Arab Media Review:
Anti-Semitism and Other Trends
July 2004
Egypt
Posted: September 13, 2004
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From an interview with the French thinker, Bertrand Badi:
"…Badi thinks that it is unlikely that Sharon's disengagement plan will cause the establishment of a stable regime in the occupied territories, since it is determines the living of Palestinians in seclusions similar to those which were established by the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Sharonic plan is only a plan for racial cleansing against the Palestinians…"
Dr. Hisham Murad, "The French Thinker, Bertrand Badi: The Israeli Disengagement Plan is Racial Cleansing Against the Palestinians", Al-Ahram, July 21, 2004
The writer is presenting the headlines of four leading newspapers in London (Sun, Daily Express, Times, Evening Standard) when Sheikh Qardhawi visited the UK, saying that "as if it was a message with one content that was distributed to the public. Then they were given the starting signal to open the battle on a specific day. As it is not a coincidence that the four papers are under the control of the Zionist right… but the Zionist group is the strongest…
The stirring of the conspiracy emerged in the counter mobilization campaign that received the Sheikh…"
Fahmi Huwaidi, "A Conspiracy in London", Al-Ahram, July 20, 2004
"…Israel is not only doing its strategic calculations all the time, but it is behaving according to those calculations all of the time. It never stops to push the USA to enter to conflicts with its enemies…
The Iraqi situation became an ideal situation for Israeli intervention, that from its starting point is willing to make use of the new situation in Iraq for its interest, as is the situation in the international policy in general…"
Dr. 'Abed al-Mun'im Sa'id, "the Israelis in Iraq", Al-Ahram, July 19, 2004
"… It is proven that the majority of the political oppositionists in the USA walked into the same trap, as they spread in their milieus that bridging with Israel is the passing license in Washington, and an inevitable way to gain the amity of the political class there…"
Fahmi Huwaidi, "Israel on the Euphrates' Coasts", Al-Ahram, July 13, 2004
"… My assessment is that the scandals that soiled the reputation of the American army in Iraq were made by Israeli planning. What General Carbinski wanted to say between the lines is that the tortures of American prisoners in different prisons and the inhuman actions that were perpetrated there, were advised by Israelis, or through American making use of Israeli experience in this field…
…What happened in Iraq under American-Israeli cooperation reveals the nature of the current American government. This is a conservative right … in which Israel's interests are frequently raised above the USA interests itself…"
Ibrahim Nafi', "The Truth about the Israeli Role in the Iraqi Issue", Al-Ahram, July 9, ?2004
The writer is dealing with the efforts made by Jewish organizations to monitor the Arab media, and the establishment of the Arabs Against Discrimination (AAD), in light of this fact:
"…If there is a lesson for all of us regarding what happened in this case, so this is the range of the power of influence of the Zionist lobby in the USA, and this is an influence that is not hidden from anybody. It is very easy to observe and to follow it, as it is confronting it and revealing the counterfeit and falsification that require from us, as Egyptians and Arabs, a high degree of ordering and a huge cooperative effort.
The Zionist lobby launched vicious political and media campaigns against the major Arab countries, and on its front Egypt, and made use of what happened in September 11th in order to spread its campaign to Islam… And in this course Zionist organizations worked energetically in order to follow what is written in the Arab media, to remove words out of their context, distorting their translation and sending it to decision makers and western media as evidence of the racism and anti-Semitism of the Arab media. In this framework, MEMRI, Anti-Defamation League and many other organizations are prominent, and lodged legal complaints against Arab writers and journalists….
The organization (AAD) intends at revealing the distortion and falsification done by the Zionist organizations. They completed research about the ways MEMRI uses in order to distort the facts and their intention to forge the materials' translation in the western media. The research was posted on the organization's website in Arabic, English and French, while two researchers from among the organization's members are preparing their MA about MEMRI and the ADL…"
Ibrahim Nafi', "Why is All that Servility, Oh Arabs?!", Al-Ahram, July 5, 2004
"…This is a fact, even if there is a blatant exception in regards to forbidding the criticism of the policy of the Israeli government, or the robbery of the Zionist lobby in France itself! Talking about who dares to criticize Israel, Pascal Bonifas, the famous French thinker, reveals in his recent book the hidden control over the freedom of speech in France, in what is related to Zionism and the Israeli state and the Zionist lobby. The book was translated into Arabic by the journalist Ahmad ash-Sheikh, who is an expert in French politics…. In his introduction, he links between Bonifas' book and the book of the American, Paul Findley, who published before and in the same fashion a famous book titled: 'Who Dares to Speak?' in which he revealed the way of action of the Zionist lobby in America, and how this lobby is taking control over the active apparatuses in the American society. Findley's book was published twenty years ago, but now, after George Bush and his friends took over the American government, we are in front if secret plans being performed by the Zionist lobby. In the front is the extremist Christian Zionist lobby, which is ruling directly, performing the Zionist plans accurately, playing up the protection of Israeli interests, and on the surface keeping Israeli security and the American national interests. The American attack on Iraq is the best evidence to this fact, whereas the safeguard of Israel's security was in front of the purposes of the American attack…"
As-Sayyid Yassin, "The Hidden Control Over the Freedom of Speech", Al-Ahram, July 1, ?2004
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