Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S)
   
   
 
Special Information Bulletin
        November 2003
   
   
 
Terrorism and anti-Semitism: Another example of the attempts to spread the fable of Jewish plans for world takeover: A television quiz show aired during Ramadan1 by al-Manar, the Hezbollah television station in Lebanon.
   
 

1Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic religious calendar, during which Moslems fast
during the daylight hours and often work shorter hours or stay at home.
 

   
 
During the Moslem holy month of Ramadan (October-November 2003), especially when the daily fast ends and socializing begins, television viewing peaks in the Arab and other Moslem countries. Al-Manar, the Hebzollah television station in Lebanon, broadcast an anti-Semitic series called al-Shataat (The Diaspora). The program's theme was an elaboration of the anti-Semitic libel which states that the Jews want to take over the world through the destabilization of world order. 1

1 It should be noted that the program was also broadcast on al-Manar's satellite channel. It even reached Australia, where the national broadcasting authority banned the continuation of its screening in view of complaints about its blatant anti-Semitic content. In addition, the Australian Broadcasting Authority has even launched an enquiry into whether al-Manar breached anti-vilification guidelines and anti-terror laws by raising money for the Lebanese group Hezbollah, which was proscribed by the Australian government in June. ( www.theage.com.au )

   
The game show “I think … you think” ( Ra'yi … Ra'yak ), broadcast every day by al-Manar during the month of Ramadan, was another version of the aforementioned anti-Semitic libel and a slanderous attack on Jews, Jewish history and Zionism. Questions were asked by the show's two hosts and the viewing audience was invited to call the studio if they knew the correct answer. One of the questions was, “Was Herzl satisfied with planning to take over only Palestine or, as he wrote in his book, did he dream of taking over the world?” [The question is based on the episode of al-Shataat broadcast the previous evening by al-Manar. Translation courtesy of Channel 10, an Israeli commercial television station, November 5, 2003].
   
 

The important question is whether Herzl was satisfied

with planning to take over only Palestine

or did he dream of taking over the whole world?
The answer of one of the viewers (named “Fadi”): “Herzl wanted to take over the whole world.” (Many other viewers also phoned the studio with the “correct” answer.)
   
 

Good evening. -- Good evening, Fadi.

Herzl wanted to take over the whole world.
– Was that according to his book?

Yes, it was. – Did he write that he wanted to
take over the whole world?

What's the answer? – To take over the whole world.

   
 
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