Israel Matzav

Arab MK's threaten Glenn Beck

'Israeli Arab' MK's are 'warning' that Glenn Beck's rally in Jerusalem next Wednesday (which I will miss due to a family obligation) 'could cause violence.'

“There are enough racists in Israel without importing them from the US,” Hadash MK Muhammad Barakei said.

“The lessons from Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount apparently haven’t been learned. This event isn’t for building coexistence, but to spark fires in a sensitive location ahead of the United Nations vote on a Palestinian state in September.

“There is a danger that the event will lead to people being harmed, and the police should have prevented it,” Barakei added.

MK Ahmed Tibi (UAL-Ta’al) called Beck “a bizarre, conservative, neo-fascist comedian who is motivated by a hatred of Islam.”

Tibi accused MK Danny Danon (Likud), who is involved in Beck’s event, of “dancing to Beck’s flute-playing and rejoicing to every outrageous word against Arabs and Muslim.”

Arab activists in east Jerusalem criticized Beck’s decision to hold the rally so close to a tense area.

“There is a message [in the location] – especially to come to the City of David, that’s close to Al-Aksa and other Muslim holy sites and the Western Wall – it says a lot,” said Murad Shafa, a member of the Popular Committee of Al-Bustan, one of the neighborhoods in Silwan. “I don’t know him, but I know one thing: this area belongs to all the religions.”

Shafa expressed concern the event would attempt to erase parts of the historical narrative that hold that the site is holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims. “Why are we the smallest people? Is their god bigger than ours?” he asked.

'Nice furniture you got there. Wouldn't want to see anything happen to it,' said one of my neighbors in New Jersey after I called the police because a nearby bar was waking us every morning at 3:30 am. Yes, that's the kind of veiled threat being made here.

The 'Israeli Arab' MK's are trying to scare people out of going to Beck's rally. But there is no doubt that there could be trouble. Hopefully Jerusalem's police are ready to prevent it.

Labels: Glenn Beck, Israeli Arab, Restoring Courage rally in Jerusalem

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:26 PM