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A Secure Israel Strengthens Britain's Interests in the Middle East Boris Selected articles concerning Israel, published weekly by Suburban Orthodox Toras Chaim’s (Baltimore) Israel Action Committee Edited by Jerry Appelbaum ( [email protected] ) | Founding editor: Sheldon J. Berman Z”L Issue 8 40 Volume 20 , Number 1 9 Parshias Bamidbar | Shabbos Mevarchim | 44th Day Omer M ay 23 , 20 20 A Secure Israel Strengthens Britain’s Interests in the Middle East By Ed Husain thejc.com/Jewish Chronicle May 8, 2020 Boris Johnson has a choice to make. We must not forget that Maimonides wrote in Arabic, Not from the usual suspects of Hamas, or Iran, the learned from Muslim philosophers and was a physician to Muslim Brotherhood, or Jeremy Corbyn but, this time, Saladin. Muslims in France, Turkey, Morocco and the from sections of Britain’s Jewish community who are Balkans protected Jews from the Nazis. missing the bigger picture. Based on that long history of Jews and Muslims living I am not Jewish but a Muslim who wants to see long - together in co - existen ce, the desire now to remove the lasting, real peace between Israel and her Arab allies. That cancer that is the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and is not a naïve dream, but a reality being shaped today by the Iranian government, there are new cultural, religious, many Arabs and Muslims across the Middle East economic and political initiatives from new leaders in the Attacking Israel is not only about Hamas lobbing Middle East. rockets, sending terrified families into bunkers. Long - Private polling done by several Ar ab governments lasting damage to Israel is done by the political rhetoric of shows that Muslim youth, 32% of the Arab world, aged the Corbynite left, the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran’s between 15 and 25 - 100 million people today - are not other proxies against Israel’s very legitimacy. The intended interested in hatred of Israel and the false glory of the lost end - result of t hat rhetoric is a weakened, isolated Israel, wars of 1947, 67, 73, 91. But their middle - aged elders are boycotted and sanctioned by the world, which will then be stuck in an Islamist narrative of conflict, Jihad, Jew hatred on its knees, with its borders reshaped and Jews again and ‘liberating Jerusalem’. expelled from the Middle East. The challenge for political leaders is to close that gap The latest uproar is about Israel annexing the West and normalise relations with Israel for a future Middle East Bank in the com ing months -- that somehow the British that is free from Iran’s and the Muslim Brotherhood’s government must act to stop this ‘violation of international threa tening of Islamist revolutions or rigged elections to law’. topple governments in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, No. The British government must not act and British Jordan, Syria, Algeria, and others. Jews should take a broader view, reverse out from the cul - Here is the rub: Netanyahu’s strong and fearless stance de - sac of Bibi bashing and understand th e new against Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood worldview is developments taking shape across the Middle East’s now r espected in the Arab world. He has made Israel a motorways of new ideas. strategic ally of Sunni Arabs who wish to see a peaceful I have never met Bibi Netanyahu. The future of Israel world. in a modernised, moderate Middle East is not about British and American Jews now risk looking out of Netanyahu. Since publication of my first book, The date, still fighting the last battles while unaware of the new Islamist, in 2007, and the founding of Quilliam in 2008, I horizon across the sand dunes. Go to the United Arab have been involved in various ways in undoing the damage Emirates and Dubai on a Friday night and you’ll find a done by political Islamists to my religion but also to popular shul. Visit Abu Dhabi on Sunday and on Sa’diyat Muslim - majority regions of the world. Island you’ll find the Louvre Museum with ancient In my latest book, The House of Islam: A Global artefacts telling the story of Judaism and Islam as religions History (2018), I explain how across a millennium, of the reg ion, pioneered by peoples of the Middle East. Muslims and Jews lived together, generally, in peace and Look further and you’ll see a new and majestic harmony. The Quran is a continuation of the narrative of synagogue being built in the United Arab Emirates, the the prophets of ancient Israel: one God, family, justice and Abrahamic Family House, alongside a church and mosque charity. When the prophet Mohamed declared his u mmah in Abu Dhabi. (community) in Medina in 622, Jews were explicitly part of There, right there, is the vision for a new Middle East that ummah. The second