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| Oman’s deputy envoy to US: ‘Dangerous confusion’ between Judaism and Zionism fuels antisemitism |
| 2024-11-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] In remarks at Oman’s National Day celebration in Washington, Muscat’s deputy ambassador to the US warns against conflating between Zionism and Judaism. “We must also be mindful of the dangerous confusion between Judaism as a religion and Zionism as a political ideology. This confusion actually fuels antisemitism and undermines efforts for peaceful resolutions to the conflict,” says Sabra Ahmed Al-Hooti. Successive polling shows, however, that a substantial majority of Jews view Israel as a central part of their Jewish identity. Oman’s then-sultan hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018 and Muscat has been floated as a potential candidate to join the Abraham Accords. But in 2022 its lower house of parliament voted to expand its Israel boycott law. Still, it opened its airspace to Israeli flights last year. Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Muscat has joined other countries in the region in doubling down in their stance against normalizing relations with Israel before a Palestinian state is established. The Israel-Palestinian conflict is the first issue mentioned in Al-Hooti’s brief remarks welcoming guests. She reiterates Oman’s call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for the establishment of a Palestinian state before highlighting the past year’s achievements for Muscat domestically and in its relations with the US. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 #4 is our resident POS Aca Joe |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-11-20 18:05 |
| #6 :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-11-20 15:18 |
| #5 â—„ Psalm 137 â–º Enough to entice me to read the rest. Thank you. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-20 14:47 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Eb.Ramsy 2024-11-20 13:26 |
| #3 ◄ Psalm 137 ► JPS Tanakh 1917 1By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. 2Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. 3For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, And our tormentors asked of us mirth: ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ 4How shall we sing the LORD’S song In a foreign land? 5If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her cunning. 6Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember thee not; If I set not Jerusalem Above my chiefest joy. One can’t expect a Moslem to know the Jewish bible, but that psalm was written during the Babylonian Exile, after the fall of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 587 BCE, almost 1000 years before Mohammed had his revelation. Zionism was been baked into Judaism from that point, and the first return of exiled Jews to Israel occurred after Persia conquered Babylonia in 539 BCE, as recorded in the Old Testament’s Book of Ezra. Sorry. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-11-20 13:11 |
| #2 Why are they allowing a woman to speak publicly? Shouldn't she be hidden at home? I thought that was the Muslim way. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2024-11-20 12:07 |
| #1 Amorites, Jebusites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, ..., Arabs. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-11-20 11:51 |