(Video) Dr. Keidar Speaks About Killing of Samir Kuntar, Hezbollah and More

ILTV ISRAEL DAILY..
21 December '15..







Dr. Mordechai Kedar in a short but all encompassing interview with Israel Daily TV. As always, he touches on a number of topics in his own interesting and unique way.



Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqihL_kZVZg

Mordechai Kedar is an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. Kedar is an academic on the Israeli Arab population. He served for twenty-five years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.The Los Angeles Times' Edmund Sanders described him as "one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel" (Wikipedia)

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(+Video) A Viable Alternative for the Future of Israel - The Independent Palestinian Emirates

Israel faces three immediate threats today: the possibility of a nuclear Iran, well over 100,000 rockets and mortars poised from three directions (Iran, Lebanon, Gaza plus terrorists in Syria and Egypt) and the Two State Solution. The first two threats seem obvious, but why do we think that the Two State Solution could lead to the demise of our beloved Israel? After all, it's been the mainstay policy thrust upon Israel with various international initiatives and roadmaps to peace. But in reality it would bring about the opposite result.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar..
PalestinianEmirates.com

The creation of an artificial Palestinian state requiring the uprooting of Jewish families where no Arab population currently exists would lead to indefensible borders for the Jewish homeland. The more moderate PA and Fatah want a Palestinian state as a precursor for the ultimate demise of Israel. Hamas remains opposed to any agreement which establishes a border recognizing the Israeli state. Any proposed re-unification between Hamas and Fatah is an obvious ploy that further threatens the survival of Israel and the Jewish people. The recent attacks against Israel by Hamas are now coordinated with the militant pro-Syrian, Iran-backed Islamic Jihad. Plus the Popular Resistance Committee is yet another terrorist group operating from Gaza.

The Arab Spring has brought about a much less stable region. Israel can no longer allow the rest of the world to dictate policy that makes it more difficult for the Jewish nation to survive. Israel must declare it’s own independent solution with regards to the so-called Palestinian movement and militant jihadism that appears to be on the accendancy. Doing nothing only invites intervention from abroad.

Prior to statehood in 1948 the larger territory was known as the British Mandate of Palestine. The Jewish people, who have been on this land continuously for 3,286 years, were often referred to as the Palestinians from the early 1920's until statehood in 1948. Here are just two examples that prove this important distinction. The Palestine Post was founded by an American Jew in December 1932 in the Mandate of Palestine and supported the struggle for a Jewish Homeland. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post. And what started as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra is known today as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.



The Arabs who emigrated to the territory in the late 1800's and early 1900's to live and prosper among the Jews never wanted to be recognized as the Palestinians until it became a convenient tool in their opposition to the Jewish Homeland. In 1964 the PLO was formed which finally transformed the mantle of Palestinian from the pre-statehood Jews to the post-statehood Arabs.

Historically there never existed an Arab or Islamic state of Palestine with a capital in Jerusalem. The capital of "Jund Falastin" ("The District of Palestine") under the Islamic 7th century occupation was the city of Ramle, 30 kilometers to the west of Jerusalem. It is very important that this historical truth be recognized as a basis for peace.

There is no Occupied territory west of the Jordan River. There is Disputed territory as a result of wars thrust upon Israel by jealous Arab neighbors. Today Arabs live within the State of Israel and in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. These Arab population centers are not going away and neither is the State of Israel.

As One who Gathers Abandoned Eggs by Mordechai Kedar

...I would have expected from the president of Israel, a veteran of combat in the diplomatic arena, to show more understanding in matters relating to the Middle East, especially because in the nineties he professed to have engineered a “New Middle East”, as his book is named.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar..
13 December '13..





“When the Lord has finished all his work in Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. For he says:
By the strength of my hand I have done this,
and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.
I removed the boundaries of nations (and their futures),
I have plundered their treasures;
like a mighty one I subdued kings.
As one reaches into a nest,
so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations;
as one who gathers abandoned eggs,
so I gathered all the countries;
not one flapped a wing,
or opened its mouth to chirp.”

