Friday, October 02, 2009

Saudi media and MEMRI

The Zionist-Saudi alliance has become so intimate and romantic, that you feel that you need to leave the room to leave them alone. MEMRI's semi-daily bulletin are no more than translation and promotion of obscure columnists in newspapers of Saudi princes. They try to make the selections diverse by adding different labels to the writers: sometimes they call them "liberal" or "progressive" or " thinkers" or "Philosophers" but they don't tell readers that they are no more than writers in mouthpieces of House of Saud. They just peddled a piece by the editor-in-chief of the mouthpiece of Prince Salman (Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat). I mean, who are they fooling? They think that those royal-owned pens are opinion shapers and makers in the Arab world? In their dreams. The controversy in Egypt about Hala Mustafa's meeting with Israeli ambassador, and the decision by Al-Ahram (the tool of Mubarak regime) to ban any contact with Israelis is a mere reflection of Arab public opinion. The Israeli propaganda presence can be felt in Al-Arabiyya TV (the station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) and other Saudi media. They have been relegatinig news of oppression and killing of Palestinians to the end of the broadcast. During the recent clashes at Al-Aqsa, they headline of Al-Arabiyya was "Israel contains clashes between Jews and Palestinians." So according to Saudi media, Israel is now a neutral observer and unbiased broker between Jews and Palestinians in the holy land.