Following are excerpts from an interview with Yousuf Ahmad, head of the Al-Faraeen TV bureau in Gaza, which aired on Al-Faraaen TV on January 5, 2010.

Yousuf Ahmad: Israel continues to extort the German government, making it pay millions of dollars and send volunteers, in order to erase the traces of Nazism. They do it to this day.

Interviewer: Let me tell you something else. Israel extorted Germany and got four nuclear submarines from it – including two nuclear submarines which no country in the world possesses, except Israel.

Yousuf Ahmad: That’s right. I hope that British MP George Galloway will mobilize world public opinion to exert pressure on his own government, which is the main reason for the establishment of the state of Israel, and the banishment of the Palestinian people. It is the reason for the tragedy of the Palestinian people.

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The common denominator that unites the Israelis is Ahmadinejad and people like him. Ahmadinejad constantly declares: “We will destroy Israel.” Israel does not like Al-Sadat or other people who talk about peace, because anybody who talks about peace works toward ending the state of Israel. Even if Israel did not have a real enemy, it would have to create an imaginary one...

Interviewer: In order to unite the people against it.

Yousuf Ahmad: Yes. The Israeli government works to mobilize its people, saying: “The enemy lies in wait for us and wants to annihilate us.”

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The Jews know full well that the Egyptians do not like or respect them. This is most evident in the fact that to this day, there is no normalization of [Egyptian-Israeli] ties – not on the part of the journalists’ union, not on the part of the lawyers’ union, and not on the part of the engineers’ union. As far as the Egyptian people is concerned, if we looked at it statistically, we would find it is very rare for an [Egyptian] journalist to go to Israel...

Interviewer: Or for any of our people...

Yousuf Ahmad: Or for any of the Egyptian people. The peace achieved in the Camp David Accords is only between the governments. The Israelis have a saying: “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”

Interviewer: “The dead Arab...”?

Yousuf Ahmad: “A good Arab is a dead Arab.”

Interviewer: What does that mean?

Yousuf Ahmad: It means that an Arab... This saying is prevalent among the Israelis, and it means that a good, honorable Arab is a dead Arab, buried deep in the ground. They consider any living Arab – above ground – to be their enemy.

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I want the Arabs to know that Israel is not a bogeyman. It is weaker than a spider web. By Allah, if the Arab nation decided to unite, the state of Israel would automatically collapse.