Propaganda
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Related: The Americans are accused of stealing eyes too: [The reports] further indicate that American medical teams have [made] active and suspicious moves in Iraq to recruit some Iraqis to guide them to dead and critically injured individuals to engage in the extraction of organs. These teams offer $40 for every usable kidney and $25 for an eye. )
An Iranian TV show is based on the premise of Israeli doctors stealing eyes from Palestian children. The following are translated transcripts from Memri: Cut to West Bank Classroom
Camp Nurse: “They have come to prevent the spreading of an eye disease. We must let them examine the children.”
Teacher: “OK…”
Doctor: “Open your eyes, my dear. Good. Come, yes. And you. Good. You too… God bless you. Good.”
Camp Nurse: “What kind of a program is this? Why aren’t you examining everyone? Why are they taking pictures? What’s going on here?!”
Doctor: “Calm down please. We are only doing our duty…”
Yitzhak Cohen (on TV screen): “We are the best of the races in the world. Our land should extend from the Euphrates to the Nile. The oil lies between the Euphrates and the Nile… The whole world will be shaken by the oil shortage problem. This is a difficult stage that will determine the fate of the entire world, and all eyes will be upon this region.”
Cut to Israeli Meeting
General: “This is the one! Here you go, Doctor.”
Doctor: “Here you go, sir. Take a look.”
Yitzhak Cohen: “Who is this?…”
Military man: “Zahra Abd Al-Rahman Muhammad. Age: seven; blood type: O+.”
General: She lives in the central refugee camp. Eye color - green.”
Yitzhak Cohen: “Good.”
Doctor: “Her physical condition is not bad.”
Yitzhak Cohen: “What is her medical condition?”
Doctor: “Not bad, but she needs better care.”
Yitzhak Cohen: “Excellent. Bring her here. Prepare everything for her. Treat her like a princess.”
General: “Sir, there are 32 children that you haven’t seen yet, and there is also a ship docked at the shore with a cargo of artificial fetuses…”
Yitzhak Cohen: “This one! Her eyes remind me of my wife.”(1)
Episode 2
TO VIEW CLIPS FROM THE SECOND EPISODE, visit http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=431 :
Doctor: “Welcome, sir, the president is in the operating room.”
General: “The president is indebted to you. He still can’t believe that he has been granted his life back, even though he suffers from old age and heart failure.”
Yitzhak Cohen: “He shouldn’t think it was easy…”
General: “His family knows everything that is going on. We’ve shown the president a list of operations we’ve preformed on people, including the examinations. The old man was very pleased. He couldn’t believe that we got 32 hearts - 32 beating hearts!”
Yitzhak Cohen: “From now on we will accomplish more important things. We will revive all the dying people, whichever way we want.”
General: “Sir, the unit is ready to move towards the refugee camp.”
Yitzhak Cohen: “Good, you had better be with them. You know how important this girl is to me.”
Cut to West Bank Classroom
Teacher (to students): “Alright, write down: The last Friday … of the month of Ramadan … was called … by Imam Khomeini … who is mourned by most of the Islamic world and who led the Islamic revolution in Iran - he called it ‘Global Jerusalem Day.’”
Nurse: “We didn’t see any symptoms in the children.”
Doctor: “In the early stages of this disease there are no symptoms. We will first take the children who might have contracted the disease.”
Nurse: “Where are you taking them, and for how long?”
Doctor: “To hospital with an advanced laboratory. Those who are healthy will return quickly. Don’t worry too much.”
Israeli unit commander: “There you go. I told you we wouldn’t be long.”
UN hostage: “I’ll file a complaint against you.”
Israeli unit commander: “Why?”
UN hostage: “You have abused UN uniforms and its name.”
Israeli unit commander: “This is a humanitarian act… If you dare open your mouth even once and talk about what happened, I will look for you everywhere, and finish you off. Understood?”
Child: “Uncle Ahmad, why don’t we have lands like this that we could cultivate, and build houses on? Why, Uncle Ahmad? Tell me.”
Uncle Ahmad: “Everything you see, the lands, the water, the air, and the birds, everything used to belong to us.”
Child: “So where are they?”
Uncle Ahmad: “They exist … in our hearts. They built these settlements on our lands by force.”
Camp Nurse: “All of this is the land of Palestine, our land, the land of our forefathers. How does the poem you recite in school go? Oh Palestine, Oh Jerusalem… This is our country, but the Zionists took it from us by force. We fought for our homeland, and we will keep fighting, do you understand? Do you? We have sacrificed martyrs for it, and we will continue to sacrifice everything until we liberate our land…”(2)
Interview with the Writer and Director of the Series
TO VIEW CLIPS FROM THE INTERVIEW, visit http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=422 :
Ali Derakhshni: “I, Ali Derakhshni, screenwriter and director of the series ‘Zahra’s Blue Eyes’ … started working on this project when I was active in the [Iranian] education ministry, 17 years ago.”
Interviewer: “In the film ‘Zahra’s Blue Eyes’ there is a beautiful idea, as best as I recall: A girl with blue eyes. A Zionist father who is an army officer, sees these eyes and tries to steal them for his son.”
Ali Derakhshni: “Theodore [Yitzhak Cohen's son] is a boy who symbolizes Israel. He has lost his kidneys, and he was paralyzed, and he wanted to rebuild his body.
“The major film companies are under the Zionists’ influence. We are at the beginning of the road. Fortunately, the Iranian Islamic Republic and our Islamic regime have made many films and series like ‘Zahra’s Blue Eyes,’ which is a film about children.”(3)
