In March 2010, the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), the French broadcasting regulator, instructed Eutelsat, which owns the Atlantic Bird A4 satellite, to stop broadcasting the Islamist Egyptian Al-Rahma TV channel because of the virulently antisemitic content it frequently airs. The decision was based entirely on research provided by MEMRI TV, which revealed that the channel regularly portrays Jews as the Muslims' worst enemies, describes them as apes, pigs, and vipers and calls to annihilate them.

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In an op-ed titled "J'accuse!" in the June 3-9, 2010 edition of the Al-Ahram Weekly, Galal Amer mounted attack on Wahhabism, writing that the "Wahhabi Campaign" is "powered by formidable dinars" and "trying to superimpose a bleak topography of drought on a society that lives by the river." He says that currently in Egypt, "[f]rom a hundred thousand pulpits, calls issue for violence and for the combat of America and Israel" and that as a result "colleague turns against colleague, neighbor against neighbor..." He adds that "Wahhabi ideas oppose art, literature, science, beauty, women, minorities, life itself."

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Cartoonist: 'Imad Hajjaj

Source: Al-Amarati Al-Yawm, UAE, June 29, 2010

Residents of southern Lebanese villages and towns blocked roads, threw stones, and even exchanged blows with UNIFIL troops who were training in the region, saying that the training exercises were for attacks on Hizbullah.

The Lebanese daily Al-Nahar reports that at a meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama and Saudi King Abdallah yesterday, disagreement emerged over how to deal with Iran's nuclear program, and about the situations in Yemen and in Iraq.

Iranian Majlis speaker Ali Larijani said that the meeting of the Islamic parliamentary heads in Damascus will discuss the breaking of the siege on Gaza and aid for the Palestinians, and pressures on countries to sever relations with Israel.

The following excerpts are from a TV debate with liberal Syrian author Nidhal Naisa, and Mauritanian intellectual Hamaullah Ould Salem, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on March 29, 2010.

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In a meeting with Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that his country would respond to a bullying attack on any country in the region, and called on Bahrain to prevent the use of its territory for an attadk on Iran.

Egyptian Religious Endowments Minister Mahmoud Zaqazouq has announced that he is planning to visit Jerusalem despite accusations by his critics that he is normalizing relations with Israel.

After Egypt stressed that Iranian aid ships would not be prevented from reaching Gaza via the Suez Canal...