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Sam
8/12/2002 (18:53)
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Apologists for the constant Arab terrorism against Israelis rationalize it by claiming past injustices and by suggesting an outgunned movement can only fight back by attacking civilian targets.

Maybe those apologists for terror can start explaining why the same tactics by the same people are being employed against other Arabs in Lebanon.

That's right.

It hasn't received much attention in the international press. But there's a war raging in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It's Lebanon's own little intifada in the making.

Last week, a bomb went off in front of a shop in the Ain Helweh camp near the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. The owner of the shop, Rafiq al-Bahti, who was unhurt, is not known to be associated with any political party or movement. Also last week, three members of Hamas were wounded in a shoot-out with another Islamist terrorist group, Asbat al-Ansar.

Earlier, a bomb exploded in front of the home of Khaled Shayeb, an official with Yasser Arafat's Fatah terrorist organization. This guy does have a history. Two years ago, he was arrested by Lebanese intelligence services, which is to say, Syrian intelligence services. You see, Lebanon is occupied territory – in fact, the only truly occupied turf in the Mideast. Syria dominates the government, the police forces, the intelligence apparatus and the military of its once-free neighbor.

Earlier still, a hand grenade was lobbed at the house of Munir Maqdah, head of the Fatah movement in Ain el-Helweh.

What's this all about? Various Palestinian factions have long been engaged in a struggle for control of the refugee camps. There is also an underlying tension with the Syrian forces who dominate the country. While security at the camps was previously left to the Palestinians to handle, recently Syrian-backed Lebanese authorities have attempted to assert control.

In July, for instance, Ain Helweh was encircled by troops searching for Lebanese Islamist Badih Jamade, accused of killing three military intelligence agents. He was ultimately handed over, leading to a military stand-down.

Ain Helweh is a kind of living hell, housing 70,000 perpetual second- and third-generation refugees. It is controlled by various factions – all violent, all terrorists, all the time. Shoot-outs, assassinations, bombings, etc. are a way of life.

What's the point of the violence? It's a way of life. What's my point? There are no Israelis in Lebanon to blame for this terror. There are no Israelis to blame for Lebanon's occupation. There are no Israelis to blame for the forced incarceration of these Arabic-speaking refugees.

This is Arab-on-Arab violence. This is Arab-on-Arab oppression. This is Arab-on-Arab apartheid.

It's just another example of how Israel is not the cause of Mideast violence. Israel is not the issue in most of the bloodshed in the Mideast. Israel is not the reason the entire Arab world lives in a state of repression and under various forms of tyranny.

How bad is the situation for Palestinians in Lebanon? Let's put it this way: Under Lebanese law, they cannot own property. They do not have the right to work in 74 forms of employment. It's very difficult to leave the country and even harder to enter. Those who already have property do not have the right to pass it on to their children. Palestinians are confined to 12 camps with no medical, social or educational services from the government and are barred in some of those camps from building or even repairing homes.

Why are such laws in effect in an Arab country? Because the government – or perhaps I should say the Syrian government – wants to ensure that Palestinians are kept in a constant state of anxiety and restlessness to be used as a political wedge against Israel. Keep in mind, most of these refugees have never spent a day in Israel, the Palestinian territories or any other land associated with Palestinians.

But they have not been allowed to resettle because Arab leaders are determined to use them as pawns to fan the flames of hate with Israel so that they don't turn their enmity toward their own corrupt and ruthless leaders and begin questioning the real reasons they are denied basic human rights.

The refugee camps of Lebanon are the breeding grounds of hate and violence. And there isn't an Israeli or a Jew to be seen anywhere near them.


