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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3136059.stm
Interpreting Egypt's Anti-Semitic Cartoons
(BBC News) Kate Clark - "About the Holocaust, this big figure they mention, nine million, six million, it's not true," says Mohammed, the correspondent of an international news agency in Cairo. "In reality it was only half a million Jews killed - no more." His views appear to be quite typical among journalists in Egypt. Mohammed Khalil, who teaches Mass Communications at Cairo University, says depicting Israelis as Nazis is legitimate political commentary. Mohammed Salmawy, who edits the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram Hebdo, defends the use of old European myths like the blood libel.