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The History of Muslim Spain

 
 
Rick d Israeli
 
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Reply Wed 19 May, 2004 01:39 pm
www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021016_arabjews

I find this a very interesting link.
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Charli
 
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Reply Wed 19 May, 2004 09:07 pm
APOLOGIES . . .
Apologies . . . but the link above doesn't work. Try this one?

http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021016_arabjews.html
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Rick d Israeli
 
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Reply Thu 20 May, 2004 01:44 pm
Oh sorry, my apologies.
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Fri 21 May, 2004 12:17 am
Here is another interesting news:

Syria's Assad tells U.S. Jews: You are always welcome here

NEW YORK - A delegation of ten New York Jews is currently visiting Damascus at the invitation of Syrian President Bashar Assad and will seek the release of the remains of executed Israeli spy Eli Cohen, a source in the New York Jewish community said on Wednesday.

You are always welcome in Syria," Assad told the delegation.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/426840.html
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Rick d Israeli
 
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Reply Sun 30 May, 2004 02:40 am
Quote:
THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN SYRIA BEFORE 1948

The last Jews who wanted to leave Syria departed with the chief rabbi in October 1994. Prior to 1947, there were some 30,000 Jews made up of three distinct communities, each with its own traditions: the Kurdish-speaking Jews of Kamishli, the Jews of Aleppo with roots in Spain, and the original eastern Jews of Damascus, called Must'arab. Today only a tiny remnant of these communities remains.

The Jewish presence in Syria dates back to biblical times and is intertwined with the history of Jews in neighboring Eretz Israel. With the advent of Christianity, restrictions were imposed on the community. The Arab conquest in 636 A.D, however, greatly improved the lot of the Jews. Unrest in neighboring Iraq in the 10th century resulted in Jewish migration to Syria and brought about a boom in commerce, banking, and crafts. During the reign of the Fatimids, the Jew Menashe Ibrahim El-Kazzaz ran the Syrian administration, and he granted Jews positions in the government.


Syrian Jewry supported the aspirations of the Arab nationalists and Zionism, and Syrian Jews believed that the two parties could be reconciled and that the conflict in Palestine could be resolved. However, following Syrian independence from France in 1946, attacks against Jews and their property increased, culminating in the pogroms of 1947, which left all shops and synagogues in Aleppo in ruins. Thousands of Jews fled the country, and their homes and property were taken over by the local Muslims.

For the next decades, Syrian Jews were, in effect, hostages of a hostile regime. They could leave Syria only on the condition that they leave members of their family behind. Thus the community lived under siege, constantly under fearful surveillance of the secret police. This much was allowed due to an international effort to secure the human rights of the Jews, the changing world order, and the Syrian need for Western support; so the conditions of the Jews improved somewhat.
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Sun 30 May, 2004 03:38 am
Where is your source ??? Rolling Eyes

I dont accept israeli zionist propaganda websites, I want neutral unbiased sources, go ahead !!
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Rick d Israeli
 
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Reply Sun 30 May, 2004 05:55 am
Ahmad: somehow I know that every source I'll present to you will probably be "Zionist" propaganda. The "problem" here is that the sources I consulted here are all Israelbased or Jewishbased - which probably will "prove" your point. I am ashamed to tell you I don't know the source anymore of the article below. I do know that the same thing can be found on www.us-israel.org, or better, http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/anti-semitism/syrianjews.html.

But that's probably too Zionist :wink: .
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 12:30 am
Dear Rick:

the difference between me and you is that when I post I support my argument with NON MUSLIM sources to be more credible, I wish you can do the same by posting non jewish non zionist sources ! it is not a big deal, is it ? Cool
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Rick d Israeli
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 01:56 am
Ahmad: when is a source credible? I do not think you can say "when we are talking about something that happened to Jews/Muslims, we can not use sources made by Jews/Muslims, because they are not objective enough". The fact is, indeed, that the sources I look at concerning this issue are in fact all Jewish, because there seem to be no Gentile sources around it. Does this mean the sources are not credible enough? You can say that, maybe yes. Does it mean it are all lies? I doubt that.

http://members.tripod.com/arabterrorism/history3.html

http://www.adl.org/syria_media/syria_nazis.asp

http://wjc.org.il/communities/jewish_communities_of_the_world/middle_east_and_northern_africa/syria.html

But you can also look at this:

http://www.jewishjournal.com/archive/06.16.00/editorscorner.06.16.00.html

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000711/2000071112.html

At least one of the latter is a Jewish news source. But do you think, when you read it, it is not objective? Point is, Ahmad, that concerning this issue, there seem to exist mostly Jewish articles. This does not mean it is necessarily propaganda; it can as well mean that only Jews or Israelis seem to want to report on it.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 02:07 am
Questioning the (primary) sources is actually (one of) the first things, a historian has to do.

How to do so is nicely described here:
How to Read a Primary Source: Evaluation

However, just neglecting them because of the origin, doesn't sound serious - we would have lots of "black holes" in many country's history otherwise.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 02:27 am
Most of the (free) online available sources are to be found here:

Medieval Sourcebook: Iberia


for example: Abraham Ibd Daud: On Samuel Ha-Nagid, Vizier of Granada, 993-d after 1056
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 12:43 am
Rick d'Israeli wrote:
Ahmad: when is a source credible? I do not think you can say "when we are talking about something that happened to Jews/Muslims, we can not use sources made by Jews/Muslims, because they are not objective enough". The fact is, indeed, that the sources I look at concerning this issue are in fact all Jewish, because there seem to be no Gentile sources around it. Does this mean the sources are not credible enough? You can say that, maybe yes. Does it mean it are all lies? I doubt that.


