An increase in Egyptian anti-Israeli rhetoric and actions was registered in March and April of this year, according to a report prepared by an Israeli intelligence agency.
Correspondent Haggai Huberman notes that the Egyptian parliament initiated a proposal to rename a street in Cairo - the street on which is located the Israeli Embassy - after none other than Hamas arch-terrorist leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. What's more, the building in which the Embassy is located was to be called after Yassin's successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Both Yassin and Rantisi were killed in Israeli strikes in a four-week period in March/April of this year.
The Alexandria City Council recently approved the renaming of two streets after Yassin and Rantisi.
Egyptian opposition parties recently announced a boycott of Israeli and American goods, while a court in Egypt vetoed the establishment of an Egyptian-Israeli friendship society. Voices in the parliament have been heard in favor of canceling the peace agreement with Israel, expelling Israel's ambassador, and banning Israelis from entering the country.
Two movies are currently being filmed in Egypt with a strongly anti-Israel motif. One of them is entitled simply, "I Hate Israel," and purports to explain why the Arab world hates Israel. The other features a young Egyptian whose car accidentally strikes the dog of the daughter of the Israeli Ambassador - who then decides to freeze relations and the peace process between the two countries.
The Egyptian press has also become more anti-Semitic, judging by the incitement heard on the airwaves and seen in print. The screening of the film "The Passion," for instance, was commonly reviewed as an anti-Jewish political film; comparisons were frequently drawn between the behavior of the Jews towards Jesus then and their conduct in Judea, Samaria and Gaza now. Anti-Semitic expressions appear not only in opposition newspapers, but in government organs as well.
The establishment paper Al-Ghoumoriya featured, on April 8, an article showing that terrorism is a "Jewish creation," and that Jews have forever been terrorists. "The Passion" producer Mel Gibson, the article states, stands together with the Arabs in portraying the Jews in this light. "The Jews fought against Gibson," another writer states, "because they knew that his film would portray the mass killings and slaughter that Israel perpetrates every day."
Political cartoons portraying Israelis and Jews as murderers and other negative characters are commonplace.
On Apr. 27, the weekly establishment journal Al-Kahara quoted German legislator Martin Hoeman's anti-Semitic speech, headlining some of the main points, such as, "Zionism used Nazism, despite being two sides of the same coin." Correspondent Huberman cites many other similar examples.
Correspondent Haggai Huberman notes that the Egyptian parliament initiated a proposal to rename a street in Cairo - the street on which is located the Israeli Embassy - after none other than Hamas arch-terrorist leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. What's more, the building in which the Embassy is located was to be called after Yassin's successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Both Yassin and Rantisi were killed in Israeli strikes in a four-week period in March/April of this year.
The Alexandria City Council recently approved the renaming of two streets after Yassin and Rantisi.
Egyptian opposition parties recently announced a boycott of Israeli and American goods, while a court in Egypt vetoed the establishment of an Egyptian-Israeli friendship society. Voices in the parliament have been heard in favor of canceling the peace agreement with Israel, expelling Israel's ambassador, and banning Israelis from entering the country.
Two movies are currently being filmed in Egypt with a strongly anti-Israel motif. One of them is entitled simply, "I Hate Israel," and purports to explain why the Arab world hates Israel. The other features a young Egyptian whose car accidentally strikes the dog of the daughter of the Israeli Ambassador - who then decides to freeze relations and the peace process between the two countries.
The Egyptian press has also become more anti-Semitic, judging by the incitement heard on the airwaves and seen in print. The screening of the film "The Passion," for instance, was commonly reviewed as an anti-Jewish political film; comparisons were frequently drawn between the behavior of the Jews towards Jesus then and their conduct in Judea, Samaria and Gaza now. Anti-Semitic expressions appear not only in opposition newspapers, but in government organs as well.
The establishment paper Al-Ghoumoriya featured, on April 8, an article showing that terrorism is a "Jewish creation," and that Jews have forever been terrorists. "The Passion" producer Mel Gibson, the article states, stands together with the Arabs in portraying the Jews in this light. "The Jews fought against Gibson," another writer states, "because they knew that his film would portray the mass killings and slaughter that Israel perpetrates every day."
Political cartoons portraying Israelis and Jews as murderers and other negative characters are commonplace.
On Apr. 27, the weekly establishment journal Al-Kahara quoted German legislator Martin Hoeman's anti-Semitic speech, headlining some of the main points, such as, "Zionism used Nazism, despite being two sides of the same coin." Correspondent Huberman cites many other similar examples.