At a time when an Arab controversy has been raised regarding the issue of normalization with Israel in dramas this Ramadan, the Israeli media have generally viewed with satisfaction the series broadcasted by Arab satellite channels.
The official channel "Can" touched on the series that dealt with Israel this year in an analysis of the channel's Arab affairs commentator Roi Kayes.
"Today's Ramadan series are dividing the Arab world more than ever," Case said.
Umm Haroun,
the MBC series that focuses on the lives of Jews in the Gulf before the establishment of the State of Israel, and tries to portray the social harmony between Muslims and Jews before 1948, which occurs in aspects of marriage between a Jewish girl and a Muslim youth.
From the point of view of many in the Arab world, "Umm Haroun" who "flirting with Jews" represents another stone falling in the wall that separates the Gulf from normalization with Israel.
But the Gulf's pursuit of normalization has often been criticized in the past, especially on social media, but the most important characteristic of "Umm Haroun" is the changing attitude towards the Jews of the Gulf.
According to the official Israeli channel, "The leaders in the Sunni countries (Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Bahrain) see that showing tolerance with people of other religions gives them an additional asset in the West and the United States, and keeps their countries away from the strict image that they stick to."
For his part, Dr. Yaron Friedman, Arab affairs commentator in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, considered that the series "Umm Haroun" conveys a political message that "the Gulf states are paving the way for normalization with Israel."
"There is no doubt that the Umm Harun series refers to the change that has taken place in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf in recent years," Friedman said in an article published by the newspaper on the second Friday of Ramadan 2020.
He considered that "the legitimacy of the emergence of Arab actors objectively embodying the Jews - who speak Hebrew and show the Jews as persecuted in the Arab world - is an expression of the change in consciousness in some Arab countries," according to his opinion.
"Director 7"
deals with the Saudi series, which is also broadcast by MBC, through separate episodes, social issues, but the third episode of it was a surprise, as it called through one of the heroes and openly to normalize and enhance trade cooperation with the Israelis, as one denounced Heroes, any position supportive of the Palestinians.
The Saudi comedian Nasser al-Kasabi starred in the series, and the episode mentioned relations with Israel through reactions within a Saudi family that discovered that one of her children (Ziyad) was playing with an Israeli child (Ezra) over the Internet.
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The scenes that brought together Al-Qasabi (the father of Ziad) with the artist Rashid Al-Shamrani summarized the message that the series wanted to convey, as it appeared in one of the last saying, "Israel is human like you, Israel exists, whether you like it or not like it."
Al-Shamrani added, "The Arabs have lost all these years except the Palestinian cause, and the result is rhetoric and grief without result."
The commentator of the Israeli "Kan" channel asked, "Are the Saudis tired of funding the Palestinians?"
"In recent years, a trend has emerged in Saudi Arabia - even if it does not express society as a whole - that is attacking the Palestinians for their beautiful denial about their position on and assistance to the kingdom," he added.
Israel's enmity turns to Iran
. As for Yaron Friedman, he commented on what was stated in "Exit 7", saying, "A young generation has emerged in the oil countries that have not witnessed the wars of the Arabs against Israel, and does not see far-away Israel as an enemy at all."
He considered that the real enemy for many Saudi youth is Iran, which represents a near and immediate threat, and that provides the Houthi rebels in Yemen with missiles to launch them towards Saudi Arabia.
On the fourth day of Ramadan, the 12th Israeli private channel praised in a report on "Exit 7" saying "This is the first time that they have spoken publicly in Saudi Arabia that Israel is not an enemy."
The channel considered at the time that the talk was about "a fundamental change that exceeds even the threshold of normalization, and calls for the promotion of peace and warm relations between the citizens of the two countries (Israel and Saudi Arabia)."
The End:
Israel officially protested, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the Egyptian series “The End”, starring the artist Youssef El-Sharif, which is expected to be wiped out in the battle of “liberating Jerusalem”.
The series broadcast on the private Egyptian channel ON TV broadcasts a scene in which children appear in a classroom in the year 2120, and the subject of the lesson is "War for the Liberation of Jerusalem", and the teacher tells his students that the war ended quickly and led to "the destruction of the Zionist State of Israel."
The teacher adds that most of the Jews then returned to their countries of origin in Europe.
"Kan" channel commented on the scene, saying, "Everyone knows that relations between Israel and Egypt were strengthened on the security, military and intelligence arenas during the era of (Egyptian President Abdel Fattah) Sisi, who ended the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood."
However, according to Kayes, "The aforementioned scene is undoubtedly a warning signal that things are going well on the highest level, but the situation on the popular level is not good."
As for the commentator on Arab affairs on Israeli army radio, Jackie Hugi, he considered in an article published by the Ma’ariv newspaper last Friday that the "end" is "a small and symbolic model of the twisted relationship between Cairo and Tel Aviv."
He said that even in light of the worst crises between Tel Aviv and Cairo, an Egyptian series showing "The End Drama" did not appear, indicating the demise of Israel.
It was surprising to allow such a drama to be shown despite the strengthening of ties in recent years between Israel and the Sisi regime, especially in the security field, he said.
The Arabs are divided,
Casey says. The Ramadan 2020 series reflects the division of the Arab world with regard to Israel into 3 camps. The first is the so-called "axis of resistance", which continues what he described as "incitement against Israel," referring to the series "The Guardian of Jerusalem," which is currently being shown by a channel. The fields close to the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The second - according to the classification of the Israeli "Kan" channel - is the camp that supports Saudi Arabia, which seeks to normalize by expressing positive positions towards Israel and the Jews, which is revealed by "Umm Haroun" and "Exit 7".
There is also the (third) Egyptian camp and what goes on in its orbit, and its position on Israel reflects the series "The End", which predicts the end of Israel and the liberation of Jerusalem, and it is a camp interested in peace with Israel in the name of interests only.