Isaiah, in chapter 10, relates the hypothetical words of the King of Assyria, the hero of his day, who extended the range of his rule by conquering lands and peoples so easily that he boasted that he had collected all of the surrounding peoples as one who collects abandoned eggs from the field. Observing the way Iran behaves these days, there is no choice but to conclude that the regime of the Ayatollahs sees the countries of the region as no more than abandoned eggs.

We have written about Iran how dominates Iraq in this column before. Bear in mind that Iranian influence on events in Iraq began while there were still coalition forces in the Land of the Two Rivers, and that influence increased with the approaching withdrawal of the American army at the end of 2010. Currently, Iraq serves as the operational arm of Iranian policy, especially in everything regarding the war in Syria, where regular forces of Iraq and Iran are engaged.

But the meteoric growth of Iranian influence on its environment began last month, before the signing of the Geneva agreement and especially after the West signed the agreement with Iran on November 24th. Those who live near Iran - and there are approximately twenty such countries - feel the strong sense of strength and self-confidence that Iran radiates these days, and understands that "if you can't beat them, join them".

The United States is Losing the Middle East Coalition by Mordechai Kedar

...With the ruling family in Saudi Arabia enraged toward the United States and the West, and the regime in Egypt furious with the United States and searching for friends in other places, with Turkey behaving as if it is part of the Iranian effort and when so many Israelis have the uncomfortable feeling that the United States and Europe are acting against Israeli interests, it is not clear that the United States and the West has a coalition in the Middle East.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar..
Mordechai Kedar in English..
25 October '13..

Ever since the seventies, the world has become accustomed to the split in the Middle East, between those countries that support the West - Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco and Israel, and we might add Turkey to this list as well. This coalition was strong mainly because of the dangers posed by those countries that were members of the opposing, Soviet, coalition: Syria, Libya, Iraq and South Yemen. Lebanon was then between the democratic hammer and the Syrian anvil.

Despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of the eighties, there were no big shifts in political orientation, and the countries that were faithful to the Western bloc led by the United States remained faithful to it until recently, mainly because a new hostile bloc was formed, led by Iran and supported by Russia and China. The stronger the Iranian threat became, the more the pro-Western countries depended on America for support.

Lately, however, the pro-Western coalition has begun to crumble, and two key countries - Saudi Arabia and Egypt - are searching for a new political crutch, ever since it became clear to them that the American crutch is nothing but "a broken reed" (Isaiah, 36:6). A few more countries can be added to this list, mainly Turkey and the Gulf Emirates.

Saudi Arabia

In an unprecedented move, the Saudi kingdom has refused to become a member of the most powerful body in the world, the Security Council of the UN, a body authorized to deal with the world's security problems and, with the power of the authority vested in it, can even declare war as a world body on a country that violates its resolutions. The question that immediately arises is: why did Saudi Arabia refuse to become a member of the body that is perhaps the only one capable of dealing with Iran's military nuclear project? Why did Saudi Arabia reject the opportunity to influence events in Syria from within the Security Council? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take advantage of the most important stage in international policy in order to take action against Israel?

The superficial reason is that which the Saudi foreign office published, expressing an ethical position: the kingdom will not agree to enter the Security Council until the Council undergoes reforms that will enable it to fulfill its role, which is to maintain world peace. The obsolete apparatus, the wasteful practices, and double standards used by the Security Council all prevent it from fulfilling its role. There are many examples of this: the Palestinian problem has not been solved despite it having been created 65 years ago, and despite the fact that the wars stemming from it have threatened the peace of the entire region and the world several times. The Council allows the Syrian dictator continue slaughtering his citizens for almost three years without imposing effective sanctions, and the Council has failed to achieve the goal of turning the Middle East into an area free of weapons of mass destruction because it has not managed to create an effective method of oversight for military nuclear projects.

