An Egyptian television channel
has claimed the United States is behind Syria's civil war citing an
episode of the popular American sitcom The Simpsons.
Watch the video below
The report, which aired on Al-Tahrir TV on Sunday, showed footage of an episode broadcast in 2001which,
according to the Egyptian channel, raises "many question marks" about
Washington's role in the Arab Spring and Syria's civil war.
In the episode New Kids on the Blecch,
the always mischievous Bart Simpson and his friends, Milhouse, Nelson
and Ralph, are tapped to form a boy band and are seen piloting war
planes and dropping bombs on an unnamed Arab country in a music video
for their single, Drop Da Bomb.
Before showing the video,
Al-Tahrir's presenter warned viewers: "The video you are about to see
shows animated figures dancing, flying airplanes and dropping bombs on
what must be Syria because there are other animated figures below in
Arab garb and the Syrian (opposition) flag appears on one of the
vehicles."
She goes on to suggest that the ongoing civil war which
has ravaged the country was "premeditated" and the US was involved in
the conspiracy, noting that a jeep in The Simpsons music video displays the flag that is now used by the Syrian opposition.
"That’s
why people are saying on Facebook that this is a conspiracy," she
added. "In 2001, there was no such thing as the flag of the Syrian
opposition This episode was created back in 2001, before the Syrian
opposition even existed."
The report was posted to online by the
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which, according to its
website, aims to bridge the language divide between the West and the
Middle East by "providing timely translations of Arabic, Farsi, and
Hebrew media".
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