Fox News (Cavuto) on Muslims…
A friend’s just sent me a copy of an interview between the Cavuto programme on FoxNews recently with Rabbi Weiss.
Now to put some context on things, Rabbi Weiss is an Orthodox Rabbi who is also a member of Neturei Karta. For those who are unfamiliar with the group, Neturei Karta is a religious, anti-Zionist group of Jews who believe that, as stated within the Torah and as has been elaborated on by various Rabbis throughout Jewish history, Jews should not return to Palestine until, essentially, Judgement day. Ie until the Messiah returns (I think the Hebrew is Messiach, Arabic is Messih).
The group, including the featured Rabbi attended the rcent Iranian conference on the Holocaust.
Now I don’t wish to get into a debate on the Holocaust or the Holocaust conference. The conference was more-or-less pointless. The Holocaust has been substantially documented and the only empirical disagreements come over the numbers actually killed. What I do wish to get into is one of the presenter’s (many) throwaway comments:
C*avuto: OK. Israel ceases to exist as a Jewish state. You really have trust that Muslims wouldn’t *butcher you?
*R*abbi *W*eiss: Yes.
C: In revenge for what’s happened in the last 60/70 years?
RW: What happened in South Africa? The people were afraid that they would butcher all the white people [Cavuto interrupts]
C: South African blacks are not Muslims.
So not only would the Palestinians butcher all Jews should there be a binational state within Israel/Palestine, but they would do so purely because they are Muslims.
Meanwhile the Iranians have apparently “butchered Christians in Iran for 20 years”.
03 Jan 2007 19:00
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Fox news surely only exists to make anyone who isn’t incredibly right wind angry.
On a purely language note, both spellings Messiah and Messiach are technically correct, its the problme of translating from Hebrew into romanised script. In the same way as you see Hannukah and Channukah. :)
07 Jan 2007, 16:14
The thing about Fox News is that they managed such a large coverage of racist viewpoints. Their annual ‘Christmas is under attack’ coverage has come out with some frankly anti-semitic comments, whilst pretty much all I have viewed of their middle eastern coverage is jingoistic, orientalist and islamophobic.
07 Jan 2007, 23:53
Watch Fox news iff (if & only if) you want to be entertained
08 Jan 2007, 18:06
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