Despite the fact that the Saudis do not speak specifically about Iran in their official announcement, it is clear that their reference is not to Israel, from whom they fear no danger, but to Iran, whose nuclear plans do keep them awake at night. However, it is specifically the Iranian nuclear issue which should have pushed Saudi Arabia to become a member the Council; membership could have granted them an active role in making decisions against Iran, so why not join?

In part, the reasons relate to the way that the Saudis see the international alignment of countries recently but is also connected to the customary culture of honor in the Middle East, without which it would be impossible to understand the behavior of the Saudis, proud sons of the desert.

(Video) Why Is the Middle East Such a Violent Area? Dr. Mordechai Kedar

Shalom TV..
18 Jun '13

Join us for a stimulating and informative talk given by the esteemed Dr. Mordechai Kedar on the important topic of the true nature of the Middle East. What is it that Westerners do not understand about this volatile region? Why does it seem like there is perpetual conflict with no end in sight? Kedar, a Professor of Arabic Literature at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, focuses on three areas of explanation: Tribalism, Ethnicities, and Religions. The event was held at Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City.



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(Video) Dr. Mordechai Kedar comments concerning Al Jazeera

LOTL..
26 May '13..
H/T Israel Unseen..


Dr. Mordechai Kedar, as usual very sharp, very witty, with his thoughts concerning the Al Jazeera news network. Dr. Kedar of course has been no stranger to being interviewed by Al Jazeera, and his 2008 interview about Jerusalem & Islam has become somewhat of a Youtube classic.


ICWV International Center for Western Values  Posted 14 May '13

For those who are interested, many of Dr. Kedar's best pieces are now available at Mordechai Kedar in English, the page both managed and ably translated by Sally Zahav. Enjoy!

Dr. Mordechai Kedar (Mordechai.Kedar@biu.ac.il) is an Israeli scholar of Arabic and Islam, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and the director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (under formation), Bar Ilan University, Israel. He specializes in Islamic ideology and movements, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.

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(+Video) Mordechai Kedar, Israel's Defender in Arab Media

Jspace Staff..
jspace.com..
December '12..

Mordechai Kedar doesn’t look like a scary guy. But get him behind a microphone, and he can become an interviewer’s worst nightmare.

The Bar-Ilan University lecturer has made a name for himself as the go to personality for Arab media types. Kedar, 60, is trotted out on a near weekly basis to interview at some of the most notoriously anti-Israel publications, with journalists looking for a scapegoat to present arguments on “the occupation” and “Zionist oppression.”

But Kedar isn’t one to back down. The Israeli scholar uses perfect Arabic to present the Jewish state’s case, and he does so in stunning detail. Jspace recently caught up with Kedar to talk about Syria, Iran, and what it’s like to tango with Al Jazeera.

Jspace: How did you get involved with the Arab media?

Mordechai Kedar: I have spoken Arabic for many years. My parents actually came from Poland but I studied Arabic in high school. Back then we based our studies of Arabic on the Arab media. We read newspapers, we were listening to radio in those days. And this is how the teacher taught us Arabic, but in a very interesting way because we were dealing with daily issues through newspapers and radio. We became exposed to Arab media.

Then I went to the army and I spent 25 years in the IDF intelligence corps and there also, not everything, but quite a bit of what we knew about the Arab world was taken from the Arab media. When I started my academic life after I finished the army in 1995 I concentrated on the Syrian media as a test case and my PhD.

Because I read Arabic and speak Arabic, the Arabic mass media actually found me. And today we come to a situation where at least once or twice a week I’m asked to participate in all kinds of interviews.

How do you prepare for an interview that might turn confrontational?

First of all, my knowledge is my preparation. Maybe even then I need a little information about what happened today or yesterday but really my education, what I spent let’s say more than 40 years of my life collecting and internalizing, this is what is behind me.

