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PA Daily: America must be Fought in Iraq - Israel Must be Destroyed
Introduction:
The two burning tasks of the Arab world today are the total destruction of Israel and the fight against the US in Iraq, according to the official Palestinian Authority [PA] daily, Al Hayat Al Jadida. The call for Israel's destruction, a basic and widespread Arab view, was to have been rejected by the PA after the Oslo Accords, yet it continues to be promoted in the tightly controlled PA media. It should be noted that the refusal to recognize Israel's existence is expressed in the article by the rejection of the name Israel, as well, as references to Israel are placed in quotation marks as follows - "Israel" - implying - "so called Israel".
The article depicts Israel and the US as parallel and prime enemies of the Arab world and this is consistent with the opinions of the general Palestinian population according to the poll PMW released last week in Washington. That poll found that 87% of Palestinians thought either the US or Israel "is the single greatest threat to world peace". [51% answered Israel, 36% answered the US]. The article's call to fight Americans in Iraq is likewise consistent with PA opinions as the poll found that 42% of the Palestinians support the Iraqi attacks on Americans and 74% of Palestinians supported Saddam Hussein in the war.
The following is from the article in the PA daily:
"During these moments in history it is extremely important to adopt a direct and decisive position regarding imperialism, and especially regarding the Zionist entity. There is no option but resistance to imperialism... There is a need to crystallize a position regarding the imperialist-Zionist project in the Arab region. The resistance - that is meant to bring the expulsion of the American occupation in Iraq - should be supported by all means. The same applies to the struggle against the Zionist entity until the Zionist project is defeated, it's entity is eliminated, and a free and Arab Palestine is established as a first step towards uniting the Arab homeland and striving towards independent development and socialism. There are no other fundamental solutions to the Arab problem, but this one...
...The two state solution, a binational state, or even one democratic state outside the Arab dimension, will not be capable of getting rid of the contrast between the Arab masses and the Zionist-imperialist project in the Arab region ...
[There is] another issue, that the world movement should decide and take a standpoint: There are no "progressive Israelis". Every person, who is part of the Zionist-imperialist project, even if he is "opposed" to Zionist policy, is part of the structure of "Israel" ... A person cannot be simultaneously both progressive and part of the Zionist entity - Zionist project...
...Israel is an illegitimate state. This definition applies to organizations and individuals that represent [Israel] or recognize it. Therefore, in order to emphasize this illegitimacy, all ties with the "Israelis" should be canceled, and in other words: normalization with Zionists should be opposed on a world level, not only in the Arab homeland...
...There is no option other than the elimination of the imperialist-Zionist project... The meaning of resisting Israel is resisting Globalization, and vice versa..."
Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch
The PA's Anti-US Message (28.10.03)
by Itamar Marcus
Palestinian Media Watch
Here is a "religious" homily recently disseminated on Palestinian Authority TV: "History is repeating itself. Muhammad was besieged by two powers, Persia in the east and Rome in the west. Persia represents Russia, and America stands for Rome. Persia fell first, just as Russia fell first in the east. And America will fall, may it be Allah's will, just as Rome fell."
Thus, notwithstanding hundreds of millions of dollars in annual US aid for the PA, and President George W. Bush's support for a Palestinian state, the PA's message remains staunchly anti-US.
And the message has had an impact. A poll supervised by pollster Frank Luntz and released this week by Palestinian Media Watch (www.pmw.org.il), indicates that Palestinian hatred of the US is deep and ingrained.
The poll found that 42 percent of Palestinians support attacks on American forces in Iraq; 74% said they supported Saddam Hussein in the war; and only 37% feel the World Trade Center bombers were "terrorists."
While the Palestinian Authority promotes the myth that hatred of the United States is due to American support of Israel, it is clear that Palestinians have a unique disdain for the US independent of its relationship to Israel.
THE PA promotes an ideological world view that goes beyond the confines of its conflict with Israel. Civilizations are at war, the PA teaches, and the US is the leader of the enemy coalition. Thus, as leader of the democratic non-Muslim West, the US is ancient Rome waiting to fall.
Our monitoring of PA broadcasts shows they give pan-Islamic meaning to the war with Israel. The PA depicts Israel as an arm of the US and preaches that fighting Israel is essentially fighting America in its war against Islam and Arabs.
Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiah's message - broadcast several years backs - remains operative: "Kill the Jews and those Americans who are like them and those who stand with them; they are all in one trench against the Arabs and Muslims. Because they created Israel here inside the beating heart of the Arab world, in Palestine, they created it to be the vanguard of their civilization, the vanguard of their armies, to be the sword of the West and the Crusaders, over the necks of the Muslims (Palestinian Television, October 13, 2000).
Indeed, a more recent televised Friday sermon by Sheikh Ibrahim Madiras carried much the same message:
(PA TV, October 10, 2003)
Plainly, according to this worldview, the PA fights Israel because it represents the US; it does not hate the US because it supports Israel.
In that vein Ibrahim Madiras recently called the US "the foremost enemy of the Muslim nation," comparable to the evil Pharaoh of the Bible (PA TV February 21, 2003)
This theme that America, not Israel, is the foremost enemy has been actively promoted by the PA for years. America is also accused of being imperialist, colonialist, a usurper of land and human rights, an enemy of the Arab world, and a killer of Iraqi children.
In the months before the Iraq war, the official PA newspaper cosponsored a rally in support of Iraq. PA media reported how demonstrators "praised the role of Iraq and commander Saddam Hussein and stressed that Iraq's land will be a graveyard for the American soldiers..." (Al-Hayat al-Jadida, Dec. 19, 2002).
During the war, the PA actively endorsed killing Americans and even produced a music video celebrating the deaths of US soldiers, which was broadcast repeatedly on its TV.
When, in the early days of the war, a suicide bomber killed four American soldiers, the PA renamed a square in the Jenin refugee camp after the bomber - Ali Jafar al-Na'amani.
How does all this square with what happened last week when three Americans were targeted and murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip? The PA leadership rushed to condemn the attack and pledged cooperation in hunting down the killers.
But this condemnation was hardly sincere. It should be understood as part of the kind of verbal gymnastics required to keep USAID money flowing and American support for Palestinian statehood on track.
Want to know the PA's true attitude toward the US? Watch for the eventual naming of a street after last week's killers.
The writer is director of Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian Authority Hatred of USA Continues (11.9.03)
by Itamar Marcus
Palestinian Media Watch
Introduction:
In spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars in US aid to the Palestinian Authority, the PA continues to teach that the US is the enemy who is doomed to destruction by Islam, while expressing joy as US deaths mount in Iraq.
Possibly timed to coincide with the anniversary of 9-11, the official PA TV sermon from Gaza attacked the US this week, teaching that the coming fall of the US will be similar to the fall of ancient Rome. The battle with the US is presented as Islam's battle against Rome and the USA, like Rome, would fall.
In addition, a cartoon in the official daily this week showed a wife and child waving to the US plane as it leaves for Iraq, while crying as a flying coffin returns, draped in an American flag. This mocking of Americans crying over their dead, is a continuation of PA policy of supporting Iraq before and during the war, while calling for the killing of American and British soldiers.
The text of the sermon follows the cartoon below:
Official Sermon on PA TV, September 5, 2003, Ibrahim Madiras:
Palestinian Authority Newspapers' Caricatures
The Palestinians persist in their accusations that the United States is indiscriminate in its enmity toward the Arab world. The following cartoon appears today in a the official Palestinian Authority daily:
Caption: "Bush: The war in Afghanistan is only the beginning".
In the bull's-eye: "Afghanistan".
Dart board, counterclockwise from 1:00 - "Iraq", "Syria", "Lebanon" "Somalia", "Libya", "Sudan".
Arab Man: "The Other Arabs".
The missile-dart in his back: "by accident".
The Palestinians continually accuse the United States of harboring indiscriminate enmity toward the Arab world. The following cartoon appeared yesterday in a Palestinian Authority daily:
The slaughtered sheep are labeled Iraq and Afghanistan. Yellow sign is "Arab and Muslim states". Uncle Sam is debating which state is next in line.
EP news agency destroyed pictures of Palestinian celebrations
Reporters & photographers of the EP news agency released some of the photos to various TV networks. Though, within a short time EP managers got threatens from PA men, not to continue releasing the pictures.
Israeli sources say that on the stuff which not released there were videos of Palestinian policemen celebrating and fire their weapon to the air, and dancing with civilians.
