Why I attended the "provocation"
By Michael Ben-Ari (Member of Knesset party Ihud Leumi), published in the weekly Israeli the Makor Rishon 29.10.10
Translated from Hebrew by Meir Ben-Hayoun
With no lot of hesitation I decided to go Wednesday, October 27th for the march in Umm El-Fahm. Indeed, it was foreseeable that the knights of freedom of expression, the strongest supporters of the "gay parade" or "Women of the Kotel" shameless attack us and our protest would call a "provocation." It turns out that for these people, the right never has the right to protest. According to them, "freedom of expression" and "democracy" are the exclusive property * Oppenheimer et al.
The press as usual its not disappointed. She portrays the Arab rioters as "youths" and our legal demonstration as a "provocation to the extreme right." I went to Umm El-Fahm because I have come to the conclusion that there was no other way of sounding the alarm, to warn those who are used to drive head deep into the earth at a time when the monster emerges before them called the "Islamic Movement".
There are six months ago, I used the tool called parliamentary bill propose to outlaw the Islamic Movement. I found myself on the podium of the Knesset members to expose the ideology and activities of the Islamic Movement which is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is an Islamist movement that wants to force in the world the laws of Shariah, like Hamas, like Hezbollah and Al Qaeda as. Raed Salah is driving this movement. It has already been convicted of transferring funds to Hamas and collude with terrorist elements who called themselves "free of Galilee." In a series of five articles, one can learn about his vision of the Islamic Movement, an ideology which he wants to see Islam govern all the territories conquered by the Muslim Caliphate Muhammad and add others. He "prophesied" that in the year 2050, most of Europe will be Muslim.
This movement does not recognize the state institutions "Zionist" Israel is striving to develop the human infrastructure and ideology of the day of uprising, "the dayI Jihad. " Jihad with the activities of charity is the agenda of the Movement for the making of power to which it aspires.
Raed Salah is a persona-non-scratched even Jordan. In Egypt, where we know very well the destructive potential of the Muslim Brotherhood, they are kept well under control. Only here, in Israel, the equivalent of Hamas and Al Qaeda operates freely.
The Western world has the annoying tendency to be surprised by the attacks of fundamentalist Islam. The red warning lights before the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, before the events of October 2000 here and before the flotilla to Gaza in no way disturbed the sleep of those who wish to delude themselves that all is well. Generally, leaders do not provide almost never serious. They tend to underestimate the magnitude of the disaster approaching fast. Why disturb the festival and the atmosphere of "all goes well in the brave new world? Indeed, if we do not feed into at Umm El-Fahm, were not exposed to the ambush that prepares us Raed Salah. Galilee is inundated with activities of a terrorist, violent incidents, fires, and networks of spying for the enemy. But our emphasis is to speak of circumscribed and marginal phenomena. They want us to believe that acts of violence are by way of common rights and non-ideological, that the harm is done in a "state of drunkenness", provided it does not call things by their names.
The day we went to Umm El-Fahm, as usual, I left home very early while everyone was still asleep. In such circumstances, I usually take a walk between my children who sleep deeply and cover one whose coverage has slipped. That morning, I lingered a little longer. I watched my children and I pondered our duty towards them, towards the children of us all. They have the right to sleep well, but we have a duty to ensure they do not wake up in a world of illusion shattered.
My bill against the Islamic movement was defeated by a large majority and did not cause any disruption or even no attention in the political system and public. In contrast, our protest in this nest of hornets drew on us all the familiar lexicon of insults. However, for a few hours, in Israel and worldwide, all had their attention drawn to this dangerous organization. On the way back, I received a phone call from a former senior official of the General Security Services (Shabak ) who wanted to put his support and encouragement. "MP Ben-Ari" he said after listening to one of the radio channels, "You're right. The Islamic Movement of Galilee is one of the pieces of the global Jihad but the state Israel fears compete with. " He added: "Your messages are very important, two thirds of the people are with you. "
Ultimately, our little action has certainly caused waves against us, but also towards this dangerous trend. Does it initiate this change in attitude as hoped? Time will tell. I pray that we do not wake up one morning in an intifada of assassins shahids (martyrs) induced by the Islamic Movement which we "will surprise", as usual, and will flow rivers Blood. So we will be asked to testify before a commission of inquiry and say: "Right, you were well warned. "
* Yariv Oppenheimer is the Secretary General of the Movement Akhshav Shalom," peace now ".