Candid Camera, Egypt Style
Aussie Dave | Jul 23, 2012 | 25 comments
The Egyptian version of Candid Camera is a real riot, especially when the prank involves making the guests believe they are on Israeli television
I’m beginning to think they really hate us.
Update: EoZ notes the contrast between the Egyptian Candid Camera show, and this Israeli version (which I posted last year), which has a very different view of intolerance.
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As long as they don’t tear up the treaty…
let them tear up the treaty. israel gets back the sinai
oil and vacation property
and goodbye gaza
I’m being ironic. There are a few Egyptians, especially in the military, who know what their best interests are and are unlikely to cut their own throats.
In his blog, Richard Silverstein is obsessing and making snide aspersions about Israel in his current lead article because he doesn’t believe a report of a technical problem on a recent El Al flight.
You, on the other hand, are sharing a clip from Egyptian TV that should be mandatory viewing — revealing the depth of raw hatred of Israel — both among Arab individuals and the Arab media.
The difference of relevance and value between your blog and his wildly misnamed “Tikun Olam” could not be more stark.
Thanks for fighting for the truth!
Here’s the transcript from MEMRI.
An interesting read. I wonder how all those of the “It’s just the leaders who want war with us, the man in the street loves us!” Israeli Jewish peacenik crowd would explain it away. From my experience, they usually reply with the battered wife’s question: “So what’s the alternative…?”
Closing quote from the one who slapped the female host: “I hate the Jews to death.” The reply from a true Zionist, as opposed to the milquetoasts we have for leaders today: “The feeling is mutual.”
That was terrifying on so many levels.
1) The rabid, visceral antisemitism. These people reacted to the “revelation” that their hosts were “Jewish” the way a normal person might react upon finding out that there’s a serial killer on the loose in the building, or that the babysitter you’ve hired is a convicted paedophile.
2) The physical violence.
3) The physical violence against a woman, and a rather petite one at that.
4) The way everybody (including the TV folk) were hugging and laughing about it all immediately afterwards. If some guy punched me in the face, I wouldn’t be laughing about it 5 minutes later. And if he followed it up by asking me out to his car so he could rub lotion on my back, I have to admit that my reaction would be less than sanguine.
5) If the TV folks were aware that their “stunt” was likely to result in physical violence, why pull it again and again and again?
I have to admit, I’m a little weirded out. And the lotion thing was just fricking creepy.
arab men beat their women all the time….he thought it was foreplay and that he was gonna get some
you are weirded out? dont be…this is how they feel
the peace treaty is a joke
nuke egypt before its too late
It’s really hard to process this kind of hatred. I really don’t think it was the deception that set these people off. It was the idea of appearing on Israeli TV with others they perceive as hated enemies. I suspect this is the way a lot of Egyptians feel.
In fairness to them as invididuals, they could also be motivated by fear of seeming to be willing to appear on Israeli TV — fear for their career and even their own safety. None of which lets the culture of antisemitism off the hook.
I think we’re all losing sight of what’s important here.
That being that the Israeli store front say’s “refeel yourself”.
As of now, Silverstein’s lead post is recycled and no-longer accurate Kadima news “enhanced” by his usual sarcastic commentary.
Silverstein and those who post on his blog are constantly accusing Israelis of racism — for example, this comment from week: “Israel is a paranoid delusion, the proper afterbirth of racist Zionism”
Yet your “Egyptian Candid Camera” post and your update clips from Israeli TV demonstrate pretty conclusively who the racists really are.
I know Silverstein and his fellow anti-Israel “hasbarists” read your blog, because they occcasionally refer to it.
So I hereby challenge them to refer to the clips on Egyptian and Israeli TV and admit that the Arabs and their media are the standard bearers and gold medalists of irrational hatred.
I have never seen such ugly aggressive people. Where does such hatred come from?
The Qur’an and its prophet, piss be upon him.
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When a local imam tells his flock not to eat tomatoes because when sliced in half they form the shape of a cross, you know that these people are missing a few cards from their deck.
pulled on a copyright claim…if used for news, its a spurious claim…fair use
Still available on LiveLeak.
Thanks. I updated the post with the Liveleak video.
I have to say, I reacted like that joke about the golf club with the sign “no dogs, Jews or postmen allowed”, and everyone asks, “why aren’t postmen allowed?”
I sort of ignored the hatred against Israel and Jews, but I couldn’t get past the physical violence, and how acceptable that was to everyone. The contrast with the Israeli show is so poignant; the hosts’ reactions (with the Israeli host shaming those who didn’t support the Palestenian woman, and yge Egyptian hosts praising the thugs’ patriotism.
Maybe the Aswan High Dam will crack and put an end to that country’s misery.
were you really surprised?
children of yishmael
this is their nature
That’s Uncle Joe, he’s a movin’ kinda slow at the junction – Petticoat Junction. All Aboard!
one of my fav shows as a kid. removed from the air because of the rural purge…still had strong ratings
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