Ghassan Abu Sittah calls out German state as 'accomplices to crime of genocide'
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- "Accomplices in a crime try to hide the evidence, and silence the witnesses."
British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah, who has become known for his work in Gaza's hospital, spoke outside of the German embassy in London after being detained and deported from Germany while trying to attend a conference where he would present evidence on the war in Gaza and his witness statement as a doctor working in its hospitals.
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That is despicable, Dr survived a genocide he is an actual victim of the reason the conference was held.
Shame on you Germany !
SHAME
Grow up and get a job.
Face reality, why must Germany care about Palestine after they paraded German dead bodies through Gaza. Palestine has become annoying and personally they are convincing me that removal of Palestine is a good thing. Palestine supporters are like just stop oil supporters, they ruin my day and make me want to do the opposite.
agreed. germany has been horrendous in supporting theis genoicde by supplying weapons and shuuttting down porestests.
You can always leave.
Germany united states and UK slaves of Israel shameful
@@andyk9113 but is he in Germany or is that your lazy attempt of doing a big brain moment?
@@andyk9113 and you can always get branded as accomplices to the most agregious of crimes.
What About Iran...EH ! ..ISLAMISTS ARE ON A MISSION...IT WONT END WITH ISRAEL....
It will be the downfall of all complicit to this genocides crimes! Thank you Dr. Abu Sitta! May God bless you for your kindness towards humanity!! 🙏❤️
Truth words doctor 😢
God bless you Doctor 🙏✌🙏
I feel ashamed to be a German. I thank you for bringing the truth to light. The German government has not learned from history. These are evil times but the good forces of love and compassion will prevail!
May the blessings of God Rest upon you
May His peace abide with you
May His presence illuminate your heart
Now and forever more!
God bless my friend, God bless ur good heart
They can’t keep us quiet. All the good ones are standing together. Different ethnicities and religions that know the truth
I'm not German but a live here and I am very angry and ashamed on the role they play in this genocide, and the scary thing is, they play it proudly, like they do something good.
And like all races, there are beautiful people, and aweful people. I doubt if any race is exempt. 🕊️🙏🤍
Herr Koch, we all have to stand united against oppression.
Nie wieder Völkermord an keinem der Völker.
💔💔
Well said, Dr. Ghassan, thank you for helping the Palestinian victims of this genocide and God bless you
Well spoken, Dr. Ghassan! And, as you said we must not forget about the wounded or killed innocent children in Gaza. This is horror, - and The World sees it. This genocide has to stop immediately!
Germany never learned the lesson
Both Germany and Israel have drawn limitted conclusions from the holocaust. They are compensating the Nazi's unfair choice of Jews as victims, instead of addressing the fascism that lead to it. The real lesson was that no people should discriminate against or abuse another people.
The sad thing is .. no one is talking about the big big elephant in the room.
Really. What lesson? Support the Jewish state of Israël? Seems they are doing fine.
But it doesn't suit your woke mentality does it?
You need to understand, nobody in Europe gives a sh*t. We got our own problems, the middle east can solve it's own.
Stop playing the victim and if you are so concerned about the politics from countries far far away, go and tell it there.
Shame, shame, shame. The world will not forget who was complicit.
Mind Begs the Question:
- When Governed by Politicians
- Who justify Starvation,Death Camps,Gassing/White Phosphorus,Ethnic Cleansing,etc
- Governed by Righteous or Satanic?
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings You have been begging for months now.
Mind Begs the Question:
- You still did not figure it out?
- Why do you keep begging?
- AI or a Human being?
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings It is global corporations. Politicians are merely puppets for industry.
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Politicians are underpaid puppets in the sense that they will suffer the mental consequences of their decisions.
UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system.
AIJAC
135K ab
A video about the real issues in gaza and Palestine.
Please watch and understand what i$ sla m is doing with Palestinian children.
The repression in Germany is reaching outrageous levels.
It's not repression, it's the rule of law!
@JackSouth-gm6qr No, that would be Sharia Law!
Mind Begs the Question:
- Islam forbids Usury/Interest Banking
- Those who practice,impose Usury
- To view Islam as Threat to Eliminate/Demonize,no?
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Shall one, paraphrase your catchphrase?
