Arab World: “We Stopped Saying Israel…”
The controversy over the war on Gaza is never ending. Voices calling to prosecute the Israeli officials and officers for war crimes led to warning top Israeli officials against traveling to Europe in fear of impending war crime law suits. Others still claim that what happened during the Israeli aggression was actually in self defense. The Arab online community, getting sick and frustrated at the atrocities that were happening and the media warring that was going on both online and offline, launched a campaign that was sparked by the following tweet (message on microblogging site twitter):
Alloush [ar] from Syria explains the idea behind the campaign to start using the word Israhell:
الواقع يقول أن إسرائيل في احتلالها للعرب ارتكبت أفظع المجازر وأقذر الأفعال التي شكلت معاناة انسانية حقيقية لهويتنا العربية، الواقعية تقول أنها Israhell وليس Israel، ما هي الترجمة الأصح لهذا المصطلح الجديد، هل نقول إسراحيم [إسرائيل+جحيم]، أم إسرارير [إسرائيل+شرير]، أم نلتزم بـ إسراهل، ربما كيان الجحيم أفضل ترجمة.
The campaign got its artwork from the popular art website DeviantArt by Algerian designer Hamoud.
The design attracted a flood of comments from people on both sides of the line of fire. DeviantArt user
Your thoughts and opinions are your own. But this is not an appropriate place to voice these opinions. Freedom of speech is only just until it's used to hurt others. Not all of Israel is behind their militarist's decisions. Don't scorn an entire country for the actions of a few.
We also see another online initiative – the Israeli Crimes Against Humanity Encyclopedia [ar/en]- which is a joint effort of Syrian, Egyptian and Saudi bloggers – documenting the success of the campaign:
we got IsraHell about 40.000 result 6 days ago
2 days ago we were about 102.00
now we are about 117.000
The post is dates back to January 15th, 2008. A search at the time of writing this post shows 127,000 results.
While military operations are currently on hold, no one knows for how long this fragile ceasefire would hold, and when would all hell break loose again.
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Your goals are admirable, but not realistic, for you ignore the one constant of all human history, which is the fact that we as a species have been butchering each other by the hundreds of millions for millenia in every part of the world without exception. All past dreamers, and I will name but a few, Jesus Christ came with the best of ideals and they killed him, and the pain, suffering, destruction and death that he left in his wake is staggering in its totality, and still continues today. Ghandi’s dreams which was similiar to Jesus has only brought about his death and the suffering and death of millions of those he tried to help, these misguided souls and there are plenty of them today are taking us all to hell. My prediction for the near future is not a dream, but in keeping with the real world that is divided by colour, creed, culture and the greatest divider of all, religion. The world is torn asunder by our differences, and in the present global financial meltdown, leading to breakdown in civil order, conflicts between nations, and within nations will increase. Racial hatreds will intensify, to where we will be fighting in our cities, towns and streets. For human behaviour is consistent it never fails, as history testifies to, that is the reality, not the dream. The reality continues, for in the coming conflagration as the world situation deteriorates people will stick with their own kind.We live in a world whose foundation has been built on paper, what do you expect to happen to this greedy world of ours. If Jesus christ and many like him have failed, do you not think you are presumptous in the extreme to think that you can unite mankind? Wake up, the nightmare has begun, be prepared to defend yourselves. Michael.
Wether people recognize the nation of Israel or not it is still the nation that God has given to them as promised in the Holy Scriptures through Isaac the promised seed.But promises were also made to Ismael the other Son of Abraham,by Hagar ,that they would have ten nations which they do.So why not let Israel have their nation and not covet theirs.We all have a sin nature and need a God of love and forgiveness to forgive them. He is found in the Holy Scriptures as the Lord Jesus Christ,the promised Messiah and that Prophet that Moses said we must hear to be saved. As found in the preserved word of God,the Authorized King James Holy Bible. He lived a sinless life,and died for our sins on the cross in Israel and shed his sinless blood as the full atonement for our sins.He was buried,and rose from the dead and was seen of men and went back up to heaven.We can receive Gods gift of eternal life in heaven by repenting of our sins and trusting him as our God and Saviour.Thank You,very much,Sincerely;
The muslim world (read arab world) has only one hope left – get its people away from the illiterate mullahs who want to drag them to 7th century saudi arabia.
They cannot live foreever on oil and have no technology, no food, no freedoms – no nothing wihtout the western and asian world. Anybody who disagrees —- just look around you now and name one item u see made by a muslim or even invented by one ( dont say the usual example of things “invented” in the 10th century. They were mostly stolen from lands muslims plundered and destroyed.
Get in line with the world or get out of it.