I’ll tell you to a degree what it comes to. As you might remember right after September 11, 2001, many in the United States of America were talking about the school curricula in the Arab world, which do no promote tolerance and acceptance but on the contrary promote zealousness and parochialism and anti-Westernism, anti-Americanism. In the Arab world or the Islamic world everybody now had to refuse the school curricula in order to make them more acceptable to the American or the Western world.

So there was a big debate. One day the channel Al Arabiya calls me and they invite me to a discussion about the school curricula. I went to the studio and I was listening to the beginning of the program and the anchor was talking about the Israeli school curricula, saying it promotes hatred against Arabs, and against Palestinians, against Muslims, all these things. I was prepared to speak on a totally different program, on the school curricula in the Arab world, and here I am sitting in front of the camera and the anchor is talking about the school curricula in Israel, which actually I had no idea about.

I had to keep a poker face, and discuss for a whole hour about it. So I find myself diverting the subject from Israel to the Arab world. It took me a few minutes, but I raised the issue of, “Why are you talking about the Israeli school curricula when the biggest point in the world is the school curricula in the Islamic world in the Arab world?” They were of course angry about this but this worked. I had to change the subject to somewhere where I feel more comfortable. So for me, it’s about the ability to impose your agenda on the discussion. You need full mastery of the language and confidence within yourself. And you know, chutzpah also doesn’t hurt in these issues.

(Video) Dr. Mordechai Kedar - Facts, the only game in town

LOTL..
06 November '12..
H/T Jonah Elshout


Another must see Dr. Mordechai Kedar presentation. This took place earlier this year at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue, operating out of the Netanya Academic College. He addresses illegitimate settlement (Denver), Jerusalem and the Koran, Arab Apartheid Month, the Eight-State Solution, and much more. Please enjoy and share.



Published on May 20, 2012 by Strategicdialogue

Dr. Mordechai Kedar is an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds the Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. Kedar is an academic expert on the Israeli Arab population. He served for twenty-five years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.

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Kedar: The Frustrated Intellectual - Tariq Hagi

Dr. Mordechai Kedar..
10 May '12..

A few years ago Tariq Hagi, an Egyptian intellectual, visited Israel and I attended a lecture that he gave. He made a great impression on me, mainly because he spoke frankly and openly about the many deep flaws that exist in Arab cultures. His message was different from that of most Arab spokesmen, because most Arab spokesmen strive to cover up the flaws in their societies, to conceal them and repress them, mainly because of the shame and the feeling of inferiority that these flaws arouse in them.

Tariq Hagi is a totally secular person whose specialty is the management of large businesses. He travels widely and is in great demand as a lecturer in academic institutions and political and media platforms. He is a very prolific writer, and the Internet is full of his articles and essays as well as the many interviews that he does, both in the print and broadcast media, and they are translated into many languages. During recent years he has addressed the situation in the Arab world in general and in Egypt in particular, and when the revolution against Mubarak broke out on January 25, 2011, he supported it enthusiastically. Over time, as it became clear that the big winners of the revolution are the religious factors - the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis - he became very disappointed in the revolution.

Arab Rulers

Hagi points an accusing finger at the rulers of the Arab states who are - in his opinion - responsible for the miserable state of the Arab nation. In November 2011, during the period of the Egyptian elections, and as fears increasingly grew that the Islamists would achieve a majority in parliament, he wrote: "The Arab rulers in the last 60 years (since the Officers' Revolution in Egypt in 1952) are a panoramic picture of ignorance, corruption, tyranny, mental primitivism and anachronistic tribalism. It was under the shadow of their rule and because of them that the Islamist and Salafi movements came into being - those movements which are in total opposition to science and the values of modernism and humanism, which struggled for public freedoms, pluralism, acceptance of the other, the rights of women, coexistence among those who differ with each other, universality of information and knowledge, the raising of human intelligence generally and especially critical thinking. Ignorant, corrupt, primitive and tyrannical rulers have brought us to the current political circus that we are experiencing.