'Mind begs the question:
Islam allows and permits the marriage of underage female children as young as 9 years old, ever heard of the 'Child bride's' of Afghanistan, Iran etc., you may have read the reports by such organisations as 'Save the Children' or 'UNICEF' or maybe you wish to look at the culture based on the Islamic tradition of Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. 'boy play') is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex. It is a custom in Afghanistan, Pakistan and in historical Turkestan and often involves sexual slavery and child prostitution by older men of young adolescent males.
Then lets consider Sharia Law, a key principle of Islam, shall we? The 'UN', Council for Human Rights, has reported that hundred's of millions of people throughout the World, are discriminated against and denied their basic Human Rights as a result of this legal framework, in the 50 Islamic Countries that exist, they include, women, Jews, LGBT+ and non Muslims!
Now, do permit me to quote you:
'' Islam forbids Usury/Interest Banking
Those who practice,impose Usury'', so are you! Being anti-Semitic, here?
To be clear, I never wrote any comment that included the words you have written, again I shall quote you:
'' To view Islam as Threat to Eliminate/Demonize,no?'' However, is that what you are trying to imply regarding Judaism?
One, would suggest you save your false narrative, no educated person believes it!
@@johnohara197 are you playing naive?
A critically important lesson I learned from the PATRIOT Act + post 9/11 era: the more a government tries to silence you, the louder you have to speak.
This German response would've fitted right into 1930s.
It is the German state and government! Regular people do not agree with that aggressiv actions. Keep this in mind!
@@sakura44553 I'm yet to be convinced of this. If what you say is true then hopefully the people will impress that upon their elected politicians.
@@sakura44553 Also ich unterstütze vollständig was die Polizei getan hat. Die können gerne noch härter vorgehen!
Shame on GERMANY
What are Pelistienies nations doing in Germany 🇩🇪? Are there Pelistienies Arab nations live all over Africa states and all over the world. What the F? This is Hamas crazy 🤪 30 years ago, they're pointing a finger at the boere nation & apartheid. Boere nation does not have their own country & Pelistienies can just call every country their home.
@@francescaharbor1731what are isrehell politicians doing in Germany ?? 🤪 funny clown 🖕🏻you a describing your tribe!
@@francescaharbor1731what are you on about?
@@francescaharbor1731what are you in about?
What are you talking about?!
Such a disgrace for Germany .. revolting attitude 🤮
Dont forget nazi is part of history Germany
Mind Begs the Question:
- If Nazis escaped
- Embed in another Nation,Religion
- Rename their Political Movement
- Can't be recognized
- Can be recognized by Matching Policies
- Starvation,Death Camps,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Pogroms,Ethnic Cleansing,etc?
Once a nazi always a nazi. Fool me once.. you know how it goes
It's part of the history of Zionism as well!
Don’t forget the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis
What about the Islamic history of the Ottoman Empire? Ever heard of the Armenian massacre? We all know the history of Islam!
Shame on Germany, Free 🇵🇸 🇵🇸
No
Fascism is back in fashion in Germany?
Was it ever really out of fashion?
Yes and the crazy thing, they try to label it as „anti-fascist“ protest when they defend the is realin state. Level of gaslighting here is insane
Brought in be mass and illegal immigrants!
Yes.
In most of the west fascism has been on the rise since the 80s
They wanted democracy and human right in Afghanistan 😂, but they themselves don't have them. They killed 160000 Afghans in order to impose " DEMOCRACY".😂😂😂 and human rights😂😂😂😂.
Can you see the European's democracy and human rights???
Please, let's not talk about Afghanistan, that's a whole different story, Islamic leaders were destroying their own people with the Taliban. Shameful past for the Islamic community that mark the whole world against Islam.
But u want sharia and control on people in Europe but when Europe welcomes ur thought u r shouting for democracy and freedom😂😂
UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system.
AIJAC
135K ab
A video about the real issues in gaza and Palestine.
Please watch and understand what i$ sla m is doing with Palestinian children.
Right
The trauma of the children and brethren of gaza along woth these brave doctors is unimaginable
Amazing,courageous and brilliant man. God bless you Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah!!
The truth is hard to handle for people with blind eyes and hearts
We ate living in weird times: we are more afraid of our corrupt leaders when compared to local goons and gangs
Germany never learned their lesson.....😩
Boycott the Euros in Germany, do not spend a penny of your money there, the government will use the taxes to help Israel.
UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system.
