up to the work done by the Jews, Marx and Engels, half a century earlier, when they circulated the Communist Manifesto in London. Eventually, communism and Nazism took over power and came to confront each other, 'exactly as the Jews had planned'. World War II erupted due to the limitations imposed by the Allies on Germany in Versailles, by order of the Jews, thus inciting the Germans to revolution and bringing about the rise of Hitler. The Jews also brought about the fall of the Ottoman Empire and they were to reap the fruit thereof by concentrating all wealth in their hands.

The Jewish conspiracy was not the only irrational narrative that the writer was deluded enough to believe. He also found that the very roots of Zionism went back to that plot, as the Jews had already tried to build a settlement in Suez in 1903. Even Chaim Weizmann's credit for having extracted the Balfour Declaration from the British in 1917 due to his contribution as a chemist to the British war effort, the author attributes to 'secrets that Weizmann had stolen from Russian scientists'. The Europeans let the Jews go to Palestine, not because they had sympathy for them, but in order to 'rid themselves of the Jewish cancer that threatened to choke them on all sides', for they could not find any other country to absorb the 'poisoned human garbage called the Jews'.

Thus, Britain permitted the Jews to take over Palestinian lands by facilitating their attacks on Palestinians and by letting Jewish gangs receive weapons from Europe. It was the Jews who spread false rumours about Germany's defeat in World War I and ruined the German economy, spread anarchy in Germany by introducing communism, and even tried to murder Bismarck. Hitler wanted to collaborate with the British in thwarting the Jewish menace in Europe, but they outsmarted him when they appointed their agent, Winston Churchill, as the British Prime Minister. He even tells us that Hitler set up a special research institute to study the 'roots of Jewish corruption and rot', and how they could be cured of that disease so as to arrest their menace to humanity. But when he gave up on remedying their incurable diseases, he began to restrict and neutralize them.

Nor does this extraordinary material, which also included the claim that the Jews caused the economic crisis of the great depression in order to pave the way for World War II, fall on deaf ears in Egypt, where it is cultivated in a horrendously assiduous and repetitive fashion. It is replicated and repeated as mantras of conventional wisdom and documented history, and almost no decent intellectual, researcher, scientist, let alone politician or cleric, ever dare contradict or question the validity, rationale, veracity and authenticity of its details. Forged citations, made-up 'facts', fake sources, trumped-up accusations and all manner of calumniations, which in civilized countries result in prosecution and prison sentences, are current in the Muslim world, and not only among the fundamentalists. This is not only a matter of re-inventing history as a propaganda tool, but its propagators begin to believe in their own inventions, and others, who stand in awe before the military, religious or political authority of the fakers, copy from them without criticism and spread their venom worldwide.

For example, the calumniations we have just seen were concocted in Christian Europe over the centuries, then imported to the Middle East by Christian Arabs who wished to raise their stature in the eyes of their fellow Arabs, then copied by Muslim Brothers such as Sayyid Qut'b, then adopted, almost verbatim, by the Hamas Charter, which was published in early 1988, until they became common knowledge that needs neither corroboration nor reference. This is the reason that so many distorted, fanatical and obscure minds emerge in the Arab and Muslim world, where almost no one is interested in facts, and where young children are educated to believe in those fallacies.

The innocent, misguided and ignorant common people, who have no way to know, and are imbued, generation after generation, by this culture of lies and hatred, grow up, naturally, steeped in it and unlikely to be convinced otherwise. They make the human raw material for the Islamikaze.

Saudi clerics, who usually deride Arab nationalism and panArabism, insist that there is no way to defeat the 'monkeys and pigs', that is, the Jews, unless they embrace the road of jihad. They say that as long as the Palestinians and other Arabs fight for their fields and orchards, namely their material belongings and false nationalism, they will not achieve much, and therefore they ought to go back to their Islamic faith and fight in its name. They counsel their audiences to learn from the ways of the Jews:

"They [the Arabs] are not prepared to confront the people of the Bible, the people of Israel, with an Islamic battle. While the Jews are escaping to their religion and find in it a source of unity and force, those [Arabs] are running away from their Islam - The Jews had fought continuously against our Prophet Muhammed - does anyone imagine that they would yield to people who still fight for their watermelons, land, mountains, wells, olive trees and orange groves? We have to cluster around those who are talking about the Islamization of the conflict~E If we said that the problem is Arab, there are among them Christians, Unbelievers and Socialists. What do all these have to do with Al-Aqsa Mosque?"

"We have to realize that our defeats by the Jews are due to the fact that we did not let the Islamic umma confront them - These were defeats of Arab regimes which did not wave the banner of Islam - Should our lost [sons] revert to the truth, then the Jews shall return to their wretchedness and humiliation that they were condemned to [by the Holy Book]. Then, nothing can rescue the Jews, when the ignorant wake up, they will never see victory as long as they profess mistaken notions, heretic curricula, and humiliating peace."

"The decisive solution of the conflict must be through Intifadah and jihad for Allah, not for Arab nationalism or for the Arab Homeland. The Islamic umma knows that that the Holy Land will not be resolved by, negotiating at the table with the Unbelievers. The only solution is to emulate the example of the Prophet in what he did to the Jews when they violated the agreements. The only solution lay with the words of the Prophet to the Jews: 'I brought slaughter upon you.' The solution with them is not peace and harmony, for jihad, not peace is the solution - It is secularism that surrendered to Judaism and Christianity, threw away its weapons and retreated, not Islam. For Islam has not been defeated by Judaism and Christianity in the ideological campaign that it has been prevented from engaging."

