Peace with Israel = Obscene Gay SEX!

I am starting to fall in love with the MEMRI TV wesbite, because it always gets me very interesting bits of TV programming that i miss due to the fact that i almost never watch TV anymore. Prime example is this bit right here, where Pro-Peace with Israel egyptian Playright Ali Salem faces off with Anti-Peace writers Abdel Halim Qandil and Ahmad Ali, who compares normalization of relationships with Israel to Obscene Gay Sex. Ohh yeah! Host: Two weeks ago you surprised us by going to Tel Aviv. Why? What change has occurred? Salem: No. I went to Be'er-Sheva, to Ben-Gurion University, to attend a conference on the new media and public opinion in the Middle East. When I got the invitation I immediately accepted it, because the political circumstances have changed, and there is now a possibility and a strong chance to achieve peace, and to restore the Palestinians' rights, so I went. The peace movement and the liberal trend in Egypt disagree with the socialist approach to economy. The liberals believe that the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty is a real treaty. They believe cooperation with Israel is inevitable in economy or any other field, for the benefit of the Palestinians. ( Personal side note: Ali Salem is now forbidden to travel to Israel by the orders of the Egyptian government for no reason at all. Moving on) Ahmad Ali: What do you achieve by going there? Salem: We prove to the Israelis that not all Egyptian intellectuals are against them, or oppose their presence in the area. Just as Israeli intellectuals established the Peace Now movement, we have our own. Ahmad Ali: Do you have to use heroin in order to know it's harmful? Do you have to engage in homosexual acts to know it's obscene? Do you put your hand in the fire? I'm not saying that. Mr. 'Ali Salem, your role is one known in history as "laundering" the reputation of the occupation. This is your role. LOL Now, that was funny, but what was truly great was the rant that the socialist Nasserites Qandil and Ahmad went on about "National Dignity" and how Peace with Israel is an affront to that! Host: Does going to Israel contradict national dignity? Ahmad Ali: Of course it does. What do I mean by "national dignity"? If I, or anyone, were to say to you: "I will give you a billion or a million Egyptian pounds and you will let me sleep with you sister, your mom, or dad." This is where profits and laws are not the criteria. It is your sense of dignity. So people who go to Israel are the equivelant of whores and pimps? Hmmm... Ahmad, you are good kid, you are very good, but as long as Qandil is around, you will always be second best! Qandil: Those who signed the Camp David agreement, without the people's consent - and I demand to hold a referendum about all these agreements, including the Qiz – and those who signed the Qiz agreement can simply piss on it and drink their own urine because the Egyptian people will never recognize the existence… actually I mean the legitimacy of the Israeli entity, and will never recognize the legitimacy of those who do, since, in my opinion, the so-called " supporters of normalization" are in fact "Arab Zionists." Oh really? So, The people, the average egyptian workers, are against the QIZ agreement? So i am guessing they would be staging protests to get their factories out of the QIZ areas, right? WRONG! Indeed, workers in the industrial towns of Ismailiya and Mahalla Kobra staged set-ins and protests after they learned that they were not included in the agreement. "People do not understand that if we do not have a QIZ here, me and my co-workers will be kicked out of the factory. We should stop being over sentimental about Israel and see what is good for us," said Mohammed Al Assal, a 43-year-old textile worker. "Egyptians should know that each worker supports a family of at least five members and having no QIZ means making thousands of families penniless in no time," he stressed. Oh, so i am guessing those textile workers should be considerd "arab zionists" as well? Aren't you a socialist Mr. Qandil? Shouldn't you be more interested in the welfare of the workers and the people then hollow nasserite slogans and concepts? Just wondering! I love Nasserite socialists for their complete lack of logic and perspective, because - like their Idol, who never won us a War, opressed our people and bankrupted our country-they talk a lot of shit WITHOUT BACKING IT UP. As I said before here, that kind of stupid rhetoric has got to go if we ever hope to advance and live in peace! Thankfully Ali Salem was there as the voice of Reason. Salem: The state of Israel exists. I think our treaty with it is one of the most noble agreements any Egyptian leader has ever signed. You tell them Ali. You tell them!