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| Arab
Perspective: Synagogue bombings will only serve Israeli
interests |
| | By Dr Marwan
Asmar | 21/11/2003 |
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The recent explosions at the two
synagogues in Turkey raised many questions about future relations between
Muslims and Jews and casts doubt on the political relations of countries
of the region. Dr Marwan Asmar of Gulf News Research Centre
looks at what the Arabic press has to say.
In its
editorial, Al Sharq (Qatar) says its country denounces the attacks on the
two synagogues in Turkey as acts that will inflame unrest in the Middle
East. The attacks are against the three monotheistic religions as well as
human and moral values.
Amr Moussa, Secretary-General of the Arab
League, condemned the attacks but also held Israel responsible for
incitement against terrorism that does not seem to be abating. Al Sharq
adds American losses in Iraq do not suggest the war against terrorism is
over as Washington claims, but is intensifying. The only way to deal with
what is happening in Iraq is not through further military means but by
political dialogue.
The daily goes on to point out the attacks in
Istanbul, which killed and injured 277, will only increase cooperation
between Turkey and Israel in the field of security, and maybe lead to a
harsher Turkish stand with regard to Iraq. Al Sharq concludes this will be
in the interests of Israel that would like to launch a war against
everything that is Arab.
The killing of Jews and the bombing of
the synagogues in Turkey will only serve the interests of Israel and those
against Arabs and Muslims, says Ahmed Al Rub'ie in Ashraq Al Awsat
(UK-based). The explosions are a present to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon and the Zionist media machine to refocus public attention away from
the atrocities by Israel and its policy of colonisation against the
Palestinians, he adds.
What will happen now is that the Palestinian
question will be swept aside, and the debate will move on from denouncing
Israel to sympathising with the victims of the synagogue
explosions.
The bombing of religious places, for whatever reasons,
is rejected, as the targets are always innocent civilians. Islam is not at
war with other religions, but in a justified conflict against those who
occupy Arab lands, states Al Rub'ie.
Israel lied and the world
believed it when it said it was a Jewish state; Zionism lied and the world
believed it about the Jews being one community despite all the historical
facts that prove they are different communities with many
cultures.
He warns the Zionist media will take the opportunity and
launch an attack against Islam and Muslims rather than on terrorists and
try and change European opinion that has recently been against
Israel.
Hazem Saghiyah in Al Hayat (UK-based) starts off by quoting
the well-known Israeli Haaretz daily which suggests the different
Palestinian organisations, except for the Abu Nidal faction, have long
been against targeting Jews abroad.
Quoting the paper, the
columnist says even the terrorist operations of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
were inside Israel and not against the Jews in the world. Saghiyah asks
what precisely was the objective behind the booby trap explosions outside
the synagogues. If it was to worsen Turkish-Israeli relations, the
complete opposite happened.
The Turkish police are now busy
arresting individuals from the Arab community living in Turkey, there are
greater security checks of Arab travellers going back to their country and
Mossad agents are helping the Turkish security forces in the
investigation.
Turkish-Arab relations have again taken a backseat.
The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan is now likely to
deal more cautiously with the Arabs and Europe is almost certain to lend a
more attentive ear to the American and Israeli points of view which will
now speak of terrorism against Semitism.
Those who would like
Turkey to become an Islamic bridge among the world cultures are being
impeded. Those that wanted to create a wedge between Sharon's policies and
the Jews of the world are also being thwarted.
Mohammad Naji
Amayreh, writing in Al Watan (Oman), says nobody will approve of any
attack on religious places whatever the reasons. They must be denounced
and the perpetrators must be found. It is not a question of a conspiracy
theory, but there are terrorist organisations who actively plot to act on
holy places.
Amayreh says he does not think anybody in Turkey has
an interest in carrying out the bomb explosions outside the synagogues for
the country is a secular state with people free to practise their
religions despite the fact that the majority of the population is Muslim.
And the Muslim religion rejects any attacks on other religions and
believes in a dialogue of cultures.
Surely the terrorist
organisations which have carried out the attacks cannot be regarded as
Muslims or pertaining to Islam, their idea being to show Turkey as
incapable of providing security and stability for its people, and Jews as
weak and targeted people who will have no other choice but leave for a
more secure place which would be Israel. |
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