The Muslim Zionist
Meet Ala Wahib, Muslim and proud Israeli.
Photo credit: Osnat Krasnansky
“From the age of zero I was told that Israel stole Palestine from us, but when I was 14 I woke up. I discovered that Jews are not bad,” says Ala Wahib, an operations officer at a key IDF training base, and the highest-ranked Muslim officers in the Israeli army.
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It is not every day that a Muslim Arab, hailing from a village whose residents largely do not recognize Israel’s right to exist, comes to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. And he doesn’t only serve: Major Wahib, 32, is currently the highest ranking Muslim officer in the IDF. He is enormously patriotic, a true Zionist. Precisely the kind of person we like to see lighting the torches during the national Independence Day ceremony every year.
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e describes himself as a “Zionist Israeli Arab.” Four years ago he went on a tour of Nazi extermination camps in Poland, together with his fellow officers, as part of the IDF’s Witnesses in Uniform program. “As a child,” he says, “I grew up in a society that denies the Holocaust. When I arrived in Poland I was shocked. I cried a lot. It was difficult to contain this thing called genocide. There was something very powerful in the fact that I was standing on Polish soil, holding an Israeli flag and donning the uniform of the Israeli army, but this time from a position of power. It was proof that we can’t be broken.”
When Wahib says “we” he means the Jewish people. “I believe in the Muslim faith, and I will never abandon it, but I think that Zionism is more than a religion. It is something that fully represents my sense of belonging to the State of Israel and to Israeli society, and the immense commitment I have to protecting and guarding the country of which I am part.”
Read the whole thing.
Especially if you are a BDShole.
Judge Dan adds: Major Ala Wahib is not the highest ranking Muslim in the IDF. That honour goes to Lieutenant colonel Wahid al-Huzayl, commander of the “Beduin Battalion”. The point conveyed by Israel Hayom is that unlike the Beduins that are enlisting to the IDF, Israeli Arabs, be they Muslim or Christian, are exempt from service automatically.
Update: Here is the reaction of one of the BDSholes-in-Chief.
At last! A Palestinian terrorist @avimayer and other Israeli hasbarists can admire, praise and promote israelhayom.com/site/newslette…
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) September 8, 2012
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I wonder what’s hurting Abunimah more, the fact that there’s an Arab in the IDF, or that Maj Wahib wants to be there.
im sure ali thinks ala is an uncle tom
and i think when ala says “we” he means israel…not just the jewish people
and isnt ali’s goal a society where everyone in israel is equal and has equal opportunities?
the fact that here is an officer that jews have to salute and follow, should make him cream in his pants
He’s hot, he’s Israeli, he’s serving his country, he’s not a douchebag. What’s not to like…
I don’t believe the good intentions of anyone who believes in Islam. Muslims shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the IDF.
agree 100%. only the pluralists of this world disagree.
Imagine how big of a traitor he must be in the eyes of his brothers…
Major Wahib did not join the IDF yesterday. The command has had plenty of time to vet him before promoting him to his present rank and assignment. I know that this is an anomaly, since Zionism is a distinctive form of nationalism tied to a national religion even though its founders were nearly all European secularists. To me, this illustrates that goodness in the human heart can be as mysterious as evil.
If he was 100% true to his words he would convert to Judaism. No muslims are to be trusted.