Kritiken avslöjar hur en del motarbetar att araber och judar skall göra något tillsammans och hur en del israeliska araber tydligen ser judarna och sitt eget land som sina fiender (parlamentsledamöt Hanin Zoabi Maariv 31 december).
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Media Review 2012 Index
Haaretz,
October 31; Maariv, November 1, 2012
Christian
priests have riled up the Christian Arab community in Nazareth by attending a
gathering that aimed to encourage Christian Arab youths to be drafted into the
IDF. The event was organized by the mayor of Nazareth Elite together with the
Defense Ministry’s Youth and Community Department and drew crowds of Christian
and Muslim Arabs, Druze and Bedouins.
The Arab
local councils condemned the gathering, which, according to the mayor of
Nazareth, is doomed to fail. “It stems from political motives on the eve of the
elections and its aim is to cause an ethnic divide within Arab society.” Arab
Knesset members also condemned the event. The council of the Orthodox Christian
community decided to excommunicate one of its priests – Jobrail Nadaf – who was
in attendance at the event. In a statement released to the press, the council
said that “Christian
Arabs are an integral part of the Palestinian people and are the victims of a
long standing policy of discrimination and racism, and therefore will not
support a move aimed at splitting and causing disputes within the Arab
Palestinian society in Israel, including the Christian community in Nazareth and
throughout the country.”
Father
Jobrail Nadaf said in response that “this is a campaign of unbridled incitement,
motivated by political reasons” and that “the council isn’t authorized to
excommunicate him.”
The article
in Maariv, which appeared on the following day, added that Father Nadaf
has received death threats, in which he was told that his head would be severed
from his body. Nadaf has filed a complaint with the police.
In a
follow-up to the furor caused by the gathering in Nazareth which aimed to
encourage Christian Arab youths to enlist in the IDF (see November 4 Media
Review), Jewish group Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality)
called on Christian Arabs to abstain from joining the IDF (Makor Rishon).
Hadash claims that the Ministry of Defense is deliberately trying to divide the
Arab community (Christian and Muslim) in Israel. They write: “It is not
legitimate that [the Arab community] will be drafted into an army that most of
the time is used against their own people. ... Brothers and sisters of all
ethnic groups, Palestinians who are citizens of Israel, we, young Jews who have
refused to serve in the Israeli military on account of our opposition to the
ongoing occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people ... are writing to
strengthen you and to encourage you in your refusal to be drafted into the
Israeli Defense Forces. We have been fighting alongside you for years ... and
recognize the devious and cunning tactics used against you ... to frustrate and
divide you and distract you from your struggle for your rights and the rights of
the Palestinian people in general.”
Maariv,
December 23, 2012
Andreas
Alamya, a priest from Nazareth who supports the initiative for young Christian
Arabs to be drafted into the IDF, had his tires slashed this week. In addition,
the priest found a blood-stained rag on his doorstep. Several priests have riled
up the Christian community in Nazareth in recent months as a result of their
support of Christian Arabs serving in the Israeli army. The latest attack
follows on the excommunication of Father Jobrail Nadaf in November after he
participated in an event that was meant to encourage young Christian Arabs to
join the army (see the November 4 & 12, 2012, Media Reviews).
Maariv,
December 31, 2012
Arab Knesset
member Hanin Zoabi sent a letter this week to ostracized Orthodox priest Jobrail
Nadaf criticizing his support of the initiative for young Christian Arabs to be
drafted into the IDF (see the November 4, 12, and December 30, 2012, Media
Reviews). “You are separating [the young Christian Arab] from his nation and
turning him into the enemy of his own people by helping the real enemy,” wrote
Zoabi. “Arab Christians are not a neutral bridge between two sides. They have a
place among their people. ... They have no place outside of their nation. ...
They are part of the fabric of our Arab Palestinian
nation.”
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