Tonight's Saturday Night Cinema is Stanley Kramer's masterpiece, Judgment at Nuremberg. The blockbuster cast includes Spencer Tracy,
Burt Lancaster,
Montgomery Clift, Richard Widmark,
Marlene Dietrich,
Maximilian Schell, and
Judy Garland.
"An eloquent snapshot of the way that the ground was shifting--in both the Nuremberg of 1948 and the Tinsel Town of 1961."
After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the
full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a
series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international
tribunal, headed by American legal and military officials, with the
intent of bringing to justice those guilty of crimes against humanity.
However, by that time most of the major figures of the Nazi regime were
either dead or long missing, and in the resulting legal proceedings
American judges often found themselves confronting the question of how
much responsibility someone held who had "just followed orders." Judgment at Nuremberg is a dramatized version of the proceedings at one of these trials, in which Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is overseeing the trials of four German judges -- most notably Dr. Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) and Emil Hahn (Werner Klemperer)
-- accused of knowingly sentencing innocent men to death in collusion
with the Nazis. Representing the defense is attorney Hans Rolfe (Maximilian Schell), while prosecuting the accused is U.S. Col. Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark).
As the trial goes on, both the visiting Americans and their reluctant
German hosts often find themselves facing the legacy of the war, and how
both of their nations have been irrevocably changed by it. Judgment at Nuremberg also features notable supporting performances by Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, and Montgomery Clift. Originally written and produced as a play for television, the screen version of Judgment at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars for (respectively) Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
From The Guardian:
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals carried out
by Allied forces against military and administrative officials and
private contractors of Nazi Germany. They took place between 1945 and
1949.
Justice
It's 1948, and American judge Dan Haywood
(Spencer Tracy) arrives in Nuremberg. "Hitler is gone, Goebbels is gone,
Goering is gone – committed suicide before they could hang him," he
says. "Now we're down to the business of judging the doctors,
businessmen and judges. Some people think they shouldn't be judged at
all." The most attention-grabbing of the Nuremberg trials was that of the major war criminals in 1945-46. This film is about the judges' trial, which actually took place over the course of 1947. The date has been changed for a reason. Here, the trial is juxtaposed with the Czech coup of 1948 and the beginning of the cold war.
Morality
During the trial, which has been fictionalised, four defendants face
three North American judges. They are defended by a German (Maximilian Schell,
who won the best actor Oscar for his performance; Tracy was also
nominated). They are prosecuted by a fire-breathing American (Richard
Widmark), traumatised by what he saw in the concentration camps. Abby Mann's screenplay tackles some of the most sensitive questions about one of the most sensitive events in history: the Nazi holocaust.
How far did responsibility go? Were high-ranking officials only obeying
orders, and if so was that reasonable? Did ordinary Germans know what
was going on? Could they have done something to stop it?
It's easy
to accuse most historical films of simplification – they usually have
to convey a complicated story in a limited runtime. Not this one. Only
one character in Judgment at Nuremberg comes across as straightforwardly
bad: unrepentant defendant Emil Hahn (played by Werner Klemperer, a real-life refugee from Nazi Germany). Other than him, the film doesn't make things easy for the audience.
People
Judge Haywood's balance is thrown when he meets the enigmatic Frau
Berthold (Marlene Dietrich). She is the widow of a Nazi general who has
been executed following an earlier trial. "We hated Hitler," she tells
him. "I want you to know that. And he hated us … That's why it's so
ironic, what happened … It was political murder. You can see that, can't
you?" Her luminous performance stands out in a film filled with great
acting – including Burt Lancaster as Nazi judge Ernst Janning,
struggling painfully with his demons. Look out also for Montgomery
Clift as a victim of enforced sterilisation and Judy Garland as an Aryan
woman accused of having an affair with a Jewish man (a fictionalisation
of the Katzenberger case of 1942).
Whether as a result of their real-life troubles or not, both Clift and
Garland are extraordinarily effective playing desperate, broken,
vulnerable people.
Politics
Judgment at Nuremberg provoked controversy at the time of its release, from cinematic and political critics alike. "People asked how could I, an American, try to rekindle German guilt?" said director Stanley Kramer. "Well, I said that it would indeed have been better if the Germans had made it, but the fact is they didn't. So I did."
