Right now Egypt is facing fierce attacks from the international Zionist forces who are out to harm and discredit Egyptian intellectuals, writers and innovators in the Egyptian media.
On June 28, 2002, the Egyptian writer Ibrahim Nafi was subpoenaed by the examining magistrate and ordered to appear in a Parisian court to explain his stand on accusation that he had conspired to incite violence, hatred and prejudice against Jews. Nafi is head of the Egyptian as well as the Arab journalists unions, chairman of the board of directors of Al-Ahram Association and chief editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram. He was also asked to explain his and other contributing writers’ supposed hostility toward Jews.
This case dates back to Jan. 25, 2001, when a Zionist group called the League for Resisting Racism and anti-Semitism based in France, began legal proceedings against the writer.
The purpose behind these legal proceedings was to attack Egyptian writers who are detailing Israeli massacres of the Palestinian people at a stage when the violence in occupied territories has gone beyond all tolerable limits.
Now a new case rages against Egyptian television, accusing it of presenting anti-Semitic programs. IPAC, an extremist Zionist organization based in the United States, demanded the Egyptian television stop broadcasting a series entitled: “Knight With No Horse” claiming that it incites hatred of Jews and is anti-Semitic. The organization began a campaign in the US media and asked the Bush administration to intervene in the matter.
Things did not stop there. The IPAC wrote a memo to the US Department of State and Congress demanding political and economic sanctions against Egypt if it insisted on airing the series.
The memo contained a number of allegations and lies with the aim of punishing Egypt and destroying the excellent ties between Egypt and US — something that has always worried Zionists and the butchers of Israel. The memo spoke of how to punish Egypt politically and economically and later militarily if it were to become necessary.
In order to justify these accusations and gain American support, the Zionist memo also claimed that the television series represents a violation of the very basis of the global war on terror because it incites violence against Jews and thus runs counter to American strategy. The memo argued that the timing of its airing does not harmonize with the current war against terrorism in the Middle East. Here we see that the Zionist memo wanted to link this work of art to terrorism. Israel knows the word terrorism allows it to suppress the Palestinian resistance, which it calls acts of terror.
What is strange though is that this Zionist tirade has begun well before the series was aired. No one even knew the contents of this work of art. This can only mean that Israeli spies are extremely active inside Egypt not only on the political, economic and military fronts but also on the intellectual and media fronts. Egypt refused to bow to all these pressures and stop the broadcasting of the series “Knight With No Horse” which began transmission on Nov. 6.
Zionist organizations tried to stop the series from being aired, but failed. They are now applying pressure on the US administration to punish Egypt economically and politically and to declare Egypt an anti-Semitic state.
Meanwhile, an extremist Zionist organization is preparing to convene a meeting to discuss ways of punishing Egyptian actors and media leaders who have supervised and allowed the series to air. This body wants to place them on the hit list so that they can be killed in any country they may visit outside of Egypt.
Isn’t the idea of assassination that the organization has adopted the basis of terrorism?
This also raises the question as who are the real terrorists — those who criticize massacres being committed by Jews through their writings and works of art or those who assassinate people merely due to a difference of opinion or political ideology?
Arab News Opinion 18 November 2002