Well, to be honest with you, I dont take most of the jewish sources seriously at all specially after reading Norman Finkelstein's famous book, the Holocaust Industry.

You posted a link from ADL ? I mean come on, do you expect me or anyone else who is non jewish to take the ADL seriously ?

You ADL link is trying to say that we in Syria frame the jews as nazis ! this is grave assult on truth, we frame ZIONISTS are nazis, yes, in fact, they are worse than the nazis.

You can also show us how the zionist jews call the arabs in Israel:

here are some examples:

1. "There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies ­not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy." Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001

2. "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more".... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000

3. " [The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982.

4. "The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988

5. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.

6. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.

7. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969

8. "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war." Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.

9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

9a. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget."

10. "We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.

11. "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio. (Certainly the FBI's cover-up of the Israeli spy ring/phone tap scandal suggests that Mr. Sharon may not have been joking.)

12. "We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.

13. "We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return" David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.

15. "We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

16. "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"

17. "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.

18. "We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'" Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

19. Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. "We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters" Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From "The Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryas.

20. "There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:...the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary." Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.

21. "Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

22. "It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.

23. "Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.

24. "One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

What is your comments on the above hateful anti arab statements ?

[quote]At least one of the latter is a Jewish news source. But do you think, when you read it, it is not objective? Point is, Ahmad, that concerning this issue, there seem to exist mostly Jewish articles. This does not mean it is necessarily propaganda; it can as well mean that only Jews or Israelis seem to want to report on it.[/quote]

So are you saying no one else on earth reported it apart from the jews ?

My humble advice to you is to read the Holocaust industry book, it is amazing insightful book written by a jew about how other jews exaggerate and falsify some historical events to gain compensations and support.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 12:47 am
Ahmad wrote:
Well, to be honest with you, I dont take most of the jewish sources seriously at all specially after reading Norman Finkelstein's famous book, the Holocaust Industry.


"Shouting" = using big font size and red colour, doesn't make it easy to take you serious either, I think.
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 12:58 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Most of the (free) online available sources are to be found here:

Medieval Sourcebook: Iberia


for example: Abraham Ibd Daud: On Samuel Ha-Nagid, Vizier of Granada, 993-d after 1056


Thanks for the links, you need to be careful when you quote from fordham link, they were involved in disgraceful forgery regarding the PACT OF OMAR, the treaty the muslim second kalifha Omar gave to the christians when he entered Jerusalem. they forged the translation to look so bad and very unfair while the original arabic was totally fair and indeed very tolerant.
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 01:00 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Ahmad wrote:
Well, to be honest with you, I dont take most of the jewish sources seriously at all specially after reading Norman Finkelstein's famous book, the Holocaust Industry.


"Shouting" = using big font size and red colour, doesn't make it easy to take you serious either, I think.


Who is shouting ? if in your culture using red fonts mean shouting then let me tell you in my culture it means emphasis, not shouting.

there are other people from different cultures outthere who dont share your way of life, you know ! :wink:
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 01:34 am
Ahmad wrote:


Thanks for the links, you need to be careful when you quote from fordham link, they were involved in disgraceful forgery regarding the PACT OF OMAR, the treaty the muslim second kalifha Omar gave to the christians when he entered Jerusalem. they forged the translation to look so bad and very unfair while the original arabic was totally fair and indeed very tolerant.


Quoting a source has nothing to do with the might-be unfair translation - it's just and only quoting the source for a citation.
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 01:39 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Ahmad wrote:


Thanks for the links, you need to be careful when you quote from fordham link, they were involved in disgraceful forgery regarding the PACT OF OMAR, the treaty the muslim second kalifha Omar gave to the christians when he entered Jerusalem. they forged the translation to look so bad and very unfair while the original arabic was totally fair and indeed very tolerant.


Quoting a source has nothing to do with the might-be unfair translation - it's just and only quoting the source for a citation.


What do you mean quoting the source for citation ? the source is in ARABIC, they forged the translation to make the pact look so bad and unfair toward christians.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 01:39 am
Ahmad wrote:
Who is shouting ? if in your culture using red fonts mean shouting then let me tell you in my culture it means emphasis, not shouting.

there are other people from different cultures outthere who dont share your way of life, you know ! :wink:


I know.

However, there a so-called "Netiquette" ('The code of conduct and unofficial rules that govern online interaction and behavior') on the internet, which must follow, regardless of their cultural background.
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Ahmad
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 01:42 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
Ahmad wrote:
Who is shouting ? if in your culture using red fonts mean shouting then let me tell you in my culture it means emphasis, not shouting.

there are other people from different cultures outthere who dont share your way of life, you know ! :wink:


I know.

However, there a so-called "Netiquette" ('The code of conduct and unofficial rules that govern online interaction and behavior') on the internet, which must follow, regardless of their cultural background.


Netiquette ! who put them ? Virginia Shea ! who is she anyway ? no one asked me or the arabs or the muslims about our opinions regarding these rules, no thank you, I dont recognize something I had no say in it.

Idea
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 1 Jun, 2004 01:46 am
Ahmad wrote:
no one asked me or the arabs or the muslims about our opinions regarding these rules, no thank you, I dont recognize something I had no say in it.


Interesting opinion - what about the Finnish laws or the TOS of this site?
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