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Exposing the 'real Apartheid,' a writer wrote in: "The Real Apartheid State"
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The "Palestine" envisaged by the UN is an apartheid state in the making. Israel Apartheid Week is the time to publicize that fact.
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During Israel Apartheid Week, orchestrated on campuses around the globe, the time has come to go on the attack, and to put the shoe on the other foot.
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In 1948, Apartheid laws institutionalized racial discrimination in South Africa & denied human rights to 25 million
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The time has come to go on the attack, and to put the shoe on the other foot.
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Black citizens of South Africa.
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In 1948, the Arab League of Nations applied the Apartheid model to Palestine, and declared that Jews must be denied rights as citizens of Israel, while declaring a total state of war to eradicate the new Jewish entity, a war that continues today.<br>
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In 1948, at the directive of the Arab League of Nations, Jordan devastated the vestiges of Jewish life from Judea and Samaria, and burned all schules in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
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In 1948, member states of the Arab League of Nations began to strip the human rights of Jews and to expel entire Jewish communities who had resided in their midst for centuries
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In the mid 1960's, The Arab League of Nations spawned the PLO to organize local residents to continue the war to deny Jewish rights the right to live as free citizens in the land of Israel - well before Israel took over Judea, Samaria, and the Old City of Jerusalem in the defensive war waged by Israel in 1967.
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And since its inception in 1994, the newly constituted Palestinian Authority, created by the PLO, has prepared the rudiments of a Palestinian State, modeled on the rules of Apartheid and institutionalized discrimination:
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1. The right of Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendents to return to Arab villages lost in 1948 will be protected by the new Palestinian state.
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2. While 20% of Israel's citizens are Arabs, not one Jew will be allowed to live in a Palestinian State
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3. Anyone who sells land to a Jew will be liable to the death penalty in the Palestinian State
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4. Those who murder Jews are honored on all official Palestinian media outlets.
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5. Palestinian Authority maps prepared for the Palestinian State depict all of Palestine under Palestinian rule
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6. PA maps of Jerusalem for the Palestinian State once again delete the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem
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7. Recent PA documents claim all of Jerusalem for the future Palestinian State.
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8. The right of Jewish access to Jewish holy places is to be denied in the new Palestinian State.
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9. The Draft Palestinian State Constitution denies juridical status to any religion except for Islam.
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10. No system which protects human rights or civil liberties will exist in a Palestinian State
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If that is not a formula for a totalitarian apartheid state of Palestine, then what is?
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<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9335</ref>
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The AJC asks:<blockquote>which state-Israel or the proposed Palestinian state-more resembles the bone- chilling bigotry of apartheid? While (as Israeli human rights organizations have documented and the Israeli Supreme Court has addressed) there are indeed instances of discrimination against Arabs in Israeli society, Arabs are citizens of Israel with the right to vote and participate in its democracy, and are even elected to the Knesset (Israel's parliament). Israel is one of the few countries in the world where Arabs are allowed to vote, and one of the fewer still where Arab women have this right. Where is the Palestinian willingness to extend similar political rights and protections to Jews who live in settlements that will one day be part of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza (in areas such as Hebron and Shechem [Nablus] where Jews have lived throughout history until they were forced out-many in 1948-only to return after 1967)?<ref>http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=838459&ct=1102827</ref></blockquote>
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From 'Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East':<blockquote>
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The nineteen years of Arab rule of East Jerusalem [1948-1967] and the attendant desecration of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries as well as the inaccessibility of Jewish holy sites during that period has taught Israelis to seriously distrust promises on that score. Mahmoud Abbas' recent statement that no Israelis would be permitted to stay on Palestinian land proves that not much has changed in the Palestinian view of the relationship. It's Palestine that would be a racist, apartheid state, not Israel which has a 20% Arab citizenship and Arab Members of the Knesset, as well as Arab members of the cabinet.<ref>http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3800</ref></blockquote>
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In 2004, as Arab Palestinians pushed the international community to force Israel to evacuate Jews, a writer asked "Creating a Palestinian Apartheid State?" clarifying: "Why does the Palestinian "Peace Plan" call for the expulsion of so many Jews from their homes?"<ref>http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4043.html</ref> Stan Goodenough
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(2004): "the establishment of racist, anti-Jewish areas" intended to "be the judenrein State of Palestine."<ref>http://www.jnewswire.com/article/119</ref>
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Under title "Judenrein palestine," R. Neuwirth wrote: <blockquote>The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, are a litmus test of Arab intentions. Why can't Jews live in their historic homeland if there really is peace? After all, there are 1.2 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel in the one Jewish country in the world, while there are only a handful of Jews living in any of the 22 Arab countries. In fact, in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, not only is it illegal for Jews to be citizens, they are not even allowed to live there.
