ARABS AND NAZISM (continued from p.7) The "latest research" comes from the pen of Mahmoud Abbas, whose book is called The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and ZIonism. Abbas refutes "the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed." According to Abbas there were only 890,000 victims and even these were the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot. What distinguishes this book is not its contents, but its author, who (also known as Abu Mazen) is an architect of the Oslo agreement and supposedly a representative of moderation in the Arab world. His signature is on both the September 13, 1993 agreement and on the final Oslo agreement signed on September 20, 1995. The destruction of Israel has become a theological imperative for Islam. At the fourth Islamic conference in Cairo, in 1968, Sheik Nadim el-Jasser of Lebanon said that Allah had posed a challenge to the Moslems with the establishment of the Zionist entity, and their salvation could only come if they first destroyed Israel. In the Egypt of the 1980s, el-Jasser's thesis was expanded to argue that the destruction of the Jews was no longer merely an Islamic theological problem, no longer a regional issue, but a categorical imperative for all humanity, whose redemption will come only after it recovers from the cancerous growth that has spread over the body of mankind. According to this view, the existence of Israel is intended to solve the logistical problem of gathering the Jews into one place in order to make it easier to destroy them. Jahia al-Rahawi amplifies this theme in Al Ahrar, the Arab daily published by Egypt's

Liberal Party. "When the State of Israel was established and recognized by many in both East and West, one of the reasons for this recognition was the desire to get rid of as many representatives as possible of the human error which is called Jews. There was an additional purpose, a secret one, namely to place them all in one location so that they might be extinguished at the appropriate moment. In this confrontation, we see how that great man Hitler, may Allah have mercy on him, one of the wisest of men, dealt with this problem. Out of compassion for humankind, he tried to destroy every Jew, but despaired of healing this cancerous growth that spread in the body of humanity." This was published on July 19, 1982. On October 22, 1986 The destruction of Israel has become a theological imperative for Islam. Sheik Yusef Badri, one of Egypt's senior theologians, was quoted as saying: "We are waiting for the day when the Jews will be gathered in Falestin and it will be a day of enormous slaughter. The Jews will hide behind stones and rocks but each will call to a Moslem and say 'A Jew hides behind me. Come and kill him.' " When Berlin fell, Hitler said that the destruction of Germany was appropriate for a nation that had failed to fulfill its purpose. In 1982, Ahmed Ben Bela, knowingly or not, repeated Hitler's words when he expressed his willingness to destroy the Arab world so long as Israel was destroyed. If there is no other solution, he declared, there will be a nuclear war and so that matter shall be finished once and for all.+

SPOTLIGHT ON THE PERES GOVERNMENT ...Labor Party MK Dalia Itzik has urged the Attorney General to consider deporting Israeli opposition activist Nadia Matar. But first, Itzik says, criminal proceedings should be initiated against Matar because she "doesn't understand anything about democracy"...Another Labor MK, Yoram Lass, recently asked that Mrs. Matar be prosecuted for "harassing" him because she sent him faxes criticizing some of Labor's positions... ...Ma'ariv reports that Peres government cabinet ministers and Labor MKs are "furious" over a newspaper advertisement placed by the Labor splinter group, The Third Way, headlined, "It is forbidden to wait until Peres asks, 'Where did I go wrong?' " The Laborites reportedly said that the ad was "beyond good taste" and "inciteful and unacceptable"... ...With the approval of the Peres government, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered the release of Mussa Mustafa, an aide to PLO Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, to enable Mustaffa to compete in the PLO elections on January 20, 1996. Mustafa had been imprisoned while awaiting trial for torturing Arabs who were considered critics of Yasser Arafat...

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