Cairo - An Islamist newspaper yesterday denounced Egypt's plans for a spectacular New Year millennium celebration as part of a Zionist plot to lay claim to the pyramids.
Al-Shaab, bi-weekly mouthpiece of Egypt's Islamist-oriented Labour Party, argued that the show, organised by the "Zionist" French musician, Jean-Michel Jarre, would bolster what it called Zionist claims that Jews had constructed the 4,500-year-old pyramids.