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June 17, 2008
Al Jazeera Hears the Truth: Heads Explode
I love this clip from Al Jazeera. No doubt, this is the first time Al Jazeera viewers have been exposed to the truth. I'll bet there were lots of exploding skulls in an audience habituated to the pathological lies and Jew-hatred that Al Jazeera regularly spews.
Hey, I have an idea, somebody should make Ehud Olmert and Tzipi LIvni watch this clip. They might actually learn something about history and the centrality of Jerusalem to Judaism and the State of Israel.
There's an important lesson in the manner in which Dr. Kedar refuses to be put on the defensive by accusations disguised, none too cleverly, as questions by the Al Jazeera host. Mordechai Kedar just goes on the offensive immediately and because he knows history, because he's smarter than the Al Jazerra hack, and because he speaks fluent Arabic, he just destroys the stunned host.
It's basic to the art of war: Attack, always attack.
I don't know, but I get the feeling that next time Al Jazeera interviews an Israeli it won't be Mordechai Kedar, nope it'll probably be some seditious Israeli, no doubt a member of Peace Now or B'tzelem—reliable collaborators.
When Al Jazeerah's Jimal Rian asked Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar to guest on Rian's TV show, he obviously was expecting some Leftist academic. What he got was something very different!.
"Building in Jerusalem is another nail in the coffin in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority," narrator Jimal Rian asserted. Dr. Kedar answered in fluent Arabic, "This was our capital 3,000 years ago, and we were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying your daughters alive and worshiping idols. This is our city and it will be our city forever."
That set off Rian who shook his finger in the air and said excitedly, "If you want to talk about history, you cannot erase Jerusalem from the Koran, and don’t attack the Muslim religion if we want to continue talking."
Dr. Kedar replied, "Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran. Jerusalem is a Jewish city."
The Al Jazeera host responded by quoting a verse from the Koran which he thought mentioned Jerusalem but stopped right in the middle upon realizing that it only refers to "the farthest place."
Dr. Kedar replied: "Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran even once. You can't rewrite the Koran on air on Al Jazeera."
Whoopsie.
To read Joshua Pundit's complete analysis, please click here.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at June 17, 2008 11:39 AM
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I saw this over at Jameel's blog and immediately sent the link to my mailing list. Some commenters at the blog were upset because Prof. Kedar seemed to support a two-state solution and referred to Jerusalem as "Al Quds". I thought he should run for PM.
Posted by: Baila at June 17, 2008 01:42 PM
That was quite entertaining. I too noticed the "Al Quds" and wished he'd not used that, nor referred to a two-state solution, but otherwise he was magnificent.
Posted by: DrCarol at June 17, 2008 01:53 PM
Give that man a cigar! It's great to see somebody confidant and brave enough to take on these savages with the unvarnished truth...funny too.
Posted by: thud at June 17, 2008 03:10 PM
Baila:
Professor Kedar was speaking to an Arab audience. By saying Al Quds, he was speaking their language and sticking it to them.
I have no idea if he supports a two state solution. In any case, it's already a fact: Gaza is the Palestinian state.
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at June 17, 2008 03:58 PM
Dr. Carol:
See above.
I agree, to an Arab audience——and probably to a vast portion of the elite American academic audience—— Professor Kedar's interview is a blast of reality.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 17, 2008 04:01 PM
Thud:
I'd spring for a Cuban cigar:-)
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 17, 2008 04:03 PM
What a riot! The man has guts.
Finally, someone speaks the truth.
Posted by: mata hari at June 17, 2008 07:14 PM
Robert,
How in the world did this happen? How can Al Jazeera carry more truth in five minutes than Israel and US media carry in a month of Sundays?
From what you say, it seems like they were misinformed in letting him on the show. But how did they let it air?
Can Mashiach be far behind?
Mordechai
Posted by: Mordechai (Morty) Schiller at June 17, 2008 10:25 PM
Mordechai:
The Israeli and American media dinosaurs are held hostage by arch liberals, hence a Dr. Kedar never but never gets air-time.
Al Jazeera, on the other hand, is dominated by fascist barbarians who, no doubt, let the segment air assuming that it makes Jews and Israelis look bad, when in fact it does the exact opposite——unless you're a leftie, in short, an enabler of Jihad.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 17, 2008 11:59 PM
"I get the feeling that next time Al Jazeera interviews an Israeli it won't be Mordechai Kedar"
it also will never again be a live interview
Posted by: Lion of Zion at June 18, 2008 07:14 AM
The poor interviewer. He sounded exhausted at the sign-off. Probably went off for a nice cup of refreshing goat's milk.
Posted by: kishke at June 18, 2008 08:36 AM
Who's heads exploded?
Posted by: Meilech Schiller at June 26, 2008 06:47 AM
Mellech:
The Al Jazeera audience and the Israeli left.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at June 26, 2008 09:08 AM