-Joseph Farah

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just facts
8/12/2002 (19:24)
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Joseph Farah is a member of the lunatic fringe of the right wing. Quoting stuff from Worldnet Daily is not exactly an indicator of a mature intellect.
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Lefty Driesell
8/12/2002 (20:19)
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Actually, if you read Joseph Farah, you will find that he is a reasoning, thoughtful, and moral person who has the courage to speak out against the Palestinian Arab Nazi mindset that has afflicted you, apparently. Joe's OK and he's a good American.
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just facts
8/12/2002 (21:02)
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Being in favor of the Israeli occupation of Palestine makes him a good American? Being in favor of withdrawing and disbanding the settlements is indicative of a 'Palestinian Arab Nazi' mindset? I don't even know what that definition means. Do you just like to throw around the word 'Nazi' under the mistaken assumption that it'll enhance your arguments? Since Israel is not part of America, why should our patriotism be defined by our attitude toward Israel?
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WANTED ISRAELI WAR CRIMINALS !
8/12/2002 (21:41)
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The Israelis have been committing War Crimes for a long time... (1).. The SABRA & CHATILA MASSACRE... hydraulix.bangor.ac.uk ..(2).. The QANA MASSACRE... http://tyros.leb.net/qana/index.html ...(3).. Israeli Terror 1948 to 2000 ... qana.net ... (4).. 1,000's DEAD in LEBANON massacres... leb.net/~dakroub/black.html ...and... See the Pictures of the Wanted Israeli WAR CRIMINALS .... israeli-war-crimes.org/ .... Read... indictsharon.net ... And sign the petition to INDICT Ariel S.S haron.... petitiononline.com/warcrime/petition.html ..
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Gabriel
8/12/2002 (21:43)
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What do you disagree with Farah about 'just facts'?

Why do you just dismiss him and not address his arguments?

Is this not what you claim others do about people writing from your perspective?
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just facts
8/12/2002 (23:28)
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Gabriel:
For the same reasons that I do not respond to posts by neo-nazis. Whenever I detect a malodorous agenda beneath the surface, I prefer not to get involved.
Mr. Farah is of Lebanese Phalangist Christian ancestry with a deeply held prejudice against all things Palestinian. He is the founder of the Western Journalism Center, an organization primarily devoted to the advancement of ultra-conservative, Christian Dispensationalist type thinking. (Dispensationalists essentially believe that all Jews must be assembled in the 'Holy Land' in order for Armageddon to begin).
WJC and WND (Worldnet Daily) were heavily funded and supported by the Richard Scaife foundation to advance the vilification of Bill Clinton.
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Gabriel
8/12/2002 (23:36)
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Interesting.
Thanks for the info.

But what do you think of the points he makes? Pretend they were made by Ralph Nader.
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TheAZCowBoy
8/12/2002 (24:32)
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Re: Sick Arab/Jew SAM sez:

'Apologists for the constant Arab terrorism against Israelis rationalize it by claiming past injustices and by suggesting an outgunned movement can only fight back by attacking civilian targets.

TAC: Hey Sam, you're as much an Arab as my hemmoriods are Irish!

Is Joseph Farah, the Arab 'uncle Tom' with a heart of a Jew your uncle?

~TheAZCowBoy~

Pssst, just because yo daddy 'humps' camel's doesn't make you an Arab, da? :( But it could make you 'part camel! :)

Hahahahahaha!

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google
8/13/2002 (1:12)
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I also know that Coulter’s columns appear on the web site of two Scaife-funded ideologues, David Horowitz and Joseph Farah. This is especially ironic because a quick search on Farah’s WorldNetDaily web site yields an interesting assortment of articles that include Scaife’s paranoid conspiracies such as the Vince Foster death theories and the infamous “Clinton body count.” Lest anyone misunderstand, Coulter has every right to write for WorldNetDaily; my point is that it is ironic for a WorldNetDaily columnist to complain about the poisoning of the well of public discourse by the left.

