[LCM Articles] American Congress of Truth

[Abdallah Jabbour]

http://americancongressfortruth.com/


> *Brigitte Gabriel Speech at Duke University**
> *
> *Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter
> Terrorism Speak-Out**
> *
> I'm proud and honored to stand here today, as a Lebanese speaking for
> Israel
> , the only democracy in the Middle East . As someone who was raised in an
> Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic
> world.
>
> I was raised in Lebanon , where I was taught that the Jews were evil,
> Israel
> was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the Middle East is
> when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea.
>
> When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in
> 1975,
> they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended up
> living
> in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without electricity,
> eating
> grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to a spring to get
> water.
>
> It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon . My mother was
> wounded by a Moslem's shell, and was taken into an Israeli hospital for
> treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at what I
> saw.
> There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, Palestinians, Christians,
> Lebanese, and Israeli soldiers lying on the floor. The doctors treated
> everyone according to their injury. They treated my mother before they
> treated the Israeli soldier lying next to her. They didn't see religion,
> they didn't see political affiliation, they saw people in need and they
> helped.
>
> >For the first time in my life I experienced a human quality that I know
> my
> culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the values of
> the
> Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their most trying moments.
> I
> spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days changed my life and the way I
> believe information, the way I listen to the radio or to television. I
> realized I was sold a fabricated lie by my government, about the Jews and
> Israel , that was so far from reality. I knew for fact that, if I was a
> Jew
> standing in an Arab hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the
> grounds, as shouts of joy of Allah Akbar, God is great, would echo
> through
> the hospital and the surrounding streets.
>
> I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers: one
> in
> particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes.
>
> One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play
> national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they
> surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem , Rina and I started
> crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and this
> mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me.
> She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood there
> crying, holding each other's hands.
>
> What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19 year old
> only child, and still able to love me the enemy, and between a Moslem
> mother
> who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just to kill a few
> Jews
> or Christians.
>
> The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in
> values
> and character. It's barbarism verses civilization. It's democracy verses
> dictatorship. It's goodness verses evil.
>
> Once upon a time, there was a special place in the lowest depths of hell
> for
> anyone who would intentionally murder a child. Now, the intentional
> murder
> of Israeli children is legitimized as Palestinian "armed struggle".
>
> However, once such behaviour is legitimized against Israel, it is
> legitimized every where in the world, constrained by nothing more than
> the
> subjective belief of people who would wrap themselves in dynamite and
> nails
> for the purpose of killing children in the name of god.
>
> *Because the Palestinians have been encouraged to believe that murdering
> innocent Israeli civilians is a legitimate tactic for advancing their
> cause,
> the whole world now suffers from a plague of terrorism, from Nairobi to
> New
> York , from Moscow to Madrid , from Bali to Beslan.
> *
> They blame suicide bombing on "desperation of occupation". Let me tell
> you
> the truth. The first major terror bombing committed by Arabs against the
> Jewish state occurred ten weeks before Israel even became independent.
>
> On Sunday morning, February 22, 1948 , in anticipation of Israel 's
> independence, a triple truck bomb was detonated by Arab terrorists on Ben
> Yehuda Street , in what was then the Jewish section of Jerusalem .
> Fifty-four people were killed, and hundreds were wounded. Thus, it is
> obvious that Arab terrorism is caused not by the "desperation" of
> "occupation", but by the VERY THOUGHT of a Jewish state.
>
> So many times in history in the last 100 years, citizens have stood by
> and
> done nothing, allowing evil to prevail. As America stood up against and
> defeated communism, now it is time to stand up against the terror of
> religious bigotry and intolerance. It's time to all stand up, and support
> and defend the state of Israel , which is the front line of the war
> against
> terrorism.
>
>
> --
> Wael
>
> "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
> differ
> from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even
> incapable of forming such opinions. "
>


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