The Los Angeles Times last week published an article by Yossi Klein Halevi, entitled, "Dance of Death Overtakes the Arab World." In the piece, Klein recalls the atmosphere prior to the 1967 Six Day War, and how, days before the war began, "A report from Cairo appeared on the [television] screen, showing thousands of men leaping around banners imprinted with skulls and crossbones and chanting death slogans against Israel." Halevi notes that when those kinds of images begin to appear, war, as it was in 1967, is just around the corner. He cites a new hit song on Egyptian radio stations proclaiming, "'I hate Israel'...State-controlled newspapers vie with each other to spread the most astonishing lies, including the medieval notion that Jews use the blood of murdered Gentile children for matzah."



As Arutz Sheva has reported over the past several months, two camps are emerging in the Arab press regarding Holocaust history. One approach, Halevi notes, stems from the official newspapers of Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority. It maintains that the Holocaust never happened. The other camp - including at least one Egyptian government paper, says that it did occur - and thanks Hitler for implementing it.