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		<title>Peace In Our Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quotations from Palestinians who yearn for a Jew-free country.]]></description>
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<p><em>Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi holds the Edward Said-Noam Chomsky Linguistics Chair at Abdul Abulbul Amir University in Cairo. He is also presently serving as Visiting Professor at the I. S. Skavar Institute in Moscow.</em></p>
<p>Why did I become a linguist?  I seem to have inherited the traditional Arabic love of language and poetry. As Phillip Hitti wrote in his book, <em>History of the Arabs:</em></p>
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<blockquote><p>No people in the world manifest such enthusiastic admiration for literary expression and are so moved by the word, spoken or written, as the Arabs. Modern audiences in Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo can be stirred to the highest degree by the recital of poems.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ah! Who could fail to be stirred by the rhythms and melodies of thousands of poetry lovers marching down the streets of our cities chanting in unison:</p>
<blockquote><p>Death To America!<br />
Death to the Great Satan!<br />
Death To Israel!<br />
Death to the Little Satan!</p></blockquote>
<p>And naturally, as our Palestinian national culture has exploded onto the world stage (so to speak) and now has come to embody a more mature wisdom and calm that anyone can plainly see in the conduct of public life in Palestine, the appreciation for the use of language to the fullest extent of purity of purpose, clarity of vision, subtle nuance, harmonic overtone, mellifluous allusions have likewise matured and deepened. All this inspires a linguistic heart such as mine to sing!</p>
<p>So, in the service of creating a discourse for which the expression of the yearning for peace and brotherly love are the ultimate fulfillment, and for which Palestinian society is universally known, I have compiled a short, though naturally far-from-complete, list of quotations from notable Palestinian political and devout religious leaders &#8212; almost all of whose salaries are paid by Palestinian governing bodies, and whose money is therefore donated by European and American governments, and thus by you, the taxpayers &#8212; SHUKRAN! &#8211;, who yearn for nothing more than a Jew-free country living in peace and harmony, so that we can return to our first love: reading and reciting beautiful poetry.</p>
<p>I must ask your forbearance, for many of these statements inevitably lose a bit of their inherent beauty and majesty in translation. Furthermore, it is far from easy to compile such a list, the more for what must be omitted than for what may be included, there being such a plethora of rich material. Please consider mine but a meager offering, a beginning, and, more importantly, a small contribution to the dream of Peace in Our Time.</p>
<p>In honor of our grand poetic tradition, I must begin with a venerable work, already cited this week at FrontPage Magazine:</p>
<p>3-1-44: Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: &#8220;Arise, Oh Sons of Arabia! Fight for your sacred rights. Slaughter Jews wherever you find them. Their spilled blood pleases Allah, our history and our religion. That will save our honor.&#8221; (The Grand Mufti, a true prophet, was fighting the occupation a full 23 years before it began!)</p>
<p>&#8211; 2006: Yasser Ghalban, Hamas leader: &#8220;The Jihad for Allah is the way of the truth and the way for salvation and the way which will lead us to crush the Jews&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; 12-3-2008: Imam Safwat Higazi: &#8220;Dispatch those sons of apes and pigs to the Hellfire on the wings of Qassam rockets.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; 5-15-2009: Dr Wafa Musa, psychologist (!): &#8220;The Jews deserved their annihilation by Hitler.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; 9-1-09: PA Presidential advisor Omar Al-Ghoul: &#8220;Israel is a rogue country trafficking in the organs of Palestinians it kills.&#8221; (Note &#8212; notice the beautiful congruence of the poet&#8217;s name &#8212; &#8220;al- Ghoul&#8221; &#8212; with the content of his speech. How indeed can one not be moved by the utter beauty!)</p>
<p>&#8211; 11-15-09: Tawfik al Tirawi, PA Security Chief:  &#8220;Israel recruits Palestinians to sexually harrass their sisters and mothers.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; 1-29-10: Al Aqsa TV (PA TV): &#8220;Even if donkeys cease to bray, the Jews will not cease to be hostile to the Muslems.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; 2-28-10: Al Aqsa TV, Deputy Minister of Religious Endowments, Abdallah Jarbu: &#8220;Jews are bacteria, not human beings.&#8221;  (&#8230;reflecting Palestinian commitment to medical research and healing by means of research into bacteriology.)</p>
<p>&#8211; 3-31-10: Al Aqsa TV, Dr Salah Sultan, President of American Center for Islamic Research: &#8220;Jews murder non-Jews and use their blood to knead Passover matzos.&#8221; (Yum!)</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Orientalism&#8217; For Dummies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The psychological disease that imagines that Western cultures are somehow better than Arabic or Eastern cultures.]]></description>
