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"Umm Haroun," a Saudi-made television series aired during Ramadan that has sparked controversy by offering a positive depiction of a Jewish community in the Gulf that existed before the creation of Israel.
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This show doesn’t come in isolation, but as another episode in a growingly visible dramatic change in the Arab-Israeli relations led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In Gulf and Saudi media outlets, a few Saudi journalists are openly talking about friendship, and even an alliance, with Israel. The UAE soon is going to start admitting Israeli passports. The Saudi governments, historically uncompromising in its refusal to accept Israeli travel documents and forcing Israeli Muslims to obtain Jordanian passports so they may perform the annual Islamic hajj, announced it would start admitted Israeli Muslims with their Israeli travel documents. Official social media accounts in both governments made it a habit wishing Jews happiness of Jewish holidays.
This publicity photo shows a scene from "Umm Haroun," a Saudi-made television series
Perhaps the most significant sign of the occurring shift was the visit of the Secretary-General of the Mecca based Muslim World League, Sheikh Mohamed Al-Issa to Auschwitz last February and leading a prayer of Muslim religious leaders for the souls of all Jews who were exterminated, which he also mentioned to be “6 million.” This is by far the most senior Islamic religious leader and Arab official to visit a concentration camp, and openly recognize the Holocaust and its massive scale. This tremendous step means that Saudi Arabia gave official religious sanction to admitting and discussing the Holocaust contrasting itself with Iran, the current leader of the Holocaust denial transnational campaign in the Muslim world.
The reader should be under no illusion that Saudi and Emirati princess can wave a magic wand and end Arab hatred towards Israel and the underlying antisemitism behind it. Following the TV show Umm Haroun, Palestinian activists, aided by Qatari Aljazeera media, launched an anti-Saudi campaign accusing Saudi leadership of Zionism. This Palestinian campaign ultimately will end in nothing but self-defeat. Saudi journalists post the videos of Palestinians hurling insults at Saudi Arabia to show Saudi citizens how ungrateful the Palestinians, are and to vindicate their pro-peace stand.
This effort, while already impressive as it is, is likely to take a long time till it can successfully result in a new Arab generation free of the hatred of the past. Arab governments still are not interested in any significant political reforms, but they are interested in providing some needed social reforms to disarm Islamists from valuable recruitment tools. I do not doubt that the future holds the Middle East with not just a peaceful and prosperous Israel, but also a leading one.
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour was born in Egypt in 1989. He participated in the Arab Spring, moved to the US in 2012, worked as a Hebrew teacher, and currently is a pro-Israel speaker. He just released his debut book, Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind, talking about his journey from antisemitism to compassion. The book can be found on Amazon.
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