Abdel-Wahab El-Messiri

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Abdel-Wahab El-Messiri

Abdel-Wahab El-Messiri

Egyptian Intellectual and Islamic Thinker

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Dr. Abdel Wahab El-Messiri (October 1938 - July 3, 2008), an Egyptian Muslim thinker and sociologist, is the author of the Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism, one of the largest Arab encyclopedic works of the twentieth century. Through which he was able, in the opinion of some, to give a new, encyclopedic, objective, scientific view of the Jewish phenomenon in particular, and the experience of Western modernity in general, using what he developed during his academic life in terms of developing the concept of explanatory models. However, in the opinion of others, his vision in his encyclopedia was biased towards the Jews, and sympathetic to an extent. Great with their attitudes towards non-Jews, and some even described it as defending Jews.

  • Bachelor of Arts - English Literature - Alexandria University (1959).
  • Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature - Columbia University - USA (1964).
  • Doctorate in English, American, and Comparative Literature - Rutgers University - United States of America (1969).
  • Head of the Zionist Thought Unit and Member of the Council of Experts at the Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Al-Ahram (1970-1975).
  • Cultural Advisor to the Permanent Delegation of the League of Arab States to the United Nations in New York (1975-1979).
  • Professor of English and Comparative Literature - Ain Shams University (1979-1983).
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Dr. Abdel Wahab El-Messiri said years ago in this video:

The origin of this movement was that Europe was beginning to think of this Zionist thinking on two levels. The first level is that the imperialist solution for all Europe's problems is by exporting these problems abroad, just as they exported criminals, religious protesters, and so on, and exported social failures, so the Jews had to be exported. At this stage, the search was for any offer from Mozambique, Argentina, or Al-Arish, but what happened was that the Jewish issue coincided with the Ottoman issue. The Ottoman issue was that Europe decided to divide the Ottoman Empire, and found it necessary to create a settlement state in this place. Through the marriage of the imperialist solution to the Jewish question and the imperialist solution, Palestine was determined as the place of Jewish settlement. This arose again in colonial circles before it arose among the Jews.

Dr. Abdel Wahab El-Messiri said years ago when he was asked in this video who is right: Hamas or Fatah?

Hamas, of course. My convictions are known. The only solution is resistance and more resistance. As for imagining that what they call a culture of peace will lead to positive results, no. The West gives you according to your strength. If you give up the resistance, you will not get anything, as happened with President Sadat. President Sadat imagined that when he went to Jerusalem, the treasures would be opened for him, but in the end they left him until he was assassinated. The same applies to Fatah and the Palestinian Authority. They announce that they will drop weapons and that they will inspect some members of Fatah who insist on carrying weapons, meaning that it has turned into a tool of oppression, believing that by doing so the Israelis will give them some gains.

The main problem in the conflict is that the Zionist minimum does not agree with the Palestinian minimum. For example, on an issue such as Jerusalem, Israel cannot give up half of Jerusalem. Another example is the issue of the return of refugees cannot be given up because it threatens the fragile demographic structure. Another example is dismantling the settlements. If Israel dismantles the settlements, it will lose its legitimacy as a Zionist state.

Dr. Abdel Wahab El-Messiri said years ago in this video:

The Zionist state is a state committed to the settler ideology. The settler ideology is an ideology that establishes the right for a group in the West to move to Palestine and seize it. In this, it is not at all different from the settlement of whites in South Africa and the settlement of whites in North America and Australia. By the way, they have also used biblical apologies and preambles. They all said about themselves that they were Hebrews, that they were Israelis ascending to Zion, and that the original inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, must be exterminated. This applies to the Native Americans, it applies to the blacks in South Africa, and it applies to the Palestinians, even to others. They all spoke of themselves as a chosen people, and they all spoke of themselves as having absolute rights. As I mentioned this funny incident, which is an extreme one, but it is indicative: when they were discussing the language that would be used in the United States when declaring independence, Hebrew was presented as one of the possible scenarios. It was rejected, of course, and German and English were horrified, but it is a significant issue. In the end, the emergence of Christian Zionism is a resurrection for these settlement biblical myths.

The statements and apologies differ because some Zionists said that they had no connection to religion, but rather came to establish a secular, democratic state. Some of them said that we came to establish a government of workers. Still, the common element between all these experiences is the transfer of a human mass from the West to the East, because in the late 19th century Europe had many social problems. Crime increased, social frustration increased, and the Jewish question and unemployment worsened until they called the unemployed human surplus. Because the colonial solution is a solution to all problems and the solution is to export them, what was done was to export a group of Jews who were not absorbed by the new western economy, the new capitalist economy.

Dr. Abdel Wahab El-Messiri said years ago in this video:

The origin of this movement was that Europe was beginning to think of this Zionist thinking on two levels. The first level is that the imperialist solution for all Europe's problems is by exporting these problems abroad, just as they exported criminals, religious protesters, and so on, and exported social failures, so the Jews had to be exported. At this stage, the search was for any offer from Mozambique, Argentina, or Al-Arish, but what happened was that the Jewish issue coincided with the Ottoman issue. The Ottoman issue was that Europe decided to divide the Ottoman Empire, and found it necessary to create a settlement state in this place. Through the marriage of the imperialist solution to the Jewish question and the imperialist solution, Palestine was determined as the place of Jewish settlement. This arose again in colonial circles before it arose among the Jews.