AIJAC
135K ab
A video about the real issues in gaza and Palestine.
Please watch and understand what i$ sla m is doing with Palestinian children.
Most taxes are income taxes. Germans pay for the wappons for Isreael and the Ukraine, but we were never asked, if our tax money should be use for wappons.
@@sakura44553"We" were never asked. Who are you ?
Are you german ?
The leaders minds are clouded because they feel guilty
They ARE Zionists and don't feel guilty because they also suppressed holocaust survivors who refused the genocide in their name
Germany have obsession to be a bad side of history
AWESOME video title for THIS video.
Very well said
Shame on Germany
Germany is once again being grotesque.
Truth telling 🙏🏻
A propagandist in a staunch ally of Israel. - Germany.
Brave doctor ❤❤❤
We will not forget
Shame on the German government. 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪
Watching from Canada and disgusted by German Government
🤮🤮
What a brave man risked hes life to fight for palestine
Risked his life? How? By being plump and well fed?
He is no better than the Hamas terrorists!
@@irisesinbloom848 Correct!
Fighting for terrorism
Please stay safe and strong! Many people are on your side! And I pray for your child and all the other children! Thank you for your help!
O can't believe this is actually happening
Germany guilty for the holocaust of the millions of the Jews during WW2 thinks that innocent Palestinians SHOULD pay instead for Germanys complicity!!!
Keep sharing!!! Keep posting!!! Keep Boycotting!! 🇵🇸
Germany is addicted to dehumanization and Gen.0c!de
God bless you
This man has seen things that no one person should see. God bless your witness to these crimes
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
FREE THE HOSTAGES
Go there and fight instead of mouthing at off in Germany
Screw Palestine
Free the Palestine hostages in prision AND free the palestines from your nazi concentración camp that the Zionist Jews have@@almabrisiarodriguez-xh2lo
@@eddie5325
Then tell your country to stop arming ixrael army?
It's hard to say this but there is more hope even from the American society.
Germany never changed: they admire Fascism and Genna Side!
Nazis still Nazis.
Arabs still Arabs
💯💯💯💯
UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system.
AIJAC
135K ab
A video about the real issues in gaza and Palestine.
Please watch and understand what i$ sla m is doing with Palestinian children.
@@nk-moin actually nazis and zioinists colaborated with each other, so nazis and zionists have more in common with each other. 'Havara agreement'
the nazis tried changing their name to NA-tional Zi-onists, thinking we wouldn't notice.
@@nk-moin lmao, where did u get this bs from? do you even read what you write.
Justice wil prevail
Shame! Shame! Shame on Germsmany!👎🏼
Viva, VIVA Palestina!🇵🇸✊🏼🍉✌🏼💜
Israel 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 FOREVER
Sewer trolls 🧌
Fear of this man's voice- why- he is a man who is concerned for his own people and only speaks about what the whole world has seen.
At this day and age, the social media is greater the main stream media and the world can no longer be silenced
Please Dr Abu Sittah, record the expose you were supposed to present at the Palestine convention and upload it here. Mr Yanis Varoufakis uploaded his speech already. If Germany can prevent you from broadcasting it in its country it cannot prevent you from posting it on the internet. This is free speech! The World wants to hear what you have to say.
Germany's on the wrong side of history again.
And always will be
Anyone with respect for basic democracy and civil liberty must stand behind these people's right to protest. The German government must not be allowed to descend back further into fascism.
For the second time in 80 years.
Dr Sittah is a man of enormous integrity that I greatly admire. Thanks to MEE and Al Jazeera I'm finally learning the truth about the Middle East, their courageous journalists, and so much more.
🙏❤️❤️❤🙏❤️❤️❤️🙏 You're an hero like Julien Assange 🙏❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️🙏 Tkanks a lot to exist Dr Abu Sittah ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
#BoycottGermany
The Genocide Republic of Germany
“German government shame on You!”
There's no such thing a country known as Germany, there's only Germany the Europe capital city of israhell govern by the nazionist.
So few british supporting this gentleman!!!
Really? Sorry, you are wrong.
🇿🇦 South Africa is with you
Awareness increases, the flood is just beginning
This is not the Germany I have come to love since childhood. The country of the "thinkers and poets" as it was called. I wonder what on earth they have done to the population - why don't they take to the streets and kick these idiots aka "politicians" to the curb? But then ...it's the same in ever so many EU countries incl. my Switzerland 🙈😡. It seems we have not reached the bottom yet ...
