Unknown “Jewish Elements” Vandalize Mosque in Israel - Israel/Muslim/Occupation Or Resistance?
Mohammed Mar’I; 5/3/08
The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Rehabilitating Islamic Sites yesterday accused “unknown Jewish elements” of vandalizing the Hassan Bek Mosque in Jaffa inside Israel. The Jerusalem-based foundation said in a press statement that unknown perpetrators climbed over the fence surrounding the mosque early yesterday morning and vandalized the courtyard area, damaging some of the religious site’s property. Daily Yediot Ahronot said that Muslim worshippers, who arrived for morning prayers notified the Israeli police, which launched an investigation into the incident.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=107493&d=5&m=3&y=2008
The Problem Is Occupation, Not Resistance
Nimer Sultany; 5/3/08
Once again Israel defies an impotent international community which offers nothing but timid calls for cease-fire on “both sides.” And once again Palestinian suffering and death tolls continue to break records in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967.Perhaps it is easy to dismiss this suffering by blaming the victims and resorting to ready cliches. Indeed, Israeli propagandists go out of their way to repeat the soundbite: We withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and since then the Palestinians have been firing rockets on our southern towns. This soundbite might fly in the Western media; after all it resonates with a simplistic world view that ignites stereotypes which have been in the making for centuries, producing demonic and degrading representations of Muslims and Arabs. It becomes easy to describe the Palestinians in this context as the carriers of incomprehensible and irrational rage.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=107485&d=5&m=3&y=2008