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Therefore, instead of Israel being the "apartheid state" in the region, it is the Arab world that is not only apartheid, but also racist and religiously exclusive.<ref>http://www.betar.co.uk/articles/betar1073431322.php</ref></blockquote>
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C. Morse wrote about the plan "supporting the racist and apartheid idea of expelling 200000 Jews from the disputed territories leaving the area Judenrein."<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=OvV69F3yLukC&pg=PA74</ref>
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In Y.Z. Bloom's words: "Anyone who asserts that it is illegal for a Jew to live in Judea and Samaria just because he is a Jew, is no better than an advocate of apartheid." (referring to such policies like the Jordanians', Arab-Palestinians', etc.)<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=tlCHQ6LU988C&pg=PA106</ref>
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Writing in YNet, Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi "Endorsing Palestinian apartheid" asked: "Why does world accept notion of Palestinian state free of Jews?" and decries on "accepting the morality of establishing an apartheid, racist, Palestinian state which openly and proudly states its intention of being Judenrein."<ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3739588,00.html</ref>
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A native of S. Africa defines the Arab-Palestinian regime, "racist, apartheid, Judenrein policy of the PA."<ref>http://israeldefender.com/?paged=10</ref>
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Author David Solway:<blockquote>
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We must also bear in mind that Palestinians living in Israel will naturally keep their Israeli citizenship, but the new Palestine would be effectively judenrein, or Jew-free (another reason why Palestine would not be a genuine democracy but a racist and apartheid state)...<ref> http://books.google.com/books?id=DYXmAAAAIAAJ&q=judenrein</ref></blockquote>
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The Palestinian Authority's prohibition to sell land to non-Muslims<ref>http://books.google.com/books?&id=mcOfAAAAMAAJ&dq=Sennott</ref> created an uproar, and charging of Apartheid practiced by Arab Palestinian leadership/regime<ref>http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=205378</ref><ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/exclusives.html</ref><ref>http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275571.html</ref><ref>http://www.viciousbabushka.com/2009/04/who-is-the-apartheid-state.html</ref> came about with surfacing -again- of Arab-Palestinian "Death penalty for those who sell land to Jews."<ref>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPTalkback%2FCommonFrame&tbId=1238345346389&tbNum=51&type=Show</ref> It was branded racist and resembling real apartheid.<ref>http://www.afsi.org/MEDIA/newsLinks/shockers/9.htm</ref>
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In 1996, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mufti, Ikremah Sabri, issued a fatwa (religious decree), banning the sale of Arab and Muslim property to Jews. Anyone who violated the order was to be killed. Since then, there have been multiple murders and torture the Mufti also forbade Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim cemetery.<ref>http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths2/exclusives.html</ref><ref>http://christianactionforisrael.org/medigest/jul97/hitsquad.html</ref>
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Palestinian Authority's mufti in Jerusalem, Ikremah Sabri, has barred all Muslims accused of selling land to Jews from being buried in a Muslim cemetery.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498874080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</ref>
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In 2004, Palestinian who allegedly sold land to Jews killed, as PA Mufti of Jerusalem issued a 'fatwa' (religious decree) several years earlier prohibiting Palestinians from selling land to Jews.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1097136933331</ref> In 2006 there was a publicized case where a Fatah gunman murdered
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a Jericho man over home sale.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20060415154636/http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498851964&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</ref>
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From JPost's C. Glick (2006): <blockquote>Since 1994, dozens of Arab Israelis and PA residents have been murdered on suspicion of selling land to Jews. Abu al-Hawa's murder - like those that preceded it - tells us several important things about Palestinian society. It tells us that like the PA today, any successor Palestinian state will be a racist, apartheid state where laws will be promulgated based solely on race and religious origin. Jews will be denied all basic human rights and Arabs who peacefully coexist with Jews will be accused of treason and made targets for murder.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20070815223617/http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498874080&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</ref><ref>http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2006/04/why-is-muhammad-abu-alhawa-dea.php</ref></blockquote>
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In 2009, Palestinian Authority military court sentenced a Hevron Arab to death by hanging for the "crime" of selling land to Jews in Judea and Samaria.<ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131090</ref> As critics phrased it: "US-Funded Racist Apartheid Government Will Execute Man Who Sold Land To Enemy Religion."<ref>http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275571.html</ref>
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In 2010, PA affirmed death penalty for land sales to Jews.<ref>http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=188604</ref>
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In an article titled: "A Wrong Turn in East Jerusalem," Charles Bybelezer wrote (July, 2011) of real life cases, what happens to a Jew that accidently gets into the Arab "Palestinian" area of East Jerusalem, the raw danger of lynching is imminent. That is Jerusalem we are talking about, the historic capital of Jews:<blockquote> 
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Prior to 1967, the year Israel liberated Jerusalem from Jordanian apartheid-rule, Jews were not permitted to enter into their illegally occupied biblical capital. Jordan's "No Jews Allowed" policy meant that no Jew had prayed at Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall - the last standing remnant of King Solomon's temple - during the previous twenty years.
