Israel’s Arabic language propaganda broadcasts aimed at Egyptian audiences have dropped their criticism of President Anwar Sadat and are concentrating on the Sadat regime’s intentions to improve internal conditions in Egypt. The change in emphasis, which followed the signing of the new Israeli-Egyptian interim accord in Sinai, is intended to bolster Sadat’s moderate policies against his critics in the Arab world, according to an official of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
The main theme of the broadcasts to Egypt and other Arab countries is to emphasize that those Arabs who oppose the Sinai agreement hold to an obsolete policy that is out of touch with the present political dynamics in the Middle East, the official said. A similar campaign has been launched by the government-sponsored East Jerusalem Arabic daily Al Anba which is offering its pages to articles by well-known Arab writers on the West Bank who support the agreement.
Of the other Arabic dailies in East Jerusalem, only one out of three supports the Sinai accord. That paper, Al Quds, stresses, however, the importance of solving the Palestinian problem at the same time that the Arab states reach settlements with Israel.
Under terms of the Sinai agreement, Egypt is also supposed to tone down its propaganda against Israel.
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