One
of the reasons why the film stands up well after 50 years is that
Kramer also resisted making his own compatriots the heroes. Preoccupied
with the Czech coup and the cold war, an American general joins those
encouraging Haywood to prioritise reconciliation over justice in the
name of patriotism – a supposed virtue that does not emerge at all well
from this movie. Indeed, the awkward and compromising position of
American occupiers resonates even more deeply half a century after the
film was made.
Verdict
Judgment at Nuremberg doesn't stick precisely to the facts of the
judges' trial, but its fictionalisations are intelligent. It raises
complex questions, resists easy answers, and leaves the viewer keen to
think and know more. For those reasons, it's an exceptionally good
historical film – and a haunting one.
This is the second unexplained train crash in as many weeks. More bodies are still being recovered in a mysterious Quebec train disaster in Canada
In this latest disaster in France, French Atlas readers tell me that Muslim "youths" were looting corpses at the train crash site. Most media neglected this monstrous bit of news; The Daily Telegraph makes a brief mention of the ghouls, referring to the Muslims as, ahem, “local people."
A police spokesman described groups of local people
“picking through the wreckage” on Friday night and looting from the
bodies of victims, who were electrocuted or crushed to death.
“It appeared at first that they were trying to help, but it soon
became clear that they were taking personal property away. When police
approached they threw stones before running away,” said the spokesman.
Picking through the wreckage. Savages.
This train crash has been extensively reported
by the mainstream media. Less widely reported is the fact that
"jeunes", French journalist code for Muslims, attacked the rescue
workers and looted the corpses of the victims.
It's an incredible scene that met police officers when they
arrived in Brétigny-sur-Orge. While they were trying to bring help to
the victims of the derailment of the Paris-Limoges train, in which at
least six people died, they had to deal with stones being thrown at them
by a small group of 'jeunes'. At the origin of the attack: looters who
had come to steal from the bodies of the dead and wounded whatever they
could carry away.
"They seemed to be helping the victims". Nathalie Michel, from the
Alliance police trade union, describes the scene on air on Europe 1: "At
5.30 pm, while our colleagues were deploying, they see a group of
'jeunes' who approach and seem to be helping the victims. Very quickly,
they realise that these individuals are there to rob the victims and
especially the first corpses," says the trade union member indignantly.
‘Human Error’ Did Not Cause French Rail Crash
The Irish Times:
Transport minister praises train driver and says about 30 still injured after incident
Frederic Cuvillier said that about 30 people were still being treated
for injuries. In all, nearly 200 people sustained injuries in the
initial incident, when four train cars slid toward the station, some
falling over.
The crash was France’s deadliest in years, but Mr Cuvillier said it
could have been worse and praised the driver who sent out an alert
quickly, preventing a pile up.
Mr Cuvillier said it was unclear what did cause the crash, but
authorities are looking into an error in the switching system as well as
other possibilities.
This is one of the busiest travel weekends in France, which is celebrating the national holiday of Bastille Day on Sunday.
The Paris-Limoges train derailed as it sped through
Brétigny-sur-Orge, 27.5km south of Paris, at 5.14pm yesterday. The train
was not supposed to stop in Brétigny, a station on the suburban RER
line.
Railroad sources said it was strange that the lead cars were not
affected, while cars three and four fell flat on their sides, crushing
waiting passengers on the platform. The last four cars of the train were
cut off and thrown hundreds of metres. Television footage showed
twisted tracks and rescue workers attempting to cut their way through
wreckage.
Witnesses recounted a deafening sound at the moment of the
derailment. Survivors said the train vibrated and swung from side to
side as suitcases flew through the air. “I was reading,” a passenger
told France 2 television. “The train started shaking as if it were
rolling over pebbles; like a plane in turbulence.”
In California this week, a Saudi princess was charged with human trafficking, in a case involving enslaving a maid. Muslim royalty keeping slaves in the US. The Saudi consulate bailed her out -- of course. Slavery under Islam is sanctioned.
Saudi princess Meshael Alayban
listens to an interpreter during her scheduled appearance in court
Thursday in Santa Ana, Calif. Alayban appeared in Orange County Superior
Court Thursday but her arraignment was delayed to July 29 at the
request of her attorney. AP
Meshael Alayban, 42, was released Thursday after the Saudi consulate
delivered a check for the full bail amount to the Orange County
Sheriff's department, Lt. Jeff Hallock said Friday.