caliph, Omar, invited Jews to in action: Jews, Christians and Muslims worshipping, return to Jerusalem in 636 after five centuries of Roman trading, traveling and being free together. expulsion. If you’re in Bahrain, go to the oldest synagogue in the Why? Because early Muslims, trained by Mohamed, Arabian Gulf. Put on the TV in your hotel room, and recognized that Jews we re from Judea and Jerusalem was you’ll see the vastly popular Saudi channel MBC booming their city. Muslims and Jews, together as brothers of the into every home in the region with a popular TV series, same father, Abraham, suffered at the hands of the Umm Haroun, ‘Mother of Aaron’, lamenting the loss of medieval Crusades and then again when the Spanish Jewish neighbours and friends from the region. In the Inquisition sought blood of Jews and Muslims. movie, an Arab businessman has investments in Israel, Focus o n Israe l May 23, 2020 Page 2 another objects, t he former shrugs his shoulders and says, Their leaders in Fatah and Hamas have become literally ‘so what?’ He continues ‘The Palestinians curse us millionaires from the aid given to them by Gulf Arab daily while we fund them and their government. What has nations and the West. In Bahrain, the finance ministers of Israel ever done against us in the Gulf?’ the wealth iest Arab states and the United States committed Speak to intelligent Egyptians and you’ll hear praise to a $50 billion investment over ten years and brought fo r Israel signing a $15 billion deal last year to provide AT&T and others to address the telecommunications Egypt with roughly 2.2 trillion cubic feet of gas over a 10 - challenges about which the Palestinian youth complain year period that will help transform both into regional daily. energy players.The intelligence and security co - operation As part of the peace plan, Ramallah and M ahmoud between these nations kee ps us safe. The peace treaty Abbas must negotiate with Israel. The pressure from between Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President British Jews should be on Abu Mazen. In exchange for Anwar Sadat, forty years later, still stands. Young Arabs in American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over particular Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, want to visit Israel. areas, Netanyahu has agreed to freeze all settlement Israel is a welcome guest at the World Expo 2020 in activity for the next four year s in areas the plan envisions Dubai later thi s year. I could go on but what of for a future Palestinian state. But where is Palestinian Palestinians? And the West Bank? The Palestinian leadership? And which leader: Hamas or Fatah? leadership, sadly, belongs to a bygone world, out of touch Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh had no trouble with their youth and full of contempt for new leaders in flying to Tehran to mourn for the loss of Qasem the Middle East. Gaza is an Iranian outpost controlled by Soleimani, the Iranian g eneral and terror mastermind. the fascism of Hamas, killing dissenters, punishing gays , Mahmoud Abbas can take phone calls from the Iranian and preparing terrorists against Israel. foreign minister to ‘foil the deal’. We in the West must not I attended the White House’s Peace to Prosperity be on the side of Hamas and Iran but see the bigger conference in Bahrain last year. Talk now of ‘annexing the picture that uplifts the lives of ordinary Palestinians with West Bank’ is fiction to put in peril a n ew Middle East. economic freedom, jobs and thereby dignity. The Americans sent their Treasury Secretary, Steven Free from the shackles of Europe, Boris Johnson and Mnuchin -- the British Foreign Office sent a junior Dominic Raab should support the vision of a new Middle treasury minister, another failure by Theresa May and East and British Jews must not let disagreements with Bibi Jeremy Hunt. blind them to the bigger picture of a more sec ure, stable When unemployment in Gaza is at 45% and 43% of and serene Israel. women in the West Bank are unemployed, the real Mr. Husain is a senior fellow at Civitas in Westminster and a challenge for ordinary Palestinians is economics and global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC . survival. The UN and the WHO Are Complicit in Bashar al - Assad’s Efforts to Starve His Enemies By Seth Frantzman jpost.com May 14, 2020 Thanks to Russia, only loyalists can get humanitarian The World Health Organization has also stopped aid. supporting eastern Syria, an area of millions of people who International organizations partnering with the Syrian are recovering from ISIS atrocities, a s the WHO also regime are cutting off aid to the poorest and most works through the Syrian regime rather than providing vulnerable people in Syr ia during the global pandemic.
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