♻RetweetCanadian Arabs: We're the Victims, Not Jews
Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 7:50:37 am PDT
The Toronto Star’s resident Islamist, Haroon Siddiqi, has a disgusting article in which Arab Canadians complain that only they can be victims—and that only Palestinians deserve sympathy: Who will weep for Palestinians? (Hat tip: Randall.)
Raja G. Khouri, Toronto. A Christian born in Lebanon to parents who lost their homes in Palestine in 1948, he is a former president of the Canadian Arab Federation and the author of Arabs in Canada: Post 9/11.
“An Israeli settler screamed at reporters: `You don’t know what it’s like to be driven out of your home and not be allowed to return to your land.’ I do. Millions of Palestinians do.
”Leaving Gaza rids Israel of 35 per cent of Palestinians living on 6 per cent of Israeli-occupied land. Keeping the land and getting rid of the people has always been the Israeli way.
“By maximizing control over as much Palestinian land with as few Palestinians as possible, Israel minimizes the `demographic threat’ — the growing number of Muslims and Christians living in Israel and the territories it controls.
”While the 8,500 Gaza settlers will be handsomely compensated, about 55,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem are being separated from their schools, hospital, jobs and places of worship by the wall, with no consideration for their rights and livelihood, let alone the right to compensation.
“As it encroaches into the West Bank and Jerusalem, the wall increases land on the Israeli side while leaving Palestinian populations in fragmented cantons.
”Even if some version of a Palestinian state does emerge, it will lack water resources, arable land, contiguity, economic viability and the means to control its destiny. I can’t help but feel that Palestinian national aspirations are doomed.”
The mean-spirited vindictiveness of these comments is almost unbelievable, but Siddiqi apparently thinks he’s portraying these people in a sympathetic light.
UPDATE at 8/25/05 8:35:46 am:
LGF reader Spiritualized reminds me that Raja Khouri has been featured at LGF before, defending Hizballah.




