44 F
New York
Friday, March 29, 2024

Corrie Lawyer Says Israel is Worse than Nazi Germany; Mainstream Western Media Remain Silent

Related Articles

-Advertisement-

Must read

Pictured above: “Peace Activist” Rachel CorrieLawyer Lashes Out at Media Watchdog Group

Palestinian Media Watch has issued a statement rejecting the remarks made by Hussein Abu Hussein, the Israeli Arab attorney for the Corrie family, in response to PMW’s bulletin two weeks ago. PMW is also demanding a public retraction and an apology from the lawyer.

Instead of responding to the content of his own statements on Palestinian Authority TV that PMW had subtitled and publicized, Abu Hussein attacked PMW, claiming:

“This clip was edited in a misleading and tendentious fashion by an anti-democratic organization whose goal is to harm the struggle for human rights and divert the discussion from the killing of the peace activist Rachel Corrie by a military bulldozer.”

PMW had revealed segments of Abu Hussein’s recent interview on PA TV in which he contrasted Israel’s creation to the establishment of Nazi Germany. He said Israel was “founded from the start on robbery and theft,” while “Nazi Germany was a state based on the rule of law for a short while.” Israel’s creation, he claimed, did not even have the justification that Nazi Germany’s creation had:

“Nazi Germany was a state based on the rule of law for a short while and it found refuge in the law. [However,] the State of Israel was founded from the start on robbery and theft of a nation’s homeland.”

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America recently published an article pointing out that “These comments were only covered by the Israeli press, niche publications and some blogs…” and poignantly asking, “if some of the attorney’s comments are worthy of coverage, why does the media ignore other, less sympathetic comments he makes?”

PMW also reported that Abu Hussein said the following about Israel:

“We suffer from a great injustice, from the giant monster… We all want to step on its head, but talking is not enough. Everyone has their role.”

Hussein, in the interview, did not elaborate or explain what he meant by “talking is not enough.”

Following PMW’s exposure of Abu Hussein’s statements, the Times of Israel reported that Abu Hussein complained about PMW:

“The comments had been taken out of context and the content of his remarks distorted. The publication of the comments by Palestinian Media Watch was an attempt to attack his character and that of the Corrie family, he said… the comments were part of an hour-long interview that covered a wide range of topics and a discussion of lessons to be learned from history – including the Holocaust.”

Palestinian Media Watch rejects Abu Hussein’s remarks as libelous. As a research institute, PMW publishes significant and representative segments of longer interviews. In the full interview, Abu Hussein said nothing that changed the context or meaning of anything that PMW reported. PMW has now expanded the translation and subtitled additional statements he made on PA TV, which can be viewed at their website, palwatch.org. [A website whose work the Jewish Voice heartily endorses, and recommends to our readers. –ed.]

Since Abu Hussein’s outburst, PMW added a longer transcript of his remarks comparing Israel and Nazi Germany. At the outset, the host of the program, Israeli Arab actor Mohammad Bakri, questioned if Abu Hussein was satisfied being a lawyer in Israel, given that, in his words, Israel is “an abnormal state” with “legal tyranny and racist discrimination even in the law,” such that “you sometimes lose a case, not because you’re a bad lawyer” but because of Israel’s racism. To this question, Abu Hussein answered “yes,” adding that law in Israel is a “compliant tool in the hands of the authorities,” which he then compared to Nazi Germany’s use of law:

“In the final analysis, the law is a compliant tool in the hands of the authorities. The Nazi state was also a state ruled by law. It took refuge in the law in order to carry out the most hideous crimes against humanity. The catastrophes in WWII are known to everyone. In WWII, 52 million people were killed, but the historical narrative mentions this as if the only truth is that six million Jews were killed in WWII. However, this does not negate the ugliness of this war.”

It is ironic that in his response, Abu Hussein pointed out that he mentioned the Holocaust. In fact, as this quote shows, his mention of World War ll was to critique the fact that the focus tends to center on the killing of six million Jews – the Holocaust – and not on the 52 million people in general who were killed in the war.

Presented here for our readers is a longer transcript of Abu Hussein’s remarks. Other topics covered in the interview that PMW chose not to translate in their entirety are marked in the transcript by three dots […] and include: a discussion about Israeli judges, innocent people Abu Hussein said were killed by Israeli soldiers, a long prison sentence given to a Palestinian youth, Israeli accusations against a sick child that the child had contacts with terrorists, and other topics.

Nothing said in any of these discussions has any bearing on the material cited by PMW or gives a different context to what PMW reported, as claimed by Abu Hussein. Abu Hussein’s statement that the interview “was edited in a misleading and tendentious fashion” is false.

The following is the longer transcript of Abu Hussein’s statements. The accompanying video can be viewed on the PMW website:

balance of natureDonate

Latest article

- Advertisement -