Sheikh Palazzi Expresses Solidarity with Jews and Christian-Zionists

Muslim Sheikh Pays Solidarity Visit to the Jews of Hevron
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
(IsraelNN.com) Noam Arnon, a spokesperson for the Jewish community of Hevron, told Arutz Sheva about a very unusual guest who came to show his support on Monday.

Making the trip from Italy to Hevron for the second time in recent years, the head of the Italian Muslim Assembly, Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, met with local Jewish leaders in a show of solidarity. The sheikh, an Italian national who received his Islamic education from leading mainstream Saudi and Egyptian Sunni institutions, believes that his religion obligates its followers to support Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. In support of his position, Sheikh Palazzi quotes Koranic passages and traditions that affirm God's assignment of this land for the Jews.

As Palazzi has written of himself, he is "a Zionist Muslim clergyman and a friend of the Jewish people."

"We are talking about a unique personality," Arnon told Arutz Sheva. "A man who connects warmly with everyone he meets. A very brave individual."

During Sheikh Palazzi's visit to Hevron, community leaders discussed with him ways in which Islamist fundamentalism might be curbed. "He emphasized Saudi Arabia as responsible for extremism," Arnon said. "It funds mosques in Europe and the United States and then determines who will be allowed to speak in them. In this way, Islam becomes more and more extreme, which is a dangerous trend."

In his activities in Italy, Arnon explained, Palazzi teaches what he calls "the real Islam", which he believes includes tolerance, Jewish-Muslim fellowship and Zionism. "He even organized a protest outside the Iranian embassy in Rome when Ahmadinejad talked about destroying Israel," Arnon added.

Sheikh Palazzi, who is also the Muslim co-founder of the Islam-Israel Fellowship of the Root & Branch Association, told his Hevron hosts that Italian Jews are now shifting their political positions further to the Right. In the past, according to Palazzi, Jews in Italy were primarily supporters of the Left, but a slow change in underway. Arnon said that Sheikh Palazzi believes his efforts, as a non-Jew supporting Israel, have contributed to that shift.

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Sheik Palazzi expressed solidarity with this American Christian-Zionist who was detained in Jerusalem's Russian Compound and later unjustly deported from Israel (for highlighting the plight of the Temple Mount suffering under Nazi-Muslim occupation in an article published in Jerusalem).

Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005

To: "David Ben-Ariel"
From: Istituto Culturale della Comunita' Islamica Italiana
Subject: Re: Update on visa for Israel

Dear David,
I am simply shocked by what I read. I knew the Israeli government is becoming hard, cruel and dictatorial toward opposition groups (the wife of an activists protesting against disengagement was recently sent to jail together with her month years old daughter) but I never suspected this kind of attitude was extended not only to Israeli citizens, but to Zionist American citizens visiting Israel, too. Plenty of U.S. leftists regularly visit Israel in order to campaign against Israel and to support PLO, and they are not treated in the way you were treated.

Please, accept my solidarity.

All the best,
Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi
http://www.amislam.com/

Sheik Palazzi has also received and read Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall.

Sheik Palazzi on Beyond Babylon

Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi
Rome, Italy (6/19/2005)

Dear Mr. Ben-Ariel,

I finished reading your valuable book and appreciated its contents. I was already informed about the Worldwide Church of God and already had the opportunity to read books by Rev. Armstrong and issues of "The Plain Truth". Although from a religious point of view I obviously disagree with some of the beliefs which your Church preaches, I surely agree with your analysis of German and Vatican in creating as a new European anti-God Empire. I would like that Europeans understand what is happening under their eyes. Thank you very much for the copies you sent me. I hope many people will have the opportunity to read your book and reflect upon its contents.

All the very best,

Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi Director
Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community
http://www.amislam.com/

Return of the Sheikh: Palazzis Arrive in Eretz Yisrael for Two Week Solidarity Visit

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YERUSHALAYIM, Israelite Tribal Territories of Judah and Benjamin, Kingdom of David and Solomon, United Israelite Kingdom of Judah and Joseph; Seventh Day, Fourth Hebrew Month of Tevet, 5770; Yom Chamishi (Fifth Day of Week/"Thurs"-day, December 24, 2009); Root & Branch Information Services mailto:rb@rb.org.il http://www.rb.org.il/
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Dear R&B Readers,

Sheikh Abdul Hadi and Mrs. (Dr. Luisa) Palazzi arrived at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday evening for a two week visit to Eretz Yisrael to express their solidarity with the People of Israel.