Robert Spencer explains, "Muhammad owned slaves, and the Qur'an takes the existence of slavery
for granted, even as it enjoins the freeing of slaves under certain
circumstances, such as the breaking of an oath: “Allah will not call you
to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to
account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent
persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or
clothe them; or give a slave his freedom” (5:89).
While the freeing of a few slaves here and there is encouraged,
however, the institution itself is never questioned. Slavery was taken
for granted throughout Islamic history, as it was, of course, in the
West up until relatively recent times. Yet the impetus to end slavery
moved from Christendom into Islam, not the other way around. Because the
Qur'anic word cannot be questioned, and the book does not contain the
Biblical principles that led to the abolition of slavery in the West,
there has never been a Muslim abolitionist movement. Slavery ended in
Islamic lands under pressure from the West."
And we are seeing more and more of these cases in the US.
Obama supports these savages.
Egyptian child describes torture by Mursi supporters Al Arabiya, July 13, 2013
A 13-year-old child has described how supporters of former
President Mohammed Mursi tortured him under a stage built at al-Nahda
Square in Egypt’s governorate of Giza.
Mohammed Sobhi, who is in
Kasr al-Aini hospital in Cairo, said he was tied up, beaten severely all
over his body, and forced to record a video saying he was paid to
attack the protest.
His father told al-Masri al-Youm newspaper
that he went to look for his son at the square, and found him at the
bottom of the stage, beaten and hung.
The father added that he too was beaten by one of the protesters, who also stole his money.
Sobhi
was attacked after violence broke out Tuesday evening between Mursi
supporters and unidentified people at the square in front of Cairo
University.
Is Obama running lethal weapons to these savages and monsters, too?
Taliban set up base in Syria, BBC reports DAWN.COM, July 13, 2013
Taliban fighters. — File Photo
KARACHI: The Pakistan Taliban militants set up a cell in Syria
six months ago to monitor "the jihad" in the region, the BBC Urdu
website reported on Friday.
The militants had visited Syria to set up a base with the assistance
of ex-Afghan fighter from the Middle East who had recently moved to the
region and to assess the "needs of jihad", Mohammad Amin, a Taliban operative told BBC.
Amin was further quoted as saying that the cell, approved by militant
factions both within and outside of the TTP, sends "information and
feedback" on the conflict in Syria back to Pakistan.
Their job is to "assess the needs of the Jihad in Syria, and to work
out joint operations with our Syrian friends", the senior Taliban member
added.
The presence of the Taliban in Syria is perceived to have a sectarian
motive as some factions of the militant organisation feel that Sunni
Muslims, who constitute a majority in Syria, are being oppressed by
Syria's predominantly Shia rulers.
More from Obama's favorite, "most trusted" head-crushing ally:
From the description: (thanks to shyguy)
The first episode of the USAID-funded cartoon campaign for the Palestinian Authority, designed by PACE and developed by Sketch in Motion, Inc.
Are they for real? This makes the IRS productions look like Shakespeare. Out. Of. Control.
Obama say, "respect it!"
It took a month, a month, for the sharia judicial system in Pakistan to look into it. Monsters.
Three Christian women paraded naked in Pak, court orders probe IBN Live, July 13, 2013
Over a month after a Muslim landlord allegedly paraded three Christian women naked in Pakistan's Punjab province, a court in Lahore has finally taken notice of the matter and directed a judge to investigate the incident.
The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the district and sessions judge, Kasur, to probe the matter and submit a report within two weeks.
The three Christian women were allegedly brutally beaten and then paraded naked by armed men of Muhammad Munir, a local landlord said to be having the backing of the ruling PML-N party, in Pattoki area of Kasur district, some 50 kilometres from Lahore.
The incident took place in the first week of last month. The matter came to light a few days after the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) issued a news release to the media.
According to the victim family's head Sadiq Masih, the male members of his family had gone out on their jobs when the attackers led by Munir entered his house.
Munir demanded Masih to produce his sons who earlier had a brawl with him over a cattle issue.
Failing to find them there, the attackers took the wives of Masih's three sons with them.
Munir and his armed men first disrobed the women and then forcibly paraded them naked in the streets.
