Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi claimed during his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday that Jews in Egypt and other Arab states were “never subject to any repression – in ancient or modern times.”
“Mr. Secretary, you spoke and you said that you are Jewish. And if I may, I would like to tell you that I’m an Egyptian citizen and I grew up in a neighborhood alongside Jews. They were never subject to any form of repression or targeting. Jews in Egypt were never repressed.”
“In our Arab and and Islamic region, it has never been the case that Jews were targeted, in their ancient or modern history. Targeting may have happened in Europe, in Spain, or other countries, but it did not happen in our Arab and Muslim countries.”
Sissi’s comments were quite intriguing considering that Egyptian Jews fled the country after the state of Israel was established in 1948 due to Arab violence, along with the residents of most Arab countries. Additionally, then-President Gamal Abdel Nasser carried out a series of expulsions of Jews from Egypt in the late 1950s and ’60s. Today, there is less than a minyan of Jews in Egypt, down from 80,000 in 1947.
Sissi also condemned Israel for its strikes on Gaza, telling Blinken that “Israel’s reaction went beyond the right to self-defense, turning into collective punishment for 2.3 million people in Gaza.”
Although Sissi admitted that “what happened over the past nine days was very difficult and too much, and we unequivocally condemn it,” he added an excuse – “but we need to understand that this is the result of accumulated fury and hatred over four decades, where the Palestinians had no hope to find a solution.”
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Jews have never been targeted by Muslims, only Muslims get targeted and they are always the victim. Mr secretary this has been documented right here right now.
– Don’t confuse me with facts. If I didn’t see it in my neighborhood it didn’t happen. And if I did see it, it was a long time ago. And if it wasn’t along time ago…
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It’s in the Torah where they enslaved us and the hatred has not stopped till today
Naive ? Liar ? Or just another blind hater of yidden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi
“There were a number of restrictions on dhimmis.
In a modern sense the dhimmis would be described as second-class citizens.
According to historian Marshall Hodgson, from very early times Muslim rulers would very often humiliate and punish dhimmis (usually Christians or Jews that refused to convert to Islam).
It was official policy that dhimmis should “feel inferior and to know ‘their place’.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
What Sissi said about Jews living together with Arabs isn’t false. Only after the Zionist movement started did we get kicked out/run away from those countries. European Anti-Semitism made us suffer more than the Arabs.
“Jews were never targeted in Egypt”! Come on man, like our president would say, who’s he trying to fool? Like Pharoah of old, he is living in de”nile”. Maybe Mr. Blinken can ask this Sissi what Egypt did for the poor “palestinians” of Gaza when they OCCUPIED it from 1948-1967.
RElyaBerFan, this is an often quoted misconception and untruth that Arab anti semitism started because of Zionizsm. Look into the history, it’s all there. The Rambam’s Igeres Teiman in forced conversions, yellow badges and ghettos we’ll before they existed in Europe, Marrakesh massacre, Damascus Affair blood libel, pogroms on Jews of Tzfas early 1800’s, the list goes on and on. All well before Zionism. Anti Zionism is a modern day excuse for people who hate Jews and don’t want to be called anti semites.
“Sissi’s comments were quite intriguing considering that Egyptian Jews fled the country after the state of Israel was established in 1948 due to Arab violence, along with the residents of most Arab countries.”
It’s “quite intriguing” because many people know zero history about the century except as filtered through Zionist propaganda.
Speaking of his statement, of wicked Zionists and of Egypt in particular, look up the Lavon Affair, to which the Zionists recently officially admitted.
chatzkal:
The Zionist invasion of the area inflamed the Arab and Muslim hatred of Zionists – and, due to the Zionist Big Lie that the Zionists represent Jews, of Jews – on an awesome scale.
On a scale of 1-10, incidents of Arab hatred before/after the Zionists invaded is something like a 1 before and a 1,000,000 afterwards.
Abdul Aziz told Harold Dickson in [year] 1937 [CE]:
“Our hatred for the Jews, dates from God’s condemnation of them for their persecution and rejection of ‘Isa [Jesus Christ] and their subsequent rejection later of His chosen Prophet [Muhammad]…”
“Verily the word of God teaches us – and we implicitly believe this O Dickson – that for a Muslim to kill a Jew [in war], or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry in Heaven and into the august presence of God Almighty.”