UPCOMING TALKS

Please join us for our upcoming Tuesday, December 29th talks by Dr. Asher Eder (6:00 p.m.) and Sheikh Palazzi (8:00 p.m.) in the Root and Branch Association Lecture Series at Jerusalem's Orthodox Union Israel Center (Keren Hayesod 22) (please see program and ticket information below).

DR. EDER'S TALK

Dr. Eder speaks on "Jerusalem-Zion: Burdensome Stone or City of Peace" (6:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 29th).

SHEIKH PALAZZ'S TALK

Sheikh Palazzi speaks on "The First, Second and Third Israelite Temples of Jerusalem in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition" (8:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 29th).

PROFESSOR NAHUM RAKOVER TO CHAIR SHEIKH PALAZZI'S TALK

Sheikh Palazzi's talk will be chaired by Professor Nahum Rakover. Professor Rakover, a recipient of the Israel Prize, is Founder and President of the Jewish Legal Heritage Society www.mishpativri.org.il. He is also former Deputy Attorney General of the State of Israel, former Advisor to the Knesset on Jewish Law and former Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University.

Professor Rakover was also the first person to invite Sheikh Palazzi to Israel, after meeting the Sheikh at a conference in Turkey in 1995. Sheikh Palazzi arrived in Israel for his first visit in July, 1996 as a guest of Professor Rakover, to address the Third International Seminar on the Sources of Contemporary Law on the subject of "Jerusalem: Three-Fold Religious Heritage for a Contemporary Single Administration". The Seminars were hosted by the Jewish Legal Heritage Society (then part of the Ministry of Justice) and chaired by Professor Rakover, Deputy Attorney General of Israel at that time.

DR. EDER AND SHEIKH PALAZZI AND THE R&B ISLAM-ISRAEL FELLOWSHIP

Dr. Eder and Sheikh Palazzi are Jewish and Muslim Co-Founders and Co-Chairs of the Islam-Israel Fellowship (established 1997) http://www.rb.org.il/Islam-Israel/Islam-Israel%20Contents.htm of the Root and Branch Association, Ltd. (established 1981) http://www.rb.org.il/.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AT THIS TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE

The Palazzis especially hope to express their solidarity with Jewish pioneering men, women and children living in the Jewish Pioneering Communities of the liberated Israelite tribal territories in Judea, Samaria and the Golan.

Sheikh Palazzi will affirm, as he has always done, that the Qur'an unequivocally states, from beginning to end, and according to the traditional Muslim commentators, that God gave the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel.

The Sheikh affirms Jewish sovereignty over united Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, the right of all people to pray on the Temple Mount, and the right of Jews to live anywhere in the Land of Israel.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION OF CRACKING THE QUR'AN CODE

The Palazzis also arrive in Israel to celebrate the forthcoming publication of Cracking the Qur'an Code: God's Land, Torah and People Covenants with Israel in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition (copyright Lowell Gallin, 2009), written in honor and based on the teachings of Dr. Eder and Sheikh Palazzi (please see endorsements below).



Shalom from Yerushalayim,


Mr. Lowell Gallin
Founder and President
The Root and Branch Association, Ltd.
www.rb.org.il
mailto:rb@rb.org.il

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Tuesday, December 29th, 6:00-10:00 p.m.

"Jerusalem-Zion: Burdensome Stone or City of Peace" by Dr. Asher Eder, Jewish Co-Founder and Co-Chair, R&B Islam-Israel Fellowship (6:00 p.m.); "The First, Second and Third Israelite Temples of Jerusalem in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition" by Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Muslim Co-Founder and Co-Chair, R&B Islam-Israel Fellowship; Secretary General, Italian Muslim Assembly, Rome Italy www.amislam.com (8:00 p.m.), Professor Nahum Rakover, Chair, Israel Prize Recipient; Founder and President, Jewish Legal Heritage Society www.mishpativri.org.il; former Deputy Attorney General, State of Israel; former Advisor to the Knesset on Jewish Law; former Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University. Israel Center Non-Members NIS 25, Israel Center Members NIS 20, Students NIS 10, Israel Center Life Members NIS 5, Journalists Free. Root & Branch Association www.rb.org.il Program at the Orthodox Union Israel Center, Keren HaYesod 22. Tuesday, 6:00-10:00 p.m., December 29th. Info: Tel. 02-566-7787; Email: mailto:rb@rb.org.il .



