Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel, delivered at the Duke University Counter > Terrorism Speak-Out > > I'm proud and honoured to stand here today, as a Lebanese speaking for > Israel , the only democracy in the Middle East . As someone who was > raised in an Arabic country, I want to give you a glimpse into the > heart of the Arabic world. > > I was raised in Lebanon , where I was taught that the Jews were evil, > Israel was the devil, and the only time we will have peace in the > Middle East is when we kill all the Jews and drive them into the sea. > > When the Moslems and Palestinians declared Jihad on the Christians in > 1975, they started massacring the Christians, city after city. I ended > up living in a bomb shelter underground from age 10 to 17, without > electricity, eating grass to live, and crawling under sniper bullets to > a spring to get water. > It was Israel who came to help the Christians in Lebanon . My mother > was wounded by a Moslem's shell, and was taken into an Israeli hospital > for treatment. When we entered the emergency room, I was shocked at > what I saw. There were hundreds of people wounded, Moslems, > Palestinians, Christians, Lebanese, and Israeli soldiers lying on the > floor. The doctors treated everyone according to their injury. They > treated my mother before they treated the Israeli soldier lying next to > her. They didn't see religion, they didn't see political affiliation, > they saw people in need and they helped. > >> For the first time in my life I experienced a human quality that I >> know my culture would not have shown to their enemy. I experienced the >> values of the Israelis, who were able to love their enemy in their >> most trying moments. I spent 22 days at that hospital. Those days >> changed my life and the way I believe information, the way I listen to >> the radio or to television. I realized I was sold a fabricated lie by >> my government, about the Jews and Israel , that was so far from >> reality. I knew for fact that, if I was a Jew standing in an Arab >> hospital, I would be lynched and thrown over to the grounds, as shouts >> of joy of Allah Akbar, God is great, would echo through the hospital >> and the surrounding streets. > > I became friends with the families of the Israeli wounded soldiers: one > in particular Rina, her only child was wounded in his eyes. > > One day I was visiting with her, and the Israeli army band came to play > national songs to lift the spirits of the wounded soldiers. As they > surrounded his bed playing a song about Jerusalem , Rina and I started > crying. I felt out of place and started waking out of the room, and > this > mother holds my hand and pulls me back in without even looking at me. > She holds me crying and says: "it is not your fault". We just stood > there crying, holding each other's hands. > > What a contrast between her, a mother looking at her deformed 19 year > old only child, and still able to love me the enemy, and between a > Moslem mother who sends her son to blow himself up to smithereens just > to kill a few Jews or Christians. > > The difference between the Arabic world and Israel is a difference in > values and character. It's barbarism verses civilization. It's > democracy verses dictatorship. It's goodness verses evil. > >

Lebanon was a Christian country until Muslims achieved a majority through an extremely high birthrate. The jihad against Lebanon's Christians was savage and barbaric. The IDF was the only hope for the embattled Christians. Click on Photo gallery: http://www.free-lebanon.com/ 20,000 Christians handicapped by PLO atrocities. PLO terrorists were rewarded for their savagery and mass murder of Christians by implanting them into Israel as TERRORIST "peace" partners through Oslo to continue the bloody, barbaric jihad against Israel's Jews. The Christians of Damour, Lebanon treated Muslims from surrounding areas free of charge in their hospital. The PLO and other terrorists repaid the Christian kindness with barbaric savagery: The Massacre and Destruction of Damour 'The attack took place from the mountain behind. It was an apocalypse. They were coming, thousands and thousands, shouting 'Allahu Akbar! God is great! Let us attack them for the Arabs, let us offer a holocaust to Mohammad 'And they were slaughtering everyone in their path, men, women and children.' Whole families were killed in their homes. Many women were gang-raped..." http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/psa/psa.html Satanic acts were perpetrated on Damour Christians.

"Iran is significant,respected player in the Middle East, which is palying a stabilizing role" Declarations of the French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy , this Monday in Beirut

and Iran is a legimitate target. One nation calls for the destruction of another (UN recognized) nation. That nation can now be attacked with whatever level of force is needed to elminiate the threat.

Why don't you write about hezbolla's propoganda, means CNN? http://newsbusters.org/node/6552

Reading the (English language) Al-Jazeera news site, I note that they do not record Mr Ahmadinejahd's "solution" to the situation in Lebanon. Interesting. I have always suspected that the English version of Al-Jazeera was bowdlerised - now my suspicions are strengthened.