Abdul Aziz made this statement to [Harold] Dickson as part of his protest at the Peel Report, Britain’s 1937 plan to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab areas, thereby granting the Zionists the basis for the independent state that they dreamed of…”
SOURCE: The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Sa’ud (chapter 29, page 259) by Robert Lacey, published in year 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, ISBN-10: 0006365094 * ISBN-13: 978-0006365099
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
“Robert Lacey (born 3 January 1944) is a British historian and biographer.
He is the author of a number of bestselling biographies,
including those of Henry Ford, Eileen Ford and Queen Elizabeth II,
as well as works of popular history.”
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“According to a verse repeated twice in the Koran (2:58, 3:108)
or at least according to its interpretation,
God [Allah] has ordained that the Jews be poor.
In Yemen and other Muslim countries, this is taken literally.
The Jews avoid any appearance of affluence.
In times of anarchy or in regions beyond the reach of the central government, Jewish property, even houses, were taken away from them under the pretext that they presented a picture of wealth incompatible with the state assigned to the Jews by God [Allah].”
SOURCE: Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts through the Ages
(chapter 5, page 75) by S. D. Goitein, 1955, 1964, 1970
by Schocken Books, New York, ISBN-10: 0805204644
ISBN-13: 978-0805204643, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7968
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Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura in a letter to his father in year 1488 August 15:
“Jews in Muslim lands make themselves appear poor.
They go about like an impoverished, despised people,
with their heads bowed before Muslims.”
CHRONOLOGY: Rabbi Ovadiah ben Abraham of Bartenura
was born around 1445 CE in Bertinoro, Italy,
and died around 1515 CE in Jerusalem.
SOURCE: Pathway to Jerusalem: the Travel Letters
of Rabbi Ovadiah of Bartenura, written between
1488 and 1490 during his journey to the Holy Land
(page 40) translated by Yaakov Dovid Shulman,
year 1992 CE, 93 pages, CIS Publishers,
Lakewood, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56062-130-3
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“A scourge even more terrible than the prohibition against [Jewish] emigration was the forced conversion of [Jewish] orphans practiced by the Shi’ites of Yemen.
Since [year] 1929 [CE], when I first began to study the language and life – it would be more correct to say the languages and lives – of the Jewish communities of Yemen, I have been collecting materiel on this sad chapter in Arab-Jewish symbiosis.
Its worst aspect perhaps was not so much its coercion in matters of conscience, terrible as that was, but the fact that children were torn away from their mothers and brothers from sisters.
To my mind, this law, which was enforced with new vigor about thirty years ago, more than anything else impelled the Yemenite Jews to quit this country to which they were very much attached.”
SOURCE: Jews and Arabs: Their Contacts through the Ages (chapter 5, page 77) by S. D. Goitein, 1955, 1964, 1970 by Schocken Books, New York, ISBN-10: 0805204644 ISBN-13: 978-0805204643, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-7968
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QUOTE 1:
Egyptian Cleric Salam Abd Al-Qawi said this:
“Our hatred of the Jews is based upon our faith.
The Koran tells us to hate them, not to love them.”
SOURCE: Muslim Anti-Semitism Compilation (on YouTube) 2009 January 8
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QUOTE 2:
Palestinian Cleric Wael Al-Zarrad on Hamas/Gaza TV:>
“In short, these are the Jews.
As Muslims, our blood vengeance against them will only
subside with their annihilation, Allah willing,
because they tried to kill our prophet [Mohammed,
born around year 570 CE, died 632 CE] several times.”
SOURCE: Muslim Anti-Semitism Compilation (on YouTube) 2008 February 28
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QUOTE 3:
Qatari Cleric Muhammad Al-Muraikhi said on Qatar TV:
“We will treat the Jews as our enemies, even if they return Palestine to us,
because they are infidels. They rejected Allah and His messengers.”
SOURCE: MEMRI Video Clip #2077 and
Muslim Anti-Semitism Compilation (on YouTube) 2009 January 9
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This is a deliberate erasure of history.
After Israel won the Six Day War, at least one male from every remaining Jewish family in Egypt was arrested and sent to the Abu Zabaal Prison in Cairo. The rabbi was crucified on the prison gate under which the Jewish men and boys had to pass. Once in the prison, the men and boys were given female names and raped. The Jews then forced to rape each other, including two adolescent brothers. Crying bitterly, the brothers begged the torturer to spare them this horror. “Rape him!” came the command from the torturer.