Dr. Ghassan - thank you so much for all what you do as a doctor as well as a human being 😍. We all pray that this madness is soon over and we will see a Free Palestine for All of its Inhabitants with a peaceful mind 🙏🙏. The "Axis of Genocide" as you correctly named it can not survive - it is crumbling and will fall 🙏.
Thanks doctor! Note to protestors: please don't exclude the German people, as they support the actions of the government that represents them. After all, it's a democratic country and they voted for this gov. Peace 🕊️
In a recent opinion poll conducted in March, about 70% of the German population is against this genocide. The government and the main German media are choosing to ignore this opposition.
That is untrue in Palestine as it is untrue in Israel and America Germany. Peace!
I support the goal of a free Palestinian state! I am German and I do not support what is going on. I have been vocal about it!
UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system.
AIJAC
135K ab
A video about the real issues in gaza and Palestine.
Please watch and understand what i$ sla m is doing with Palestinian children.
Via a translation programme, recent survey (early April 2024) for German magazine Stern: 'A clear majority of Germans believe that the German government should criticise Israel more strongly than before for its actions in Gaza. According to a survey for stern magazine, 57 per cent are in favour of clearer words. 36 per cent think that the traffic light coalition should hold back on criticism. 7 per cent expressed no opinion. Recently, Israel has come under increased international pressure for its military operation following the Hamas terror attack - among other things due to the large number of civilian casualties and the poor provision of supplies to the population.'
سدد الله خطاك اينما كنت ونصرك الله من حيث لاتحتسب رفعت رؤوسنا عاليا اللهم انصر اهلنا في غزه حفظك الله ورعاك ✌️🙏🙏✌️✌️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Thank you for your braveness and integrity.
German is the serial genocider
As a german, i am again ashamed for my country
ADD mercedes and BMW to your BDS list please
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
‘The People, United, will never be defeated!´
❤
We are occupied, this is not what germans want. Please send help. - a german
Nein, diese Antisemiten will hier kaum jemand haben. Und Verräter wie dich eigentlich auch nicht. 🤦🏽♂
SubahaanALLAH... A man who has ALLAH swt by his side
excellent speech 👏🏽
Thank you very much Sir Ghassan! May Allah protect you and reward you.
Fairy tale
UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system.
AIJAC
135K ab
A video about the real issues in gaza and Palestine.
Please watch and understand what i$ sla m is doing with Palestinian children.
We cannot UNSEE the children of Palestine!!! Shame on Germany!
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah is one of the great heroes and voices of this time. We all need you thank you!!🙏🇯🇴
He is just a Hamas propagandist. 🤷🏽♂
May God Almighty reward them and make justice for the oppressed very soon!
Salute sir
حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل💔
InshāAllāh!
I'm from Germany! And I say: NOT IN MY NAME! FREE Palestine! From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!
I am so sorry and disgusted that the German government is acting so despicably.
Stay Strong. Greetings from Northern Germany✨🍉👨🎨🎨❤️✨
Verry true👍👍👍
Wouldn't surprise me if they try to arrest him for standing on the step as it belongs to Germany
Soooo True❤
Beautiful 🌎❤ PURIFIED HEARTS 💕 n SOULS have paid a VERY HEAVY HUGE PRICE 💔😢 to CHANGE the BLOODSHED 🌎❤ with LOVE+PEACE💚,InshaAllah
Germany's conduct is unforgivable.
Germany always stay on the dark side of history
Israel should get out of Palestine and go to Germany
I am so sorry for what had happened! I wanted to attend the Congress this weekend. Germany is suffocating every attempt to expose the current narrative. The government is behaving in this autocratic way since covid started. Now they use it every time they don't like something.
I am German and I am ashamed!
But I have joined DiEM25 last week.
An alle aufrichtigen Deutschen: Wählt MERA25 bei der nächsten Europawahl!!!
Macht dem Wahnsinn ein Ende!
In the name of God Most Compassionate (swt)
God willing, Palestine and ALL it's people will be FREE of this Zionist / Israeli oppression, Ameen
with endless prayers, your brother,
Afzaal Khan
Germany trying to silence him!
