Posted on 09/12/2006 10:01:30 AM PDT by SJackson
ANNOUNCING A MEMRI FILMS DOCUMENTARY ON 9/11
The Arab and Iranian Reaction to 9/11: Five Years Later
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Middle East Media Research Institute has been monitoring, translating, and recording statements from the Arab and Iranian media about what took place on that day. Among these statements are conspiracy theories, by prominent journalists, members of academia, leading religious figures, and even Arab government officials, about what "really" happened.
To mark the five-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, MEMRI has created a new film and book exposing conspiracy phenomena surrounding these events in the Arab and Iranian media.
MEMRI has a new website devoted to this project: www.memrifilms.org
The documentary film by MEMRI Films about the Arab and Iranian reaction to 9/11 incorporates footage from various TV and satellite stations in the Middle East. It was made with Interface Media Group and is narrated by acclaimed actor Ron Silver.
To view the entire film, visit: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=233961&ak=null
To view Part I, visit: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=233964&ak=null
To view Part II, visit: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=233957&ak=null
To view Part III, visit: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=233952&ak=null
The carefully documented book is now also available as a PDF. It includes a compilation of articles and editorials from the mainstream Arabic and Persian language press, as well as transcripts from television programs.
To download the PDF book, visit: http://memrifilms.org/
From the MEMRI Archives - "A New Antisemitic Myth in the Middle East Media: The September 11 Attacks Were Perpetrated by the Jews," September 10, 2002
The following is the book's foreward, by Congressman Tom Lantos:
"One of the most shocking and upsetting developments of recent decades has been the emergence of full-blown, old-European-style antisemitism in the Arab world. As a Holocaust survivor, I am particularly saddened - indeed sickened - by this phenomenon, for it occurs during a half-century when antisemitism in Europe has been mainly in decline. Indeed, it is tragic that the Arab world, which has rejected Europe’s freedoms and democratic institutions, imported only the worst ideas Europe had to offer.
"Writing in 1986, Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis explained contemporary Arab antisemitism as a reaction to the sense of humiliation Arabs feel at repeated military defeats at Israel’s hands, blows made all the more painful because they were inflicted by a people, Jews, long presumed to be inferior.
"According to Lewis, Arabs were accustomed to viewing Jews as no better than 'a tolerated subject minority, and... by appearing as conquerors and rulers the Jews [in Arab reckoning] have subverted God’s order for the universe.' [1] Whatever its cause, the cancer of antisemitism has metastasized and spread throughout the Arab world. Jews, both as Israelis and simply as Jews, are demonized daily in the Arab press, electronic media, and textbooks, often with ugly illustrations and 'political' cartoons on a par with the worst of Julius Streicher’s Die Sturmer. Indeed, Nazi-style imagery and conspiracy-thinking abound in the Arab world, and all the ills of the world are attributed to 'the Jews.' As a recent article in TheNew York Times noted, 'Stay in a five-star hotel anywhere from Jordan to Iran, and you can buy the infamous forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Pick up a newspaper in any part of the Arab world and you regularly see a swastika superimposed on the Israeli flag.' [2]
"This worsening problem carries dire implications for the Arab-Israeli conflict, adding a racist and religious-warfare dimension to an already exceedingly difficult political problem. Moreover, in an obscenely bizarre twist, the Middle East may now be exporting to Europe the antisemitism it originally imported from there. Since the latest phase of Arab violence against Israel began in September 2000, there have been hundreds of antisemitic incidents reported in Europe, particularly in France.
"Some of the ugliest examples of Arab antisemitism came in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, as detailed in this important publication. The Arab media reaction to the September 11 horror reflected all the elements of Nazi-style defamation - particularly, Jewish conspiracy.
"Here we can read the now-famous claims that the Mossad organized the September 11 attacks; that 4,000 Jewish employees, forewarned, avoided work at the World Trade Center that day; and that Jews exploited their foreknowledge of the tragedy to profit from the stock market. We observe the shocking sense of cultural inferiority -self-serving but nonetheless real - of Arab commentators who 'prove' Jewish complicity in the September 11 murders by pointing out that 'only the Jews are capable of planning such an incident, because it was planned with great precision of which Osama bin Laden or any other Islamic organization or intelligence apparatus is incapable.' And we learn of the grisly, Nazi-type punishment one Egyptian cleric wishes on the Jews of America.
