CAIRO, November 2 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The noise U.S. Jewish groups are making over a planned Egyptian TV series, which the United States and Israel claim is “anti-Semitic”, should be aimed instead at Israel's attacks on the Palestinians, a government newspaper said Saturday.

"Israel and Zionist groups in the United States" are used to "making noise ... when anybody, not only in Egypt or in the Arab world but in the entire world, attacks ... political positions different from the official Israeli and Zionist position," Al-Ahram said in a front-page editorial.

"Jewish groups in the United States" protested against the upcoming series, "Horseman Without a Horse," on the pretext it "attacks the history of the Jews," the newspaper said, adding that one group wrote to the U.S. government claiming Israel and the Jews were portrayed as "monsters" in it.

Jewish groups and the U.S. government are objecting to plans by a private satellite channel, Dream TV, as well as an Egyptian state-run channel and several Arab networks to broadcast the 41-episode series starting Wednesday, the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

"Culture and art in Egypt have never throughout Egyptian history tried to stir up animosity toward a race, a religion or doctrine," Al-Ahram wrote.

"It would have been better for the Jewish groups who made this noise to interest themselves in the rights of the Palestinians, which are violated daily ... by the continuous attacks of Israeli occupation forces," Al-Ahram said.

Meanwhile, Egyptian actor, Mohamad Sobhi, who wrote the series and stars in it, said that he will use all means to air the series even if it reaches the courts, adding that he was inspired by the London 1841 Accord and the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in writing the series.

Speaking to IslamOnline’s correspondent, Sobhi said that the idea for the series came as he was reading about the London 1841 Accords in which three Jewish Rabbis, who were in charge of spreading the Zionist thoughts, came up with an idea for the United Kingdom to offer a proposal to Egyptian ruler at the time Mohamad Ali, for Egypt to give up the Turkish army in return to joining Palestine and Egypt, as part of a plan for the U.K. to occupy Egypt in 1882.

As Palestine would fall under the British mandate, it would allow the British to issue the famous Belfour Promise in which a state was created for the Jews in Palestine.

The second incident, which inspired the series, according to Sobhi, was the writings of Arab writer Abass Al Aqqad on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the importance of following the proceedings of these protocols which include 24 points and to uncover what actually took place from these protocols. Sobhi added that 15 points have already taken place during the last 150 years.

Sobhi added that regarding previous shows such as Raafat al Haggan, which depict the Israeli-Egyptian intelligence war, the reason shows like that were not opposed to by the Israeli government is because Israel rejects the Protocols and constantly claims that it does not reflect their policies and that they are unaware of who exactly wrote them.

Israel had accused the Russian government of creating these protocols to get back at the Jews who took part in the revolution against the Caesar in 1905.

Other Muslim scholars such as Abdul Wahab Al Messiri also reject the protocols land say that it is a Zionist propaganda that blows out of proportions the might of their movement.

Sobhi said that he is proud that Egypt has stood by his show but said that he was not able to determine whether or not Israel will influence other Arab countries in airing the show, saying that the Zionists have many means which are far from integrity.

He added that the Zionist campaign is now targeting art after previously targeting writers and journalists such as Ibrahim Nafie, editor-in-chief of the Egyptian Al- Ahram newspaper.

The Israeli campaign also attacked another series titled “Birds Hovering Towards The East”, which depicts the Egyptian intelligence’s operations which led to its victory in the 1973 war. Michael Melkyour, deputy Israeli foreign minister submitted an official protest to the Egyptian government asking for the show not to be aired in order to avoid a crisis in the relations between the two countries.

Egyptian Information Minister Safwat al-Sherif said this week that the series "Horseman Without a Horse," contained nothing which could be considered anti-Semitic and that his government embraced a policy rejecting attacks on religion.

"Horseman Without a Horse" covers Middle Eastern history from the mid-19th century to 1917 and tells of the story of an Egyptian man fighting against the British occupation of mandate in Palestine and Zionist plans to establish a Jewish state.

The 41-episode series, is scheduled to debut Wednesday, November 6, at the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

U.S. State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said his government has complained to Egypt and other countries in the Middle East about plans to broadcast the series.

"It is a series ... supposedly on other topics, but that incorporates or is based on these odious protocols, the Elders of Zion," Boucher told reporters.

"We have raised it with [Egypt and with] other governments," Boucher said.

He declined to comment on the content of the U.S. messages, but a senior department official said later that Washington was unhappy with the series, which it believed to be drawn from "racist and untrue" sources.

"We don't think that government television stations should be broadcasting programs that we think are racist and untrue," the official told reporters.

In a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, the U.S.-based Jewish rights group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) branded the series the "latest manifestation of an ongoing pattern of anti-Semitic incitement in the Egyptian media."

Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979.

Egypt recalled its Ambassador from Israel in November 2000 protesting the Israeli army's excessive use of force in the occupied Palestinian territories

In Ramadan last year, Abu Dhabi Television Station from the UAE also came under fierce Western criticism after broadcasting a satirical show depicting hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a blood-drinking terrorist.

The series, called "Tales of Terror", which was shown on Abu Dhabi and Kuwaiti TV last Ramadan is a comedy in which Sharon, played by Kuwaiti actor Daoud Hussein, was shown drinking the blood of Arab children and shooting captured Arabs.

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