The BBC has finally issued a correction on a story that downplayed the video of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi making anti-Semitic comments in 2010. The original article said that Morsi was talking about “settlers” when he used the term “descendants of apes and pigs,” when he was clearly referring Israeli Jews in general:
Correction 17 January 2013: This report was amended to take out the reference to settlers from the comments made by the Egyptian president.
The media has been so invested in the narrative that Morsi is a moderate that it apparently feels the need to downplay his comments. Unfortunately for them, it’s getting harder to do. The Middle East Media Research Institute has released another video of Morsi making anti-Semitic remarks in 2010. In the new video, the Muslim Brotherhood leader loudly rants about the “lies” in Obama’s famous Cairo address, and calls on supporters to raise their children to hate Jews.
“Dear brothers and sisters. We must not forget to raise our children and grandchildren on hatred toward those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue,” says Morsi, according to a MEMRI translation.
As Jonathan wrote yesterday, Washington can’t keep up the illusion that Morsi is a moderate any longer. And Morsi’s excuse for the original video–that his words were taken out of context–is clearly debunked by the release of a second video showing similar comments. At the very least, there needs to be a serious reconsideration of foreign aid to the Egyptian government.
'In the new video, the Muslim Brotherhood leader loudly rants about the “lies” in Obama’s famous Cairo address….' n nThe right has been ranting about that address for years.
Though it was obviously not his intention, I do thank-you HillelA for making the point that the media, especially the BBC and NYT ignore stories "the right" also thinks should be covered, especially as relates to rampant antisemitism in the Muslim world.
The right has been concerned that Obama went too far — these schmucks are concerned that he didn't go far enough…
We should not be giving any foreign aid to this lunatic bunch of haters otherwise known as the Egyptian gov't. Let them sink or swim on their own dime.
Truth be told, the West should not be giving aid to ANY Muslim nation. The populace of these nations do not and cannot appreciate such aid as they only see it as their due, the Jizyah, to be paid by the infidels. The payment of this Jizyah will not decrease their enmity one iota, but rather will only increase their resentment at the Kuffar for not paying more. n Let the oil-rich Arab Gulf states spread around their undeserved (accident of geology) Oil wealth to their Muslim brethren. In the long run, the oil-poor Muslims will increasingly direct more hostility towards the oil-rich Muslims , and this kind of division and angst can only be a bonus for the infidels, and demoralizing for the camp of Islam.
Whom do you think discovered that oil? Them — NO, they didn't. It was American oil companies who found it, and then they nationalized the holdings of these US companies.
BBC not being antisemitic like the dancing bear at the circus. It's not how well it dances but that it dances at all.
Where is this blog on the burgeoning crisis in Mali and Algeria? Post after post on the gun control debate (which will all know will have very little real world impact) and meanwhile a major crisis is developing with serious implications for the US and Israel and nothing is to be said here? I find it all very strange.
Well, you know America is an island nation.
At one time, the sun never set on the British empire. Indeed, how the mighty have fallen, and the wound is entirely self-inflicted!
Is not most US "aid" to Egypt for the military? nWhich would be the sole institution in Egypt that can stop the food riots to come? n nThe US has invested 30+ years in Egypt's military. NOT the time to cut them off.
K2K, why should we Westerners wish to stop food riots or any other kind of riots in Egypt? The greater internal dissension and civil strife in Muslim lands means less resources for waging Jihad on the infidels. May the sectarian strife in Syria rage for 100 years, and it is too bad the Iran-Iraq war did not rage on for 100 years more. n These are brutal calculations to be sure, but we infidels need to do what is in OUR interest for a change, and not be blindly contributing to the global Jihad.
jefffixler: what I meant was that Egypt's military may have to take over from Morsi as Egypt's economy collapses. nBetter for the USA to maintain the investment in Egypt's military. n nMy point was not about humanitarian issues, but Egypt IS a geographic 'ally', because of the Suez Canal, Sinai, borders with Libya, Sudan, etcetera.
I must respectfully disagree with your assertions. it is true that the Egyptian military was once a guarantor of some measure of secular control in Egypt, but Morsi has gutted its leadership and put Muslim Brotherhood members at the head of the military. We may well be looking at A Sunni-Arab version of Iran . Under these circumstances, I do not think we should be supplying the Egyptian military with our top of the line tanks and fighters free of charge. Also, what adversary do you think the Islamists in Egypt are planning to use those weapons against?
respectfully disagree that Morsi has had enough time to "gutted its leadership and put Muslim Brotherhood members at the head of the military." nErdogan HAS had time to do that in Turkey (neuter/Islamize the military), yet they are still in NATO and supposed to get the F35JSF. I digress. n nEgypt's military is also a major business enterprise. He who has the bread will control Egypt. n nAs for the USA tanks and F-14s? I continue to think the GCC will lead an attack on Iran with the USA, and Egypt. nOr, Egypt will first take Libya's oil fields, or maybe get hired to provide security by Libya – lot of cross-border tribal loyalties there. n n n
Well, Erdogan went the slow islamization route; Morsi has been on the fast track-virtually overnight. Do you still think Turkey is a reliable NATO member? But I digress. n Also, true enough Egypt's military has been the leading business enterprise, but it will be the Islamists who control it , and thus, it will be they who control the bread , AND Egypt. n Though I disagree with your analysis and conclusions, I thank you for your responses.
