Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Razzismo... the other side...

'Anti-arabismo'... Lo so che questo termine non esiste... tuttavia dovrebbe
esistere come del resto esiste il termine antisemitismo...
C'e' qualche ebreo in questo NG che condanna questo comportamento razzista?
Oppure e' vero quello che ho riportato nel mio precedente post:
"the jewish community will instead either justify the statemant......try to
put it into some sort of ludicrous context...or even say that it is
anti-semitic to expect the jews to take responcibility for the hateful words
of another jew.  Jews cannot be racist...or prejudice....and to comdenm the
words of a jew as being racist or prejudiced is in itself...anti-semitic. "
E in culo alla fallaci...
 
http://www.oregonlive.com/galleries/news/index.ssf?iraq
A new racist reality for the Arabs of Safed
By Tal Hassin
Posters warning young Jewish girls of abuse, beatings and abductions by
Arabs are appearing all over the city.
Mohammed Halihal, who lives in Akbara, Safed's Muslim neighborhood, woke up
to a new reality last Sunday. Wherever he looked were red and white posters
warning the girls of Safed and their families against him. "Warning!"
screamed the poster, "Ten Jewish girls are being held captive by the Arabs
of Akbara." Further on, the poster explains what happened to them: "Beatings
and violence, hard drugs, prostitution and crime."
"I have gotten used to the cries of `Arabs go home,' I am familiar with the
`Death to the Arabs' graffiti, but this time I feel personally offended," he
says. Someone in Safed worked hard Saturday night. Dozens of posters of
various sizes were scattered throughout the city. They were stuck to fences
of homes, hung on the walls of the shopping mall, attached to bulletin
boards and electrical fuse boxes. Some were even glued to signs at the two
entrances to the city. City workers hurried to remove them, but a week
later, posters forgotten in less central locations or parts of posters
partially torn town that left a word here and a sentence fragment there
could still be seen: "Beatings," "drugs," "Akbara," "Jewish girls held
captive by Arabs."
Superintendent Amir Aharon, the commander of the Safed, Hatzor and Rosh Pina
police station, when asked if are there any women being held captive in
Akbara, says, "Nonsense, there is no such thing."
There are about 500 people living in Akbara, a neighborhood on Safed's
southwestern outskirts. Over 60 percent of them belong to the Halihal clan.
Many of them have university degrees, are lawyers and doctors; almost all
work in Safed. They did not participate in the demonstrations by Galilee
Arabs in October 2000, many voted in the last elections for the Likud, and a
few volunteer to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Their neighborhood,
which has not yet been hooked up to the sewage system despite promises, and
which has only one bus a day, is called Safed the Village.
The relations between the residents of the village and the city are good.
Someone is trying to undermine those relations, says Mohammed Halihal, 28, a
lawyer with many Jewish clients. On the morning the posters were hung, his
mobile phone rang incessantly. "Did you see it? Did you hear? What should we
do?" he was repeatedly asked. Four days went by, and while still trying to
digest the developments, Safed was inundated with a new poster, this time by
the ultra-Orthodox organization Yad La'ahim. It held a moving appeal to
"Cherished girls of Israel," warning them against "the Arabs that hang
around among you and try to seduce you ... to take you to the Arab villages
and abuse you and release all their hatred on you."
Trying to light a fire
Halihal decided he had had enough and he filed a complaint for incitement
with the local police. He has no doubt that the two posters are connected.
Someone is trying to disturb the relations between Arabs and Jews and light
a fire, he says. "So first it was an anonymous poster, and then this
organization took the trouble to put up this additional poster, and each
poster and the time that goes by has meaning. The incitement is starting to
filter down."
Two of those that feel the effect of the posters are Yael Ben Kanar, 20, and
Sa'il Halihal, 25. They have been seeing each other for five years, sleeping
at each other's house, walking with their arms around one another in the
street. Safed is a small town, only about 30,000 people, and many of the
residents know them. Until now, they hardly encountered hostile responses.
Since the first poster was put up, says Sa'il Halihal, their relationship
has triggered responses galore. Suddenly, he has been greeted by cries of
"Arab out! You are stealing our girls. What business do you have to be
here?"
He is a handyman and in the context of his work, he enters many homes. The
more moderate Jews, he says, try to persuade him: That relationship won't
work, they say, forget about it. "The less moderate, especially from the
ultra-Orthodox sector, look at me with hostility and say there will be a big
mess if I don't leave Yael." His girlfriend also says that since the posters
were hung, she has become the target of attacks. "People come up to me in
the street and tell me while he is standing there: `Watch out, he will
convert you to Islam, he'll beat you.' It is very offensive. I have friends
in Akbara; they are not turning me into a prostitute or a criminal. This
business with the posters is a new thing, but I don't know what will happen
