[ One Arab who forgets that the is a Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt, and what Egypt would lose if the treaty was annulled. Jews living in Arab lands loved this Egyptian singer, but to this Arab......... ]
The Egyptian host is livid. I don't have subtitles, but for five minutes he is raging about this, saying that the original Arab singer and composer would die if they witnessed these Jews singing their song.
Three days after the BBC published that article it was reported that a hospital in Saudi Arabia had said it would treat the twin girls. A travel request was apparently submitted and last week COGAT reported that, with help from Israel, the twins and their father had embarked on the journey to Saudi Arabia.
If the BBC was interested in this story per se (and not just as a hook for inaccurate and misleading messaging concerning Israeli counter-terrorism measures) we would of course have expected to see a follow-up article.
Was there a hint of Jewish messianic nationalism when the Arabs of Palestine started attacking Jews in the 19th century and through the 1920s and 1930s? And is the current Israeli government really being influenced by messianic nationalism? Of course not - only the people who hate Israel to begin with make up that canard, and Cohen sucks it all up.
Moreover, Cohen has the astonishing ability not to recognize in today's Arab "anti-Zionism" the parallel mentality as traditional European antisemitism described by Schama. Arabs didn't care when they were under non-Arab rule of the Ottomans - but the idea of Jewish leaders is what prompted them - and still prompts them - to violence. That isn't the Jews' fault - it is simple antisemitism.
"We recognize an error, a clumsiness, we obviously did not want to challenge the existence of the State of Israel", said Pascal Ruffenach, president of the Bayard group that publlshes Youpi.
The magazine will be withdrawn from being sold today.
But perhaps they also understand that Israel will not pack and leave, that it will remain on the map, that the Jews and not the terrorists will decide their destiny, that the IDF is invincible, that "the wall" is high and that after 70 years of terror the Israeli Jews have won.
A few days ago, many pro Palestinian Arab rallies took place in Italy's biggest cities: Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence...Thousands of people chanted "Intifada", "No to Zionism" and "Palestinian Resistance". But Europe's fate these days looks much darker than Israel's.
Michael Oren, deputy minister for Public Diplomacy, former US ambassador to Washington, told me something doesn’t allow me rest: “We are having more troubles with some European countries than with the Arab ones”.
[ So, Jerusalem is not Palestinian.....it is Arab.....quite telling ]
Egyptian media reports that an "urgent complaint" has been filed before the administrative court to compel the Minister of Local Development and the Governor of Cairo to change the street where the US embassy is located to the name "Jerusalem is Arab."
[ Sure, it continues to be about Israel.....all over the world....what else could it be about? ]
“It crosses all lines of common sense when in an official state institution people promote anti-Semitism, and children take part in this terrible event,” Vyshniakov wrote in a post on Facebook which included a photo of the scene. “What do these people teach the younger generation? Racism? Discrimination? Let’s see what happens next. ”