THAT is who the Egyptian Arabs are.
The 48,000 jews left as quickly as they could because of the actions of the regime in Egypt beginning in 1948. They were civilians who were not involved in founding Israel. They left because they were persecuted. What did Egypt do in Gaza during the time that they ruled it, 1948-1967, except encourage terrorism. Their hands are not so clean.
Jews were treated like African Americans were treated under “Jim Crow”. There were places such as Egypt that were similar how Blacks were treated in Maryland, and there were countries where Jews were treated similar to Blacks in the southern states. And while the status of Jews in Egypt did improve significantly in the period immediately prior to World War II, that was due to the influence of the colonial powers who had de facto control over Egypt from the early 19th century onwards. When the Egyptians kicked the colonial powers out, things went down hill very fast. And if Egypt were to hold free elections, it is doubtful if their relatively non-hostile policies towards Israel (and to non-Muslims in particular) would continue.
Years ago, I knew Jews from Egypt who lived very well in Egypt. They were forced out of Egypt in the early 1950’s by Nasser, who was trying to become the leader of all Arabs by opposing the state of Israel.
Here are some anti-Jewish persecutions by Muslims, before the excuse of “Zionism.”
* 1066: execution of Rab Shmuel haNagid and ‘Garanda Massacre’ – 4-5,000 Jews died. The razing of the entire Jewish quarter in the Andalucian city of Granada.
* 1013: Under Umayyad rule,
The inhabitants of Cordoba including Jews were massacred and looted. It is said that 2000 of them were murdered.
* 1033: Fez, Morocco, pogrom, Muslims massacres more than 6000 Jews and took away their women and robbed their belongings.
* 1172+: The Almohads, who had taken control of much of Islamic Iberia by 1172, were far more extremists than the Almoravides, and they treated the dhimmis harshly.
Jews and Xtians were expelled from Morocco and Islamic Spain.
* Maimonides (Epistle to the Yemenites), consoling the Jews of Yemen for the tortures they suffered and exhorting them to remain true to their faith, no matter what the cost. Despite the remoteness of their abode, the Yemenite Jews never lost contact with the spiritual movements in world Jewry. Their religious life was based entirely upon the Talmud.
* 1465: Fez, Morocco, Muslim subjects overthrew the last Marinid ruler who had appointed many Jews to high positions. Grudges leading to massacre the entire Jewish community of the city. The community was temporarily converted but soon reverted to Judaism.
* 1517: Safed [Tzfat] Israel, Jews were evicted from their homes, robbed and plundered, and they fled naked to the villages.
* 1679–1680: Imam of Yemen (Rassid dynasty) – Jews of nearly all cities and towns in Yemen exiled to a remote desert and left to die.
* 1840-1908: after the Damascus affair – blood libel, riots and massacres of Jews were carried out in Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jerusalem (1847), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901–02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901–07), Port Said (1903, 1908), Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891), Istanbul (1870, 1874), Buyukdere (1864), Kuzguncuk (1866), Eyub (1868), Edirne (1872), Izmir (1872, 1874).
* 1864: Solica (Sulaika) Hachuel – The beautiful Moroccan Jewish teenager who was martyred because she refused to marry a Moroccan Prince
CONCLUSION: Muslims persecuted Jews many centuries before Zionism.
Zionism is not the real reason for Muslims attacking Jews;
It is merely the Politically Correct excuse that can be used to fool ignorant people.
Sissi To Blinken: “Jews Were Never Repressed In Egypt, Other Arab States”
TOTAL NONSENSE
Farhud (pogrom) carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 1–2, 1941
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud
Exodus of around 900,000 Jews from Muslim countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world
Hakatan: A) What Zionist invasion of the area are you talking about? Persecuted Yidden returning to Artzeinu Hakedosha after 6 million were killed? B) Can you bring documentation for this “Zionist Big Lie that the Zionists represent Jews” which you refer to? C) Which study came up with this ridiculous statistic of yours “On a scale of 1-10, incidents of Arab hatred before/after the Zionists invaded is something like a 1 before and a 1,000,000 afterwards”?
My family is from Lybia. My father, z”l , told me about how “well” the Arabs treated them. My aunt couldn’t even talk about and would choked up with tears just thinking about how “well” the Arabs treated them. Too bad Blinken doesn’t even know the history of his own people.