Alleged Ouze Merham interview of Ariel Sharon
In the first decade of the 21st century, a paragraph alleged to come from a 1956 interview of Ariel Sharon, conducted by an Israel Defense Forces general named Ouze Merham, was quoted in a number of publications. The paragraph advocates burning Palestinian children and raping Palestinian women and Arab girls, as well as Sharon claiming to have killed 750 Palestinian civilians during the Suez Crisis. The interview, the paragraph, and the existence of Ouze Merham himself have been denounced as fabrications. In 1956 Sharon, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, was a major in the IDF.
The alleged interview[edit]
According to the allegations, Sharon was interviewed by a general named Ouze Merham about his service in the 1956 Suez Crisis, and said the following:
"I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child's existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger. I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do."[1]
Media usage[edit]
The disputed quotation was published by a number of media outlets and websites in the Muslim world and elsewhere in conjunction with anti-Israel commentary, including on IslamOnline;[2] the English language Pakistani newspaper, The Nation;[3] and the London-based Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat, which published the quote in a July 11, 2005, opinion article.[4] As'ad Abdul Rahman, chairman of the Palestinian Encyclopedia, used the quote as his lede for an opinion piece about alleged Jewish control of the world media in the Gulf News of December 4, 2004.[5]
A student columnist used the quote in her December 11, 2003 Daily Illini column,[6] but later admitted the quote was false and apologized.[7] The incident was still being discussed as late as 2007.[8]
A columnist for The Hoya, the student newspaper of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., used the quotation on March 19, 2002, introducing it with "Then again, we shouldn't be surprised about Sharon's feelings toward Palestinians; in 1956 when talking with Israeli General Ouze Merham, he said [...]"[9]
The Daily Star English-language newspaper in Bangladesh published the quotation on January 31, 2005 in a commentary article by retired Brigadier General M. Abdul Hafiz, who introduced the quotation with "Back in 1956 in an interview with general Ouze Merham, Sharon, a remorseless butcher of Sabra and Shatilla, said [...]"[10]
Tariq A. Al-Maeena, a columnist for the Saudi Gazette, used the quotation on August 23, 2017 ("Netanyahu is calculatedly following the game plan set by his mentor Ariel Sharon, a former Israeli prime minister who once said in a recorded interview: `I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area.[...]'").[11]
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References[edit]
- ↑ "The old will die and the young will forget: David Ben Gurion". Arab News. April 25, 2002.
- ↑ "I Don't Know Something Called International Principles: Sharon". News. Islam Online. April 1, 2002. Archived from the original on October 21, 2006. Retrieved 2008-03-24. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Haque, Israrul (April 7, 2005). "The world's No.1 terrorist". The Nation. Archived from the original on November 12, 2005. Retrieved 2008-03-24. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ el-Khazen, Jihad, "Words that Went Unpunished", English language version. Retrieved March 24, 2008
- ↑ Rahman, As'ad Abdul (December 4, 2004). "As'ad Abdul Rahman: Jews use media as a weapon". Gulf News. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ↑ Hollander, Ricki (November 10, 2004). "Tracking Down Those So-Called Quotes". Media Monitor. The Jewish Press. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
- ↑
- Passner, Deborah. "University of Illinois Columnist Fully Apologizes", Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, April 26, 2004.
- Newbart, Dave (December 9, 2004). "Chancellor: U. of I.'s student paper spews anti-Semitism // Official says he will fund rival publication if training not improved". Chicago Sun-Times. p. 4. Archived from the original (Abstract) on October 21, 2012. Retrieved 2008-03-24.
The latest furor erupted after the newspaper published a letter to the editor last month in which a student claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon once said he wanted to 'burn every Palestinian child.' Although the quote has been widely disseminated, Jewish groups say there is no evidence Sharon ever made the statement. Wednesday, the paper's editors apologized for running the 'inaccurate information.' What's most disturbing, some said, is the same quote appeared in an opinion piece by student columnist Mariam Sobh last year. In the spring, Sobh admitted the quote was false and apologized.
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- ↑ Levy, Lauren (October 18, 2007). "Students must take note of Israel's portrayal in college media". JUF News. Jewish United Fund. Retrieved 2008-03-27.
- ↑ Hamid, Shadi, "Present aggression reminiscent of past atrocities", March 19, 2002. Retrieved January 3, 2018
- ↑ Hafiz, M. Abdul, "What next on the Middle East peace process", The Daily Star of Bangladesh, January 31, 2005. Retrieved March 24, 2008
- ↑ Al-Maeena, Tariq A., "A twilight of reckoning", Saudi Gazette, 23 August 2017
External links[edit]
- Control Issues from The Chicago Reader, published week of June 28, 2002.
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