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<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi holds the Edward Said-Noam Chomsky Linguistics Chair at Abdul Abulbul Amir University in Cairo.</em></p>
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<p>Being a renowned and brilliant linguist such as I am, on October 26, I innocently, and full of optimism and good-will, had published in <em>Front Page Magazine</em> &#8212; a war-mongering, racist site if ever there was one, judging from its unsavory readership and ignorant authors! &#8212; <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/26/guide-for-the-perplexed/">a glossary of useful terms and expressions </a>meant to help delineate and define what speakers and writers mean when they use certain, shall we say, &#8220;explosive&#8221; words and phrases when describing so complex a circumstance as, as I wrote, &#8220;today&#8217;s  (and yesterday&#8217;s and tomorrow&#8217;s) Mid- east.&#8221;<em> </em></p>
<p>Inasmuch as it seems that your culture and mine are teetering on the edge of conflict, I believe that persons of good-will, such as myself, need to do what what we must to make certain that misunderstanding and miscommunication do not precipitate a disastrous war in which we will doubtlessly defeat you, not least since we, and in particular our youth, care so much<strong><em> </em></strong>and you and yours seem to care so little.</p>
<p>Perhaps the fact that we have raised a generation of very, very angry young men has something to do with the fact that that our young men are not allowed to have interaction with girls. (We tell them that attraction to young women is a Zionist plot hatched by evil Jews intent on capturing them in the snare of Shaytan. Talk about impressionable!)</p>
<p>Whatever you think of us, you have to admit that prohibition has been a sensational strategy for recruiting plenty of extremely devoted young men who actually volunteer to strap on explosives in hopes of finding unmutilated maidens waiting for them elsewhere. Pretty cool, huh?! Faith is a powerful incentivizer! And a culture that prohibits deduction certainly needs faith!</p>
<p>So, my only purpose was a peaceful one &#8212; to make certain that the reader would not be misled by ignorance or prejudice, or as my wise teacher and predecessor, Dr. Edward Said, coined it, &#8220;Orientalism,&#8221; the psychological disease or intellectual offense that imagines that the Western cultures are in some way &#8220;better than,&#8221; or &#8220;superior to,&#8221; as opposed to simply &#8220;different from,&#8221; Arabic or Eastern cultures.</p>
<p>In a nutshell, Dr. Said posited that Westerners, because they are not Orientals, can never know how Eastern people think or why they do what they do. They &#8212; Westerners &#8212; therefore must never interpret or judge the words, intentions or actions of Middle-Easterners, especially the leaders, all of whom are &#8220;Men of the People,&#8221; serving from the depths of the goodness of their hearts, what is called the Arab Street, which is nothing more than the communal roar for Divine Justice, or for the random murder of Jews or Christians or Hindus or Bahai or Sikhs or Sunnis or Shia or pigs or dogs depending on what&#8217;s cooking that day.</p>
<p>When Westerners do so &#8211;  that is, when Westerners think they know what they&#8217;re talking about  &#8211;, they are not merely mistaken, but also racist. And &#8220;racist&#8221; is the grand bugaboo of our era. We have learned that if we can persuade that you are racist, we can get you to do anything! Why, you people give money to Hamas and weapons to Hezbollah! What a world!</p>
<p>Dr. Said&#8217;s reasoning is that a person making a judgment is inherently arrogant because, by virtue of making any judgment, that person <em>a priori</em> believes that his judgment must be right. And since our judgments are different than yours, we must be wrong.</p>
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		<title>Guide for the Perplexed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A glossary of the most pertinent terms and expressions connected to the politics of the Middle East. ]]></description>
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<p>I have come to realize just how difficult it may be to decipher news about the Middle East, Islam, Israel, the Arab World, and all these powerful and explosive issues of our times for those who rely on such media stalwarts as <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em>, the<em> Los Angeles Times,</em> the major television networks, cable news, etc. for their information. For example, how is a person to ascertain whether the slayer of a family is a terrorist or a militant or a gunman or an assailant or an activist or a freedom-fighter?</p>
<p>So, purely as a public service, I have organized the following glossary of the most pertinent terms and expressions, as typically used in the above-mentioned news sources. I hope,<em> insha&#8217;allah</em>, the reader will find it helpful to unravel the Gordian Knot of language that is today&#8217;s (and yesterday&#8217;s and tomorrow&#8217;s) Middle East!</p>
<p><em>Dr. Yasser Dasmabebi holds the Edward Said-Noam Chomsky Linguistics Chair at Abdul Abulbul Amir University in Cairo.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Aggression</strong>: Killing people who are trying to kill you.</p>
