In the episode (10/31/2025), the “Al-Shabaka” program reviewed a group of political and social paradoxes that the region witnessed during the week, moving between the genocide file in Gaza and other issues in its usual sarcastic style.
In a remarkable irony, the program referred to holding 4 sessions a week to try Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in corruption cases, commenting sarcastically, “This is how they treat him for corruption, not try him,” indicating that repeating the sessions is similar to medical treatment sessions.
The presenters of the program asked whether Netanyahu was “pushing the hearing and not following up with the court,” in a mockery of the intensity of the judicial hearings to which the Israeli Prime Minister is subject.
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In the context of the war on the Gaza Strip, the program referred to Netanyahu’s statements that he dropped 153 tons of bombs on the Strip, commenting bitterly on “the governmental electronic committees’ celebrations of stopping the war for the third week in a row.”
The program dealt with an Israeli soldier publishing a video in which he boasted about the kidnapping of a Palestinian family from northern Gaza, referring sarcastically to “widespread Arab official anger,” before revealing the demand of Arab rulers not to publish such videos publicly, commenting, “In secret, yes, but in public, no.”
The promised land
In a development that reflects the crisis of confidence among the settlers, the program indicated that more than 125,000 Israelis had returned to their original homelands and left the “Promised Land,” commenting, “It was not promised at all.”
The program touched on the clash of the Israeli police with Haredi Jews who protested their “unjust” recruitment into the army, and in a satirical scene, the program embodied the Haredim’s rejection of conscription and their extremist positions on military service.
On the Arab level, the program mocked the Libyan Minister of Education’s statements that his country’s universities were “better than foreign ones,” indicating that perhaps what was meant was “sitting and vaping” and not academic education.
In a funny irony, the program dealt with the news of an Egyptian worker digging inside a mosque to reach a post office in order to rob it, describing the operation as “La Casa de Mosque,” in reference to the famous series, proposing sarcastic names for the gang members, such as “Faisal, Nazlet Al-Samman, and Al-Matariyya, led by Al-Marj.”
The program mocked the statement of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, which denied rumors of the collapse of Tutankhamun’s tomb, stressing that “its condition has been stable and has been recovering for 100 years,” commenting on the wording of the statement that treats the tomb as if it were sick.
“Our koshary”
In the context of cultural heritage, the program pointed out Cairo’s efforts to register koshari as an Egyptian cultural heritage in UNESCO, commenting that the step is good “instead of them coming out and saying ‘our koshari’, as they did with hummus and falafel” (referring to the Israelis).
The program addressed Lebanon’s decision to legalize the cultivation of cannabis for medical and pharmaceutical purposes, commenting that the authorities “don’t know how to prevent it, nor do they have money to drink it, so he told you what… we legalize it,” adding sarcastically, “Let us build countries with a mood.”
In contrast to the sarcastic style that prevailed most of the episode, the program concluded on a serious and poignant note about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, noting that “people wake up not to live, but to repeatedly experience fear day after day.”
The program pointed out that El Fasher “is no longer just a besieged city, but has become a testing field for the extent of cruelty a person can reach,” stressing that what is happening there “is not an exception, but rather a picture of what all of Sudan is experiencing.”
Published On 31/10/2025
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