[...] EGYTIAN MEDIA RAMPANT WITH ANTI-SEMITISM Over twenty years after the signing of the Camp David Accords, anti-Semitism in the Egyptian media, continues unchecked finding wide-spread expression in official government publications, telecasts and radio reports. Anti-Semitic stereotypes also are flourishing in cartoons, caricatures and opinion columns. The focus, though, has slowly changed from portraying Jews as dirty, hook-nosed, money-grubbing, world dominators to comparing them with Nazis, denying the Holocaust and advancing traditional libel charges on their racial character. The latest example occurred in the Egyptian daily AKBAR AL-YOM, when on August 13 of this year, the paper praised LA gunman Buford Furrow for his calls to murder the whole of American Jewry. AKBAR, which has a circulation of 700,000 and whose editor is a government appointee, said that Furrow "has a goal to annihilate the Jewish race in the United States. I ask god to assist him in his efforts to attain this goal. Let us join together saying, 'May it be god's will.'" Furrow went on a shooting spree in a Los Angeles Jewish Community Center last August, wounding 5 people, four of them children. On May 1, 1999, an article entitled "The Jews are Liars," appeared in the publication AL-AHRAM AL-ARABI, in which American Holocaust-denier Fred Leuchter denies the Nazis used gas chambers to execute Jews during World War II. Leuchter states, "It's completely clear that this chamber is not an execution chamber, since it contains air inlets, but not air outlets. These chambers, like other facilities, were not designed as gas execution chambers..." According to AL-AHRAM, Leuchter's statement "by itself constitutes a death verdict on the false legends told by the state of Israel." Last December, AL-AHRAM ran an article by Nabil Amar, which stated, "Has there been any change in the personality of the fanatic Jew, as it has come to be known and described in the literature and heritage of most of the nations of the world? "That is to say, has there been any development of his character traits after his state has been established and he has obtained international influence? For example, is there any difference between Netanyahu's traits when he is negotiating with the Palestinians, Lebanese and the Syrians, and those of the money-lender from the play 'The Merchant of Venice?'" The previous November, an article in AL-SHAAB entitled "The Talmud, the Jews and Human Sacrifice" said, "Jews carry out human sacrifices to please their blood-thirsty God... [The Talmud says] 'We have two ways of satisfying our God: the first is on the Feast of Matzah [Passover], using matzah mixed with human blood, and the second is the circumcision ceremony of our children.'" Last, but certainly not the least of examples, is an article appearing in AL-ARAB, saying, "As for the Jews today, there is no difference between rigid or flexible. They are all the same, the difference being whether they kill a person with a thick, hard-bladed knife or by placing him on the electric chair...It is possible to deter these swindlers and tricksters and foil their schemes..." SOURCES: IMRA, AKBAR AL-YOM, REUTERS, HA'ARETZ, JERUSALEM POST, ARUTZ-7, ISRAELWIRE, AL-AHRAM AL-ARABI, ASSOCIATED PRESS. ------------------- przepajstowal tudziez komentarzem nie opatrzyl, W.G.