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Endorsements for Cracking the Qur'an Code from Ralph Peters and John Loftus

“My congratulations to all involved in this important breakthrough effort. The disturbed nature of the world today, exacerbated by those who would pervert and misuse the message of every religion, makes such endeavors critical to the moral as well as the physical well-being of decent men and women everywhere. We must give the Root and Branch Association a warm round of applause for reaching out in so innovative and helpful a manner. This is a small victory for all humankind – let us hope it will lead to great victories for peace, faith and civilization”.

Ralph Peters, Author, The War After Armageddon


“Every once in a while, a seminal text appears in Islamic-Judeo relations. Cracking the Qur’an Code is such a book. Based on the teachings of the prominent Sufi Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Perhaps the leading Sunni Muslim cleric in Italy, if not all Europe; and an Israeli educator, Dr. Asher Eder, it breaks new ground. More accurately, it reminds us all that we once stood upon the old common ground, where Christians, Jews and Muslims respected each other as Peoples of the Book. This is a book worth reading”.

John J. Loftus, Esq., Author, The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People



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Excerpt from Sheikh Palazzi Address to the International Conference on Countering Suicide Terrorism
Herzliya, Israel – February, 2000

www.amislam.com/bush.htm

"the powerful structure of the Wahhabi Muslim Brotherhood is mainly supported by those countries which are regarded as 'moderate' or 'friends of the West': Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Arab Emirates".

The main instrument for the "Wahhabisation" [1] of Arab society was an organization called Ikhwan al Muslimun (Wahhabi “Muslim Brotherhood”). The Brotherhood’s founder was Hasan al-Bannah, an elementary school teacher from Ismailiyyah who became one of the leaders of pro-British Masonry (United Lodge of England, ‘Mother of the World’) in Egypt.

The Palestinian Hamas is one of the most important Ikhwan (Wahhabi Muslim Brotherhood) controlled organizations in the Middle East. Hamas leaders are not among the original families of founders. On a worldwide level the Ikhwan (Wahhabi Muslim Brotherhood) leadership is, as before, in the hands of Syrian and Egyptian elements.

Countries such as Sudan, Iran and Afghanistan are easily identified as radical, totalitarian and enemies of the Western world, but their contribution to the international network of pseudo-Islamic "fundamentalism" (Wahhabism) is insignificant. On the contrary, the powerful structure of the Wahhabi Muslim Brotherhood is mainly supported by those countries which are regarded as "moderate" or "friends of the West": Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the Arab Emirates.



Excerpt from Sheikh Palazzi Remarks in September12, 2005
FrontPage.com Interview

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7298

"To really win the 'War on Terror'...it is necessary to replace the Wahhabi Saudi terror-funding regime with a moderate, non-Wahhabi and pro-Western regime, such as a Hashemite Sunni Muslim constitutional monarchy....The Wahhabi Saudi regime can only survive by increasing its support for terror".

To really win the "War on Terror" it is necessary for the U.S. to invade Saudi Arabia, capture King Abdullah and the other 1,500 princes who constitute the "House of Sa’ud", to freeze their assets, to remove them from power, and to send them to Guantanamo for life imprisonment. Then it is necessary to replace the Wahhabi Saudi terror-funding regime with a moderate, non-Wahhabi and pro-Western regime, such as a Hashemite Sunni Muslim constitutional monarchy. Unless all this is done, the "War on Terror" will never be won. It is possible to destroy Wahhabi al-Qa’ida, to capture or execute Bin Laden, al-Zarqawi, al-Zawahiri, etc., but this will not end the "War". After some years, Saudi princes will again start funding many similar Wahhabi terror organizations. The Wahhabi Saudi regime can only survive by increasing its support for terror.

Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi
Muslim Co-Founder and Co-Chair, R&B Islam-Israel Fellowship
http://www.rb.org.il/Islam-Israel/Islam-Israel%20Contents.htm
Advisory Council Member, Jewish Legal Heritage Society www.mishpativri.org.il
Director, Cultural Institute, Italian Islamic Community; Secretary General, Italian Muslim Assembly
http://www.amislam.com/
mailto:islam.inst@alice.it



[1] Wahhabis, as they are called by Sunnis and Shi’ites, call themselves “Salafis”

Pharisee Shaul on Circumcision for Gentiles

Why does the stubborn stigma against Paul continue to this day? Did he teach against Judaism? Were his accusers deceitful?

