by Giulio Meotti‏

United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan. The list of countries of the Arab-Islamic world that have made peace with Israel in recent months is impressive.A Tunisian singer thought it was time to put this atmosphere of normalization into music. So, on December 13, Noamane Chaari uploaded a video of a song he had just recorded with an Israeli musician. The song, in Arabic, speaks of dreams of peace, of olive trees, of the sea, of Tunis, of Jerusalem. Chaari recorded it with Ziv Yehezkel, an Iraqi Jew. An invitation to build bridges between Jews and Arabs.

Host of a broadcast of the famous radio station Mosaïque Fm, the young musician was the subject of death threats. Stressing that the author of the lyrics, a Yemeni poet, remained anonymous so as not to risk beheading in his country, host Hedi Zaiem asked: “What will happen to the man who sang it?”.

Threatened with death, fired by his employer, Channel 1 of public television, Noamane Chaari now tells L’Obs: “I have been accused of espionage and treason. Some media have deliberately tried to antagonize Tunisian public opinion, invoking the violence against me “.

Thus, in the supposedly most moderate country in the region, the only “Arab Spring” of any success, it is still a crime to sing peace with the Jews. Conservative president Kaïs Saïed speaks of a “Zionist entity”, like the Iranian ayatollahs. And the Ugtt union, which won the Nobel Peace Prize, has put back on the table the idea of ​​a law that criminalizes the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. The union of music professionals, affiliated precisely with the Ugtt, condemned Chaari’s “provocation against the Tunisian people and all the Arab people”.

The singer had also traveled to Israel with an Arab delegation. His “fault” is also that of having written the song with a Jew of Iraqi origin and a Moroccan mother, while images of Baghdad appear together with those of Tunis in the music video.

Behind all this, of course, is the long history of Arab Jews, driven out to the order of a million after the birth of Israel. A great taboo that, in Tunisia, is symbolized by the synagogue of el Ghriba, in Djerba, the island that was the traditional residence of Jewish Tunisian Cohanim, priests..

“The best thing you can do now is look at the camera and apologize to the Tunisians,” a TV presenter tells Chaari. “Why should I apologize? I didn’t do anything wrong.” “Did you sing with an Israeli and you won’t apologize? All Tunisian artists will boycott you. Nobody will work with you anymore.”

Chaari notes that “the threats come from a Facebook group that has many journalists among its members”. From his official page he receives private messages: “You will die like your father”. For four weeks, Chaari had been participating in a program broadcast by the national channel Wataniya. After the clip, the musician received a phone call telling him to “stay home for a month”.

Cultural normalization remains taboo:

– Amin Maalouf, the French-Lebanese writer, after appearing on the Israeli channel i24, was at the center of a campaign with requests to deprive him of Lebanese citizenship and to put him on trial.

-Same fate for the Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri, guilty of having shot some scenes in Israeli territory.

-Boualem Sansal was removed from the prize he was given for writing the most successful Arabic novel in France after he attended a literary festival in Jerusalem.

-For visiting Israel, the great Egyptian writer Ali Salem has seen his career destroyed forever.

-And the boycott also hit the Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra, guilty of favoring normalization with the Jewish state.

-When Sarah Idan, the beauty queen of Iraq, took a selfie with Miss Israel, a contest of verbal violence broke out.

Without cultural normalization and clearing the Jewish taboo, the Arab world will only build a paper peace with Israel. And Israel should be aware of what lies behind their concept of “peace”.

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“If the woman has an extra-long clitoris, she has a great desire for sex. By removing this small piece, this woman’s relations will be brought to some normality.” This is the Islamic thesis of Ahmad Abul Baraa, a German preacher of Palestinian origin. The man, like millions of others, came to Europe as a “refugee” and is considered a “moderate imam”.

Baraa posts these theories openly on Youtube and social networks like Twitter and Facebook,but they do not actually censor in this case, preferring to wage their “fight against the right-wingers”.Baraa is the imam of the Berlin “As Sahaba” mosque, which is situated next to the “Al Nur” mosque, which is known for recruiting Islamic fundamentalists. And he is so respected by the Islamic residents of Berlin so that he is said to accompany the faithful on a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.

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Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has refused to end his country’s weapons sales to Turkey despite its near daily threats against Greece.

