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In general, the Israeli media looks to the series broadcast by Arab satellite channels during the month of Ramadan 2020, mainly because one of them “flirts with Jews” and another shows “distress” to continue supporting Palestinians.
It was not extraordinary for the Tel Aviv media that an Arab series had predicted the demise of Israel, as it was surprising that two series presented by the Saudi channel “MBC” publicly called for normalization.
The official Kan channel detailed the series that covered Israel this year, in an analysis by “Roi Kayes”, commentator on the channel’s Arab affairs.
Case said: “The current Ramadan series is dividing the Arab world more than ever.”
“Umm Haroun”
The Kuwaiti series, broadcast by MBC, focuses on Jewish life in the Gulf prior to the establishment of the State of Israel and seeks to portray the social harmony between Muslims and Jews before 1948, which takes place in the aspects of marriage between a Jewish girl and a Muslim youth.
From the point of view of many in the Arab world, “Umm Harun”, who “flirts with the Jews”, represents the falling of another stone in the wall that separates the Gulf from normalization with Israel.
However, the pursuit of Gulf normalization has often been criticized in the past, especially on social media. However, the most important feature of “Umm Harun” is “the change in attitude towards the Jews of the Gulf”.
“The leaders of the Sunni countries (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain) realize that expressing tolerance towards people of other religions gives them an edge in the West and the United States and keeps their countries out of the picture. militant they join, “according to the official Israeli channel.
For his part, Dr. Yaron Friedman, a commentator on Arab affairs in the newspaper “Yediot Aharonot”, said the “Umm Haroun” series conveys a political message that “the Gulf countries are leading the way for normalization with Israel.”
Friedman said in an article published by the newspaper on the second Friday of Ramadan 2020, “There is no doubt that the Umm Haroun series indicates the change that has taken place in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf in recent years.”
He considered that “the legitimacy of the emergence of Arab actors who objectively embody Jews, speak Hebrew and portray Jews as persecuted in the Arab world is an expression of the shift in consciousness in some Arab countries.”
Exit 7
The Saudi series, also broadcast by “MBC”, deals with social issues through separate episodes, but the third episode came as a surprise, as it openly called for normalization and strengthening of trade cooperation with Israelis, turning the tide on Palestinians. .
Saudi comedian Nasser Al-Qasabi is the star of the series.
The aforementioned incident touched on relations with Israel through reactions within a Saudi family who discovered that one of their children (Ziyad) is playing with an Israeli child (Ezra) over the Internet.
The scenes collected by Al-Qasabi (Ziyad’s father) with artist Rashid Al-Shamrani summarize the message the series wanted to convey. In one of them, he appeared in the last one saying, “Israel is a human being like you .. Israel exists, whether you like it or not”.
Al-Shamrani added: “The Arabs have lost all these years except the Palestinian question, and the result is rhetoric and fanfare, to no avail.”
An Israeli Kan commentator asks: Are the Saudis tired of funding the Palestinians?
“In recent years, a movement has appeared in Saudi Arabia, even if it does not express society as a whole – attacking the Palestinians for their disbelief over their position on the kingdom and its aid,” he added.
Israel’s enmity turns to Iran
As for Yaron Friedman, he commented on what was mentioned in “Exit 7”, saying: “A young generation grew up in oil-producing countries that have not witnessed the Arab wars against Israel and do not see an enemy in distant Israel at all.”
He felt that the real enemy for many young Saudis is Iran, which poses an immediate and immediate threat, and which is supplying Houthi rebels in Yemen with missiles to launch towards Saudi Arabia.
And on Monday (the fourth day of Ramadan), the Israeli private channel (12) praised “Exit 7”, saying, “This is the first time they have spoken publicly in Saudi Arabia that Israel is not an enemy.”
The channel believed at the time that there was talk of “a fundamental change that also goes beyond the threshold of normalization and calls for the strengthening of peace and warm relations between the citizens of the two countries (Israel and Saudi Arabia)”.
“The end”
Israel officially protested on Monday, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, against the Egyptian series “The End”, with Youssef Al-Sharif, which is expected to disappear in the battle for the “liberation of Jerusalem”.
The series, broadcast by the Egyptian private channel ON TV, shows a scene in which children appear in a classroom in the year 2120 and the topic of the lesson is “The war to liberate Jerusalem”. The teacher tells his students that the war ended quickly and led to the “destruction of the Zionist state of Israel”.
And the teacher adds that most of the Jews then returned to their countries of origin in Europe.
Kan Channel comments on the scene saying: “Everyone knows that relations between Israel and Egypt strengthened in the field of security, military and intelligence during the era of (Egyptian President Abdel Fattah) Al-Sisi, who ended to the government of the Muslim Brotherhood “.
“But the above scene is undoubtedly a warning sign that things are going well at the highest level, but the situation at the popular level is not good,” Kayes said.
But perhaps the discussion here is about a scene and not a whole series devoted to “inciting Israel, like” Nagy Atallah Band “with Adel Imam, which was shown in Ramadan 2012,” Kay “continues.
“The End” is “a small and symbolic example of the twisted model of the relationship between Cairo and Tel Aviv,” “Jackie Hoaghi,” Arab affairs commentator on Israeli Army Radio (Ghali Indulgence), said in a published article. last Friday from the Jewish newspaper “Maariv”.
He said that even in light of the worst crises between Tel Aviv and Cairo, no Egyptian series has appeared showing the “Drama of the End”, indicating the end of Israel.
And he was surprised to have allowed such dramatic work to be shown, despite the strengthening of relations in recent years between Israel and the Al-Assisi regime, especially in the security field, he said.
“The Sisi regime has adopted a practical and meaningful communication policy and has refrained from negatively touching Israel,” he said, adding, “Israel has embraced this change and for years not a bad word has come out about Cairo. Quite the contrary, Israeli officials have, for years, praised the Egyptian regime. “
The Arabs split up
Case says the Ramadan 2020 series reflects the division of the Arab world towards Israel into 3 camps. The first is the so-called “axis of resistance”, which continues its “incitement against Israel”, referring to the “Jerusalem Guard” series currently broadcast by the Al-Mayadeen channel. The Lebanese Hezbollah.
The second, according to the classification of the Israeli “Kan” channel, is the pro-Saudi camp. That seeks to normalize by expressing positive attitudes towards Israel and the Jews, which is revealed by “Umm Harun” and “Exit 7”.
There is also the Egyptian camp (the third) and what’s going on in its orbit, and its stance on Israel reflects the “The End” series, which predicts the end of Israel and the liberation of Jerusalem, and is a camp interested in peace with Israel only in the name of interests.
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