Some times we wrongly deal with the Jews, specially the Zionists, some people deal with them as if they were devils that should be avoided, although they are normal people; the same eyes, the same hands, the same minds, they are people. But our point of view, considering them, is limited to the feelings of hatred, disdain, avoidance, and boycott. Even some people may deal with them as the grandsons of pigs and monkeys, and we need to rethink about this idea.
It doesn’t mean that I’m calling for the normalization with Israel, but the point is that first we should pay attention to the historical fact of “know your enemy”, and second we should consider the ideological countering that is indispensable in any war.
People of Israel consists of many races who came from many places in the world; there is the Arab Jewish, the Russian Jewish, the European Jewish, etc. the Jewish community itself is divided into Eastern Jews and European Jews, and both of them have its own culture and different nature, and there is a very old hostility between them. Any way; they are normal people, so affecting them and trying to attract them to convince them that justice and peace consider giving back the land to their original owners; is a national duty and a very important weapon that we all neglect.
If we consider the Jews as a religious community, and Israel is mainly a theocrat who wants to exterminate the Palestinians, or even works on controlling the whole universe. It was declared in Netanyahu’s speech in which he asks the Palestinians to maintain that Israel is a theocrat. We have not discussed this idea yet; as some people avoid talking about this case although they know very well how much this idea is wrong, but in their point of view it is considered as a normalization which is equal to betrayal for the Arab.
Also there is anther dimension in this case, which is that there are some Jews who are against the Israel’s colonialism and hostility. Even there are some of them assert that Israel is a racial figure who offends Judaism. Also there is a group of Israel people who are completely for peace and against seizing Palestine. This group is calling for the dissolution of the two states and also calling for having the Palestinians their own state. “Peace Now” is the name of one of these groups, which has a protestation movement inside Israel, whose main aim is to conceive the people that seizing this land is unacceptable. The members of these groups organize demonstrations against the insulation wall and the seizure of the land. As a result; they are attacked and injured by the occupation Israel forces, exactly like their corresponding Palestinians.
I don’t mean to beautify the ugly deeds of Israel occupation forces, but I want to unveil some facts that many of us do not know. Even if they know, they ignore these facts. And as a result; the factor of the ideological countering is not considered in the continuing diplomatic, military, social, and cultural countering. By the ideological countering; I don’t mean the defamation of the horrible deeds of Israel, but I really mean is to face openly their ideas by their language trying to beat them.
Even our most prominent practice as Muslims, which is calling for the principles of Islam all over the world even in the very far African countries, Israel is out of this practice. It is not in the priority of Islamic institutions, so we don’t hear about a Jew’s conversion to Islam. All this is out of our disdain to them and our sever avoidance to “normalization” with them. At the same time we hear about many Christians, Buddhists, and even Pagans who declare their conversion to Islam. Why have not we thought about the Jews, and why they are excluded from our practice as Muslims to call foe Islam? Jews have no faith and a very weak conviction. If they are called to Islam, they will declare their conversion to Islam and admit that Islam is the only true faith.
On the other hand, there is a great avoidance and disdain to every thing that is from Israel especially newspapers, and books. I don’t mean to lessen the role of the boycott till we get back our land. No one can deny that the boycott is a national duty. Also I don’t mean to call for normalization or even ideological discussion with them, but I’m calling for facing the intolerance Jewish thoughts, and working on changing these thoughts by logical disputes and evidence, and the positive effective media means.
According to the Arab union for broadcasting; there are 696 Arab TV channels, none of them broadcasts in Hebrew language or French. There are little of them are broadcasting in English. The question now is why we don’t have TV channels broadcast their programs in Hebrew aimed at Israel indefinite and all the Jews in general? We need this to make them know more about the Arab cases, especially the Palestine case, and work on changing the intolerance Jewish thought if Israel who aimed to exterminate the Palestinians to seize their land.
Years ago, there was an attempt of the Nile News channels to broadcast some of its programs in Hebrew, but they were stopped. At the end, they had nothing, they couldn’t achieve any thing. Although there are many Arab TV channels that are specialized for songs, dancing, and many other trivial things, there is no channel that helps the ideological disputes.
All the Arab hates Israel, even the Hebrew language. And this strong feeling of hatred is a natural result for the seizure, killing, assassination, and many other actions that Israel practices every day in our land. Although the Hebrew language is taught in many Egyptian colleges and institutions, the ideological war is still delayed; we still have no action considering this point although we are working on the political, economic, military fields, we still silent about the ideological front. And yes I literally mean to say “front”, ideology is one of the battle fronts. And we will work on it soon.
Recently, the Israel assembly for broadcasting has offered financial support for establishing a new TV channel broadcasting in Arabic and for free. It should have been our first step, not their one.
The traditional concept of the “Cultural Invasion” had come to an end after the great development in the field of the open broadcasting and the internet. But it still works for Israel. For a long time their culture was unknown and mysterious. We don’t know any thing about them, we don’t know how they think, how they fight, and we even don’t know their language! How can we fight them while we don’t know any thing about their culture, language, and plans?
We can’t go without saying that Israel consists of many different races, the thing which makes the task easier; because it is hard to face and fight a people with one faith and try to change it. But dealing with a people who consists of many different races, different cultures, different classes; a people who has a profound conflicts about their national identity, of coarse it will be so much easier to affect and change many of their concepts. The Israel community is well known by these deep differences which are a main factor of their weakness. Although many years had passed since they had assembled from many places in the world, they could never assemble in one community with one faith and one aim. So, their politicians are working to find a meeting point for all these races, as without it; the Israel community is liable to dissolve. They finally decided that this meeting point will be the religion, so they claim that Israel is a theocrat and they are the God’s sons. They are seeking for an imaginary cause to unify the fragments of their community.
The mental weapon is more important than any other weapon. It penetrates the borders without any need for spies or armies. It can reach and affect the enemy, his mind and beliefs. It is the only effective weapon that can bring victory, release the land, and impose peace without bloodshed.