I'm as embarrassed for being a german as i would be after WW2. We learned nothing from history 😢
Dr Ghasssn is a real hero
1.Haifa Massacre 1937
2. Jerusalem Massacre
1937
3. Haifa Massacre 1938
4. Balad al-Sheikh
Massacre 1939
5. Haifa Massacre 1939
6. Haifa Massacre 1947
7. Abbasiya Massacre
1947
8- Al-Khisas Massacre
1947
9. Bab al-Amud Massacre
1947
10. Jerusalem Massacre
1947
11. Sheikh Bureik
Massacre 1947
12. Jaffa Massacre 1948
13. Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948
14. Khan Yunis Massacre
1956
15. Jerusalem Massacre
1967
16. Bahro Al Baquar
School masacre in
1972
17. Sabra and Shatila
Massacre 1982
18. Al-Aqsa Massacre
1990
19. lbrahimi Mosque
Massacre 1994
20. Jenin Refugee Camp
April 2002
21. Gaza Massacre
2008-09
22. Gaza Massacre 2012
23. Gaza Massacre 2014
24. Gaza Massacre
2018-19
25. Gaza Massacre 2021
26. Gaza Genocide 2023 is
still ongoing:
DONT LET ANYONE
CONVINCE YOU THAT IT
STARTED ON OCTOBER
7th**
*Don't let anyone convince you that it started in 1937 🤦♂️islamic peace on Jews in Ottoman and British Palestine:*
* 1517 Hebron attacks
* 1517 Safed attacks
* 1660 massacre and razing of Tiberias
*1660 massacee and razing of Safed
* 1834 looting of Safed
* 1840 Damascus affair (which spilled over to Palestine)
* 1847 Jerusalem Blood Libel
* 1920 Battle of Tel Hai
* 1920 Nebi Musa Riots
* 1921 Jaffa Riots
* 1921 Jerusalem Stabbings
* 1929 Safed Massacre
* 1929 Jaffa Massacre
* 1929 Hebron Massacre
* 1929 Jerusalem Riots and killings (sponsored by the mufti)
* 1929 Gaza Riots and looting
* 1929 attack on Mishmar HaEmek
* 1929 attack on Gedera
* 1929 attack on Be'er Tuvia
* 1929 razing of Har-Tov
* 1929 Razing of Hulda Farm
* 1929 Ein Zeitim Massacre
* 1929 Massacre in Motza (Jerusalem)
* 1929 attack on Haifa
* 1929 attack on Tel Aviv
* 1933 Haifa Riots
* 1933 Jaffa Riots
* 1936 Jaffa Riots
* 1936-39 Arab Revolt (including many instances of attacks on Jews)
* 1937 murder of Jews in Safed
* 1937 Garin Bama'ale murder
* 1938 Killing passengers en route from Haifa to Safed
* 1938 Atlit Kidnapping
* 1938 Nir David bombing
* 1938 Tiberias Pogrom
*1938-1945: Arab collaboration with the Nazis* Plays a role in the final solution
* 1947 Jerusalem Riots
* 1947-1948 Mandatory Palestine Civil War (many instances of attacks and killings)
* 1948 Kfar Etzion Massacre
**Anti-Jewish Ottoman Policies in Palestine:**
* Deportation of 1,000 Jewish families to Cyprus in 1576.
* 1917 expulsion of all of Jaffa's 8,000 Jews
* Jizya (Cizye) Tax
* Dung Gatherers' Decree (Jews were tasked with cleaning sewers
* Orphans Decree (Jewish Orphans would be raised muslim)
**Anti-Jewish British Policies in Palestine:**
* 1922 Churchil white paper - called for a limit on Jewish immigration. (Implemented to appease the local Arabs)
* 1929 Expulsion of all Jews from Hebron, Gaza, Nablus, Ramle, Jenin and Acre. (Ending 3000 year old communities to appease the local Arabs after the 1929 riots)
* 1929 white paper - openly anti-zionist, further limited immigration, and limited what land and properties Jews can buy. (Implemented to appease the local Arabs after the 1929 riots)
* 1939 white paper - limited Jewish immigration to just 50,000 for 5 years at the height of the holocaust, afterwhich Jewish immigration would be entirely outlawed, and permissed Jews to only be allowed to live on 5% of the land. (Implemented to appease the local Arabs after the revolt.)
