Times reporter Rachel Donadio sanitizes the radical nature of Sheikh Tamimi’s tirade at an interfaith meeting in which Pope Benedict was in attendance. Tamimi did not simply urge Muslims and Christians to unite in presumably non-violent "protest" against Israel, but he aspires to see the elimination of the Jewish State.
As quoted in 1994, Tamimi stated, "The Jews are destined to be persecuted, humiliated, and tortured forever, and it is a Muslim duty to see to it that they reap their due…Where Hitler failed, we must succeed."
Notably, Tamimi is the chief Islamic judge in Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) (Donadio only states that he is "the chief justice of the Palestinian Islamic courts"), Israel’s ostensible partner for peace. If a peaceful resolution to the conflict is in fact the PA’s goal, where is Abbas’ condemnation of these malicious words?
Surely the Times would expect such condemnation from Israel's Prime Minister if the Chief Rabbinate professed such radical beliefs. Per usual though, the Times fails to hold the Palestinians accountable for their extremism, treating it as the acceptable status quo.
In the words of the Vatican Press Office, Tamimi’s intervention was "a direct negation of what a dialogue should be."
[For a better coverage of the event, see the Jerusalem Post's article]
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