Sheik Palazzi and the apostle Paul


www.davidbenariel.org

Sheik Palazzi and the apostle Paul

This was written years ago, but its truth remains the same:

Dear Sheik Palazzi:

Congratulations on your FrontPage Magazine interview! I'm very happy for you to receive such conservative coverage. It's great. That being said, please permit me to correct a misunderstanding you have of my Jewish Christian brother, Paul.

You wrote:
"When Paul of Tarsus converted to Christianity, he started understanding Christianity in a very different way. There was no need of circumcision anymore, no need of Temple services and no need to observe the ritual commandments of Torah. The entire Jewish tradition was considered to be a temporarily valid religion, as a preliminary stage for the advent of the Messiah. Now that the Messiah has come, Judaism was rejected and meaningless. Jews were the Chosen People since the Messiah was going to be born among them, but since they rejected the Messiah, they were changed from Chosen People into an accursed People."

The strict Pharisee Paul, who continued to call himself a Pharisee AFTER his Christian conversion, saying, "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!" (Acts 23:6), NEVER said there was no need of circumcision anymore, of Temple services or ritual commandments of the Torah for the JEWS, but he did say many of these holy things weren't required of GENTILE converts to Christianity, agreeing with the Jerusalem Council that decreed:

Acts 15:19-29
19 Therefore I judge that we should not trouble those from among the GENTILES who are turning to God, 20 but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,from things strangled, and from blood. 21 For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.
22 Then it pleased the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren. 23 They wrote this, letter by them:

The apostles, the elders, and the brethren,
To the brethren who are of the GENTILES in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:

Greetings.
24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you [Gentiles] with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and keep the law"--to whom we gave no such commandment-- 25 it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well."

So you see that Paul taught that the GENTILES should keep the minimum requirements of abstaining from immorality, obeying the dietary laws, keeping the biblical Sabbath and festivals!
The early Christian fellowship in Jerusalem, led by James the brother of Jesus (Yeshua), tried to correct this STUBBORN STIGMA AGAINST PAUL that continues to this day and advised him:

Acts 21:20-26
20 And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law; 21 but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs. 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come. 23 Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow. 24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law. 25 But concerning the GENTILES who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality."
26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, entered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which time an offering should be made for each one of them....

So here the Jewish-Christian leaders in Jerusalem praised the zeal and devotion of the Jews, but were acknowledging that wild rumors and false allegations, disinformation, had been spread against Paul. To prove such charges were groundless, that Paul continued to follow halacha, Jewish traditions and Torah, they encouraged him to go sacrifice with Jews under a Nazarite vow, which he did! Paul sacrificed in the Temple, but then another misunderstanding and rumor spread that he had taken a Gentile into the Temple! Oy veh!

Paul never taught that the Jews' rejection of Jesus changed their status as the Chosen People! He taught that the prophesied partial blindness had happened, but that it was all for the mysterious purpose of God bringing in converted Gentiles into the Israelite fold, the Israelite root and branch of the Jewish Church of God!

Romans 11:1
1 I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:25-36
25 For I do not desire, [Gentile] brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
" The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins."
28 Concerning the gospel they are [presently] enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all. 33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 "For who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His counselor?"
35 "Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?"
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

Paul acknowledges the animosity between Judaism and biblical Christianity, but believes, according to his God-given understanding of the prophecies, that all's well that ends well, and that it's all for a great purpose that God is working out in the lives of all mankind. Paul reminds his Gentile audience that they're grafted into ISRAEL, the Jews aren't grafted into a Gentile root and branch - that is counterfeit Christianity represented by the Roman wolves in sheep's clothing!

I know Paul's writings concerning this veiled mystery of partial blindness and ultimate restoration of all Israel (all Twelve Tribes) is difficult to grasp, but at least we should clearly see that Paul NEVER taught that Jews should stop circumcising their children, forsake the Temple services (he participated in them!) or abandon the ritual commandments of the Torah. He merely taught that such things were not necessary for GENTILE converts to Christianity, as God is witness.

Most sincerely yours,
David Ben-Ariel