MEMRI: Lebanese University
Event: "Just Like Hitler..We Should Fight Jews & Burn
Them"
Lebanon's Largest Government University Hosts Hizbullah's
Al-Manar TV Symposium Calling to Wipe Israel Off The Map: "Just
Like Hitler Fought The Jews.We Too Should Fight The Jews and Burn
Them".
Thursday, December 15, 2005
MEMRI: Lebanese University Event: "Just Like Hitler..We Should
Fight Jews & Burn Them"
Special Dispatch - Lebanon/Antisemitism Documentation Project
December 15, 2005
No. 1049
Lebanon's Largest Government University Hosts Hizbullah's Al-Manar
TV
Symposium Calling to Wipe Israel Off The Map: "Just Like Hitler
Fought The
Jews.We Too Should Fight The Jews and Burn Them"
The following are excerpts from a symposium of students at
Universite
Libanaise, hosted by Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV and broadcast on
November 29,
2005. The symposium marked the anniversary of November 29, 1947,
the day the
U.N. General Assembly passed the Partition Plan which is marked
annually in
the Arab world with the ceremonies of solidarity with
Palestinians.
Al-Manar's symposium was devoted to the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict and
participants included Shafiq Al-Hut, a former PLO representative in
Lebanon,
and Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian students.
It should be noted that Universite Libanaise(1) is Lebanon's
only
government-run university, and the country's largest.(2)
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http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=962 .
Mediator: "The Arab regimes have all accepted the establishing of
a
Palestinian state on the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip. In
other words, the 1967 borders only. They believe that the reality
and the
balance of power do not allow more than that at this stage. Do you
support
this 'realism,' or do you adhere to what has come to be known as
the
historical, original Palestine? Let us... Let us... Go
ahead."
Student 1: "My name is Hisham Sham'as, and I study political
science. I just
want to say everyone is talking about..."
Mediator: "Please address the question."
Hisham Sham'as: "The state shouldn't be only within the 1976
borders... Or
rather, 1967... Israel must be wiped out."
Mediator: "You mean, reviving the motto of erasing Israel from the
map."
Hisham Sham'as: "Israel should be completely wiped out, so the
Palestinians
will have a country to return to."
Mediator: "If someone tells you this motto is unrealistic, how
would you
respond?"
Hisham Sham'as: "There is no such thing as unrealistic. Just as
Israel...
Just like Hitler fought the Jews - We are a great Islamic nation of
Jihad,
and we too should fight the Jews and burn them."
[...]
Student 2: "Avian flu hit the entire world, and they are trying to
find a
cure for it now. As for Israel - the only cure for it is to wipe it
off the
map."
[...]
Mediator: "What's your name?"
Student 3: "Mahmoud Fakhri. I hope what I have to say is not too
inciting."
Mediator: "Go ahead and incite. This is what we're looking for. We
want some
action."
Mahmoud Fakhri: "In all honesty, the Arab people should overturn
the
disappointing regimes."
Mediator: "Now you are really inciting..."
Fakhri: "In all honesty, any disappointing government that wants
to
normalize relations with the Zionist enemy and to sell out the Arab
cause,
and especially Jerusalem - the people must topple this regime and
have its
say."
Endnotes:
(1)The University was created in 1953 by the Lebanese State.
According to
its website, it is "morally independent and enjoys administrative,
academic
and financial autonomy." The rector is Dr. Ibrahim Kobeissi. The
site is
both in French and Arabic, but the home page is in French
http://www.ul.edu.lb/index.htm . The University Rector - Ibrahim
Kobeissi,
wrote the following in his personal message on the site: "The
Universite
Libanaise is a moral entity enjoying administrative, academic and
financial
autonomy. Its mission mainly focuses on the following three
points:
teaching, research and the spreading of culture [...] The
philosophy of the
university is founded on freedom of thought, independent judgment
and reject
of authoritarianism."
http://www.ul.edu.lb/francais/presiden.htm
(2)According to the University's website, in the academic year
2000/2001
there were 68,510 students in which 85.7% came from Arab
countries.
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