Memri is one of the most useful organizations on the Internet. They translate reports from across the Middle East, and inform a non-Arabic speaking public of how some channels and newspapers report about current events. Especially with regards to the Israel-Palestine conflict MEMRI is more than useful.

It now seems, however, that MEMRI is in financial trouble. It has called on its users to donate money so they can continue informing millions of people every day about what’s going on in that part of the world and why.

Jules Crittenden asked on his readers to donate a few bucks to MEMRI, I’d like to do the same.

In order for you to understand MEMRI’s value, click on this link to watch one of its videos. In this particular video, Egyptian American Noni Darwish author explains how she was indoctrinated with hatred towards Israel / Jews and with a desire to commit terrorism during her childhood in Gaza.

“We would sing songs or recite poems about killing ourselves,” she said on Al-Hayat TV, Cyprus. “About waging Jihad, and dying as martyrs.”

“I would recite these poems daily.”

“We were always taught to love Jihad, to love the resistance and to desire death,” she added about her years in Palestinian primary and secondary schools.

When one watches MEMRI’s videos and reads the material there, however, it is often important for one to keep in mind that these individuals do not speak for all the Moslems in the world. For instance, some of the things she said about what was being said in Arab mosques would absolutely positively never be said in mosques in Turkey.

So that means you already have to scale it back to Arab Moslems. But even when talking about Arab Moslems you have to keep in mind that many, many Arab Moslems have Christian and Jewish friends. This too should be kept in mind.

However, the situation is critical in many Arab countries, and especially in ‘Palestine’ (not a country but you get the point). MEMRI’s videos show how radical leaders have influenced and continue to influence, nay indoctrinate, ‘the people.’ The longer this continues, the more hateful Arabs and especially Palestinians will become. This is something not only Western Christians and non-religious people should realize, but also Moslems living in the West or in non-Western Moslem countries. In many of those countries, even in Turkey, one can hear more sympathy for the ‘plight’ of the Palestinians, for instance, than for the plight of Israelis.  The main reasons for this are ‘they are Moslem so are we’ so there is a connection, a bond, and - and this is far more important - no one is informing the people of, in this case Turkey, about the evil ideology that’s eating away at the very heart of ‘Palestinian society.’ They think it’s something of the ‘extremists,’ not realizing that these ‘extremists’ have succeeded in indoctrinating the majority.

As an aside, she also had something nice to say to those who want women to cover themselves, an approach I agree with completely: “If God wanted to hide women, He would have created them with fur.”