EP management refused to respond to the claims. Palestinian sources told the Israeli News Agency, that the Palestinian Authority ordered the Media & Information Ministry to do everything to prevent those photos from being published.
(Maariv)
Intifada Leadership Call for "Confrontation with U.S. Interests Using all Possible Means" Aired on Official PA TV in a Special Announcement (20.11.2000)
The umbrella organization of the intifada, "The National and The Islamic Forces" issued an announcement of planned activities for the coming week. The agenda includes a call for confrontation with US interests. It was read as a special announcement on Palestinian Authority TV (Ramallah), today Nov. 20, 2000 at 12:20. The following is from the text:
Planned activities for: Tuesday November 21
THE INTIFADA SHALL CONTINUE TO VICTORY AND DEFEAT OF THE OCCUPATION
The Monitoring Committee of The National and The Islamic Forces in the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian Weekly Raises Threats to Target American Embassies and Military Vessels (30.8.2001)
A Palestinian Weekly Raises Threats to Target American Embassies and Military Vessels The Palestinian weekly, Al-Manar (on 27.8.2001), in its issue preceding the assassination of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa, published two articles that included threats against American embassies and military vessels in the Middle East.
Al Manar's editorial, titled "Bush and His Stupid Dreams," read: "In his hostility towards our Palestinian people and its leadership, George Bush has gone further than any other leader of the country which claims to be neutral or host to the peace process..."
"This is, by no means, a praise to the American presidents who preceded him. Each and every one of them had his role in serving the Zionist goals in the region and in the world in its entirety. However, some of them... kept in mind that the huge number of Arabs and Muslims may lose control, and the [Arab] rage may cross the red lines - leading to the flattening out of some of Washington's embassies to ground level, or to the shelling and burning of some of its military vessels in the ocean, along the Arab shores."
"However, George Bush does not only avoid looking like his father, he also wants to beat him in the race of hostility towards the [Arab] nation and its primary cause... his political and mental blindness reaches a level where he confuses the henchmen with their victims and demands that [the victims] keep their heads still beneath the criminal's knife so the [knife] would remain intact and the fingers on its handle would not get weary."
"The leader of the greatest terrorist state is not satisfied with the bridge he [put] up with the occupation, through which he supplies it with his shells, missiles, and most developed and lethal weapons, in order to rip the bodies of these people and the livers of their children to pieces, in order to demolish their houses and trees. He also demands that the leadership of this people serve as the guard of the criminal murderer's knife; to defend it from the wrath and avenge of the masses; to give up the leadership's role in regaining the rights of this people, in the fulfillment of its goals and in bringing it to safe heaven; [he demands that the Palestinian leadership becomes] a faithful guard in the service of Zionism and the occupying settlers. Furthermore, Bush exaggerates in his impossible dream and demands that the leadership of the [Palestinian] people would siege its warriors, stop them, and even kill them so that the Zionists could fulfill their dream and take over a land without a people, which did not happen so far... and will not happen tomorrow either..."
"The stupidity of [the Palestinian] people's enemies, the likes of Bush and Sharon, who cruelly attack headquarters, commanders, and members of the Palestinian security apparatuses, double the momentum of the linkage between all the parts of the united body which forms the Palestinian people, and first and foremost, the symbol and leader of its struggle, President Yasser Arafat."
Another article, signed by "Karim," read: "...Bush would have stopped his hostile position towards our people and its leadership, had only his interests in the region been threatened. He would not have supported Sharon and his aggression, had the American interest confronted a serious danger."
"We do not blame the [Arab] regimes, for these have already become White House doormats; but we do have complaints to the Arab masses who remain silent. Why don't these masses shake the dust of inaction off their shoulders? Do the nations' masses await a decision by the regimes in order to go to the streets and destroy the interests of the American tyranny?"
"We await the roar of the Arab public that will break the absolute silence that is being used by Bush and Sharon to continue their aggression. The borders and the fronts are not open due to an [official] decision by the rulers; they are open with a popular awakening for which we have long been waiting [for]. Bush is an accomplice to the aggression and he supports it. So what is the nation waiting for?"[Al-Manar (PA), August 27, 2001]
Note: According to rumors, Al-Manar is associated with Egypt.