"But the totality of what is presented in the following pages also reflects a sad reality: the Arab world’s inability, first, to come to terms with the fact that Arabs planned and carried out the evil deeds and, second, to reflect productively on how and why that happened. Such is the classic utility the antisemite finds in his antisemitism: scapegoating Jews for problems of his own making.
"I am full of admiration for the work MEMRI has done in putting together this book and, more generally, in its dedicated exposure of Arab antisemitism. Until MEMRI undertook its effort to review and translate articles from the Arab press, there was only dim public awareness of this problem in the United States. Thanks to MEMRI, this ugly phenomenon has been unmasked, and numerous American writers have called attention to it.
"To cite one interesting example: A recent series of articles in a Saudi newspaper invoked the ancient 'blood libel' against Jews, claiming Jews use human blood (non-Jewish, of course) to prepare their holiday delicacies. MEMRI translated and disseminated the series, which evoked widespread outrage, including a Voice of America editorial condemning Arab antisemitic incitement. The surprising result? The editor of the paper was embarrassed by the exposure and felt compelled to acknowledge publicly that the accusations in the articles are 'not based on scientific or historical facts' - a rare victory for truth in the Arab world. One can only hope that publicizing and embarrassing the Arab media about their prejudiced provocations will more often have a salutary effect.
"I congratulate MEMRI for its pioneering work in bringing Arab antisemitism to light, and I commend it for this fine book. For laymen, diplomats, and scholars of the Middle East and conflict resolution, this book highlights like few others one of the most troubling phenomena of our time, how antisemitism has come to pervade Arab culture."
To download the PDF book or to read it in HTML, visit: http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR00802.
[1] Lewis, Bernard, Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (W.W. Norton & Company, New York/London, 1986), pp. 239-240.
[2] The New York Times, April 27, 2002, "Anti-Semitism is Deepening Among Muslims: Hateful Images of Jews Are Imbedded in Islamic Popular Culture" (by Susan Sachs), pp. A19, A21.
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Without me having to sit through a bunch of movies, give us a short synopsis of who and what memrifilms is about and what their purpose/agenda is.
They are a watchdog organization; neutral in outlook, but then, a neutral would be alarmed at the direction that Islam is taking. To that extent, MEMRI sounds the alarm.
MEMRI is doing a stand-up job in taking what is said in Friday Mosque sermons, Islamic radio and television, and merely translating them into English for our edification.
So that we can know.
MEMRI translates news articles, speaches, TV and radio broadcasts from the Arab world. This would be Arabic coverage of 9/11.
The muslims and the moonbats need to get their stories straight. W isn't Jewish.
Thanks for the post. I was wondering as I was watching ABC's movie The Pathway to 9/11, what the reverse reaction to these events were in the enemy camp. The whole nation of America and the world needs to see this reaction.
We all know he's a tool of the neocon conspiracy.
And believe it or not there art moonbats on the web who point to the family of Solomon Bush, a Philadelphia Jew as well as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army posit a connection. Worse yet, two brothers were Majors, and, horrors, one was named George Bush.
Recent decades?! No, sir. This "old-European-style anti-semitism" was been brewing in the Arab world before Hitler came along. If anything, Hitler was encouraged in his genocide by the cheerleader Mufti of Jerusalem.
These are great movies narrated by Ron Silver.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.
Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501 (c)3 organization. MEMRI's headquarters is located in Washington, DC with branch offices in Berlin, London, Tokyo and Jerusalem. MEMRI research is translated to English, German, Hebrew, Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese.
They are a very good source of information.
ATTABOY!
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It never left.
Some like the UK Guardian accuse MEMRI of bing a pro Israel "propaganda" organization.
Ironic. Since all they do is translate what is read, heard and shown in Arabic/Persian languages.
The Middleast has a long history of doublespeak - one thing for foreign audiences another in their own language.
The Guardian or anyone else can make their accusations, one accusation I've never seen is inaccurate translation. The real objection is having what's said in arabic for local consumption available in the west.
You can always read the text version. :>)
Let me give you the notes...the Jews did 9-11, the Americans did 9-11, Bush did 9-11, double agent's in the white house did 9-11 and were going to kill Bush in Air Force One, and OJ Simpson played a role in 9-11.
The muslims all say this on video and on live tv.
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