(3 Sep 2008) SHOTLIST
++PLEASE BE ADVISED AP TELEVISION DOES NOT SHOW CLIPS OF "FITNA" AS IT CAUSES GRATUITOUS OFFENCE TO SOME PEOPLE.
Jerusalem
1. Wide of news conference
2. Sign reading "Facing Jihad "
3. Wide Israeli Knesset member Arieh Eldad talking to press
4. Close Up Eldad with sign in the background
5. Cutaway photographer
6. SOUNDBITE: (English ) Israeli Member of Knesset, Arieh Eldad
"What led me to organise this meeting was the recognition that the conflict that Israel against the Arabs are involved in, during the last 100 years here, is not a local symptom. It is not a local disease, but it is kind of symptom of a global disease. And the issue here is not a territorial conflict between us and the Palestinians, but Israel is only the front fortress of the western civilisations in the Middle East."
7. Cutaway press
8. SOUNDBITE: (English )Israeli Parliament member, Arieh Eldad
"I will show you a short clip of the film "Fitna". You could not see it on the main television channels in Europe or elsewhere because all the television stations were threat(ened) that they will be punished by the Muslims if they do so."
9. Journalists watching the clip
Al Ram, West Bank
10. Establisher Israeli Arab Member of Knesset, Ahmad Tibi
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Israeli Arab Parliament Member Ahmad Tibi
"We are talking about a gathering of extremists and radicals from Netherlands, Europe and Israel here in Jerusalem, led by Israelis against Islam as a whole, as a religion. We do believe that this inflammatory act is a provocation, but it goes with growing hatred of Islam and Arabs in Israel and parts of Europe."
12. End shot Tibi
File - January 2008
13. Leader of the Dutch far-right Freedom Party leader, Geert Wilders
STORYLINE
An Ultranationalist Israeli lawmaker says a controversial far-right Dutch legislator, who made a highly contentious film attacking Islam's holy book, will speak at an upcoming Jerusalem conference on combating radical Islam.
Geert Wilders' short film "Fitna" linked attacks by Islamic militants to texts from the Quran.
Israeli Knesset member Arieh Eldad showed a clip of the film to journalists at an event to promote the conference.
"I will show you a short clip of the film "Fitna". You could not see it on the main television channels in Europe or elsewhere because all the television stations were threat(ened) that they will be punished by the Muslims if they do so," Eldad claimed.
Eldad also ventured that Islam rather than endemic territorial dispute was the cause of decades of bloody conflict in the region.
"The issue here is not a territorial conflict between us and the Palestinians, but Israel is only the front fortress of the western civilisations in the Middle East," he told reporters.
The film sparked angry street protests in Muslim countries earlier this year following its release. Jordan has informed Interpol he is now wanted to face charges there.
The conference, called "Facing Jihad" and scheduled for mid December, will reportedly be tailored to European legislators seeking to unite in opposition against militant Islam.
Eldad told reporters that the Europeans who would attend would represent the political mainstream in their countries and not the far-right.
Others doubt this and have been angered by the proposed conference.
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