Source: Palestinian Media Watch
Hamas Weekly: Anthrax should be put into America's drinking water (7.11.2001)
In his weekly op-ed, Dr. 'Atallah Abu Al-Subh, a columnist for the Hamas(1) weekly Al-Risala (Gaza), writes open letters to prominent figures, ideologies, and events. His most recent letter, No. 163, was titled "To Anthrax":
"The truth is that I wondered how to begin! Should I greet you [i.e. anthrax], or should I curse you? Should I hold my tongue?... I will begin by saying: Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown horror in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of boastfulness! Your gentle touch has made the U.S.'s life rough and pointless. You have filled the lady who horrifies and terrorizes the world with fear, and her feet almost fail to bear [her weight] in horror and fear of you. Because of you, she has lost confidence in the moment in which she lives, or in which she will live."
"You have entered the most fortified of places; [you have entered] the White House and they left it like horrified mice. Up until a short time ago, this place was the address of the power of brutality, or of the brutality of power! Verily, the owner of that house said, 'Woe to any who dare even to glance at it with a hint of rage - but you have turned all this into vanity, weakness, and wretchedness.'"
"By Allah, are you really so deadly?! Do you not fear America's intercontinental missiles? Do you not fear the torpedo missiles with nuclear warheads, and cluster bombs? Do you not fear the Swift Sword [Omani-British wargames] that Britain drew forth from its scabbard to stab into the heart of our honor in Muscat [Oman's capital], with the agreement of the great sultan, who had no shame in carrying out such a deed? Do you not fear the lady of terror's destroyers, that cross the Suez canal...?"
"The Pentagon was a monster before you entered its corridors... And behold, it now transpires that its men are of paper and its commanders are of cardboard, and they hasten to flee as soon as they see - only see - chalk dust! There are those who think that I exaggerate, but I do not think so. This horror that you have sown - you, the delicate, the uncomplicated, the miserable - in the heart of the bloodsucker [the U.S.]... makes me think as I do. You do not come like a storm, but they see you as one; a terrible storm that destroys everything. They run from you in all directions and their tongues mumble, 'My life, my life.' Our hearts, repressed, exiled, and oppressed, were filled with belief that Allah is capable of defeating America by means of the weakest of his earthly soldiers, after he used you to sow horror in their hearts..."
"I swear that your story is peculiar. The Americans see you as an imminent attack that is about to shake the lady with the proboscises that suck the blood of the peoples... All [the rulers of Arab and Islamic countries] tell [the U.S.] - every time she farts, - "Allah bless you" - Nevertheless, you have found your way to only eight American breasts so far..."
"You make the U.S. appease us, and hint to us at a rosy future and a life of ease... through a [new] Marshall Plan. Why? Because of our beautiful eyes? Or out of fear that we will turn into anthrax, and harm the apple of [the U.S.'s] eye and heart, Tel Aviv...? Without permission, you enter the halls of their courthouses, as if you intended to push the symbols of their sovereignty into the mud of worry and fear..."
"In sound mind, I thank you and confess that I like you, I like you very much. May you continue to advance, to permeate, and to spread. If I may give you a word of advice, enter the air of those 'symbols,' the water faucets from which they drink, and the pens with which they draft their traps and conspiracies against the wretched peoples... Turn the bodies of the tyrants into matches burning slowly and gradually, so that they understand that the truth belongs to Allah and that they should give those entitled to rights their rights."
"Then, and only then, will you return to your place... I hope that we only hear about you when you enter the body of every base man among the arrogant and their agents. Do not enter the bodies of the wretched, like that aging nurse. Peace be upon the oppressed."(2)
Endnotes:
Palestinian Authority's Arabs trained in Afghanistan
Two sons of senior Palestinian Authority officers received military training several years ago at a Bin Laden training camp in Afghanistan. Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports that the two were arrested in Israel almost two years ago, and an IDF Military Court sentenced one of them to three years in prison.
The convicted terrorist, son of Muhammad Daka, commander of the PA police station in Ramallah, trained for three weeks in Afghanistan, where he learned to use various types of weapons as well as military theory, and then took a course in the manufacture and use of explosives.
The second Afghan-trained PA resident, son of a senior official in the PA's Hebron police station, took similar "courses."
