Walid Shoebat (cont...) (BACK
TO NEWSLETTER) “We proudly reveled in the death of Jews,” he
told the awestruck crowd. “It was a holy
thing.” Graffiti became his specialty, he
related, and he endeavored to fill every empty
space with hateful propaganda against Israelis. “We
knock on the gates of heaven with the skulls of
the Jews,” was one slogan that he proudly
scrawled as a young man.
“This is why I must pay the debt,” he
said humbly “And I must pay it in full.”
Shoebat boldly offered advice to the students.
He recommended that they be more pro-active in
the media, to tell their story loudly in the press.
“Why is your story so perfect, I have asked
myself? Yet it is not being told. Why is the Jew
always silent? Why are you silent, O Jew?”
“Why did you not raise your voices in protest
when the Palestinians destroyed Joseph’s
Tomb and desecrated your holy Torah scrolls? Imagine
if the Jews kicked the Arabs out of a holy site
and took it over for themselves- you know what
would have happened!”
Shoebat who characterized himself as an anomaly
said the Moslems want to kill him while Jews are
ambivalent towards him, feels very much alone.
However, he says he has “an obligation to
speak the truth and let the world know what they
Palestinians are all about and what their agenda
is.” His solution to the current Mid-East
crisis is to resettle all of the Arabs in Arab
countries because “then all Israel is a Jewish
Land.” He said that growing up he never even
remembers hearing about “Palestine” rather
he was raised as a proud Jordanian Arab. It was
only later when the media took up the cause of
Yassar Arafat did the Palestinian movement gain
legitimacy in the eyes of the world. “Arafat
is not even a Palestinian – he’s an
Egyptian.”
He said that the world’s media has been
engaged in deception on these issues.
“Mediocre minds are no match for professional
deception. The media has totally, professionally
deceived the world.”
“I too was brought up on lies,” he
said. He recalled that during the Six Day War his
father told him that all the Jews were killed and
none were left in Israel. “I awoke the next
morning to see two tanks with the Magen David outside
my house. People can learn to reject the lies they
were taught and change their ways. That is the
only hope.”
Rambam's Rosh Mesivta Rabbi Friedman said, “We
cannot condone Walid Shoebat’s past. Nor
does he. But he has a very important message for
the U.S. government and Americans in general. When
Jews speak about Arab hate, people think we are
biased, but when Walid, who lived it and saw it
first hand, exposes the Palestinians for what they
are, people stop and take notice. We thank Rabbi
Pesach Lerner and the National Council of Young
Israel for helping us coordinate this event.”
Plans are under way to have Shoebat speak before
a congressional panel in an effort to cut off funds
to the Palestinian Authority.
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