I would like to know two things. 1. How the destruction of Israel is even remotely justified? 2. How the Muslim nations hope to achieve the destruction of Israel? You most certainly don't have the military means, or the courage, to achieve this goal.

Both follow enthusiastically Hitler's feet. Both will end like him . If the world intervenes- it will happen soon. If not- many good guys will die. World: Don't be indifferent to these wretched and Satanic inhumans !

Past experience prove Islamists lie about the number of civilians wounded and killed. Less Israelis get killed than Lebanese because Israel do not use Israeli civilians as human shields and protect Israelis by placing them in bomb shelters - one third of Israelis are currently living in bomb shelters. Israel warned Qana residents repeatedly by pamphlets and radio to leave the area - 150 rockets were launched from Qana - these rockets killed 18 Israelis and wounded hundreds. Hamas and Hizbullah fight the proxy war against Israel for Syria and Iran. United with Lebanon whose Prime Minister Siniora on July 30, 2006, publicly thanked terrorist Hizbullah for its sacrifices in the war against Israel. YNETNEWS (07.30.06) Lebanese PM thanks Hizbullah for 'sacrifices' http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283763,00.html Iran's proxy, Hizbullah, ruthlessly uses Lebanese civilians as human shields to protect rocket launching teams - setting up rockets and other weapons in basements of apartment blocks, schools and mosques. Iran's proxy, Hizbullah despicably shoots from inside mosques, hospitals and schools in south Lebanon. Images show Iran's proxy, Hizbullah using high-density residential areas to launch rockets: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html Global jihadists - Iran's proxy, Hizbullah's evil goal is the murder of every Jew. On October 22, 2002, Nasrallah told Lebanon's Daily Star: "If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." The source of the global, genocidal war is religion-inspired hatred for Jews and other non-Muslims. The purpose of the PLO as enshrined in its charter is the destruction of Israel. PLO terrorists were implanted into Israel through Oslo "peace" accords. The Hamas Charter states: "Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims... Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it..." Murderous Iran states repeatedly they intend to wipe Israel off the map - Iran is now dangerously close in achieving nuclear capability to execute their genocidal goal. Hamas and Hizbullah proxies fight Iran's war against Israel - a global jihad with its ultimate goal the entire world subjugated under Islamic rulers - Israel's fight for freedom and human rights is a fight for freedom and human rights for all nations.

This is the result of decades of self deception and propaganda. Ahmagetajob actually beileves much of what he is saying as do most of the citizens of arab and muslim countries. I do not believe this situation will bet better any time soon.

I have a much better solution. !! If that raving lunatic, Ahmadinejad, were to disappear up his own anal orifice, & at the same time make sure that he took with him all his "servants", then not only would the Mid-East but ALL the world be a happier & safer place for all mankind

This what I wrote: " sraeli leaders think that they will win this war. But they must remember that even if the killed all Hezbollah 's men. We will made millions of men and women like these. I'm from Saudi Arabia and we, all Saudis, always ask our young children to stay long hour watching the TV and tell them see what the Israelis do on the children. We tell our children you must be prepared to fight these blood succors, you must not forget what the Israelis done to Lebanon or Palestine. We always show our young children pictures of those children tortured in Ghana and all of the children who has been slaughtered by the Jewish Army. We tell our children see how cowered Israeli are. They can't and will not be able to face men, they show their strength only on children and old men & women. Cowered Army………… Can't face Hezbollah, so they kill the children So do anyone of you still ever dreams that the Israeli will ever win and force us to accept their existence by force????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Therefore the Israeli people need to decide now before tomorrow the way the need to live in this region??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" This what you wrote on your NP: " 2. Empty words They all know that the powers that really matter are not condemning Israel. All this is for show, for their own populations. Ibrahim , S. Arabia (08.03.06) " U layers

force on the border? Is he kidding or is he just completely cynic,as they-arabs- usually are? On the other hand,it is amazing how the world don't wake up for the iranian threat. How can be accepted such declaration as this one made by ahmad....: "the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel". HE IS OPENLY THREATENING Israel! In my view,the only ways for Israel to protect itself-now and in the future- is to fervently build high tech means to repel enemies rockets in the air,before reaching Israel;strengthen more and more its militar intelligence;sophisticate more and more its weapons;aprimorate much and much the army. Israel should send gradually enemies inside the country to out of it and get rid of parliamentaries enemies. In other words:Israel should CLEAN-very cleaned- itself inside itself,strentengtening itself more and more so,and increasing so its capabilities in CONCENTRATING in its OWN objective which are the preservation of the JEWISH COUNTRY ISRAEL,its principles,its people,etc,and do not apologize for it. I put an image the other day here,and I will repeat because it seems to me ilustrative: Israel should build around itself a halo,and ferously repel atacks, from outside ,inside it. But,for this to function,Israel should clean itself from inside. And, never more, imbeciles politics should be put into the job.