PA's systematic incitement against the US
Introduction
Within hours after the horrific terrorist attacks in the United States, there were spontaneous outbreaks of rejoicing in the streets of the Palestinian Authority. According to Israel Radio, at least two news organizations decided not to broadcast footage of these celebrations after senior officials in the Palestinian Authority - including prominent PA ministers - threatened their lives. Arafat's denunciation of the attacks, which continues to be broadcast, is in direct contradiction to the atmosphere of hatred he has been promoting through his tightly controlled media. The following are but a few examples:
"The suicide bombers of today are the noble successors of their noble predecessors... the Lebanese suicide bombers, who taught the US Marines a tough lesson in [Lebanon]...and then, with no preconditions, they threw the last of the remaining enemy [Israeli] soldiers out of the [security] zone. These suicide bombers are the salt of the earth, the engines of history...They are the most honorable [people] among us..." [Al Hayat Al Jadida - Official Palestinian Authority daily, Sept. 11, 2001]
Hafez Barghoutti, Editor-in-Chief of the official PA daily:
"And the last to judge us in this area is the pathetic scoundrel Thomas Friedman who called upon NATO to conquer the [West] Bank and Gaza in order to protect his beloved Israel. "These examples of beastly writings which surpass Nazism, require that their authors be tried in an international court, for they are considered inciters who have committed crimes against humanity...."
Pan-Islamic Anti-Americanism in Palestinian ideology
By Itamar Marcus and Ruthie Blum, Palestinian Media Watch
Introduction
Though presenting themselves in the American media as supportive of the US war effort, the Palestinians continue to ridicule and condemn the United States - in their own Arabic-language publications and broadcasts. One of the themes regularly expressed in the Palestinian-Authority-controlled media is that the US-Taliban war is part of a global conflict in which the Judeo-Christian West is fighting against the entire Muslim nation. Another involves the ongoing hatred of the US as an integral part of Palestinian ideology.
These themes were prominent in a sermon delivered last Friday in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and broadcast on Palestinian Radio, in which America is referred to as "infidel","Crusaders", and "head of world terror". The deliverer of the sermon identifies ideologically with all the Muslim wars throughout history, while criticizing the limited national outlook of individual Muslim countries today. He portrays all of the current Muslim conflicts in Chechenya, Kashmir, the Philippines, Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan as part of a global conflict against Islam.
It is important to note that, while the US continues to stress that it is not at war with Islam, according to Palestinian ideology, Islam is in a worldwide conflict with the West.
The following excerpts from this important sermon shed light on the global Islamic worldview of the Palestinians and possibly of many other Muslim nations:
"O Muslims, he who says that the month of Ramadan is abundant with Muslim victories and greatness is right.
"How our [Islamic] nation is in need today [our nation who] became divided into schisms and factions and into small countries, whose concerns do not cross their own regional borders, and who have limited outlooks how [our Islamic nation] is in need of learning about Mohammed's life and of reaping benefit from its lessons.
"Have today's leaders been struck deaf and blind, such that they do not hear the cries for help of the bereaved women and widows, or the wails of the children and orphans, nor see the humiliation that has befallen the nations of Islam at the hands of the invaders and occupiers?.
"[It was] during blessed Ramadan that the Muslims were victorious over the Mongolians .The [battle] cry `To help Islam!' continues to echo in the Muslim world [today]. Is anyone responding? Here [today] the "Mongolians" and "Crusaders" are raising their heads and enlisting armies to fight the Islamic nations in an oppressive campaign, under the label of "terrorism" which the infidels are attaching to the Arabs and Muslims, for the purpose of realizing their imperialist interests, and to spread their control over the Muslim countries and their resources.
"If terrorism - as viewed by America, the leader of world terror - is the killing of innocent civilians, we have to ask: Does the killing of innocent children, the elderly and women, and the death as martyrs of the sick [denied passage to hospitals] at military check points in Palestine constitute terrorism? . Is the killing of Afghani civilians and their expulsion as refugees in their country and in neighboring countries considered terrorism? Does the continued siege on Iraq, continued aggression against it in the North and South, and the death of children due to the shortage of food and medicine enter the category of terrorism?
"Cannot these war crimes, and the rest of the conditions to which Muslims are subjected in Chechenya, Kashmir and the Philippines, be categorized as terrorism, according to the American perception of terrorism?