As the women screamed and shouted for help, some elderly people of the village came out to their rescue. They put their turbans on the feet of the attackers, pleading them to leave the women.
After this, the attackers let the women go but warned the villagers and the victim family against reporting the matter to the police.
Sahar Gul, who was 15 at the time her ordeal, was burned, beaten and had her fingernails pulled out by her husband and in-laws after she refused to become a prostitute, in a case that shocked the world.
The kind of horror "Sharia" brings in, which the islamo-apologetics/MSM refuse to acknowledge or see beyond the veil of the "peaceful" religion.
All that American blood and treasure, and Obama turns the country over to these savages.
"This case, once heralded as a legal triumph underscoring the
advances for women's rights in the past decade in Afghanistan is now a
harbinger of a grim future." Bush vs Obama.
Afghan court ordered release of child-bride torturers" France24, July 13, 2013 (thanks to Lookmann)
Afghan child bride Sahar Gul, 15, lies in a bed as she recovers
at the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital in Kabul, on January 12, 2012. A court
in Kabul has ordered the early release of three people convicted over
the torture of Sahar, in a move denounced by activists as a blow for
women's rights.
AFP - A court in Kabul ordered the early release of three
people convicted over the torture of a child bride, an official
confirmed Saturday, in a move denounced by activists as a blow for
women's rights.
Sahar Gul, who was 15 at the time her ordeal, was burned, beaten and
had her fingernails pulled out by her husband and in-laws after she
refused to become a prostitute in a case that shocked the world.
She was found in the basement of her husband's house in northeastern
Baghlan province in late 2011, having been locked in a toilet for six
months prior to her rescue by police.
Her father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law were sentenced to
prison for 10 years each for torture and attempted murder, though her
husband remains at large.
"But after the court reviewed their case, it found out that they were
only involved in family violence," Supreme Court spokesman Abdullah
Attaee told AFP.
The court did not have enough evidence against them, he said, adding a fresh prosecution would be launched .
"For now, the court has ruled that the time they have spent in jail is enough for them," he said, though he could not say when the ruling was made or whether the trio had yet been freed.
Afghan rights groups expressed indignation over the early releases, calling it a step back in time for Afghanistan's women.
"This case, once heralded as a legal triumph underscoring the advances for women's rights in the past decade in Afghanistan is now a harbinger of a grim future," Women for Afghan Women, a Kabul and New York based women's rights organisation who helped Gul during the trial wrote on their website.
Violence and abuse against women continues to be a major problem in Afghanistan a decade after US-led troops brought down the notorious Taliban regime.
In May the Afghan parliament cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching.
The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by a presidential decree in 2009, is seen as a benchmark piece of legislation marking progress since the fall of the Taliban regime nearly 12 years ago.
Al-Jazeera TV Host Ahmad Mansour To Morsi Supporters: Our Revolution Was Hijacked By The Coup
Terror TV: ‘We aired lies’: Al Jazeera staff quit after being forced to be pro-Muslim Brotherhood on air.
I have been working closely with Cliff Kincaid for years to keep Al Jazeera off American airwaves. There is still time to keep this vicious jihadist network off American airwaves. Urge the House Homeland
Security Committee to convene hearings into the national security threat
posed by Al Jazeera on
American soil: t 202-226-8417.
Of course, the leftist barbarians at Columbia University awarded top honors to "Terror TV" Al-Jazeera, which does more to expose the left than to put lipstick on the al jizz pig.
It further discredits the President and his former secretary of state. They publicly came out for this jihad network. Seven years after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called
the broadcaster’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” and
President George W. Bush joked about bombing it, former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton praised it as “real news” in her Senate
testimony.
Back in April 2011, Obama said in remarks recorded
by CBS News’s Mark Knoller, “the emir of Qatar come by the Oval Office today, and he owns Al-Jazeera basically,” “Pretty influential guy. He is a big
booster, big promoter of democracy all throughout the Middle East.
Reform, reform, reform. You’re seeing it on Al-Jazeera. Once again, Obama supports and legitimizes the most vicious jihadists. In every war between the civilized man and the savage, Obama supports the savage.
MEMRI: The Al-Jazeera channel's coverage of the events in Egypt surrounding
Muhammad Mursi's ouster from power has in recent days sparked protest by
channel employees and opponents of Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), who
contend that the channel is clearly promoting the agenda of the deposed regime
and behaving unprofessionally and non-objectively.