"The Islamic umma is sitting with its enemy to discuss peace, agreements and treaties - The Jews themselves do not forget their hatreds, and they are spreading around their lie about the Holocaust and claim that Hitler killed 6 million Jews in gas chambers. In spite of the fact that this is a pure lie, they turned it into an essential part of their pains and propagate it through their powerful propaganda machine so as to blackmail the nations of the world. They received huge compensations from the Germans, and now accuse all the Holocaust deniers as anti-Semites and incite the world against them - Jews have always bitten all the hands that were extended to them in peace, they have always violated all the agreements they signed, they betrayed the Prophet, they betrayed the Ottoman Empire and caused its demise, they violated all their contemporary treaties, from Oslo to Sharm al-Sheikh."

One is then puzzled and circumspect when Saudis propose peace to the Jews through the international media, while in the thick of their mosques and in their press they promote jihad, politicide, massacres and genocide against them, using the precedent of their Prophet, and vilify them to a degree that even should they change their mind, they would have a very difficult time in convincing their citizenry which has been systematically exposed to this venom, to suddenly alter course. Because as they see it, it is untenable that a 'handful of monkeys and pigs should torture 1 billion Muslims; therefore, there is no escaping jihad and education to jihad'. 21 One of the mosque preachers concluded in no uncertain terms that:

"This matter is historical, legal and ideological. It is impossible to make peace with the Jews under any circumstances, and no alliance or treaty can be signed with them, in spite of those among us who believe otherwise, and who are themselves Jewish like the Jews. We cannot hide from Jewish evil or wickedness. They are impure creatures and satanic scum. They are the helpers of Satan, and, together with other Unbelievers and polytheists, the true reason for the misfortunes of humanity. Satan will lead them to Hell and to their unfortunate end. Jews are our enemies and hatred towards them dwells in our heart. Jihad against them is our ritual - Muslims must educate their children to jihad. This is the benefit we can draw from this situation: educate our children to jihad and hatred towards the Jews, the Christians and the Unbelievers, and the kindling of the spirit of jihad in their souls. This is what we need now."

Incidentally, those preachers of peace-loving Saudi Arabia urge their people to cultivate courage in their children by telling them the stories of Muslim war heroes, including children who followed their fathers to the battlefields and 'finished off the wounded enemies, and that is a proof of their courage'.

This is not education to terror, insist those preachers, because this is only the Qur'anic 'intimidation', which is permitted by Islamic law against hypocrites, seculars and rebels, and cannot be considered an aggression or injustice towards anyone, and is solely intended to 'elevate the Word of Allah and spread His religion'. In other words, anything sanctioned by the Qur'an is ipso facto 'kosher' and cannot be disputed or challenged on human, legal or moral grounds. Just use the right word, 'intimidation' instead of 'terror', and you have made it into the fold of the human race. The preacher clarifies this point:

"What they call 'terror' in the media, is in fact jihad in the path of Allah. Jihad is the apogee of Islam, and some jurists regard it as the sixth Pillar of the faith. Jihad, whether it is invoked for protecting the lands of Islam such as Chechnya, the Philippines and Afghanistan, or for propagating the Faith, constitutes 'terror' for the enemies of Allah. While the mujtahid, sets out to gain martyrdom, or to achieve victory and bring back spoils of war, for the enemies of Allah he is a terrorist - Therefore, the Faithful must not use this term, for otherwise Allah's anger might be upon him on the Day of Judgement - Jihad is part of our faith, and the word 'terror' is only used to de-legitimize this blessed and powerful element of our faith."

"The use of the term 'terror' [by the Unbelievers] is also calculated to discredit the important principle of 'al-wala' wal-bara' by which is meant support for other Believers, be they Arabs or otherwise. For there is no difference for us between an Arab or non-Arab Believer, and the non-Arab Believer is preferable to a corrupt Arab. People must know that they owe loyalty to other Believers, and hostility to the Infidels who are the enemies of Allah. We love whom Allah loves and hate whom Allah hates. Muslim blood is safeguarded, because Muslim blood is superior to the Infidel's blood. It is forbidden to kill a Muslim for a prize - These are some expressions of our principles, which are considered as terror by the Westerners."

And how does one determine those whom Allah hates? Of course the Qur'an, which is the word of God, and other sources of the faith, such as the Sunna of the Prophet, are the sole and ultimate guide. Thus, the Jews (and the Christians for that matter) who are labelled as enemies of Allah cannot extricate themselves from that sealed fate, unless they embrace Islam, and until then jihad must be waged against them by 'intimidation', never mind that others see that as 'terror'. At any rate, that act is considered a legal, even compulsory, jihad, which by definition leads to martyrdom, and is in any case the quintessence of Islam, in the eyes of the Saudi (and other) fundamentalists. The only remaining question, once the enemies of Allah have been identified, is how and to what extent to discredit and vilify those enemies of Allah so as to make them a legitimate target for the Believers. In this regard, a mix of secular, historical, 'logical', religious, analogical, or simple outbursts of atavistic and unexplained hatred are mobilized from the vast arsenal of Arab and Islamic anti-Semitism to crystallize such a despicable picture of the Jews, Zionists and Israel as to make them 'attractive', indeed irresistible, targets for the Muslim fundamentalist wrath and ingrained desire for vengeance. It suffices to follow the outpouring of rage by millions of Muslim demonstrators in the streets of all Arab and Western capitals following the eruption of the Intifadah of 2000, with the attendant burning of Israeli flags and local Jewish synagogues, the abuses hurled at Israel, Jews and Zionists during those violent demonstrations and on the hundreds of Muslim internet sites, and the utter disrespect they evince towards Jewish values and Holy Places, to realize the depth of that hatred, which culminated in Durban during the summer of 2001.