".There is no place for a weak nation [America] among the nations of this world, one which was blinded by the intoxication of power and understands nothing but the language of interests and hegemony. You, Muslims, have interests in the world and power within you, which will seat you in the place you deserve among nations, which will restore your role as the pioneers of good peace in this destroyed world, if you follow the path of the Koran.and the path of the prophet [Mohammed] ."
[Palestinian Radio, from the Al Aqsa Mosque, by Mohammed Hassin, Dec. 7, 2001]
"American leaders are nothing but Priests, obedient to their Hebrew High-Priest."
Background:
The Palestinian Authority has stepped up depictions of President Bush as a murderer, accompanied by increasing publicity for calls to attack the U.S.
Hope is expressed that "the Arab and Islamic world will act against America and Israel" ... because "the United States does not understand the language of logic and wisdom, but only the language of interests and force."
The following are examples of PA calls to attack the US:
[From a eulogy for Abu Ali Mustafa by Omar Helm Ghul, Al-Ayyam, Aug. 30, 2001]
[Al-Ayyam, Sept. 2, 2001]
[Meeting with journalists in El Bireh, Al-Quds, Aug. 30, 2001]
Palestinian Television: US Flag Burning (4.7.02)
Palestinian Media Watch
The photo below is a frame from the Palestinian Authority TV video clip "Oh the People", expressing solidarity with the downtrodden. The editors chose to include burning the US and Israeli flags.
The clip is part of the continuing show of disdain mixed with threats to the US that have been a part of recent Palestinian expression.
This clip was broadcast on PA TV on June 30, 2002.
PA journalist: US seeks to dominate world like ancient Rome (24.9.02)
Itamar Marcus,
Palestinian Media Watch
Introduction:
The Palestinian Authority hatred of the US, which is expressed at many levels of Palestinian leadership and media often has a common repeating theme: the US wants to dominate and exploit the world. This is particularity noteworthy when understanding that a central theme of PA ideology, having appeared in school books, sermons and TV lectures, is that Islam is destined to ultimately defeat, dominate, and rule over the world.
PMW has seen repeatedly, that many of the lies and libels that the PA directs at both Israel and the US are actually various odious aspects of their own ideology that they attempt to brand on others. This accusation of world domination, is taken straight from their own ideology, but "Islam" is crossed out and replaced by "the US."
The following was how it was expressed by a PA journalist on PA TV this week:
"There are two lunatics leading the world: George Bush, and this man also, [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon who is with him. All their notions are imbecilic. Bush fantasizes that he can change the world and organize it in an American fashion, that America can be like ancient Rome, the sole leader. He thinks that if he conquers Iraq it will give him the key to change the map of the Middle East, to control the oil.
"They have no methods of resolution other than war, force... if someone wants to be the leader of the world, he must set an example; and he is no example."
[Hussein Hijazi, Political Analyst and Writer, interviewed on PATV, September 20, 2002]
By Itamar Marcus
Palestinian Media Watch
19.12.02
At a ceremony in Gaza, under the heading "Palestine and Iraq in the same trench", 25 Palestinian families of Shahids [those who died for Allah] received grants from Saddam Hussein totaling $280,000. Sketches of Arafat and Saddam Hussein appeared together on a poster beside the Iraqi and Palestinian flags.
During the ceremony support was expressed for Iraq in its coming battle with the United States and one of the speakers, the poet Omar Halil Omar, "praised the role of Iraq and the Commander Saddam Hussein, and stressed that Iraq's land will be a graveyard for the American soldiers..."
[Al Hayat Al Jadida, Dec. 19, 2002]
Pres. Bush tried and convicted of Crimes Against
Humanity in Palestinian Youth Court
By Itamar Marcus
Palestinian Media Watch
6.3.03
Palestinian indoctrination to hate the USA and the West is also focusing the next generation, as a youth court in Gaza has tried Pres. Bush and found him guilty of "Crimes Against Humanity". The following picture of the youth trial was published in today's Al Quds:
"President Bush" is seen in the defendants cage to the right, guarded by 2 "soldiers".
The sign under the "Judges":
"High Court of the Palestinian Youth Parliament for the Trial of War Criminals".
The caption under the picture:
"Children acting as judges while another child wears a mask of President George Bush Jr. [in defendants cage]. The judges found the American President guilty of crimes against humanity."
