The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has translated an excerpt from an August 10, 2004 article in an Egyptian Government weekly religious magazine, entitled “The Jews Slaughtering Non-Jews, Draining their Blood, and Using it for Talmudic Religious Rituals:”
Whoever visits the Israeli parliament known as “The Knesset” will notice at the main entrance a sentence written on the wall saying:
“Compassion towards a non-Jew is forbidden, if you see him fall into a river or face danger, you are prohibited from saving him because all the nations are enemies of the Jews and when a non-Jew falls into a ditch, the Jew should close the ditch on him with a big boulder, until he dies, so that the enemies will lose one person and the Jews will be able to preserve their dream of the Promised Land, the Greater Israel!”
This sentence is taken from the Jewish Talmud which is holier that the Torah itself, and was described by the Israeli Ministry of Education in the lexicon that it published at the beginning of this year for primary school students in Israel . . .
The U.S. State Department web site reports that:
The United States and Egypt enjoy a strong and friendly relationship based on shared mutual interest in Middle East peace and stability . . . .
An important pillar of the bilateral relationship remains U.S. security and economic assistance to Egypt . . . U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion annually. In addition, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided over $25 billion in economic and development assistance to Egypt between 1975 and 2002.
In light of the shared mutual interest in Middle East peace, and more than $2 billion annually, perhaps they could stop allowing weapons to be tunneled into Gaza from Egypt — a blatant violation of Article Three of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of March 1979.
And start preparing both their people and their border for peace.