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Wednesday, May 3, 2006
PMW: Egyptian TV promotes anti-American hatred

Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin
April 30, 2006
Contact details hereView this bulletin online here
Egyptian TV promotes anti-American hatred
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

[Father tells son of the American threat]

An Egyptian TV series promoting anti- American hate propaganda has just
finished its second season on Palestinian Authority TV. The popular Egyptian
series presents the US as the leader of the imperialist forces in the world
and as such responsible for the serious problems of the Arab world. Israel
likewise is presented negatively. Iraq, on the other hand is presented
positively as the innocent victim of American imperialist occupation for the
purpose of stealing Iraqi oil. This anti- American series was produced by
the Egyptian government owned and controlled Egyptian Radio and Television
Union.

This Egyptian series reflects a critical component of internal propaganda in
the Arab world, which is to blame the failings of the Arab regimes on
"imperialist America" and thereby deflect the anger of their own people away
from the corrupt leaders and to the foreign enemy. This hate propaganda is
presented throughout the Arab world by political leaders, in the Mosques,
and is most effective in reaching the broad population through pop culture,
TV and movies, like this Egyptian series.

The series reinforces the following ideology:

1) Hate towards the West and especially towards the US, depicting it as the
modern "Roman empire" and "crusaders". The same idea repeats in many
examples in PMW archive:
http://pmw.org.il/tv%20part8.html

2) The conclusion of the series is that only resistance (i.e. terror) for
many years will defeat the US and the West. Islam's hundreds of years of war
with Christians during the Crusades, is presented as a precedent.

3) Implying that Israel destroyed the World Trade Center. The same idea
appears in a popular Egyptian music video in PMW archive:
http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_YaAmAraby.asx)

4) Depicting the US behavior as part of a pattern, starting with its policy
to the "Indians" [Native Americans] as the first innocent victims of US
policy.

Finally, it should be noted that Egypt is one of the largest recipients of
US foreign aid. PMW has documented in the past that Palestinian
infrastructures involved in anti- American activities and glorifying
terrorists likewise have been recipients of US money.

Click here to see a video segment from the series, in which the father tells
his son about the need to fight the U.S. for hundreds of years.
www.pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_Globalization.asx

The following is the transcript of the video link:
"Man in the Era of Globalization" Egyptian TV Series, PATV, Apr.18, 2006
Son:
Ariel Sharon knows how to take advantage of 9/11. He knows how to convince
America that he is fighting terror. The Zionists are the ones who benefit
from these events. Even from 9/11 they benefit. Aren't they the ones who
attacked the World Trade Center, to cause what is happening?
Father:
It's not impossible. But don't forget that the Zionist aren't everything.
There is a bigger an greater force, the great imperialist interests.
Today America is playing the role that the Roman Empire played in the past,
when it controlled the whole world through its influence and power.
Son:
What should we do, father, give up?
Father:
No! We must not give up.
Son:
But how, father? You said that America has power to control the whole world.
Father:
Do not forget that when the crusades came to the region we resisted for 200
years. For 200 years there were wars. We too have the ability to resist for
many years. We will not become like the Indians [Native Americans], put in
cages for the world to watch, as they are doing now in Gwatanamo with the
remaining Al-Qaida.
[Egyptian TV Series, PATV, Apr.18, 2006]

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