Q&A: Sefi Gledtzahler Met a Neturei Karta Man on the Street
Sefi Gledtzahler Met a Neturei Karta Man on the Street
Question
When Sefi Gledtzahler met a man from Mea Shearim and got into a spontaneous discussion with him. I’m taking a small excerpt from their exchange:
Sefi: Even before ’67, and even before ’48, there were the 1929 riots. You can see that even before the establishment of the State, they were already brutalizing us without there being a state.
Young man: Yes, but that was after the Balfour Declaration. Obviously the Arabs would be upset by the declaration. And anyway, if you give Arabs respect, you’ll get coffee in return. [As opposed to Peres, who said honor.] And in general, the Arabs are Ishmael, not Esau — that’s what he argued — and therefore he said they’re looking for respect, and that they don’t hate. What do you say about his claim?
Answer
In my opinion they’re looking for tea, and if you give them cocoa they’ll give you a cigarette.
Discussion on Answer
That’s what happens when people focus only on the history of Ashkenazi Jewry
Yes, there was also the massacre of the Jews in Khaybar after they were expelled by Muhammad and his men from Medina. And then also from the north of the country. In Khaybar itself, according to Muslim sources, about 700 Jews were killed. In Medina itself there was a flourishing Jewish settlement with Torah and commandments, of hundreds of thousands of Jews, with a king of Israel from the line of David. There are disputes about when the Jews arrived there.
I searched Google. It doesn’t say there how many Jews were massacred in Mawza as a result of that exile.
But there is some truth to it: the Arabs’ attitude toward us before and after the Balfour Declaration was not at all the same
Even before the Balfour Declaration, were the Arabs attacking us?