(Video) Dr Qanta Ahmed interview - Israel, Human Rights and the Situation in the Arab World

Daphne Anson..
01 October '13..

Here is an unmissable interview (in English despite the Hebrew prologue) with the American-based British-born Muslim physician Dr Qanta Ahmed (as easy on the ear as on the eye), in which she warmly praises Israeli democracy and regard for human rights and contrasts those realities with the "severe lack of human rights" for women and minorities (including Muslim minorities at the hands of fellow Muslims) elsewhere in the region. ("The one stabilising hope for the region is the functioning democracy you have in Israel.")

(English interview begins at 00:43)


She predicts that the prejudice against Israel ("accomplished ... talented ... rich in intellectual energy") will not disappear with a two-state solution, and explains why ("Do not underestimate the power of envy") ...

Link: http://daphneanson.blogspot.co.il/2013/10/a-muslim-intellectual-praises-israels.html

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