Intressanta synpunkter på Israel och Mellanöstern

Här följer länkar till två artiklar som behandlar Israel men ur en lite annorlunda synvinkel.
Den första artikeln är skriven av en akademiker och kolumnist från Saudi-Arabien, Amal 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Hazzani. Den publicerades den 23 augusti i Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
MEMRI presenterar artikeln:
Saudi Columnist Calls on Arabs to Learn from Israel's Handling of Protests
"In an article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Saudi academic and writer Amal 'Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Hazzani called on the Arab rulers to learn from Israel's handling of the social protests there, contrasting the swift measures taken by the Israeli government and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's use of military force against his own people.
Criticizing those who claimed that Israel's strikes in response to the attacks in Eilat had been meant to distract attention from the protests in the Israeli street, Ms. Al-Hazzani aked how Palestinians and Arabs could condemn this expected response while keeping silent over the Syrian army's shelling of the Al-Ramal Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia. She added that in contrast to the Israeli government, which clearly defined and took action against its enemies but maintained respect for its own citizens, the Syrian regime defined Syrian citizens who threatened the regime's legitimacy as the enemy, but had relinquished its legitimate borders in the Golan Heights"
Utdrag från artikeln kan läsas här.

Den andra kolumnen är skriven av Burak Bekdil (turkisk kolumnist) : Why Golda Meir was right (23 aug)
Artikelns rubrik syftar på ett citat av Israels tidigare permiärminister Golda Meir : Det blir möjligt att skapa fred i Mellanöstern först när araberna älskar sina barn mer än de hatar oss.
Skribenten utgår från turkiske permiärminister Erdogans uttalanden om Israel och judarna. Erdogan har vid ett flertal tillfällen sagt att Israel är det stora hindret för fred i Mellanöstern och för två och ett halvt år sedan upplyste han Israel president Peres om att :"Ni (judarna) vet bra hur man dödar".
Burak Bekdil går sedan över till att med siffror berätta vem som dödat vem. Han nämner att 11 miljoner muslimer har dödats i våldsamheter sedan 1948, av dem dödades 35.000 (0,3 procent) i krig med Israel medan över 90 procent dödades av muslimer.
Kolumnen kan läsas här.
"It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres’s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister Erdoğan has also declared more than a few times that the main obstacle to peace in this part of the world is Israel, once calling the Jewish state “a festering boil in the Middle East that spreads hate and enmity.” In this holy month of Ramadan full of blood on Muslim territories, let’s try to identify who are the ones who know well how to kill.
As the Syrian death count clicks every day to come close to 2,000, the Turkish-Kurdish death count does not stop, already over 40,000 since 1984, both adding to the big pool of blood called the Middle East. Only during this Ramadan, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK’s, death toll has reached 50 in this Muslim Kurds vs. Muslim Turks war. This excludes the PKK casualties in Turkey and in northern Iraq due to Turkish military retaliation since they are seldom accurately reported..."