The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

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Zionism and Judeo-Islamic Relations in the Middle East: Libya’s Position · 325

1984–85, ed. Itamar Rabinovich and Haim Shaked (Boulder, Colo.: Westview
Press, 1987), 9:50.



  1. Jamahiriyya Mail, 18 September 1982, and al-Muntijun, Tripoli, 6 November



  2. Yehudit Ronen, “Libya’s Qadhafi and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,”
    Middle Eastern Studies 40, no. 1 (January 2004): 89.

  3. Radio Tripoli, 7 August 1988, Daily Report, and al-Jamahiriyya, Tripoli, 19
    November 1988. The theme that the Arabs and the Muslims should not pay for
    Hitler’s crimes has been repeated by various Arab and Muslim figures, includ-
    ing Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad. See, e.g., New York Times, 29
    October and 15 December 2005.

  4. Qadhafi’s interviews by the Neue Kronen Zeitung, Vienna, 29 February
    1988, and R. Monte Carlo, 10 August 1988, Daily Report.

  5. E.g., TV Tripoli, 17 February 1987, British Broadcasting Corporation
    (BBC) and 28 April 1987, Daily Report.

  6. Al-Ahram, 23 February 1990, and al-Jamahiriyya, 6 April 1990. Alaska ap-
    peared recurrently in a number of declarations by various Muslim leaders as a
    recommended destination for the expulsion of Jews from “Palestine,” including
    Iran’s president, quoted in the New York Times on 15 December 2005. Former
    Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad proposed Texas as another
    possible area for the relocation of the Israel state. MEMRI TV Project, clip no.
    1040, 17 February 2006.

  7. Jamahiriyya Arab News Agency (JANA), Tripoli, 11 October 1990. Qad-
    hafi reiterated his idea that the Israelis should return to their countries of origin
    later in the 1990s. See, e.g., al-Fajr al-Jadid, Tripoli, 12 February 1995.

  8. Rafi Sutton, Lost Opportunities (Tel Aviv: Ma ̔ariv Book Guild, 1994),
    145–56.

  9. For the U.S. air attack, see Mary Caldor and Paul Anderson, eds., Mad
    Dogs: The U.S. Raids on Libya (Dover, N.H.: Pluto Press, 1986), and Brian L. Da-
    vis, Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya (New York:
    Praeger, 1990), 133–81.

  10. International Herald Tribune, 16 April 1993, interviewed by Judith Miller.

  11. JANA, 31 May 1993, Daily Report. For further analysis of the pilgrims af-
    fair, see Yehudit Ronen, “al-Jamahiriyya al- ̔Arabiyya al-Libiyya al-Sha ̔biyya
    al-Ishtiraqiyya al- ̔Uzma,” Middle East Contemporary Survey 1993 17 (1995):
    549–52.

  12. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Yossi Beilin, quoted by Israel Defence
    Forces Radio, 31 May 1993, and Israel TV, 31 May 1993.

  13. Al-Fajr al-Jadid, 12 February 1995, and Tripoli TV, 21 April 1995, Daily
    Report.

  14. For more details on the Hebron attack, see Filastin al-Thawra, 6 March

  15. For Qadhafi’s praise of the Hamas attack, see al-Zahf al-Akhdar, Tripoli, 21
    October 1994.

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