Monday, July 19, 2021

Iraqi man in pro-Israel video beaten up and hospitalised

It was one of the most eye-popping videos to surface from the Arab world: an Iraqi man calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to save him and bring him to Israel.

The video, which seemed to  attract  the approval of bystanders,  was hailed by Israeli talk show host Avi Abelow as running contrary to the predominant narrative: that Arabs are instinctively hostile to Israel. 

 But delight amongst Jewish viewers turned to horror as these pictures began to emerge. They show that that the man was badly beaten and is now being treated in hospital.

According to  Israeli Arabic-media monitor Linda Menuhin, the man made his outburst following the fire that killed  92 in a hospital in Nasiriya. Iranian-supported militias were responsible for almost beating him to death, she claims. 



Simply to fly the Israeli flag earns an Iraqi three years in prison. Which goes to show how brave - or desperate - this man was, to speak out in favour of Israel.

3 comments:

  1. Sad but not surprised to learn of the fate befallen the Iraqi man who in his desperation called for Israeli help, more as a protest against the injustice and corruption engulfing Iraq.
    The demonization of Israel and the Jewish people by traditional Arab media is on the wain particularly amongst Iraqis who admires their Iraqi Jewish brethren’ for holding true to their Iraqi identity.
    This positive sentiment should be harvested by like minded people everywhere for the sake of peace and prosperity.

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  2. Iraq's and Syria's official refusal to grant visas, even transit visas, to Jews on racial grounds

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    Palestine. (1946). Vol. 3. United States: AZC, p. 3.

    Palestine - Volume 3 - Page 3 - 1946

    Rights Without Obligations

    The ideological defeat that has followed the military victory of the democracies is beginning to unravel before our eyes in all its ugliness.

    A case in point is the relationship between the Arab States and the United Nations.

    Having been actively or passively in Hitler's camp all through the war , the Arab States were invited to jump on the bandwagon of the democraecies when the defeat of the Axis became an absolute certainty.
    To this they graciously consented.
    The were allowed to join the U.N.O., without even being asked for guarantees that in the future they would abide by the principles and ideology of progressive mankind. They were welcomed as they were, with their medieval way of life, reactionary background and pro-Nazi leanings. No wonder that the Arab ruling cliques now feel free openly to disregard and even violate the fundamental principles of world peace and cooperation; free, even to defend Nazi ideology and glorify Adolf Hitler. An Arab newspaper in Jaffa, Falastin, protests against the Nuremberg trials, stating that "Nazism ought not to be tried in court, because it is just a principle, like democracy or Socialism." Another Arab daily in Palestine, Ad Difaa, the ex-Mufti's organ which was subsidized by Dr. Goebbels, gives much prominence to Adolf Hitler's recently discovered political testament, quoting his allegations that the Jews were responsible for the war and printing a large photograph of the Fuhrer on its front page.

    If the above belongs to the category of ideological regurgitation, the boycott of Jewish-Palestinian goods proclaimed by the Arab League is a direct assault upon the system of world cooperation. Iraq's and Syria's official refusal to grant visas, even transit visas, to Jews on racial grounds is a slap in the face of the entire democratic world. Ibn Saud's recent statement that the Arabs would not fight the Jews "because we consider them unworthy foes" is further proof that one can belong to the U.N.O. without dropping Nazi ideology and phraseology and further indication of how dangerous it is to have members of the United Nations who enjoy all rights but refuse any obligations.

    https://books.google.com/books?id=o_EettJ1tD8C&q=Falastin+Defends+Nazism


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