News From Egypt, DAMN Those Jews are GOOD!

There is an old story about a Jewish man who goes to his rabbi to let him know he is converting to Christianity and joining a Neo-Nazi party. Shocked the rabbi says, "But Bernie, you are such an observant Jew, you keep kosher, go to Synagogue and pray 3x every day, you are our number one Torah reader. what would make you do something like convert and become a Nazi?"

"Well Rabbi," says Bernie, "I come to Synagogue and and hear talk to the other Jews, all I hear is bad stuff, the Arabs hate us, the Europeans hate Jews, the President hates us. I hear the same thing, over and over and over.

"But the Nazi party?"  Says the Rabbi?

"You Bet," says Bernie, "I went to one meeting and there was nothing bad, all they kept saying was the Jews own the Banks, the Jews run the government, the Jews own the media and Hollywood. It made me so proud.

I know how Bernie feels especially when reading about Antisemitism in Egypt. They are so creative. Sure they pass along the hateful propaganda that Jew own the media, Hollywood, banks and control the US government, but they also come up with such unusual ways to slander the Jewish people.


Remember what happened last December when Egyptian swimmers were attacked by sharks. An Egyptian official claimed that a shark that killed one person and left four others injured in Egypt could have been placed there by agents from Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.

It wasn't some low level official either,

Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha, the regional governor, claimed it was not "out of the question" that Israel could have planned the attacks on tourists to dent the Egyptian economy.

After reading that story, all I could think was "Damn We're good, even though I knew the story was nonsense.

The latest news from Egypt contains another one of those "Damn We're Good" moments, combined with a little bit of nonsense from Adam Sandler's movie, You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Israeli citizen Ofir Harrari, recently accused by Egypt of spying for Israel, was allegedly involved in a complicated scheme intended to harm Egyptian reproduction abilities, Egypt's official state paper Al-Ahram has claimed.

Harrari, accused by Egypt of being an agent of the Mossad, is set be tried in absentia on charges of "spying for a foreign country with the purpose of harming Egyptian national interest," news agency MENA reported on Sunday.

"According to the public prosecutor's office's investigation, 'Mossad agent Ofir Harrari' instructed Jordanian Ibrahim abu-Zaid to set up a company in Egypt which would exclusively import an Israeli hair product, for both men and women, which causes infertility. This in order to completely destroy Egyptian reproduction abilities," Al-Ahram states.

Gee whiz, the Mossad messing with Egyptian hair products as to make Egyptians sterile.

Isn't it great how one of only two nation's that has made peace with the Jewish State has such great respect for the Jewish people that they make up stories just to show our brilliance?  Damn, Those Jews are good!

Sudan’s “Two-State Solution”

 by Barry Rubin


Good news from the Middle East is that rarest of all things. Solutions (however imperfect or even temporary) to conflicts there is equally rare. That’s why the creation of a new country, South Sudan, is so significant after years of strife between the northern and southern parts of that country due largely to their religious and racial differences. This development also leads to an interesting question: will south Sudan be a purely African-oriented state or will it play some part in the Middle East?

Note that most of the population of south Sudan is Christian. The Muslim north decided to get rid of the region so that it could pursue its Islamist ambitions more easily and focus on repressing tribes (also Muslim) in the west.

None of the news reports on south Sudan, however, pointed out the earthshaking aspect of its creation. After all, this is a state that has come into existence because it is Christian, a sort of parallel to Israel. It is too poor, remote, and non-Arab for Islamists and Arab nationalists elsewhere to care about and they are preoccupied with other things right now.

Yet to the north, in Egypt, Christians are facing growing persecution. Will the rest of the Middle East ignore south Sudan or will it become a target in future for jihad and hatred, as an illegitimate entity allegedly created by Western imperialism that must be destroyed?

Another interesting question is whether Christians elsewhere will show any interest in the new country and try to help it survive and prosper. In political terms, it seems that Western Christians spend much of their time either supporting or bashing Israel. The beleaguered Christians of Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, and Pakistan are ignored. Now that there’s what is in effect a state created as a safe haven for Christians will that change any attitudes?

Finally, the Obama Administration probably deserves a large measure of credit for the Sudan solution. It cozied up to the dictatorship but in this case, a contrast to other situations, actually achieved some positive result.

By the way, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is totally against the two-state solution in Sudan, greeting the occasion with a particularly antisemitic, anti-American cartoon. Back in 2009, when the Sudanese regime was committing mass murder–in real life, not like the false accusations made against Israel–PA leader Mahmoud Abbas urged all Arabs and Muslims to give complete support to the Khartoum government.

But the PA isn’t at all being inconsistent since basically it is also against a two-state solution of the Israel-Palestinian issue as well.


Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, and Middle East editor and a featured columnist at PajamasMedia http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). The website of the GLORIA Center is http://www.gloria-center.org. His articles published originally in places other than PajamasMedia can be found at http://www.rubinreports.blogspot.com