“I do not find the demand of an arms embargo against Turkey strategically correct,” he said on Monday, adding “It is not easy to do this against a NATO partner.”

However, the next part of his statement revealed an outright lie by claiming that the U.S. refused to sell a missile defense system to Turkey.

“We saw that NATO ally Turkey easily bought missiles from Russia because it could not buy from the U.S.,” he told the German Press Agency.

To try and woo Turkey away from buying the Russian S-400 missile defense system, the U.S. offered to sell the Patriot system, which was rejected by Ankara.

Maas also said he hoped Athens and Ankara would resolve their disputes through diplomatic channels, completely omitting that Turkey is not interested in peace, as proven by its invasion and military occupation of northern Syria and Iraq, as well as military adventures in Libya and Artsakh.

Greek Foreign Minister met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of the German Parliament Wolfgang Schäuble, the chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Gunther Krichbaum and other senior officials in early November and expressed the necessity of ending the sale of Type 214 submarines to Turkey.

“The country that refuses to come to the negotiating table and resolve our disputes under international law regarding maritime zones is the same offending country, Turkey,” Dendias said during his working visit to Berlin, adding Ankara transfers jihadists from Syria to Libya and from Libya to the Caucasus.

Germans and Turks have a centuries long alliance that has seen Germany oppose Greece during its War of Independence, assist the Turks during their genocide of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians (1914-23), and a formal friendship signed in 1941 when Nazi Germany was occupying Greece.

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Some 243 members of the German Bundestag have signed a letter demanding the acceleration of the transfer of migrants from Greek camps to Germany and to mainland Europe. In a letter signed by all major parties except the Alternative for Germany (AfD), German MPs demanded that the federal government should answer the call from those states and municipalities that have agreed to accept more migrants and refugees.

They have also demanded that the German government coalition should press for an EU-wide solution for the situation of those in refugee camps in order to “meet human rights standards”.

The situation in Greek camps has become critical after some migrants have burned down their own accommodations with the aim of forcing authorities’ hands to transfer them to European countries of their choice. In September, the camp in Moira has been completely destroyed by fires, followed by a similar case in a refugee camp in Samos. Five migrants of Afghan origin have been arrested and charged with arson in connection with the fires.

The signatories of the Christmas roll call had also called on Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) to be instrumental in introducing the German model EU-wide.

“We are aware that only a common European asylum system characterized by genuine European solidarity can solve the asylum and migration issue in the long term. However, this European solution is still not in sight,” reads the letter. Yet, some of those involved in the European debate on migration object that the word “solidarity” or “common European asylum system” in the above context are only a by-word for a centralized European migration policy that would take away the right to determine immigration policy on a nation-state level, and purports to replace it with decisions made by European institutions.

The signatories have acknowledged that the German government had already sent supplies to the Greek camps, and that since April their country had taken more than 1,500 migrants from Greek camps to Germany. Yet, they are calling on Seehofer to allow more migrants in from these camps, saying that the effort made “by the federal government is not enough. That is why we, as members of the German Bundestag, call on the federal government (…) to accelerate the admission of refugees from the Greek islands to Germany”.

Despite widespread reporting of the fires in the Greek migrant camps, virtually no German mainstream media outlet mentions the fact that the fires have been started by migrants themselves, destroying their expensive and modern accommodation built from donations, as well as with Greek-taxpayer contributions. The news blackout comes despite the fact that Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirmed that the fires were set by migrants in what he warned was a new tactic. 

“There is no doubt that Moria was burned by some hyperactive refugees and migrants who tried to blackmail the government by burning Moria down and demanding their immediate relocation from the island,” Greece’s prime minister said.

The damage caused by the arson is estimated to run into the millions of euros. Furthermore, while the signatories of the appeal also acknowledge that there is a particular issue of “violent attacks against those in particular need of protection”, that is, women and children, there is no indication that politicians are addressing the fact that many of those responsible for the violence will be transferred along with the women and children. There is also the question of widespread fraud among migrants lying about their age in order to obtain better benefits and avoid potential deportation, a phenomenon documented in Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. 

The pressure is further mounting on Seehofer from his left-wing coalition partners to allow some of the 19.000 people still without satisfactory living conditions to come to Germany. The German representative of the UNHCR, Frank Remus, had demanded that “political differences between the federal and state governments should be quickly overcome in the interests of people in need”.

