The state-backed Egyptian newspaper, al-Ahram, published a column that cynically attempts to use motifs based on Christianity in the service of Moslem aims to stir up hatred against Jews. At first, the Egyptian columnist reluctantly accepts that ?the political conscience of US President Bush and his hawkish Administration may have tolerated the holocausts and massacres committed by Sharon using Israel's American-made military arsenal,? but he lambastes President Bush for accepting ?that Israelis publicly desecrate the Church of Nativity, the most sacred Christian relic, the place where Christ was born.? The author of the April 24th article writes that such acceptance is incomprehensible coming from ?Bush, the orthodox Christian, who preaches charity, faith and freedom to mankind in all his speeches?? Calling upon an ancient Church blood libel, in an attempt to stir up latent anti-Semitism among its readers, the Egyptian newspaper concludes, ?Bush should know that in the past it was Jews who betrayed Christ, just as today it is they who slaughter the priests of his Church.?