Repenting for the sins of others is a crime against the innocent. – James Steele
Yesterday the Middle East Media Research Institute or MEMRI released a three year-old video of Mohammed Morsi, then-Muslim Brotherhood leader and the present Egyptian President pitching defiant Anti-Zionist talking points on several unidentified TV broadcasts. Under siege by the GOP for appointing a purported anti-semitic Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense the White House was quick to issue a statement harshly criticizing the ‘unacceptable rhetoric’.
“We believe that President Morsi should make clear that he respects people of all faiths and that this type of rhetoric is unacceptable in a democratic Egypt,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at a White House briefing.
In the speech Morsi categorically rejected the two-state solution and called the USA and Zionists ‘bloodsuckers who attack Palestinians’ as well as describing Zionists as “the descendants of apes and pigs.”
Zionist leaders have not been kind in their words juding from the following quotes.
“We must expel Arabs and take their places.” — David Ben Gurion 1937
“[The Palestinians] are beasts walking on two legs.” – Menachem Begin 1982
“(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers … heads smashed against the boulders and walls.” – Yitzhak Shamir 1988
And then there was Einstein – “It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
Then again not once in the speeches was the Arabic word for Jew ‘yahud’ mentioned by Morsi.
Neither is there a single mention in the BBC, Huffington Post, or New York Times that the ex-IDF colonel of the counter-terrorism brach Yigal Carmon and the current-director of MEMRI said of torture in 1995, “Pain is not taking life. Pain comes and goes. Pain disappears. You know, everyone experiences that. Unwillingly, of course.”
No mention of their connection to hardline Likud Party, but that is expected in the light of shoddy jingoism of the western media.
According to the Huffington Post a group of senators, including Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Christopher Coons, D-Del., are currently in Cairo and a pro-Israel White House spokesperson said she expected they would make their views known to Egypt’s leadership.
The AP reported that the Muslim Brotherhood refused to comment on Washington’s reaction to Morsi’s remarks. They have $3 billion dollars in aid coming their way this year and $3 billion mihgt not be what it once was, but it ain’t a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, so saying nothing is almost as good as never having said nothing.
This rehashing of old news to re-ignite the interests of the ignorant has a purpose even beyond what is written between the lines.
We the people can only watch and wonder what ‘they’ are saying to each other and we will never know who they are.
Dank Himmel.
ps no one is ever innocent.
Just talk to the NYPD.
They know best.
Everyone is guilty of some crime.