The only difference in civil rights and obligations is that muslims are not obliged to serve in the Army. Those who decided to live outside Israel (Lebanon, PA, Egypt, Sweden etc.) are not covered, of course.

Israel and the Free World must eliminate this threat from Iran and execute a regime change. This threat from the fanatical Ayatollah regime must be confronted and eliminated NOW. There is no other choice.

The Zionist regime got nothing to do with the middle east crisis! the only thing that led to the crisis was the the hizballah hasty actions! u have to understand idiot Israel land will always stay our land! ruination of the Zionist regime means ruination of the jews country and u know what? it wont happen.... u hate jews from no reason, u deny the holocaust, u tell everyone that israel need to be "erased from the map"....u never let ur mouth stup when it has to!!!..and now u bring us this stupid reasons for the middle east crisis?!? u make me sick idiot!

Daisy, it seems you are similar to most of Americans who doesnt know whats going on around the world because you are being driven by a biosed media. who is creating conflicts worldwide are the American barons of war from artillary makers to Oil companies owners.

please stop blaiming muslim political leaders for all of the problems...this is not the problem. the real problem is the koran. they hate jews b/c their religion tells them to. the only solution is not the destruction of israel, but rather the complete destruction of islamic regimes. we cannot allow these islamofascists to control states with armies.

Is there a tried and recommended surgical procedure for this? Just say our boys managed to kidnap Shorty, would you be able to do the rest?

Ahamdinajad is the only leader who specified the real cause of problems in middle east. The west is struggling to stablize the abnormal presence of israel in our region, they do so to protect their countries from the zionist destructive ideas and schemes. The West are throwing their garabage to us; we will throw it back or burn it if necessary. No matter how israel resisted, no matter how many trials we have to do before we succeed, everyone knows, including the zionists themselves, that their abnormal hybrid country has an expiry date that is coming soon.

No one can let the jewish state "to be wu\iped off the map". The world was silent once, and still is silent when every evidence is making it clear that the muslims do not this part or that part, they don't want to see jews having theit own country!!!

Is this man certifiable? Probabaly. Are certifiable lunatics dangerous? They most definitely can be. Let's not underestimate the threat that this man and his evil regime pose to the world

First I dont find any relation of your "smart" comment and the topic in discussion Second I think this story is like the reports that are broadcasted daily by the IDF (Israeli Demolition Farts) about their "heroic" acheivements in Lebanon! The Website in reference is for a terrorist group that has cooperated with your government and is responsible for hundereds of innocent victims during your occupation.

Surpirse! Maybe now those who speak of Israel's need to change its policy to win the hearts and minds of moslems, will pause and reexamine their basic assumtions. There is no changing the hearts and minds of genocidal maniacs. They will applaude only while Israel is moving towards its own destruction.

No, not about THAT! (But maybe THAT'S small, too!) It's his height - he's a very short man so he has to talk BIG to show what a big man he is!

Sudan East Timor south Phillipines Afganistan Iraq vs. Iran, vs. Kuwait, vs. the Kurds Iran, Turkey vs. the Kurds in Lebanon - Muslims vs. Christians Libyans terrorism I am SURE that this is a partial list ISLAM = VIOLENCE the frekin' Saudi flag has a SWORD on it - enough said !!!!

WHATEVER YOU DO KILL civilians and innocents people ; at the END of all only the ISLAM gonna Win inchaa'allah

I can believe that a leader of a contry has nothing else to say that that. It is only him or all the muslim world thinking that way? I am not muslim, I am not a jew, I am just a human being and I don't want any one form one or the other side to die. I think that this whole war is a mistake, maybe the easiest solution is violence, but that is the worse and the most primitive. I think we should concentrate all our efforts in comming up with a just solution to the conflict in a long term like the formation of two states, but for taht you need people in both sides prepared to talk and with this arguments arabs only declare that there is no one to talk.