if it continues. I am afraid that people will start throwing stones at us,
that they'll beat Sa'il. It's scary."
The phenomenon of mixed couples is not new in Safed. Two residents of Akbara
are married to Jewish women. Arab and Jewish men and women meet and grow
close in Safed College, an extension of Bar-Ilan University, of which 60
percent of the students are Arabs. However, it appears that what kindled the
spark this time was a love story between a girl from an ultra-Orthodox home
and a young man from Akbara. According to Reuven Sadeh, the deputy mayor for
the Likud, "She is 17 years old and he is 18. I understand that a Jewish
girl with Arabs is a desecration and against religion, but the phenomenon
exists. We must not take matters to the extreme and apply it to all of
Akbara. We are lucky to have them and the relations with them are excellent.
It would appear that her parents are working with the city's rabbis, whose
views toward the Arabs are known. Regretfully, someone here took the law
into his own hands and decided to stir things up. To light a fire is easy."
All-out war
One of those whose "views toward the Arabs are known" is the chief rabbi of
the city, Shmuel Eliyahu, the son of the former Sepharadi chief rabbi of
Israel, Mordechai Eliyahu. In the past, he waged an all-out war against the
Arab students of Safed and called to stop their studies there. He issued a
halakhic ruling forbidding the sale of Jewish property in the land of Israel
to non-Jews. On Friday, he discussed the posters in an interview with the
local newspaper of the north, Kol Ha'emek Vehagalil, where he is quoted
saying, "It is another form of war that the Palestinians are waging against
us and we must know how to defend ourselves against it. It involves Jewish
girls aged 15-25 that are seduced by young Arab men ... and we must save
them." Further on he said, "I know that in most cases, it involves Arab men
that are married to Arab women, and the Jewish girls are taken in as maids
and they are unable to run away." Rabbi Eliyahu refused to speak with
Haaretz, but confirmed that he did indeed make these remarks to the local
paper.
Until two years ago, Safed had two chief rabbis: Eliyahu, the Sepharadi, and
an Ashkenazi rabbi, Levi Bistritzki. Bistritzki, say people in town, was a
much beloved and moderate figure. He maintained unity, spoke with everyone
and cared for the needs of Jews and Arabs alike. His death left the entire
scene to Rabbi Eliyahu, a graduate of the Merkaz Harav Kook yeshiva in
Jerusalem, which is associated with the rabbis of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and
Gaza).
In the past, Eliyahu supported marking out a specific site for a synagogue
on the Temple Mount. Since his election as chief rabbi of Safed in 1989, a
lifetime appointment, he often speaks out against Arabs. "Instead of
preaching brotherhood, he foments unrest," says Sa'id Halihal, 62, the son
of the former mukhtar of Akbara, an educator of many years. "Each time he
has the opportunity, he lashes out, for example in the fabricated story of
the abduction."
A few weeks ago, two American ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students found
themselves stuck in the middle of the night in the center of Safed with two
flat tires. Some men from Akbara offered to take them to the neighborhood
tire shop to fix the flats; they took them in their car, a commercial
vehicle with a place to sit in the back. Akbara is about two kilometers away
from the center of town, and to get there, a main road and a grove have to
be crossed. Not all the roads in the village are paved. At a certain point,
the yeshiva students became frightened and they opened the back of the
pickup and jumped off the vehicle. They told the ultra-Orthodox weekly
Besha'ah Tovah, an extreme right-wing publication, that a group of drunk
Arabs convinced them to go with them, that they drove like mad and that they
fought with them to keep them from escaping.
Supervisor Aharon says no complaint was filed with the police, but that did
not prevent Rabbi Eliyahu from telling the weekly: "Now it has been proved
that the danger is greater than we thought." He attributed the alleged
abduction to "that same group in Akbara that is trying to seduce Jewish
girls," summing up by saying: "The problem is serious and it is on a
national scale." The story spread through Safed like wildfire. "That is a
shame," says Sa'id Halihal. "The rabbi could play a major role in educating
people to live together in peace, but he is exploiting his public position
to polarize the conflict. The greatest fear is that comments like his and
the plague of posters will enrage hot-tempered and reckless people, on both
sides. It could cause serious violence."
A living example is Evyatar Eliezer, a 20-year-old resident of Safed.
"Jewish women captive in Akbara? Of course there are," he says. "I know
three of them. They bribe them, seduce them with a ride in a car, threaten
them, beat them and then sleep with them. Sometimes they get them pregnant
and their whole lives are ruined. Now, there is talk now of a raid, to raid
their village in the middle of the night and break their bones. To teach
them a lesson."
K
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"God Is Coming, And She Is Pissed!"

dovrebbe esistere come del resto esiste il termine antisemitismo...
E che ne dici del termine anti-italianismo?  E anti-francesismo? :)
Quanto ca**o di "anti-***ismo" dovrebbero esistere per i Kiwi fessi come
te? :)
-Stefano