This tilt by the channel has many facets: continuous
broadcasts of protest demonstrations by Mursi supporters at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya
Mosque in Cairo, compared with the more limited coverage of the anti-Mursi
demonstrations in Tahrir Square;[1]
exclusive and continuous coverage from the headquarters of the Republican Guard
on July 8, 2013, where dozens of MB supporters were killed by army gunfire when
they tried to storm the headquarters where Mursi is being held, while
repeatedly displaying pictures of the dead and calling the events "a
massacre"; the vast majority of text messages from viewers that the
channel runs as subtitles at the bottom of the screen convey support for the
MB; an incident that the channel's correspondent provoked during an Egyptian
army press conference on July 8, 2013, during which she attacked the army's
behavior and was expelled from the auditorium by the other correspondents;[2]
and claims raised in the Facebook account of one of the channel's presenters,
Ahmad Mansouron, purporting that provisional president 'Adly Mansour is Jewish.[3]
Nevertheless, it should be noted that
Al-Jazeera does not refrain from broadcasting press conferences held by members
of the new Egyptian regime and by Egypt's army and security forces.
In recent days a number of Al-Jazeera
employees have submitted their resignations to protest the tendentious coverage
by the channel. Additionally, many of Mursi's opponents have called for closing
Al-Jazeera, because in contrast to its support of the revolution against
Mubarak in January 2011, the channel did not rally to the side of the
"popular revolution" against the MB government. In the streets of
Cairo and other cities throughout Egypt posters were hung condemning
Al-Jazeera. Citizens trod on posters that bore portraits of the channel's
broadcasters, or turned them into petitions to close the channel. Likewise, a
legal suit was filed to close the channel. Campaigns were also launched on
Facebook accusing Al-Jazeera of causing fitna
(civil war) in Egypt. Magdi Al-Galad, the editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Watan, even launched a campaign to
delete the Al-Jazeera channel from all satellite boxes. In the Egyptian press
articles appeared accusing Al-Jazeera of favoring one side in the
intra-Egyptian struggle while deliberately shunning the other side, although
the channel's slogan is "the opinion and the other opinion." One of
the articles even branded Al-Jazeera a Jewish channel that promotes the agenda
of the U.S., Zionism, and the MB, while implementing the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion.
The studios of the channel Al-Jazeera Egypt
Direct, another channel that belongs to the Al-Jazeera network that began
broadcasting after the January 25, 2011 revolution and broadcasts exclusively
in Egypt, were closed by the Egyptian army on July 3, 2013, soon after the
Egyptian defense minister announced Mursi's ouster. Some of the channel's
employees, including the channel's director, were briefly arrested on the
charge that the channel was operating without a license.[4]
Nevertheless, Al-Jazeera's broadcasts via satellite are continuing, without studio
broadcasts from Egypt itself but with reports and telephone interviews.
This report will survey the protests against
Al-Jazeera.
Al-Jazeera
Employees Resign In Protest Over The Biased Coverage By The Channel
On July 8, 2013 a number of Al-Jazeera
employees announced their resignations in protest over the channel's bias. They
approached the channel's management in Qatar with the demand that it retract
its editorial policy which favored the MB.[5] The journalist Fatma
Nabil, known as the presenter with the hijab, said following her resignation:
"[Injuring] the army constitutes a red line from my perspective, and I
will not allow a mistake to be made on this score." She claimed that she
resigned from Al-Jazeera and doesn't know if she'll ever be able to return to
television because there are some people who identify her with the MB regime,
since she wore a hijab while broadcasting. Nabil criticized the manner in which
the channel covered the events of June 30 and the deliberate division of the
screen into two – with a broadcast from Rabaa Al-Adawiya on the and a broadcast
from Tahrir Square to the left. She expressed the opinion that the channel attempted
to support and empower the pro-Mursi demonstrations, and added that during the
months that she worked at Al-Jazeera, "we had the feeling that the channel
is partisan in favor of political Islam, and in most cases selectivity is
exercised in broadcasting the text messages [of the viewers] on the channel,
and even more so in the selection of guests and interviewees."[6]
Presenter
Fatma Nabil (Al-Wafd, Egypt, July
11, 2013.)
