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Jose Saramago compares Israel with nazis (cartoon+article)

by Posted by Latuff (latuff [at] uninet.com.br)
News from Spanish agency EFE.
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Jerusalem, March 25 (EFE).
Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago comparated today, Monday, actions of Israeli army within Palestinian territories with suffering of Jews during World War 2 in Auschwitz concentration camp.

Jerusalem, March 25 (EFE).
Nobel literature laureate Jose Saramago asked today for "an end to military occupation of Israel in the Palestinian territories" and "to stop humiliation and violation of human rights" during Israeli military actions.
by Marselo
great stuff latuff! Saramago is one of the biggest intellectuals/authors/geniuses around, maybe he'll write his next book on the whole situation there. let's hope the Portuguese government isn't sold out to Israel/US, but if it is, the better the book/story will be!

long live Palestine, long live Palestine! Venceremos! -M

by Ffutal
Portuguese author Jose Saramago visited Ramallah, a city on the West Bank, yesterday, and proclaimed: "This place is being turned into a concentration camp." Ha'aretz reports:

Saramago said that, before his visit to Ramallah he knew there were Israeli tanks there and that Arafat had been confined to his offices. "I didn't know that two colonies with army posts overlook Ramallah," he said. "I didn't know that every Palestinian settlement is under a separate siege."

The Israeli paper adds: "Asked by Ha'aretz where the gas chambers were, he replied; 'So far, there are none.' " Oh well, uh, never mind.

Saramago won a Nobel Literature Prize in 1998.


http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=145786

by DTAP
Even more hyperbolic is Ahmed Taha Al-Nakr, "an expert in foreign relations in the Egyptian daily Al-Akhbar." He tells the Web site IslamOnline.net that "the Israeli war-machine is eradicating the Palestininan [sic] people merciliessy [sic] in a way that is unprecedented and more barbaric than the Nazi Holocaust."

But if anyone's Nazi-like here, it's the fundamentalist Muslims and militant Arabs. IslamWeb.net features an essay called "Holy War Against the Jews":

It's a holy religious war not for land or sacred places. It is a war between Islam and Judaism, between faith and disbelief. Therefore our martyrs are in paradise and their killed people are in hell. . . .

You can take a look on the daily news to see Muslims are causing fear to the descendants of pigs and monkeys. Muslims will never surrender and Jerusalem will never be the capital of the Jews. And the sect mentioned in the hadith will continue fighting till the end of Jews.

Of course it's not just Jews these people hate. The Toronto Globe and Mail interviews Fatima Halabiyeh, mother of a suicide bomber who murdered 10 Jews in Jerusalem last December. Asked about Sept. 11, she makes clear that her hatred extends not just to Jews but to Americans as well: "Certainly we were all pleased. Not because we wanted those people to suffer, but because we were glad to see America weakened. America is the perpetrator of everything that happens here."


http://www.islam-online.net/english/News/2002-03/25/article15.shtml

http://www.islamweb.net/english/new/week25/02%20%5D%20Holy%20war%20against%20JEWS.htm

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&date=20020325&cache_key=international¤t_row=2&start_row=2&num_rows=1



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