声援巴勒斯坦人民 阿拉法特甜点畅销埃及市场

Yasser Arafat cheese puffs are the new hit snack on the streets of Egypt's capital.

A cartoon of the Palestinian leader salutes consumers from each 25-piastre ($0.05) bag of Abu Ammar chips, beckoning them to buy the snack and support a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.

"Abu Ammar, hero of the struggle," the cover reads in bright red letters, referring to Arafat by his nom de guerre.

"The more you buy, the more you build," the bags say. "Heartbeat by heartbeat, hand by hand, we'll build a new era."

The bags feature a cartoon of an open-mouthed Arafat in khaki military dress and his trademark black-and-white checkered headscarf against the backdrop of a Palestinian flag.

The cheese-flavored corn puffs lie at Arafat's feet.

One Cairo shopkeeper said demand was high for the snack, launched two weeks ago by Egyptian food group al-Jawhara.

"They (Egyptians) buy it because they see Abu Ammar, and they are sympathetic with the Palestinian people," shopkeeper Mursi Mahmoud Mohammad told reporters.

"They love this man. They love the people of Palestine," he said.

A company official said three percent of profits from sales of the snack would go to help pay for medical care of Palestinians wounded in the uprising that broke out more than a year and a half ago.

近来，一种包装上印有阿拉法特形象的奶油夹心小食品成为了埃及首都开罗大街小巷的畅销商品。

这种名为Abu Ammar的小食品每袋仅售25皮阿斯特（合5美分），包装袋上印着一个阿拉法特的卡通形象。这位巴勒斯坦领导人向人们招手致敬，好像是在招呼大家快来买点心，又好像是在呼吁大家对在近期日益升级的以色列军事打击中节节败退的巴勒斯坦多多支持。

包装上还用鲜红的颜色写道："Abu Ammar，作战勇士"，这个假名指的就是阿拉法特。

除此之外，包装的宣传语还写道："买的越多，贡献越大。心连心，手牵手，我们一定能够创造新的时代。"

这种小食品的包装袋的独特之处就是上面的这位"卡通阿拉法特"。只见在巴勒斯坦旗帜背景下，阿拉法特身穿卡其布军装，头戴标志性的黑白方格头帕，张开着嘴，似乎在向人们说着些什么。

而包装里面的产品，奶油口味的玉米甜点的象征图示就标在"阿拉法特"的脚边上。

开罗的一位店主说，这种小食品是两周前由埃及al-Jawhara食品集团投放市场的，销量非常好。

另一位店主穆尔西·马哈茂德·穆罕默德告诉记者说："人们购买这种产品是因为看到了包装上的Abu Ammar，大家都很同情巴勒斯坦人民。"

他还说："人们热爱这个人，热爱巴勒斯坦人民。"

这家食品公司的一位主管称，这种产品利润的3％将用于支付巴勒斯坦医疗机构的医疗费用，帮助他们向在一年半前爆发的日益升级的巴以冲突中受伤的巴勒斯坦人民提供医疗救助。