Calls In
Egyptian Courts, On The Street, On Facebook, And In The Press To Shut Down
Al-Jazeera
Egyptian attorney Rada Barkawi filed
a suit in Administrative Court seeking to revoke the license and close the Al-Jazeera
Direct Egypt channel, arguing that it was damaging national security and
inciting the Mursi supporters to acts of violence and killing. She shared her
opinion that the channel was working to foment chaos in Egypt, and described
the June 30 revolution as a military coup. She added that since Mursi came to
power, the channel had attacked his opponents and worked in his favor.[7]
At the same
time, an outcry arose amongst Mursi's opponents against Al-Jazeera. In Cairo and
other cities throughout Egypt, posters were hung condemning the channel.
Citizens trod on posters bearing the pictures of the channel's broadcasters,
and signed them as if they were petitions seeking Al-Jazeera's closure. A
Facebook campaign was launched reiterating the same slogans. Below are pictures
from the street protests in Egypt against Al-Jazeera.[8]
Additionally,
the protest is being pushed by a number of Facebook pages calling for the
closing of Al-Jazeera in Egypt and accusing the channel of sowing fitna
(civil war) in the country. Below are pictures from the posts on Facebook against
Al-Jazeera:
Street and Facebook campaign against
Al-Jazeera: "A bullet may kill a person, but a lying camera kills [an
entire] nation: beware of false news on the fitna channel that strives to
disseminate violence and killing and cause Egypt's collapse" (.facebook.com/Scandals.of.AlJazeera.Channel, July 9, 2013.)
Another
combined street and Facebook campaign features well-known Al-Jazeera presenter
Ahmad Mansour in a composite picture with the pyramids in flames, and standing
next to Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
"Al-Jazeera – the fitna
[civil war] and the other fitna[a parody on the channel's slogan 'The
opinion and the other opinion']"; "Fitna producers, take your schemes
and beat it!" (facebook.com/jazeera.Fetna/photos_stream#!/jazeera.Fetna,
July 6, 2013)
Facebook
page "Together For Closing The Al-Jazeera Direct Egypt [channel]"(facebook.com/eljezira.misr,July 9, 2013.)
"Al-Hakeera
[the pitiful]" (facebook.com/intifadamasria,July 10, 2013.)
Joining the
campaign was the editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Watan, MagdiAl-Galad,
who launched a popular campaign, with the backing of his newspaper and his
journalist colleagues, on satellite television stations and in the press, to remove
Al-Jazeera from the home satellite boxes. He claimed that Al-Jazeera was
operating in coordination with the intelligence apparatuses and with Western
regimes to topple the army.[9]
Egyptian
Columnist: The True Face Of Al-Jazeera Has Been Revealed
In the Egyptian press, a number
of articles condemning Al-Jazeera appeared. For example, a columnist in the
Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, Sayyid 'Abd Al-Maguid, wrote: "During the
January 25 [2011 revolution], the camera of the television channel Al-Masriya
[Egyptian state television that was still loyal to Mubarak] didn't find [content
to broadcast] save for the surface of the eternal Nile, and this was presented
to us, as if we were not familiar with it. In the distant corner of [the
picture], groups of people appeared on the promenade, at the edges of Tahrir
[Square], as if they were ghosts. At the same time the Qatari channel
Al-Jazeera was in the thick of the fire, and although it broadcasts from a
country that has no connection with democracy, it transmitted the cries of the
oppressed who cursed the oppression and the oppressors. At the same time, it
managed to issue a death certificate to the Maspero television [the building
where Egyptian state television is headquartered in Cairo] …
"It is
true that without [Al-Jazeera], and without other [television] networks with an
even smaller viewership, the world would not have known what was happening in
Egypt, [and it is true] that through them the simple Egyptians in [the
provinces] and villages learned that a sweeping revolution was underway against
tyranny and repression, which the young people were leading in the squares of
Cairo, Suez, and Alexandria. But it appears [that Al-Jazeera was working] not
on Allah's behalf and not in favor of liberty, and the proof of this is its
paeans of praise over the rise of political Islam. Recently the small and
wealthy country [Qatar] promised to wipe out the despicable innovations… that
are called 'liberalism', 'enlightenment' and 'modernity'; may they be
annihilated, and they can go, together with their propagators, to hell…
"However…
last Sunday [June 30, 2013], the decisive day in the life of this great
country, the Tamarrud [campaign] channeled a torrent of anger that was
unprecedented in history, and the true face of the Al-Jazeera [channel] came to
light: an opinion without another opinion,[10] one direction that does not
have an opposing [direction],[11]and, most ironic, at the
time that most of the people were irate about Mursi's last address [on July 2,
2013], the director [of the Al-Jazeera bureau in Cairo], Abd Al-Fattah [Fayed],
began to praise him before his colleague Nouran [Sallam, an Egyptian journalist
who works at the channel]…
"The
question is: does this justify the attacks on [the channel] and its employees?