jefff: Egypt imports half it's basic food, and have almost no more money. and no tourism. and I am not sure there is enough surplus wheat right now because of 2012 droughts. n nas for Turkey? They should no longer be in NATO, but you know how that goes… n nsigning off this thread
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Indeed- and the foolish British have allowed over 40 separate Sharia courts to operate in the UK. n
the Brits have a fascination with arabs, it goes way back n nand anyway, they still have more contempt for the Jews n nno matter how much money Jews have n n(and I am sure you notice, the people of GB are no longer referred to as Englishmen, or the English) n n
For sure. It would be somewhat ludicrous to refer to a Muslim from Peshawar as an "Englishmen". And their fascination with Arabs has certainly been to the detriment of the Jewish people. The entire area now known as Jordan was supposed to be part of the Jewish homeland per the never revised League of nations mandate, but the British gave it to the Iraqi Hashemites to placate them for giving their richer Saud cousins Arabia.
We all know what's going on—and why. How many more articles need to be written on the topic of Jew-hatred by Moslems, the British, etc? Finally—what do we propose to do about it? Of course, we could do what we did "last time" (1930s and 1940s). That is, nothing. n nIn Israel, the people write endlessly about our Evil Sons and Daughters, horrific, disloyal folks like Peter Beinart and Barbra Streisand. Yet, that's all they do. They write, and they write, and they write—as of writing were some kind of magical charm, or the same as actually doing something! n nWe Jews know more about those who hate us, including Jews who hate us (i.e., our Evil Sons and Daughters), than the anti-Semites and self-haters know about themselves! And it's never enough. So we keep writing, learning all we can. Why? Towards what end? Hint: Because that way we never get around to solving the problem. n nHow to solve it? By scaring the bullies, the way the Moslems scare them. It's all that can stop a sadistic, twisted soul that delights in tormenting Jews. They need to be threatened—and, if need be, silenced. We can hope until doomsday that, "one day they'll realize what marvelous people we are," but that's a pipe-dream. First off, we are not "marvelous people." We're just people. No one has to be "marvelous" to deserve to be left alone! Yet, we tell everyone who will listen that we're "marvelous." n nWhat do we think the story of Joseph and that "coat" is all about? It's a warning, re: not telling your "brothers" how "marvelous" you are! Yet we go to shul each day, and there the rabbis regale us with how "marvelous" we are. What nonsense it all is. And, unless we come to our senses, and quick, and realize what's happened since WWII—how millions of us have utterly forgotten what "Never Again" means, and why we must never forget it—why, history is bound to repeat. And repeat. And repeat. n nThese articles are nothing new. Who among us doesn't know what the BBC is up to, and how the Jewish community of the UK actually encourages the British establishment to "get tough" with Israel? We all know it. Yet, we do nothing to stop it. Why? What about what happened in Europe 70 years ago eludes us? How many more articles, books, learned papers do we need, before it dawns on us that, "once again" the possibility of another mass murder of the Jews is just over the horizon? n nLast, the world—including China, as I can report authoritatively—is now obsessed with Jew-hatred. Theories re: "how we control the global economy," "how we rule America," "how we're trying to destroy Europe," etc., and of course the notion that "Israel is the greatest obstacle to world peace"—these dangerous notions are common currency in the minds and hearts of billions of people on the planet. Do we imagine this is going to simply "go away," or that "if only we write enough articles, somehow, as if by magic, this will solve our problem?" What is the point of all this? Are we really still the people we were before the Nazis "educated us?" Have we gone back to that, via our brilliant "rebuilding" efforts? Speaking of "building," who doesn't know by now the terrible damage those Holocaust museums have done to us, to our collective psyches? Who doesn't realize that, all along, they were another attempt to substitute standing up to the bullies with "educating the goyim?" I guess we figured, in our typical brilliance, that if we build enough of those monuments-to-shame that our would-be murderers would, what, "ask for forgiveness?" It hasn't turned out that way, has it? n nI think it's time we asked ourselves what we're doing, how we feel, what we believe about life—rather than obsessing, for instance, on what the BBC does, feels and believes! Or, let us put our affairs in order, kiss our wives and children, and wait for that "knock on the door" that is coming, surely as it came the last time. And for the same reason: we present a perfect target for the bullies of this world—we do not fight back. Instead, we write articles, we give tzedaka, we join organizations, we tell everyone how marvelous we are. Didn't work last time, won't this time. Only the willingness to fight works.
One of the best pieces of writing I have seen at Commentary. Period. n
Once again, the horrors of the 'Internet's' long, long memory comes back to haunt cheats and liars. n nAll this puts Morsi into perspective but doesn't mean that Israel cannot deal with him. In fact, it already has. n nThe BBC is a disgrace. Simply a disgrace to the ideas of fairness accuracy of reporting.
This is why gun ownership is important. I can think of some women whom I know who would pull out their 9MM and use it if they needed to.