How An Arabic Gal from Lebanon Views Israel

[Revmitchell]

Brigitte Gabriel's speech she made at Duke University


"I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world....

...Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their cause, the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to New York, from Moscow to Madrid, from Bali to Beslan.

They blame suicide bombings on the "desperation of occupation." Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred 10 weeks before Israel even became independent. On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948, in anticipation of Israel 's independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben Yehuda Street in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem. Fifty-four people were killed and hundreds were wounded.

Thus, it is obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by "desperation" or "occupation", but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.

So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by and done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time for everyone to stand up and support and defend the State of Israel, which is the front line of the war against terrorism. Thank you."

http://selahvtoday.typepad.com/sbcenc/2012/11/how-an-arabic-gal-from-lebanon-views-israel.html

 

[kyredneck]

....Let me tell you the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred 10 weeks before Israel even became independent....

Let me tell you the truth, the example had been set for the Arabs to follow years before that:

FIRST TERRORIST ACT of the 20th CENTURY 8:35

Zionist political violence

King David Hotel bombing

 

[kyredneck]

Ms. Gabriel, 46, who uses a pseudonym, casts her organization as a nonpartisan, nonreligious national security group. Yet the organization draws on three rather religious and partisan streams in American politics: evangelical Christian conservatives, hard-line defenders of Israel (both Jews and Christians) and Tea Party Republicans.

She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that it is unrecognizable to those who study or practice the religion. She has found a receptive audience among Americans who are legitimately worried about the spread of terrorism.

But some of those who work in counterterrorism say that speakers like Ms. Gabriel are spreading distortion and fear, and are doing the country a disservice by failing to make distinctions between Muslims who are potentially dangerous and those who are not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/us/08gabriel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


“When Gabriel was invited to speak as part of a lecture series organized by Duke University's Jewish community in October 2004, many in attendance were angered by her referring to Arabs as "barbarians." The Freeman Centre for Jewish Life at Duke University later apologized for her comments.[21] Following her speech at women's campaign event for the Jewish Federation of Ottawa (JFO) in November 2008, many in attendance registered their protests, leading Mitchell Bellman, president and CEO of the JFO, to write a letter in which he acknowledged that Gabriel made, "unacceptable gross generalizations of Arabs and Muslims," distancing his organization from her views.[35]”

Brigitte Gabriel (a.k.a. Nour Saman, born October 21, 1964), is the pseudonym of a Lebanese American journalist, author, and activist.[1][2] Gabriel says that Islam keeps countries backward,[3][4] and that it teaches terrorism.[5][6][7] To promote her views, she founded the American Congress For Truth and ACT! for America so that others may "fearlessly speak out in defense of America, Israel and Western civilization."[8]

She frequently speaks at American conservative-leaning organizations such as The Heritage Foundation, Christians United for Israel, Evangelicals and Jewish groups.[9]

Stephen Lee, a publicist at St. Martins Press for Gabriel’s second book, has called her views "extreme".[10] Gabriel claims she gives voice to "what many in America are thinking but afraid to say out loud, for fear of being labeled a racist, bigot, Islamophobic, or intolerant."[9]

Critics of Gabriel claim that she over-simplifies the conflict in South Lebanon as a Muslim war against the Christians.[21][22] An article in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly claims that Gabriel's former neighbors in Marjayoun, who are not identified or quoted, recall that her family, like others in the village, were forced to spend occasional nights in their shelter or basement, but otherwise lived relatively normally.[21] The same article accused Gabriel of incorrectly telling audiences that Hezbollah had terrorized her family for the seven years between 1975 and 1982, though the author did not name the time or place in which she allegedly made this claim.[21] Another Arab newspaper admitted that she had lived in a bomb shelter for years, but asserted that it was for three rather than seven.[22]

Using the name Nour Saman, Gabriel was a news anchor for World News, an Arabic-language evening news broadcast of Middle East Television, a Marjayoun-based station run by the now defunct SLA and funded by Israel.[24] Broadcast in Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, Gabriel covered the Israeli withdrawal from central Lebanon, the Israeli Security Zone (occupied South Lebanon), and the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. She moved to Israel[21] before immigrating in 1989 to the United States.

According to the Center for International Policy (CIP), Gabriel, "has made a post-9/11 career out of roundly denouncing Islam, decrying 'political correctness,' and promoting the concept of an existential clash of cultures.[25] States the CIP, "Her pro-Israel, anti-Islam spiel, coupled with her compelling personal history, has made her a popular speaker, writer, and general 'expert.' She appears sometimes as a commentator on television news and radio programs, often speaking out for the rights of Muslim women."[25]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Gabriel

 

[LadyEagle]

The Ben Yehuda Street bombings refer to a series of attacks by Palestinians and suicide bombers on civilians in downtown Jerusalem, Israel in 1948 and later on. The attacks were carried out on Ben Yehuda Street, a major thoroughfare, later a pedestrian mall, named for the founder of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Yehuda_Street_bombings

