bargisi brings up the flagrant anti-jewish tone of the egyptian press in a wall st journal opionion piece. i’m not really sure the cold shoulder approach he advocates would be productive, although something needs to be done about the widespread and completely one-sided anti-israeli bias that does often verge on the anti-semitic (an example of which is the recent uproar about the egypt-israel gas deal).

we need more arab-israeli deals and more collaboration and more business and more travel and more trade. not less.

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  • str82ais

    I was with a Palestinian guy last night who was telling us about the siege of Gaza – how ugly, inhumane it is. After we all sympathised, he turned on us. “You, Egyptians,” he turned me, “of all the countries that can help us, that bring this whole tragedy to an end instantly, it is Egypt.” He carried on around the table with the other Arab nationalities. Knowing I would not tense up with him, he came back to me and said: “An Israeli goes to Egypt, you treat him with all due respect. But us, we could be sheep to you. Is this right?” He went on to decry Tantawi's shaking of hands with Peres – how could the Sheikh of Al-Azhar do something so undignified, he asked.

    It is important to recognise that we must treat _both_ sides of the situation well. It will not do to stop the anti-Jewish bias in our papers, while our authorities continue to treat the Palestinians like sheep.

    What the hell is our government doing supporting a terrible, inhuman siege like that of Gaza's?

  • str82ais

    I was with a Palestinian guy last night who was telling us about the siege of Gaza – how ugly, inhumane it is. After we all sympathised, he turned on us. “You, Egyptians,” he turned me, “of all the countries that can help us, that bring this whole tragedy to an end instantly, it is Egypt.” He carried on around the table with the other Arab nationalities. Knowing I would not tense up with him, he came back to me and said: “An Israeli goes to Egypt, you treat him with all due respect. But us, we could be sheep to you. Is this right?” He went on to decry Tantawi's shaking of hands with Peres – how could the Sheikh of Al-Azhar do something so undignified, he asked.

    It is important to recognise that we must treat _both_ sides of the situation well. It will not do to stop the anti-Jewish bias in our papers, while our authorities continue to treat the Palestinians like sheep.

    What the hell is our government doing supporting a terrible, inhuman siege like that of Gaza's?



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