Signs of Intelligent Life in Egypt: Journalist Khalid Al-Bari (Part 1) 

The story posted at MEMRI.org shows a realistic assessment of the “Palestinians” and what the writer would do, as he repeatedly says, “if I were Palestinian.”

The summary below is followed by excerpts from the article:

In a February 24, 2020 article headlined “If I Were Palestinian” in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Egyptian author and journalist Khalid Al-Bari compared the Palestinians’ perception of their cause to the misdiagnosis of a disease, which not only fails to solve the problem but actually aggravates it. He called on them to assess their situation objectively in order to attain a solution that will afford them a dignified life.

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In seeking a solution, he said, the Palestinians must take into consideration that Israel is powerful, that the Arab support for the Palestinian cause is not unlimited, and that all those who market old and erroneous solutions to the conflict do not have the Palestinians’ interests at heart. He urged them to give up the idea of armed struggle and self-sacrifice, strive for peace with Israel, and focus on establishing vibrant communities and effective self-government in part of historic Palestine, in order to start living their lives.

Khalid Al-Bari is a brave man. His advice to the Palestinians is to give up their terrorism, to give up the “armed struggle and self-sacrifice” in order to some day – a day that recedes ever further into the future – destroy Israel, but instead, they should “strive for peace” with Israel and establish communities worth living in, not consumed by warfare and distracted by hate, ruled by a succession of colossally corrupt and cruel warlords who have led the Palestinians so far astray, and stolen so much from them. Instead, they must learn to govern themselves successfully (“effective self-government,” mentioned by El-Bari, means democratic rule), and accepting that their state will be only “in part” of historic Palestine. They must learn, in other words, to compromise. For otherwise there is no way out of the dead end of constant warfare against a much more powerful and clever enemy.

A relative of mine had a stomachache during her pregnancy and went to the doctor, who diagnosed a bacterial infection in her liver and told [her family] to give her sweets in order to counter her low sugar levels. Her family… indeed fed her caramel cream in unusually large amounts.

There are two kinds of misdiagnosis, both of them serious. One kind [misidentifies] the reasons for the illness, and you [waste] time getting treated for a disease you do not have, while the real illness spreads through your body. This kind of misdiagnosis is a disaster. The1 second kind is an [even] bigger disaster, because you receive the opposite diagnosis [from the correct one], which not only ignores and neglects the real disease, but actually aggravates it.

The same phenomenon is also common in political diagnoses. We misdiagnose the political disease and treat it in a way that deepens our disregard of [the real problem] or reinforces the factors that caused it, instead of removing them. Sometimes the misdiagnosis is provided by our rivals who openly declare their hostility towards us.

The preferred method for circulating false [political] prescriptions is by alluding to [upholding] ‘national principles,’ namely old prescriptions that were in use hundreds of years ago and have not developed [since then] … The best proof of the bad faith of those who defend ‘national principles’ is that they exempt their friends from [upholding] them. Thus, you find the Ottoman Brotherhood [i.e., the Muslim Brotherhood, which is backed by Turkey] spreading all kinds of political and social ideas, while granting Turkey a permanent exemption from [upholding] them.

As for our relative, we later discovered that she had suffered pain in the right side of her abdomen, beneath the ribs, not because of a liver infection… but due to pre-eclampsia, which developed because she was suffering from undiagnosed diabetes. In this case, the misdiagnosis, along with the large amounts of sugar [she consumed per the doctor’s instructions], aggravated the disease and caused a miscarriage, following which she was also warned that a second pregnancy would be dangerous.

The misdiagnosis of the Palestinian problem, and [the prescription of] ‘national principles’ as a treatment, have likewise done a disservice to the [Palestinian] cause. Turning it into a religious struggle surely reinforces Israel’s claim [over the land], which is supported by the most widely-circulated book of scripture in the world [i.e., the Old Testament], which still, to a great extent, shapes historical memory in the West.

Here one begs to differ. The “struggle” of the Palestinians, or of the Arabs, against Israel, was not “turned into a religious struggle”: it has always been a religious struggle, of Believers against the Infidel Jews, who are described in several dozen Qur’anic verses as the most dangerous and fanatical enemies of Muslims and of Islam. El-Bari’s insistence that in the beginning the “struggle” was not “religious” and even now, is not really religious in nature, is something he needs to insist on, because if he were to admit that it was always a struggle based on the commands in the Qur’an itself, there would be no possibility of persuading Muslim Palestinians to give up such a struggle. It is Khalid Al-Bari who, for the most admirable of reasons, wants to convince the Palestinians, and the world, and even himself, that it never was a “religious” struggle and Is not now.

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felix1999

3 years ago

Off topic – Yes Trump gets it! He’s gotten it from day one.
NO he can not EO Islam out of existence.
NO, he can’t arbitrarily deport all Muslims based on a “religion” without the help of our cowardly representatives. How come they ignore the problem? How come they also HATE Trump so much? It’s because he gets it!

Trump Exposes the ‘Great Disparity’: Islam Good; Christianity and Israel Bad
By Raymond Ibrahim May 5, 2020 , 8:00 am
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Recently asked at a press briefing why he retweeted a tweet by author Paul Sperry—“Let’s see if authorities enforce the social-distancing orders for mosques during Ramadan (April 23-May 23) like they did churches during Easter”—Trump said:

I would like to see that…. I would say there could be a difference. But we’ll have to see what will happen. Because I’ve seen a great disparity in this country; I’ve seen a great disparity. I mean, I’ve seen a very strong anti-Israel bent in Congress with Democrats…. The things they say about Israel are so bad, and I can’t believe it. So I would be interested to see that, because they go after Christian churches, but they don’t tend to go after mosques. And I don’t want to see them go after mosques, but I do want to see what their bent is…. Our politicians seem to treat different faiths very differently; and they seem to think—I don’t know what happened to our country—but the Christian faith is treated much differently than it was, and I think it’s treated very unfairly.

Needless to say—and despite the fact that at least some mosques, including in NYC, America’s coronavirus “epicenter,” were reported as open for Ramadan—Trump’s otherwise accurate observations were lambasted by politically active Muslims and their American allies/dupes. The terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) did what it does best—accusing Trump and his administration of being “insulting … Islamophobic, white supremacist and racist.” All the Daily Beast could do was throw its hands up in the air and appeal to the Islamic deity in an article titled, “Allah Willing, Let This Be Donald Trump’s Last Ramadan in Office.”
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https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/149649/trump-exposes-the-great-disparity-islam-good-christianity-and-israel-bad-opinion/

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Kuffar

3 years ago

He’s a brave man. How long will it be before he gets his head chopped off?

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

3 years ago

Does he honestly want to convince everyone that the “struggle” against Israel isn’t jihad or is this just a case of more and better written sacralised islamic dishonesty?

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Stephen Honig

3 years ago

The radicals wont listen to him as long as there is no reformation with Islam.

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created4el

3 years ago

Reply to  Stephen Honig

There has already been a reformation of Islam. That was the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood to get Islam back closer to what the Islamic scriptures mandate. In a way this reformation was similar to the Christian reformation where the protestant church chose to get closer to scripture and reject the deviation from scripture that the Roman Catholic church was headed in with their Pope introduced traditions. The difference between Islam and Christianity is in the prescriptions mandated in the scriptures… The Bible saying “bless your enemy and pray for those who persecute you” compared with “strike terror in the hearts of the unbelievers where ever you find them.”

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Catskills39 .

3 years ago

May he be safe from harm.

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