MEMRI TV Project
Friday December 17, 2004

LATEST CLIPS ADDED TO WWW.MEMRITV.ORG INCLUDE:

Clip #427: Saudi Royal Family Sword Dance

The Saudi royal family performs the traditional sword dance.

www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=427

Clip #426: Former Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Abdallah
Bishara: Iranian Nuclear Weapons Threaten the Countries of the Region

An excerpt: "A nuclear Iran is a danger to this region, to the Arab world,
and may even pose a global threat...Why the nuclear weapons? Why is [Iran]
involved in Iraq? Why does it support Hizbullah? Why is it adopting the
Palestinian cause? Why is this Iran's business? Does Iran want to adopt the
Palestinian cause, or does it want to support the Shiites in the region? No,
it wants, it supports Hamas and Hizbullah, and does not accept the logic of
two states, a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state. It does not want
this."
www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=426

Clip #425: Former Kuwaiti Minister Ahmad Al-Rube'i: Those Responsible for
Extremist Fatwas Live in Luxury in the West

An excerpt: "Like what unfortunately happened to us in the so-called Afghan
Jihad, which ended in disaster with the return of the Afghani Arabs to their
own countries, which they began to destroy in Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria,
Yemen, and some of the other Arab countries. It now seems that some people
are repeating this bitter experience and seducing these young people with
false Islamic legal rulings. Those same people make these rulings public on
the Arab TV stations and live in comfort and luxury. Their children study at
the best universities in the US and the West and they send the sons of the
poor and wretched to Falluja and other places."

www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=425

Clip #424: Fatah Leader Faruq Qaddumi: PA Ministers Are Not Really Ministers

An excerpt: "The Palestinian Authority is a partial authority. It is a local
government, just like any local government in any country. We shouldn't
delude ourselves that these 'ministers' are actually ministers. The
Executive Committee is their source of authority. We, the Fatah Central
Committee, are their source of authority. This is a fact. I don't say this
to belittle them, may Allah bless them and their efforts. But one must
follow the law and the regulations. One cannot be a broker of embassies.
Embassies are under the authority of Palestine's foreign minister."

www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=424

Clip #413: Saudi Cleric 'Aed Al-Qarni: Jews and Christians Lie When They Say
God Loves Them

An excerpt: "The Jews take pride in something they lie about - the Jews and
the Christians. Allah says that the Jews and the Christians say: "We are the
sons of Allah and His beloved." and they declare this throughout the world,
to modern intellectual streams, to international organizations, and to
nations and countries. They say: "Oh people, we, the Jews and Christians,
are the sons of Allah and His beloved. Allah made us His sons." They are
lying, Allah's wrath upon them."

www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=413

There are now 427 clips grouped according to these subjects:

Antisemitism
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Conspiracy Theories
Education
Jihad and Terrorism
Reform in the Middle East
Sermons from Mosques in the Middle East
Suicide (Martyrdom) Operations
U.S. and the Middle East
2004 U.S. Elections
Christianity and the West
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Women
Europe and the Middle East
Cultural Issues
Minorities in the Middle East

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