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google.com
8/13/2002 (1:13)
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Joseph Farah: Unethical, Hypocritical Liar
Who Avoids the Real Issue - Jews


By John 'Birdman' Bryant


To: Joseph Farah, Editor, WorldNetDaily

Copy to: Other WorldNetDaily employees

From: John Bryant - OPINION

Date: 6 Nov 1998

Dear Mr Farah:

May I ask why you continue to provoke me, especially after your wife has asked me not to send you folks further correspondence? Today in WND I find SL Goldman's column discussing (once again!) his correspondence, in which you have permitted Goldman to link (2 clicks, please) to yet another one of his vicious attacks on me, except that this time it is not even a letter I wrote to him, but to you. Of course the ironic thing about Goldman's attacks is that they are so foolish and febrile that they end up making me look good and Goldman look like a liar -- for example, Goldman creates a dozen or so links from my letter to other web pages as if to refute things I say, but in actuality these links are just to various worn-out propaganda pages of the Holocaust lobby which have essentially no relevance to anything in my letter. What Goldman uses for a brain is beyond me -- an 8086 cow chip, perhaps?

So if you are going to provoke me, then let me provoke you. You are unethical, Mr Farah, and you have made yourself a hypocrite by all your calls for others to behave ethically. Specifically, you are a liar by omission, because in the major story you have been following -- Clinton misbehavior -- you have omitted to mention the one thing which may explain his behavior better than anything else -- the Jewish connection -- in spite of the fact that I have set the matter out for you in black and white (see PS2 below for what I said to you earlier). Indeed, you are doing in your own medium just the sort of thing you complain about in the traditional media -- refusal to tell the truth, or at least important parts of the truth. How can you publish a credible journal when you violate the very premise on which you founded WND?

So here's a challenge to you, Mr Farah. Either you are a liar and a hypocrite or not, and either what I am saying is essentially true, or it is not. If you think I'm wrong, then let me publish my case in WND, and get your house Jews, Wiesenthalers, ADLers or whoever to poke holes in my assertions if they can. That way, if you are right, then you can vindicate yourself, prove your openmindedness, show that my accusations are unwarranted, and kick my butt all over town.

My guess, however, is that you won't do it because the effect will be to show that I am right, that the Jewish connection in the Clinton story is important, that Jewish power is pushing us to the eve of destruction, and that you are a liar and a hypocrite and just as unethical in your own way as the media you seek to supersede.

I'll be looking for your next editorial in which you call for a return to traditional ethical values. I want to have myself a really good laugh.

--John Bryant

PS: I'm sending this to all the WND people whose addresses I have. Perhaps some of them will support exploring the whole truth which you seem to wish to ignore. Some may also wish to see the article I wrote about WND which was recently published in the Nationalist Times ('Liberal Dirty Tricks and the Decline of America', August 1998: 16) and is posted on the American Nationalist Union website (www.anu.org).

PS2: To refresh your memory, here is what I said in an earlier letter to you about the Jewish connection to the Clinton scandal and the deleterious effect of organized Jewish power in recent history:

'But if it is important to you and the future of WND to make short work of this enfant terrible [Goldman], it is even more important for you to see this problem in light of a matter I elaborated upon in an earlier letter to you, namely, the Jewish connection. To explain, let me begin by critiquing WND's coverage of Clinton (which is your publication's major claim to fame), and in doing this let me first note that no sensible and informed person would attempt to explain the operation of a computer without reference to programming -- he would not, for example, attempt an explanation with reference only to electromagnetic and mechanical phenomena, tho theoretically such an explanation could be made. Now your coverage of Clinton is very much like trying to explain computers without reference to programming: While you spend much time and many words on such things as Clinton's sexual shenanigans, drug use, liberalism and Arkansas mafia connections, you do not talk about the one thing that makes so much of Clinton's behavior understandable, to wit, the fact that Clinton's 'look like America' administration is dominated by Jews, to the extent that more than 50% of all his appointments have been drawn from this minority which makes up less than 3% of the American population. This explains or greatly illuminates many issues, from Clinton's Mideast policy to the recent cruise missile attack on an African pharmaceutical facility. It even explains why Clinton has weathered dozens of 'bimbo explosions' from Jennifer Flowers to Paula Jones without any serious repercussions, and yet has been brought to the verge of impeachment by a Jewess who deliberately seduced him. For a newsman, you exhibit a stunning case of blindness.