Kedar - The Failure of the Palestinian Venture

Mordechai Kedar..
Center for the Study of
the Middle East and Islam..
10 April '12..


Lately, there have been many rumors about the intentions of the Palestinians, specifically Abu Mazen, to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and to return to the days before the Oslo Accords, when Israel was responsible for all of the territories of Judea and Samaria, including the Arab cities. About one month ago, in March 2012, a committee including Egyptian and Palestinian notables convened in Cairo, and discussed this as a serious possibility, "because at present there is no political solution on the horizon". The questions that the committee dealt with were: who has the authority to take a decision to disband the PA, and whether the advantages of such a move would outweigh the disadvantages. According to the participants, the PA has failed because it has not achieved a full Israeli withdrawal from all of the territories "occupied " since 1967, and has failed to impose the refugees' "right of return" upon Israel .

Ibrahim Hamami, head of the Center for Palestinian Affairs in London, who participated in the committee, stated: "The Palestinian Authority was established to serve the goals of the occupation by continuing negotiations, while the Palestinian citizen did not benefit from it at all. On the contrary: it was the Palestinians who were forced to withdraw because of the settlement activity and roadblocks. An additional reason to dismantle the PA is the Israeli fear of deterioration in security that will occur in Israel because of the absence of Palestinian security organizations. Hamami claims that six years ago, in 2006, Abbas had already hinted at the possibility of dismantling the PA after Israel broke into the Jericho prison and arrested Ahmed Sadat and his associates. Since then the possibility of dismantling the PA has arisen from time to time, when Abbas has become disappointed with Israel.

As a result, Palestinian spokesmen have it easy: they just have to blame Israel for their failure. It's convenient and it provides an explanation that the West will buy, because the West doesn't have a deep understanding of the problems of the Middle East. The truth of the matter is, there never was a chance for the Palestinian Authority to succeed, because of the innate problems that stem from the nature of the political culture of the Middle East. We will focus on a few of them.

(Video) Dr. Mordechai Kedar on Syria, interviewed by Yishai Fleisher

Yishai Fleisher
EyeOnZionTV
29 Nov '11

Yishai Fleisher (Senior Editor, Jewish Press Online) discusses the current situation in Syria with Middle East expert, Dr. Mordechai Kedar. Dr. Kedar analyzes the violent conflict between the long ruling Assad government and the Syrian people now protesting in the streets. What are the causes of the clashes, likely outcomes, and implications for Israel and the Middle East?



Dr. Kedar is the Director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (currently in formation at Bar-Ilan University, Israel). He is also a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Thirdly, Dr. Kedar serves as a member of the Herzliya Inter-Disciplinary Center, Israel - Study team: "Facing Radical Islam". Dr. Kedar held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Israel Defense Forces, Military Intelligence, where he served as head of a branch in the hi-tech 8200 unit.

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http://yishaifleisher.com

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http://www.youtube.com/user/MordechaiKedar

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Mordechai Kedar: Why Has the Domino Effect Been Halted? - A Theatrical Reminder

IMRA
08 April '11

"Even American arms and training, European funds and global political support will not turn the Fatah regime in Judea and Samaria into something upon which Israel can depend. Only the establishment of eight homogeneous tribal states, based on the urban population, can survive for long. At the same time, Israel must always retain control of the rural expanse to prevent it from becoming entrenched, missile-equipped Hamas hilltops, like the hills in southern Lebanon and the tunnel city dug under the Gaza Strip."

