Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

[Editor: The problem with this article is only in the last concluding sentence that is generalizing and inciting]



Al-Ahram’s issue of April 29, 2004 published a news article about a conference organized by the European Security Organization in Berlin to discuss the issue of anti-Semitism in Europe. In Al-Ahram of February 25, 2004, it was reported that Jean Pierre Raffarin, the French Prime Minister, said that his country would soon issue a law restricting television channels that air programs from the Middle East that are anti-Semitic. This is a new law that would be added to the laws issued by the European and American countries after World War II that are still in effect today.



According to the Torah, the Arabs are the descendants of Shem. The German scholar Karl Brooklyn [we could not find any information about this scholar on the Internet, the name is a transliteration from the Arabic] stated that the children of Israel did not consider the Canaanites to be the descendants of Shem for political and religious reasons, although they [sons of Israel] know that the Canaanites have ethnic and linguistic ties to them, the Semites. Dr. Israel Wolfenson, a Jewish scholar [a member of the Societe d’Etudes Historiques Juives d’Egypt.



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When the Quraish asked the Jews whether or not Muhammad’s religion was better than Makkan religion they said they preferred the pagan Makkan religion. Wolfenson calls this a “scandalous mistake” of the Jews of those days], said that the historical links that tied the Hebrews to the Canaanites were dissolved after the children of Israel moved away from the Arabian peninsula, which was a shared land for all Hebrew and Canaanite nations. That is why [according to Wolfenson] the Hebrews now consider the Canaanites the descendants of Ham, and not of Shem. This shows that since antiquity, Israel has been trying to construct historical events according to their own interests.



[Editor: the author refers to a discussion among scholars about the origin of the Hebrews but the conclusion in the last sentence that historical events have been constructed according to ‘own interests’ since antiquity cannot be backed up. Throughout history many historical events have been constructed according to ‘own interests’ but Israel is not the only nation having done so and it is certainly not possible to state that this has been general policy since antiquity].