<p><strong>Al Qaeda</strong>: the terrorist group that, according to American security sources, embodies the world-wide Islamist movement, and that is either &#8220;significantly degraded&#8221; or is still &#8220;extremely dangerous,&#8221; depending on which government official is doing the talking.</p>
<p><strong>Apartheid</strong>:  The political/social system of the one and only country in the Middle East that integrates Jews, Beduins, Arabs, whites, blacks, Muslems, Ethiopians, Russians, Christians, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Bahai, et al.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Apes &amp; Pigs&#8221;</strong>: See &#8220;Jew&#8221; below.</p>
<p><strong>Arab Emir</strong>: Military dictator.</p>
<p><strong>Arab King</strong>: Military dictator.</p>
<p><strong>Arab President</strong>: Military dictator.</p>
<p><strong>Arab Prime Minister</strong>: Military dictator.</p>
<p><strong>Arab Spring</strong>: Replacement of one dictatorship with another, with the help of Western money and media cheerleading.</p>
<p><strong>Arab Street</strong>: Enraged mobs chanting and screaming their hatred, determined to annihilate Israel and the Jews. They can often be seen burning American and Israeli flags, passing out candies and firing guns into the air in response to successful murders of Westerners (closely related to):</p>
<p><strong>Arab Humiliation</strong>: The pervasive feeling on the Arab street generated by their failure to annihilate Israel and the Jews in several wars. Many opinion-makers, Middle East experts and op-ed writers argue that Arab humiliation is at the root of the Middle East conflict; i.e., &#8220;If only the Jews would let themselves be destroyed, the Arab street would feel better about themselves, and then there would be peace.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Ayatola</strong>: Persian dictator. Spiritual leader of that faith that desires to ignite nuclear holocaust in order to bring about the arrival of the Mahdi. (See &#8220;Mahdi&#8221; below.)</p>
<p><strong>Bias</strong>: An expression of support for the existence of Israel.</p>
<p><strong>Caliphate</strong>: The unification of lands ruled in the name of Islam, ruled by a Caliph. (See &#8220;Arab King,&#8221; &#8220;Arab President,&#8221; etc. above.)</p>
<p><strong>Compromise</strong>: To give something palpable, such as land, in return for a promise not to keep on trying to annihilate you.</p>
<p><strong>Developing Country</strong>: A country that is not developing.</p>
<p><strong>Disproportionate Response</strong>: Winning.</p>
<p><strong>Diversity</strong>: The condition in which all cultures are viewed as equally and inherently virtuous, except for the culture of the West, which is viewed as evil by virtue of imperialism, colonialism and endemic racism (see &#8220;Racist&#8221; below).</p>
<p><strong>Emergency Laws</strong>: The law.</p>
<p><strong>Father of the Palestinian People</strong>: An Egyptian man, raised by his uncle, Hitler&#8217;s buddy, and one of the world&#8217;s most successful kleptocrats. (See &#8220;PLO&#8221; below.)</p>
<p><strong>Fatwa</strong>: A pronouncement of a mullah that sanctions murder, but only of disagreeable people, like inadequately covered women, Salman Rushdie, etc.</p>
<p><strong>Female Genital Mutilation</strong>: That ritual of which Western feminist organizations seem, by virtue of their silence, to approve.</p>
<p><strong>Hamas</strong>: The democratically elected government of Gaza whose founding charter calls for genocide.</p>
<p><strong>Hezbollah:</strong> The democratic group whose purpose is saving Lebanon from Israeli aggression, and whose founding charter calls for genocide.</p>
<p><strong>History</strong>: Having nothing whatsoever to do with what has actually happened, but rather being what has come to be called &#8220;narrative,&#8221; i.e., &#8220;storytelling.&#8221; For one example, allusions to the &#8220;Ancient Nation of Palestine;&#8221; and for another, almost all the Muslem accomplishments President Obama enumerated in his momentous Cairo speech (also see &#8220;Rewriting History&#8221; below).</p>
<p><strong>Holocaust</strong>: That genocide that did not happen, but that the Jews orchestrated in order to steal Arab land, and that of which the Jewish presence in Palestine is worse than.</p>
<p><strong>Honor Killings</strong>: The cultural imperative to murder one&#8217;s daughter/sister/niece for humiliating male members&#8230;(see &#8220;Shariah&#8221; below).</p>
<p><strong>Human Rights</strong>: The credo by which murder committed by a person from a country which used to be called &#8220;Third World&#8221; (now considered racist terminology) is good (see &#8220;Resistance&#8221; below); retaliatory killing by a person who is either from a developed country, a white person or most especially a Jew, is bad (see &#8220;Agression&#8221; above).</p>
<p><strong>Human Shields</strong>: Integral part of Hamas &amp; Hezbollah military strategy.</p>
<p><strong>Islamic Republic</strong>: Military dictatorship.</p>
<p><strong>Israel</strong>: Occupied territory (see &#8220;Zionist Entity&#8221; below).</p>
<p><strong>Israeli Prime Minister</strong>: Hawkish, right-winger, hard-liner.</p>
<p><strong>Jerusalem:</strong> City holy to Islam in which the Jews have no history.</p>
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