Of course not… [Let the channel] say what it wants, because to put it plainly,
[its conduct in the end result] obtains the opposite of what those in charge of
[the channel] aspire to. As proof of this, throughout the entire year that the
MB ruled, [the channel] ignored their acts of repression and even congratulated
their rule, and the result was 3 million Egyptians in the streets."[12]
An Egyptian
Columnist: Al-Jazeera - A Jewish Channel That Implements The Protocols Of The
Elders Of Zion
In an article titled "Al Jazeera A Jewish Idea Against The Egyptian
Popular Will" that was published in the daily Al-Wafd, the columnist Hanan Abu Al-Diaa
claims that Al-Jazeera is a Jewish channel that serves the United States,
Zionism, and the MB, and was implementing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Abu Al-Diaa wrote: "The Al Jazeera channel is still [serving] as an agent of
the Jews and the Americans, and is spreading its poison. It is clear to the
eye… that [the channel] is implementing the Zionist plan against Egypt.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the channel is continuing to work
against the popular will of the Egyptians and is disseminating lies regarding
the popular support that the illegitimate president Muhammad Mursi enjoys… The
broadcaster Kawthar Al-Bashrawi, who resigned from Al-Jazeera recently,
unveiled the truth regarding the channel and those in charge of it: We're
dealing with a counterfeit channel that does not do justice to liberty, and has
no inkling of what constitutes neutrality and objectivity, and avoids accuracy.
The channel was laid bare to all and its ugly and true countenance was
revealed… This channel [that serves] as an agent is the main tool [for
implementing] the program of the Elders of Zion; how can this not be the case?
For it was [Al-Jazeera] that disseminated the ideas of the MB, defended them,
and implemented directives from them in a total fashion… The MB went from the
prisons to the seats of power, and the rise of the Islamists to power is one of
the Zionists' dreams…"[13]
[1] Until the announcement by
General 'Abd Al-Fatah Al-Sisi about the ouster of Mursi, Al-Jazeera went to
split-screen coverage. At the right of the screen was a broadcast from the
Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque, and on the left was a broadcast from Tahrir Square.
After the announcement by Al-Sisi, the channel began to broadcast exclusively
from Rabaa Al-Adawiya. A note of apology frequently appeared at the corner of
the screen, explaining that the channel was not succeeding in broadcasting from
Tahrir Square, but was attempting to do so. This occurred after the channel's
correspondents were attacked by demonstrators in Cairo.
[3] Mansour wrote on his
Facebook account: "To those who think that the new Egyptian president is a
Muslim, here's the truth about the new Egyptian president. The new Egyptian
president is from the Seventh Day Adventist sect, that is a Jewish sect that
tried to draw close to Christianity but the Coptic Patriarch refused to baptize
them… My congratulations to you, here is your Judeo-Christian government."facebook.com/pages/%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1-ahmed-mansour/305862772805037?hc_location=timeline,
July 4, 2013. See also MEMRI Video Clip #3910 - Al-Jazeera TV
Host Ahmad Mansour to Morsi Supporters: Our Revolution Was Hijacked by the Coup
[4] Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London),
July 9, 2013.
[5] Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London),
July 9, 2013.
[6] Al-Quds Al-Arabi (Egypt),
July 8, 2013.
[7] Al-Misriyyoun (Egypt),
July 9, 2013.
[9] Al-Watan (Egypt), July 8,
2013.
[10] An
allusion to the channel's slogan "the opinion and the other opinion."
[11]
An allusion to the channel's famous television program "The Opposite
Direction,"moderated by Faisal Al-Qassem.
[12] Al-Ahram
(Egypt), July 9, 2013.
[13] Al-Wafd
(Egypt), July 4, 2013.
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