Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar said on the pro-Hamas Al Jazeera television network, "Jews were in Jerusalem while Muslims were drinking alcohol." In a heated debate with the narrator, he added, "We don't need your permission to build" in the capital.
The encounter occurred earlier this week, when Jews around the world celebrated Jerusalem Unification Day. Dr. Kedar has frequently appeared on the Qatar-based network but this time encountered a sharp attack from the show's host. "Building in Jerusalem is another coffin in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority," the narrator told Dr. Kedar, who answered that Jerusalem was the capital of Israel 3,000 years ago. His reference to Muslims drinking alcohol, which is forbidden in their religion, infuriated the host.
The narrator wagged his finger in the air and said excitedly, "If you want to talk about history, you cannot erase Jerusalem from the Koran, and don’t attack the Muslim religion if we want to continue talking." Dr. Kedar replied, "Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran. Jerusalem is a Jewish city."
Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran. Jerusalem is a Jewish city.
Expanding his remarks on Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday, the political scientist noted, "The Muslim religion did not come to live with Judaism and Christianity but instead lives at their expense. They build themselves on the destruction of Israel and to suggest otherwise is an attack on their faith."
He explained that Al Jazeera takes a jihadic and anti-Israel stance in order to detract viewers' attention from the wealth of the oil-rich Arab kingdoms, including Qatar, where Al Jazeera is based.
"The amount of poison that they disseminate about us from our home is too dangerous, and something had to be done," he recently told the Jewish Forward, referring to the Israeli government's unannounced partial boycott of the network. He labeled Al Jazeera "the mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood," the radical terrorist party that is gaining popularity in Egypt.
Al Jazeera television claims 100 million viewers and has studios in Jerusalem, Gaza and Ramallah.
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