'Now as a newsman specializing in politics, if you have missed the Jewish domination of the Clinton administration, then you have probably also missed the fact that Jews dominate the US Congress with their PAC contributions, a fact which prompted Pat Buchanan to remark that the Congress is 'Israeli-occupied territory'. Again as a newsman, you have probably also missed the fact that the major media -- newspapers, TV and Hollywood -- are also dominated by Jews, in spite of the fact that the shocking extent of this domination is thoroughly documented in Dr William Pierce's essay 'Who Rules America?' which can be found on the National Vanguard website. And if you missed these as a newsman, then you probably also missed the fact that the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization, is a major player in the attempt to take away American's Constitutional rights, particularly Second Amendment rights, which have been restricted in 16 states by anti-militia 'model statute' laws sponsored by the ADL. And if you missed this, you probably also missed the fact that the major sponsors of 'gun control' legislation in Congress have been such Jews as Feinstein, Schumer and Metzenbaum. And if you missed this, you probably also missed the fact that another Jewish organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, has been a major player in subverting American's First Amendment rights by attempting to restrict 'hate' on the Internet, and particularly the dissemination of the research of revisionist historians who challenge what I call the Orthodox Jewish Version of the Holocaust (OJV). And if you missed that, then you probably also missed the fact that Jewish organizations in most of the countries of the Western world (including Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Australia, Canada and France) have already succeeded in making the questioning of the OJV illegal, and if you think these laws are not enforced, then contemplate the fact that (for example) more than 6000 Germans have gone to prison for violating these laws, as well as two American tourists, who were imprisoned for what they did in America. And if you missed this, then you probably also missed the fact that Jews have been the prime movers in the feminist movement (do the names Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, and Gloria Steinem ring any bells?). And if you missed this, then you probably also missed the fact that Jews have had a significant hand in numerous historical events which have been detrimental to American civilization, including abandonment of Constitutionally-mandated hard money via establishment of the Federal Reserve (Rothschild agent and Jewish financeer Paul Warburg was the principal architect of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act), World War I (the Balfour Declaration was the bribe which Britain paid the international Jews for their influence in bringing America into the war), World War II (the Jews declared war on Hitler in the summer of 1933 in the form of a worldwide boycott of German goods), school integration (Jews founded the NAACP and have acted as its officials for most of its history), communism (the Russian Revolution was led by a group of mostly New York Jews) and several other important events.

'By this time you are probably wondering what the point is that I am getting at, so let me put it this way. Prof James Buchanan won a Nobel prize a few years ago for the simple (but very important) observation that bureaucrats act in their own self-interest, rather than, as common thinking would have it, acting from the unselfish motives of 'civil servants'. My point is somewhat analogous to Buchanan's, and is that Jews are a group with a very strong sense of community -- a very tribal people, it is often said -- with the result that they generally act in the interest of the Tribe. I am not, however, saying -- as persons such as Dr Pierce would say -- that Jews are therefore 'evil'. On the contrary, I say that their behavior is perfectly natural for such a tribal group. But I am also saying that, however much good (or bad) Jewish tribal behavior may be for them, it is very bad for the rest of us, and in fact has succeeded in bringing Western civilization to the brink of destruction.

'Now it may be fairly said that the largest part of Jewish destructiveness has arisen from Jewish liberalism; but even if Jews were predominantly conservative, the enforcement of a Jewish-led conservative orthodoxy would be no better than the enforcement of liberalism has been, since the danger is not liberalism or conservatism, but orthodoxy. (As one wit said, there is no ox so dumb as the orthodox). But if the immediate problem is an orthodoxy enforced by the Tribe, the secondary problem is that we cannot at this date even talk about the problem -- much less organize against it -- because then the (Jewish-controlled) media labels us 'bigots' and 'antisemites'. In short, the most fundamental political issue -- self- determination of the white gentile population -- cannot even be discussed because the Tribe's dominance has made such discussion impossible. And it certainly has not been touched upon by the supposedly-independent medium of which you are in charge, even tho a person with well-established credentials (myself) offered you without charge my services as a columnist and cartoonist to tackle this and related problems.'
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research google.com you lazy bums!
8/13/2002 (1:15)
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Land of the free …

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Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series of columns by Joseph Farah commemorating Independence Day 2001.

© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com


It's that time of the year – with Independence Day approaching – when the pundits will be proclaiming how wonderful it is to live in a democracy.

As usual, the pundits will be wrong.

Not only is democracy not wonderful, America is not one and never has been.

This is no small point. This is not a technicality. It's an important issue to understand. Democracy is always a disaster. The Founding Fathers of this once-great nation understood that.

On Sept. 18, 1787, after Benjamin Franklin signed the Constitution in Philadelphia, a woman reportedly asked him: 'Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?'

To which Franklin replied: 'A republic, if you can keep it.'

Whether or not we can keep it is still an open question. But we have no chance to maintain a free republic – or to re-establish one in this country – if we the people do not even understand the objective.

Democracy destroys freedom. It always has and it always will. It was the death-knell of Athens, as Plato himself noted.

'Democracy,' he said, 'passes into despotism.'

He called democracy 'a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. We know her well. … In what manner does tyranny arise? – that it has democratic origins is evident. … And does not tyranny spring from democracy in the same manner as democracy from oligarchy?'

While our Constitution and Declaration of Independence and other founding documents never mention the word 'democracy,' there is a popular misconception today that we live in one. And that misperception – that ignorance – is as dangerous to the health of our republic as it would be if our founders had made the tragic mistake of creating a democracy.

Democracy means majority rules. That was never the intent of our founders. They believed in the rule of law, not the rule of men. They understood that because of the fallen state of man, he would inevitably vote himself into slavery and tyranny if provided the tools.

Instead, as Franklin points out, they created a republic – one with checks and balances built in, with a Constitution, with a federal government of limited power and scope, a system in which the individual's unalienable rights were recognized and protected, a representative form of government, not one based on direct vote of the populace.

Why don't democracies work?

Because it is merely a temporary state. It can only function until a majority of voters discover they can vote themselves money and other goodies from the public treasury. At that point, the majority votes for candidates who promise the most benefits to them and the economy collapses because of increased taxation and spending.

That pattern is always followed by dictatorship. Always.

What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?

In a democracy, the majority can pretty much do whatever it wants. They can change laws, they can decide to oppress and exploit certain people. The ultimate authority is the will of the people – no matter how misguided and shortsighted it might be. In a republic, the rule is by law. There are limitations explicitly placed on what government can and cannot do – no matter how popular the decisions might be.

There is no question that America is moving rapidly toward the democratic model and away from the republic model. Let's face it. The federal government in Washington no longer feels bound to the Constitution, nor to the limits explicitly placed on it.

Thus, as we prepare to celebrate our independence this week, we would be well-advised to consider just how much closer we actually are to tyranny and despotism. We've lost our bearings. We've forgotten our history. And thus we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Is there time to change course? Do Americans have the will to throw off the shackles to which they have so willingly submitted? Do we have the courage to recognize our errors and address them?

Tomorrow: Part 2: '… Home of the brave.'



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or we will..!
8/13/2002 (1:17)
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'Earth in the Balance is a brilliantly written, prophetic, even holy book, clearly pointing the way we need to change to assure the survival of our grandchildren. I pray it will have the dramatic impact it deserves -- and must have for our collective salvation.' [1] M. Scott Peck, whose Road Less Traveled has become a freeway to global oneness.

'Al Gore's celebrated new emphasis on ‘religious values’ is as phony as a three-dollar bill.… I truly believe Al Gore is the point man in a campaign to set a fatal trap for America's churches and Christian charities.' Joseph Farah, editor of World Net Daily (July 16, 1999).


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8/13/2002 (1:19)
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An open letter to Arafat - Joseph Farah
Tuesday, October 24, 2000
Dear Mr. Arafat:

I couldn't help but notice that your recent rhetoric, as in
your speech to the Arab Summit last week, suggests you are now
not only a self-proclaimed spokesman for the 'Palestianian
people,' but for Christian interests in the Middle East as
well.