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Today, in East Jerusalem, controlled by Arab Palestinians and determined to be, according to Western powers, the capital of "Palestine," the situation is worse. Under Jordanian authority, Jews were banned from Jerusalem; under Palestinian rule, Jews are welcome, so that they may be summarily executed upon arrival.</blockquote>
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And tells the shocking story of a young man that went astray, when  his faulty GPS by-mistake navigated him into the Arab area, how his life was immediately threatened. As he was attacked by dozens of 'ordinary' Arabs throwing rocks and cement blocks into his car, he was rescued by a Mr. Darwish (who rushed him out of the Arab village -altogether- fearing his family's safety from the attackers), a civil servant, who, as a result, paid dearly for his political career and labeled a "traitor," for rescuing the innocent Jew<ref>http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/04/a-wrong-turn-in-east-jerusalem/</ref>
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At the horrindes demand by Arab-Palestinian leaders to drive out all Jews from land it sees as part of a future state, Ynet decried "PA's fallacious premises":
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How long will this intolerable inequity of demands fail to be noted by those who are promoting that "two-state solution"?</i><ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3703694,00.html</ref>
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Another writer decried: "Beware Palestinian apartheid," as the Arab-Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas seeks to adopt <i>racist policy based on ethnic cleansing of Jews.</i><ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3929819,00.html</ref>
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A writer laments (2011) that: "the price of creating a Muslim Palestinian state is the expulsion - the ethnic cleansing - of all Jews from its proposed territory. In other words, it is even worse for the Jews as a new Arab state called Palestine will be judenrein - the forcible removal of Jewish villages and their inhabitants. And this unthinkable outrage of ethnic cleansing, racism and Arab apartheid will be sanctioned by President Obama and the immoral United Nations under cover of the misnamed peace process."<ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9258/pub_detail.asp</ref>
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R. Daniel M. Zucker wrote about free Israel VS apartheid Palestine in an article (July 5, 2011) titled "Palestine vs. Israel: Pinning the 'Apartheid' Label on the Right Donkey"
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In recent years, Palestinian propagandists and their international supporters have attempted to brand Israel with the label of "apartheid," the despicable South African policy of racial discrimination that reduced the African non-white population to a decidedly inferior position akin to chattel.  In many international circles, this political charlatanism has succeeded in giving the Middle East's one and only democracy a black eye.  However, the reality is quite the opposite of what the Palestinians peddle to a very gullible world.
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In Israel, contrary to the Palestinians' fictional portrait of the Jewish state, not only are Arabs citizens with equal rights and protections under the law, but Arabic is an official second language.  And many Arabs serve in a variety of positions in the government, including Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Parliament) Majalli Wahabi of the Kadimah Party, as well as officers in the armed forces like Lieutenant Hesham Aborea and police such as Deputy Inspector-General Jamal Hakroush, deputy commander of the traffic division.  Arabs are free to live anywhere in Israel, although most choose to live within their own ethnic, cultural, and religious communities.  Arab students are welcome in the nation's universities and colleges and serve as professionals in all areas of the national life.
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By contrast, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has stated that no Jews will be permitted to live in a Palestinian state.  The Palestinian Christian Arab community has shrunk drastically in the last eighteen years since the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority took over in the West Bank -- to the point where today, Beit Jalla, once a Christian town outside Jerusalem, is without a Christian population, and Bethlehem, once the most Christian of cities in the Holy Land, is now peopled with a Muslim majority.  So, too, do Palestinian Christians face a determined campaign of forced conversion to Islam by the Hamas government of Gaza, which permits only one Jew to reside in Gaza: the five-year captive kidnapped Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit.
