(Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo) Mohamed Sid-Ahmed - The well-respected Nasserite Party paper, Al-Arabi, devoted eight pages to running the text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as its main story in two consecutive issues. The first issue carried a full-page article by Dr. Abdel-Wahab El-Messeiri placing the Protocols in their historical context and concluding that they were a hoax engineered by the Russian secret police. Why then bother to publish them? Today anti-Zionism is coming to acquire anti-Jewish connotations. A strategy based on the elimination of Israel could be interpreted as a call to exterminate the Jews themselves. The creation in Palestine of a secular state that would group Jews, Muslims, and Christians to replace the state of Israel is a strategy that makes a clear distinction between Zionism and Judaism, calling for the dismantling of Israel without harming Jews or questioning their right to survive as a people.
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