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...past two years, the Egyptian press has presented many cartoons depicting Israeli soldiers as grotesque-looking, demonic creatures wearing swastikas on their helmets or armbands. Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon have been portrayed sporting Hitler-style mustaches, giving the Fuhrer’s infamous one-armed salute and, without fail, proudly displaying a swastika...
Meanwhile, a prominent Egyptian columnist recently wrote, “Thanks [be] to Hitler, of blessed memory, who on behalf of the Palestinians revenged in advance against the most vile criminals on the face of the earth. Although we do have a complaint against him, for his revenge on them was not enough.” And who can forget the headline in Saudi Arabia’s leading state-run newspaper when Israeli agents captured Gestapo henchmen Adolf Eichmann in 1960 (before the 1967 war and the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank...
...things about Saddam, contradictions abound. He is known to surround himself with paranoiac security. Yet when Saddam invited Mohammed Sobhi, an Egyptian actor performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside...
...April 14 Newsday op-ed entitled “Where are All the Moderates?” Egyptian conflict resolution specialist Mohammed Abu-Nimer echoed Gaili’s sentiments...
...reform in the PA are also, in many instances, among the most strongly resistant to the idea that its security forces should be rounding up the Islamists and other radicals at the forefront of the intifada. Palestinian democracy is no more a guarantor of peace with Israel than Egyptian or Jordanian democracy would...