Palestinian Woman Becomes Christian, Defends Israel - Israel Today

Palestinian Woman Becomes Christian, Defends Israel

Sunday, October 30, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

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Sandra Solomon is the niece of Saher Habash, one of the founders of the ruling Palestinian party Fatah and a leader in the campaign of terror known as the Second Intifada.

She was born in Ramallah and later lived in Saudi Arabia. In both places, Solomon was raised to seek violence against the Jews. As a child she was taught to “hate the Jews, hail Hitler and praise the Holocaust,” Solomon said this month in an interview Israel’s Channel 2 News.

Speaking at an event earlier this summer in Canada, where she now resides, Solomon confirmed why genuine peace between Israel and the Palestinians is slipping further out of reach:

“They blame Jews for everything. They rejoice in the killing of Jews. There is no respect, no love, no peace, just anger and hatred for others.”

As a young woman, Solomon quickly became acquainted with the harshness of Islamic Sharia Law, and disturbed over the utter intolerance for all non-Muslims, not just the Jews.

Some time after moving to Canada, she converted to Christianity and became an ardent defender of the reborn Jewish state.

“The State of Israel was created not to be erased but to stay,” she said.

Asked by her Israeli interviewers if she does not fear for her life given that most of her family is calling for her blood, Solomon replied: “I stand behind what I say and I will tell the truth even if it leads to my death one day. I will at least know that I’ve had the honor to die for the truth.”

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A Muslim IDF Officer Defends Israel - Israel Today Staff

A Muslim IDF Officer Defends Israel

Sunday, March 06, 2016 |  Israel Today Staff

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Like most local Arab Muslims, Alaa Waheeb was brought up to believe the Jews living around him were his implacable foes, a blood-thirsty enemy that desired nothing but ruin for his own people.

“I was raised to believe the worst things about Jews, and, had I not eventually met and worked alongside them, I might still believe those things today,” Waheeb wrote in an op-ed for the UK’s Jewish News.

Fortunately, Major Waheeb did get the chance to dispel those myths, and today proudly serves as the highest ranking Muslim in the Israel Defense Forces.

He was in the UK last week to speak to students on local campuses during the annual hate-fest known as Israel Apartheid Week.

Maj. Waheeb noted that during his campus lectures, he was joined by a fellow IDF soldier, a Jewish “medic who has treated both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian terrorists without distinction.”

The two were billed as “the Muslim who protects Jewish lives, and the Jew who saves Muslim lives.”

Very astutely, Waheeb insisted that “there’s only one country in the Middle East that could produce a couple like that – and it sure as hell isn’t an apartheid state.”

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