Here are some of the recent references that piqued my curiosity:


* 'The blood that was shed in Al-Aqsa definitely unleashed the
wrath in the hearts of our Palestinian masses everywhere in the
homeland. The unarmed citizens rose to express their feelings
in a legitimate spontaneous intifada to uphold Arab, Islamic,
and Christian values in accordance with the Umarite Covenant.
The Israelis canceled this covenant, by claiming sovereignty
over Al-Haram al-Sharif and forging its history and reality and
saying it is the place where the Temple was built, by
licentiously attacking the worshippers in its mosques and those
defending its honor and sanctity, or by attempting to Judaize
holy Jerusalem and its Christian and Islamic holy places and
imposing a siege on Bethlehem.'

* 'Our people of revolutionary struggle, the people of the
glorious intifada, whose waves will only stop with victory,
pledge to every Arab, Muslim, Christian, and friend to continue
their struggle using all legitimate means to reach victory.'

* 'Let me tell you something. The issue of Jerusalem is not just
a Palestinian issue. It is a Palestinian, Arab, Islamic and
Christian issue.'

* 'Let us begin from the holy Buraq wall. It is called the holy
Buraq wall, not the Wailing Wall. We do not say this. After the
holy Buraq revolution in 1929 ... the Shaw International
Committee said this is a holy wall for Muslims. This wall ends
at the Via Dolorosa. These are our Christian and Muslim holy
places.'

I recently spoke out as an Arab-American in opposition to your
tactics and goals, Mr. Arafat. Today, I speak out against them
as a Christian.

Let me be blunt: Despite extensive travels throughout the Middle
East, I have not met a single Christian Arab who did not have
misgivings about you. I certainly have never met one who
considered you a representative of his interests in the Holy
Land. In the United States I have never met a Christian who
thought you were anything but an anti-Jewish terrorist. That's
the way I think of you.

You may indeed actually represent many of those rioting in the
streets of Ramallah and Gaza and Jerusalem, but you will never
speak for Christians anywhere -- not real Christians, not
followers of Jesus Christ, who was, you might recall,
a Jewish rabbi.

By definition, Christians must reject your agenda of hate and
genocide.

In addition, Christians old enough to remember what access to
the holy sites was like under Islamic rule are hardly eager to
support your cause in Jerusalem. We know where that leads. Jews
may be your No. 1 enemy today. We know Christians will be next.


Mr. Arafat, you may have fooled enough people in elite circles
to have won yourself millions in U.S. taxpayer aid and even a
Nobel Peace Prize. But all you have really managed to do with
those victories is to diminish and corrupt the meaning of those
awards.

Sincerely,

Joseph Farah

A Christian Arab-American who supports the Jewish state

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truth
8/13/2002 (1:22)
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now if there any truth seekers here you might want to research the role some christiani lebanese mercenaries played when israel invaded lebanon ( some of those crimes were commmited against CHRISTIAN LEBANESE AND PALESTINAINS TOO).. these were the soldiers that actually commited sabra and shatila on there ownij bretheren while sharon's platoon guarded all exits to teh camp so there would be NO SURVIVORS!!!
what is really pethetic is that after israel withdrew ... these people emmgirated to israel and the us ...
those who came to the us ended up like mr farah ...
those who went to israel .. they were treated so bad by the racist shmucks.... that they started to go back to lebanon these days facing capital punishment some times .. rather than staying within the heaven that is supposed to be israel!!!!!
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Zion Slayer
8/13/2002 (10:54)
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I hate Jews and Christians.

Just like my man Truth!
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TheAZCowBoy
8/16/2002 (1:38)
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Joseph Farah was conceived in a petri dish that was misplaced at the Bombay medical labs.

The Jewish sperms were matched with an ovum from a camel--so the Jewish sperm and the camel ovum gave us...

TA-DA!

Joseph Farah!

The sick bastard JeArab!

~TheAZCowBoy~