1975 In April, 1975, civil war erupted again in Lebanon (see also1958) when Maronite Christian members of the "Phalange" (Arabic: Kata' ib) militia in Lebanon ambushed a bus carrying Palestinians from the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla (see below) to the Tel al-Zataar refugee camp (see massacre at Tel al-Zataar) killing 30 people. The attack was in retaliation for an earlier attack in which Palestinians had fired upon Kata' ib leader Pierre Gemayel. The lethal ambush triggered a conflict between the Kata'ib and the PLO which soon widened into general warfare between various Lebanese militias. The Cabinet resigned as fighting between Christians on the one side, and the Palestinian-Muslim militia alliance on the other escalated. Thus began Lebanon's second civil war (go to the first one in 1958). Lebanon's Christians had grown steadily uneasy with challenges to their political supremacy (based on the 1943 National Pact) coming from Lebanon's Sunni, Shia, and Druze populations. The presence of the PLO in Beirut since "Black September," 1970 added an additional destabilizing factor to the already volatile mix. The war ended fifteen years later with a pact signed at Taif, Saudi Arabia. However, the central problems that contributed to the war in the first place - Lebanon's constitutional structure based on confessionalism along with ambiguities in its relationship with Syria - while partially addressed at Taif remained essentially unsolved, and some saw them rearing their ugly heads once more in the war of the summer of 2006.

http://www.nmhtthornton.com/mehistorydatabase/civil_war_in_lebanon.php

On October 23, 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon was blown up by a suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with explosives. 241 Marines died. Twenty seconds after the barracks bombing and four miles away another bomb exploded in a building housing French Multi-National Force paratroopers. 58 soldiers were killed. Talks among Lebanese factions began in Geneva but adjourned without resolution. (see also embassy bombings 1983, 1984)

Ten days later, another truck bomb blew up the headquarters in Tyre, Lebanon of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killing 29 Israeli troops and more than thirty Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners. Many observers believed this bombing was in retaliation for the Ashura incident in Nabitiyeh nineteen days earlier.

1984 On January 18, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut was assassinated by individuals claiming to belong to Islamic Jihad. On February 7, President Reagan ordered the withdrawal of Marine forces from Lebanon.

Druze and Shiite militiamen seized control of West Beirut from army units loyal to President Gemayel. By the end of the month, U.S., French, and Italian peacekeeping troops had departed West Beirut.

Kidnappings of American and European citizens living in Lebanon filled the following months. Posters of the Ayatollah Khomeini went up all over West Beirut.

On September 20, 1984, the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon suffered another suicide car bomb attack (first one April 18, 1983, Marine barracks bombing, Oct. 1983). Fourteen were killed including two Americans. Ambassador Bartholomew was buried in the rubble of his office and had to be dug out. He was hospitalized with minor injuries. Islamic Jihad took credit for the bombing. With the American presidential elections only six weeks away, the Reagan administration, fearing the political fallout, closed the embassy. The ambassador was evacuated to Paris. Only six U.S. diplomats remained behind in Lebanon. The American withdrawal from Lebanon was interpreted by some as showing that the suicide bomber could render dramatic dividends in resistance movements pitting poorly staffed and armed guerilla groups against a big power. (more, more, more. See also interview with a suicide bomber. See also Op-Ed piece by Robert A. Pape, "Blowing Up an Assumption," New York Times, May 18, 2005, A29.)

1985 In February, Israel, stung by hostile world reaction to its policies in Lebanon, pulled out of most of southern Lebanon setting up a 15 km (nine mile) wide occupation zone in an effort to stop attacks across its border. The continuing Israeli presence created the opposite effect: attacks increased, carried out now, not by PLO guerillas but, by Shiite members of the Iranian backed group Hizbullah (Party of God). Israeli raids on Shiite villages failed to stem counter-attacks.

Based on their experience in Lebanon, Israelis began to face the painful fact that Arab terrorism and guerilla warfare could be waged successfully against them, a fact that was not lost on Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation on the West Bank and in Gaza.

http://www.nmhtthornton.com/mehistorydatabase/civil_war_in_lebanon.php#embassy_bombing_april1983

 

[LadyEagle]

By 1982, over 300,000 Lebanese Christian men, women and children had been murdered by the Lebanese Muslims and their PLO terrorist allies.

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The Lebanese Christians were able to fight back solely because they received weaponry from Israel - the same Israel that they had sought to exterminate for so many years in a futile attempt to ingratiate themselves with the Arab Muslim Nazis.

But despite their efforts to defend themselves, by 1982, the Christians were being overwhelmed by the Muslims and the PLO terrorists.

The whole world watched in silence as the Christians were being slaughtered.

The United States, Europe and the United Nations did nothing.

Although Lebanon's Maronite Christians follow the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican was also silent as the Islamic Nazi genocide was being perpetrated in Lebanon.

In 1982, the remainder of Lebanon's Christian minority was saved not by America, not by Europe, not by the UN and not by the Vatican, but by little Israel.

http://jtf.org/america/america.lebanon.part.one.htm

More:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/08/formerly-christian-lebanon.html

 

[kyredneck]

Based on their experience in Lebanon, Israelis began to face the painful fact that Arab terrorism and guerilla warfare could be waged successfully against them, a fact that was not lost on Palestinians resisting Israeli occupation on the West Bank and in Gaza.

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. Pr 1:31

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal 6:7

And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. Ezek 9:10

http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?p=1884317#post1884317

 

[kyredneck]

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them, for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,
6 and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Ex 20

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Yea, wot e said:thumbs::smilewinkgrin::tongue3:

 

[Bob Hope]

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices. Pr 1:31

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal 6:7

And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. Ezek 9:10

http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?p=1884317#post1884317

Sweet justice. If not today then when Christ returns.