Middle Eastern Insights - No. 5 - Why Has the Domino Effect Been Halted? - A Theatrical Reminder
Center for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (under formation)
Bar-Ilan University

Middle Eastern Insights
No. 5, 8 April, 2011

Why Has the Domino Effect Been Halted?
Mordechai Kedar

Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, president of Tunisia, fled his raging country this past January 14th, after a twenty-eight day period of protests left seven hundred dead. Husni Mubarak, president of Egypt, left office on February 11th after eighteen days of riots resulting in four hundred dead. All the commentators spoke of the “domino effect” that would overthrow most, if not all, Arab rulers. At this writing, and despite the ongoing protests, the dead and the wounded in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Morocco, Syria and Iraq, two months have passed with no other president or king resigning or being ousted. This begs the question of why the successes in Tunisia and Egypt have not been replicated in other Arab countries.

The answer lies in the sociology of Arab countries. In recent decades, Tunisia and Egypt have experienced a transition from the village life to the city; people moved to the cities individually or as part of nuclear families comprising parents and children. They were cut off from the tribe or clan with whom they had grown up in the desert or village, joining thousands of city dwellers who had also abandoned traditional tribal life. These people become part of professional organizations (e.g. unions of engineers or merchants) formed to advance and safeguard their particular interests, and of political-ideological societies (e.g. Socialists, Communists, Democrats or Islamists). Members of these organizations share a common interest or ideology, not family ties. Familial ties differ in principle from ideological allegiances and shared concerns; while family connections cannot be replaced, mutual interests and ideologies are subject to change.

As a result of the demographic developments in Egypt and Tunisia, a political elite arose – people who came together on the basis of common interest and ideology, not of familial or tribal ties. Ben Ali and Mubarak were surrounded by those whose support was based on shared interest and ideology, with no family obligations. By contrast, kings and presidents in most other Arab countries rule via their tribes, whose thousands of members are planted in the government, army, security agencies, political parties, local authorities, government-owned companies and all key decision-making positions. They support the head of state not for his sake or that of his rule, but for their own sake and that of their tribe; they know that if he falls, their heads will roll. Iraq, where Saddam Hussein placed his fellow Dulaim tribesmen at the head of every important government body, is a perfect example.

This is also the case in Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain: When the president or king looks behind him, he sees his brothers and his first-, second- and third-cousins standing firm, supporting every decision he makes, because their fate depends on his. Their struggle to remain in power is a struggle for life in every sense of the word. It is a combination of “them or us” and “rule or die”.

Our Man on Al Jazeera

Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a lecturer in the Department of Arabic and a research associate at BESA (the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) in Bar Ilan University. He teaches Islam, Islamic Movements, Islamic Ideologies, Mass Media in the Arab World, State and Society in the Arab World, and Gender Issues in Islamic Societies

Kedar also does research in partnership with the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzilyah and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Kedar received his Ph.D from Bar-Ilan University in 1998, which led to the publication of his book “Assad in Search of Legitimacy—Message and Rhetoric in the Syrian Press under Hafiz and Bashar” in 2005.



Aish.com interviewed me at home and made this movie. http://www.aish.com/v/is/100215459.html

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Al-Jazeera spoiler Prof. Mordechai Kedar: 'Why did Islam make Jerusalem it's number 3 holy city?'

DemoCast.TV

17 February '10

Bar-Ilan University's Arabic-studies expert, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, clarifies his al-Jazeera's interviewer's error - why was Jerusalem, if never mentioned in the Koran, made holy by Islam? Kedar explains how it was done for political advantage. He asserts that in Islam, politics and religion make up two sides of the same coin.

Dr. Mordechai Kedar on "Arab Terrorism, the Myth of al Aqsa and Jerusalem"

H/T to JStreetJive
Blip.tv
09 February '10

Dr. Mordechai Kedar speaks on Arab Terrorism, the Myth of al Aqsa and Jerusalem at Temple Ahavath Torah in Stoughton, MA - (Part 1)



Dr. Mordechai Kedar on "Arab Terrorism and the Myth of al Aqsa Part 2



Related Article by Dr. Mordechai Kedar: A Jewish and Non-Legitimate State
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