- Recently, a manuscript museum opened at the new
Alexandria
Library, which was renovated by the Egyptian and Italian governments via
UNESCO. In the November 17, 2003 issue of the Egyptian weekly Al-Usbu',
correspondent Jihan Hussein reported [1] that the museum had added
"The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion" to the display case of the holy books
of the monotheistic religions, next to a Torah. The book on display is
the first translation of the "Protocols" into Arabic, by Muhammad
Khalifa Al-Tunisi, and its binding, according to the report, features
"a
Star of David, the Bolshevik Jewish symbol, surrounded by symbolic
snakes."
The following is an interview with the museum's director, Dr. Yousef
Ziedan,
in which he explains why he decided to add the "Protocols" to
the exhibit:
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- 'The Protocols of Zion Are
More Important Than the Torah'
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- CAIRO - "When my eyes
fell upon the rare copy of this dangerous book, I decided immediately to
place it next to the Torah. Although it is not a monotheistic holy book,
it has become one of the sacred [tenets] of the Jews, next to their first
constitution, their religious law, [and] their way of life. In other words,
it is not merely an ideological or theoretical book.
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- "Perhaps this book of the 'Protocols of the Elders
of Zion' is more important to the Zionist Jews of the world than the Torah,
because they conduct Zionist life according to it . . . It is only natural
to place the book in the framework of an exhibit of Torah
[scrolls]."
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- Dr. Ziedan maintains a website "for heritage and
manuscripts" where he posts, among other things, articles that he
writes. In his article "WWW and the Informatics Plexus [sic],"
Dr. Ziedan writes of the difference between reality and reporting on
reality:
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- "There is no doubt that every 'news item' originates
in a [particular] event, but the distance between the event and the news
item is great . . . I will give an example: When Hitler's atrocities are
mentioned, [people] immediately point out the cremation of the Jews in
the gas chambers. This happens because of the knowledge that is passed
on regarding the Holocaust.
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- "This is knowledge that has reached the world via
a diverse stream of information from journalists' reports, historical
research,
compensation, [the] unceasing buzz in the media, and films such as
Schindler's
List which made the entire world cry and which was banned in our country
[Egypt] so that we won't cry too over the fate of the poor
Jews!"
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- 'Only 1 Million Jews Were Killed by the Nazis . . . There
Wasn't Enough Cyanide'
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- "What is important is that the information arrived,
but what about reality? In reality, 50,000,000 fell victim to the Nazis,
among them 1,000,000 Jews and the rest Gypsies, Poles, and other nations.
In reality, an analysis of samples from the purported gas chambers has
proven that these were sterilization chambers, without a sufficient
quantity
of cyanide to kill.
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- "In reality, had Hitler wanted to annihilate the
Jews of Europe, he would have. He had an opportunity. The distance between
events and widespread knowledge about them is great."
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- [1] Al-Usbu'(Egypt), November 17, 2003.
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- http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD61903
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