So, if you believe that what this guys says is propaganda, why did you reproduce it?
> Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter Terrorism Speak-Out:
>
> I'm proud and honoured 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.
>
> I was raised in Lebanon , where I was taught that the Jews were evil, Israel was the devil, and
> the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them
> into the sea.
>
> When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in 1975, they started
> massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended up living in a bomb shelter underground from
> age 10 to 17, without electricity, eating grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to a
> spring to get water.
>
> It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon . My mother was wounded by a Moslem's
> shell, and was taken into an Israeli hospital for treatment. When we entered the emergency room,
> I was shocked at what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians,
> Christians, Lebanese, and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated everyone
> according to their injury. They treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying
> next to her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in
> need and they helped.
>
> >For the first time in my life I experienced a human quality that I know my culture would not
> have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of the Israelis, who were able to love their
> enemy in their most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days changed my life
> and the way I believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I realized I
> was sold a fabricated lie by my government, about the Jews and Israel , that was so far from
> reality. I knew for fact that, if I was a Jew standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched
> and thrown over to the grounds, as shouts of joy of Allah Akbar, God is great, would echo
> through the hospital and the surrounding streets.
>
> I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers: one in particular Rina, her
> only child was wounded in his eyes.
>
> One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play national songs to lift
> the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem ,
> Rina and I started crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this
> mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me.
> She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there crying, holding each
> other's hands.
>
> What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19 year old only child, and still
> able to love me the enemy, and between a Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to
> smithereens just to kill a few Jews or Christians.
>
> The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in values and character. It's
> barbarism verses civilization. It's democracy verses dictatorship. It's goodness verses evil.
>
> Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell for anyone who would
> intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional murder of Israeli children is legitimized as
> Palestinian "armed struggle".
>
> However, once such behaviour is legitimized against Israel, it is legitimized every where in the
> world, constrained by nothing more than the subjective belief of people who would wrap
> themselves in dynamite and nails for the purpose of killing children in the name of god.
>
> 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 bombing on "desperation of occupation". Let me tell you the truth. The first
> major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the Jewish state occurred ten 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 the "desperation" of "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 to all stand up, and
> support and defend the state of Israel , which is the front line of the war against terrorism. |