**Some accounts on Jewish life in Palestine from the start of the Islamic period up to the late Ottoman period:** (from [wikipedia](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judaism_in_the_Land_of_Israel#Ottoman_rule_%281517%E2%80%931917%29?wprov=sfla1))
>*with the construction of the Dome of the Rock in 691 and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 705, the Muslims established the Temple Mount as an Islamic holy site. The dome enshrined the Foundation Stone, the holiest site for Jews. Before Omar Abd al-Aziz died in 720, he banned the Jews from worshipping on the Temple Mount, a policy which remained in place for over the next 1,000 years of Islamic rule. In 717, new restrictions were imposed against non-Muslims that affected the Jews' status. As a result of the imposition of heavy taxes on agricultural land, many Jews were forced to migrate from rural areas to towns. Social and economic discrimination caused substantial Jewish emigration from Palestine.*
>*During his visit, al-Harizi found a prosperous Jewish community living in the city. From 1219 to 1220, most of Jerusalem was destroyed on the orders of Al-Mu'azzam Isa, who wanted to remove all Crusader fortifications in the Levant, and as a result, the Jewish community, along with the majority of the rest of the population, left the city.*
>*The era of Mamluk rule saw the Jewish population shrink substantially due to oppression and economic stagnation. The Mamluks razed Palestine's coastal cities, which had traditionally been trading centers that energized the economy, as they had also served as entry points for the Crusaders and the Mamluks wished to prevent any further Christian conquests. Mamluk misrule resulted in severe social and economic decline, and as the economy shrank, so did tax revenues, leading the Mamluks to raise taxes, with non-Muslims being taxed especially heavily. They also stringently enforced the dhimmi laws and added new oppressive and humiliating rules on top of the traditional dhimmi laws. Palestine's population decreased by two-thirds as people left the country and the Jewish and Christian communities declined especially heavily. Muslims became an increasingly larger percentage of the shrinking population. Although the Jewish population declined greatly during Mamluk rule, this period also saw repeated waves of Jewish immigration from Europe, North Africa, and Syria. These immigration waves possibly saved the collapsing Jewish community of Palestine from disappearing altogether.*
>*In 1266 the Mamluk Sultan Baybars converted the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron into an exclusive Islamic sanctuary and banned Christians and Jews from entering. They previously were able to enter it for a fee. The ban remained in place until Israel took control of the building in 1967. In 1286, leader of German Jewry Meir of Rothenburg, was imprisoned by Rudolf I for attempting to lead a large group of Jews hoping to settle in Palestine.*
>*In 1470, Isaac b. Meir Latif arrived from Ancona and counted 150 Jewish families in Jerusalem. In 1473, the authorities closed down the Nachmanides Synagogue after part of it had collapsed in a heavy rainstorm. A year later, after an appealing to Sultan Qaitbay, the Jews were given permission to repair it. The Muslims of the adjoining mosque however contested the verdict and for two days, proceeded to demolish the synagogue completely. The vandals were punished, but the synagogue was only rebuilt 50 years later in 1523.*
>*A few years later in 1488, Italian commentator and spiritual leader of Jewry, Obadiah ben Abraham arrived in Jerusalem. He found the city forsaken holding about seventy poor Jewish families. By 1495, there were 200 families. Obadiah, a dynamic and erudite leader, had begun the rejuvenation of Jerusalem's Jewish community. This, despite the fact many refugees from the Spanish and Portuguese expulsion of 1492-97 stayed away worried about the lawlessness of Mamluk rule. An anonymous letter of the time lamented: "In all these lands there is no judgement and no judge, especially for the Jews against Arabs.*
>*The 17th century saw a steep decline in the Jewish population of Palestine due to the unstable security situation, natural catastrophes, and abandonment of urban areas, which turned Palestine into a remote and desolate part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman central government became feeble and corrupt, and the Jewish community was harassed by local rulers, janissaries, guilds, Bedouins, and bandits. The Jewish community was also caught between feuding local chieftains who extorted and oppressed the Jews. The Jewish communities of the Galilee heavily depended on the changing fortunes of a banking family close to the ruling pashas in Acre. As a result, the Jewish population significantly shrank.*
They will never silence the Palestinians.
Even people in the furture will appreciate your efforts for humanity's sake so keep up the good woke may God bless you and give you strength to apply justice, your efforts will be praised even in the furture. You are on the hard yet correct side of history.
❤ Ghassan Abu Sittah