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So if the term "apartheid" still refers to unequal treatment under the law, forced segregation, or outright exclusion on religious, racial, or ethnic grounds, then it's the Palestinian donkey that should be pinned with the "apartheid" label.  Palestine -- where the president and the prime minister hold their offices without benefit of popular national elections, where non-Arabs are prohibited from owning land, and where the sale of land to a Jew is a capital crime.
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Of course, the Palestinian BDS movement doesn't want the world to pay attention to any of these facts, and its international supporters will conveniently ignore the evidence, but anyone with a modicum of intelligence and a reasonably open mind will want to seek a Palestinian response to my charges.</blockquote>
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And concludes with a call to the leadership of 'Palestinian apartheid': <i>Nabil Sha'ath and Saeb Erekat: the world is awaiting your response, lo sema-hát (if you please), Inshallah.</i><ref>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/palestine_vs_israel_pinning_the_apartheid_label_on_the_right_donkey.html</ref></blockquote>
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V. Sharpe calls the attention to: <i>What is also overlooked is that Hamas and Fatah demand that all Jews be ethnically cleansed from, and driven out of, their Jewish towns and villages within Judea and Samaria. In other words, Apartheid: Arab style.</i><ref>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9452/pub_detail.asp</ref>
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Israel's Prime Minister B. Netanyahu in his address to the United Nations (on Sep. 23, 2011)
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Another wave of outrage at "Palestinian" official apartheid and judenrein (ethnic cleansing) nature, came about in Sep. 2011, when Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ambassador to the U.S., Maen Areikat openly declared that a "Palestine" State should be free of Jews. <i>Elliott Abrams, a former US National Security Council official, said in response that according to such plans, Palestine will be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews.</i> Justfiably, Israel's minsiter Y. Edelstein said: "After an unending de-legitimization campaign and attempts to brand Israel an apartheid state, it appears it is the Palestinians who seek apartheid."<ref>http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4122473,00.html</ref> The shocking surprising part was also, that he didn't even realize the [real Apartheid] gravity<ref>http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/judenrein-palestine_593537.html</ref> of his (statement and) stand. Israeli foreign minsiter called for embassies to <i>protest PA Apartheid State</i><ref>http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147927</ref>. (The notorious anti-Israel "Israeli" paper Haaretz sanitized <i>Areikat's No Jews Remark.</i><ref>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/257718_Haaretz_Headline_Sanitizes_Are</ref>) Areikat's declaration means of course: <i>It would not just an "apartheid" state - it would be a state whose very basis would be the ethnic cleansing of every single Jewish man, woman and child...</i><ref>http://europenews.dk/en/node/4732</ref>
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While nominally citizens of the countries they inhabit, most non-Muslims, the majority of whom are Christian, are treated as second-class members of society because so many governments in that part of the world adhere to sharia, and anyone familiar with the Islamic legal system knows that it codifies discrimination.
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So Christians in the Middle East can be forgiven if they don't embrace the Arab Spring with as much fervor as their Muslim brothers and sisters because - to put it bluntly - the devil they know is at least more predictable than the devil they don't - which is, without a doubt, Islamic fundamentalism.
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The reason for this ambivalence is simple: Like Mubarak and Hussein, Assad continues the proud tradition of secular despotism, persecuting those who wear the cross, the hijab and the kippah with equal fervor. Those who say religion is the root of all evil in an attempt to maintain the devout wall between church and state conveniently overlook secular societies such as Syria and Baathist Iraq that terrorized their citizens in a religious vacuum.
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====ARAB-ISLAMIC BIGOTRY [ANTI-SEMITISM] IN THE WEST====
 
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As the ''Wall Street Journal'' points out (2009): "Europe Reimports Jew Hatred." Police arrests Muslims targeting Jews. That <i>The Islamist variation of Jew hatred is now being reimported to Europe.</i><ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123180033807075069.html</ref>
 
As the ''Wall Street Journal'' points out (2009): "Europe Reimports Jew Hatred." Police arrests Muslims targeting Jews. That <i>The Islamist variation of Jew hatred is now being reimported to Europe.</i><ref>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123180033807075069.html</ref>
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