Yet, Seehofer is a vocal proponent of the so-called “European solution” that would force other European countries to accept migrant quotas, bringing them on par with Germany in terms of accepting migrants. Countries like Hungary and Poland, along with five other EU countries, have roundly rejected such a scheme. 

Alongside the pre-Christmas drive to accept migrants from Greek camps there is another ongoing controversial repatriation effort from the part of the German government that had seen a number of so called “Islamic State brides” flown in on a chartered flight from Syria to Germany, together with their children. The three women, all German citizens, and twelve children, have been flown back from special refugee camps for IS terrorists and their family members in an area under Kurdish control. They are only the first group of IS volunteers to be flown to Germany, as there are reportedly around a hundred other individuals with German nationality still remaining in Kurdish camps.

Although the return of these former members of the international terror group has been widely reported in German media, virtually no journalist had ventured out to analyze the financial costs of repatriations for the German taxpayer in a time of a double-digit recession, nor the potential security risks that these individuals may pose for wider society. Tthe German state is already spending a significant amount of money to monitor and observe jihadists in the country, with one jihadist alone costing German taxpayers over €5 million for the 24-hour police detail he requires. 

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Faced with an outcry sparked by a text that announced the possibility of imposing a de facto vaccination obligation, the French Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, postponed the project sine die.

Presented at the Council of Ministers on Monday by the French Prime Minister Jean Castex, the text established “a lasting health emergency management regime” which was tabled a few hours later, in an accelerated procedure in the National Assembly.

The purpose of the text, according to the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, was to “prepare for the end of the health emergency on April 1, 2021” and “establish a sustainable legal framework deal concerning health crises”.

But faced with a huge outcry – on the right and on the left – the government has decided to withdraw the controversial bill. Véran announced the withdrawal on Tuesday evening on national broadcaster TF1: “Vaccination will not be compulsory. It is a bad controversy coming from the National Rally […]. The government will propose to postpone the text for several months,” said the minister.

According to the controversial bill, “the Prime Minister may […] make the movement of people, their access to means of transport or to certain places, as well as the exercise of certain activities subject to the presentation of the results of a screening test establishing that the person is not affected or contaminated, following a preventive treatment, including the administration of a vaccine, or a curative treatment”.

The number two of the Republicans party, Guillaume Peltier, reacted strongly on Twitter: “What is Emmanuel Macron hiding? I naively believed that in our homeland, respect for freedoms was the rule and its restrictions the exception. In this case, the executive would have all the power to suspend our freedoms without parliamentary control? Inconceivable. ”

For the Senate Law Committee, it is not acceptable that such decisions are taken by decree, without ever being debated in Parliament. The latter is only “informed” according to the bill . “Keeping infected people in isolation, or quarantining contact cases, represents a deprivation of liberty as it must be examined by Parliament!” said François-Noël Buffet.

“That the government considers that the Prime Minister alone has fundamental freedoms is very worrying ,” said Bruno Retailleau. “No good intention justifies such a decision. In the event of a health crisis, the implementation of custodial measures must remain the exclusive competence of Parliament,” the president of the LR group in the Senate said .

Sébastien Chenu told France 2: “All that is very dangerous” and “that would mean that vaccination must be compulsory.” Chenu, the spokesperson for the RN, denounced the imposed “health dictatorship”.

Marine Le Pen noted that there should be no “second-class citizenship for unvaccinated individuals – it is deeply deleterious and liberticidal”. The RN leader branded the vaccine measure as “essentially totalitarian”.

Above all, this bill appeared to contradict the commitment made by the executive. “I do not believe in compulsory vaccination for this vaccine,” Emmanuel Macron had declared during his interview with Brut.

In an attempt to put out the fire and allay the fears of the French, several ministers and officials close to Macron commented. “No, vaccination against Covid will not be compulsory,” said the president of the LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner. The text “is not there at all to create exceptional powers for the government” or “to perpetuate the state of emergency, it is there to strengthen our crisis management”, argued the Minister of Public Service, Amélie de Montchalin.

On Tuesday evening, Olivier Véran provisionally ended the controversy by withdrawing the text.

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