By Itamar Marcus
Palestinian Media Watch
March 25, 2003
The news of the first American & British casualties were greeted with joy in the Palestinian Authority. The cartoon below from the official Palestinian daily, depicting a British and American soldier caught in the claws of the Iraqi eagle, is indicative of the Palestinian yearning for significant American and British losses in the war.
[Al Hayyat Al-Jadida March 23, 2003]
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A new Palestinian Authority music video being broadcast repeatedly during the last few days on official Palestinian television glorifies the "heroic" fighting of the Iraqis and celebrates the casualties inflicted on the US forces. Pictured twice are scenes of US soldiers carrying away a body of a killed comrade, and the last picture in the video is a coffin draped with American and British flags.
The following refrain is sung repeatedly:
"Be strong, Baghdad, be strong
Pressure the evil ones.
Don't fear bombings and siege
Pull the trigger.
The despicable ones must go."
The video shows numerous scenes of cheering Iraqis holding their automatic rifles aloft and includes Iraqis celebrating near a downed US helicopter.
The clip is named "Be Strong Baghdad" and the vocalist is the popular Palestinian singer Jamal al-Najar.
[Note: Whereas around the world music videos are used for entertainment, MTV type music videos are used by the Palestinian Authority as a primary tool in its hate indoctrination apparatus.]
PA Daily: Condolezza Rice is the "Black Spinster" (23.6.03)
By Itamar Marcus
Palestinian Media Watch
Introduction:
A Palestinian Authority [PA] daily has published another racist article attacking Condolezza Rice, making her race an integral part of the article. The writer refers to her as the "black woman" [three times], the "black spinster" and continues that he even considered the term "black widow" but rejected it. Her father is the "black clergyman" [who filled her head with Bible stories] and Colin Powell is the "black man", the "black gentleman" and even the "brave and moderate black." Jesse Jackson is the "black minister."
Once slurring an American woman in the White House the writer uses the opportunity to categorize other American woman in the White House - the wives of presidents:
"The 'dominant' - the wife of President Ronald Reagan".
"The 'bright and the ambitious'- the wife of President Bill Clinton".
"The 'beloved' - the wife of President John Kennedy."
And while on the racial warpath Henry Kissinger is called - "Darling Henry the Jew".
The following are selections from yesterday's Al Ayyam.
"[National Security Adviser] Dr. Condolezza Rice is the most influential national security advisor in the US administration since "Darling Henry" Kissinger. The White House has seen some women with strong personalities, such as `the dominant', wife of President Ronald Reagan, `the bright' and the ambitious', wife of President Bill Clinton, and the 'beloved', wife of President John Kennedy. However - Condoleezza is the first lady [in rank], and the first black woman to serve in the most serious post in the White House. She is the "President's brain", especially with regard to the current incumbent, who is the most powerful world leader, but is one of the weakest presidents, [regarding] international political culture, to pass through the White House..."
"The adviser's `intelligence' and the `bravery' of General Colin Powell are what have elevated this black woman and black gentleman to the highest positions ever held by a black American woman or black American man in any administration."
"In contrast to Powell, who is the "moderate" in an extremist American administration, Rice is conspicuous by her thinking which follows the American "New Right, which is conservative and messianic. She is the daughter of a black clergyman, who filled her head during her childhood with stories about the Holy Land. These are vastly different from the liberal political theories espoused by the black minister Jesse Jackson, who is considered a "friend of the Palestinians" and a supporter of the downtrodden Third World nations. He was also the first black candidate for the American presidency."
"In an exclusive interview with "Yediot Acharonot" at the end of last May, she spoke about her powerful spiritual impressions from her first visit to Israel in August 2000:
"There, I felt as if I had come home, in my first visit to the place. There is a deep attachment between me and Israel... `Darling Henry' the Jew pretended to weep over the Israeli political leadership's 'stupidity' and 'shortsightedness'...
"Next week Ms. Rice will be visiting Israel for the second time .in order to salvage the 'brave' and 'moderate' black [Powell] from failure by salvaging the Roadmap..."
"Beware this "black spinster", we don't want to say "the black widow" out of respect for her femininity and her intelligence..."
[Al Ayyam, June 22, 2003]
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