By Itamar Marcus Palestinian Media Watch 14.7.03

To view the broadcast, and a previous use of the same source by a religious leader, click below: [290 KB] StoneTree.wmv

The premise and basis for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians is that the conflict is not an irreconcilable religious war, but one over borders. However, Palestinian religious and academic leaders publicly teach that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is part of Islam's irreconcilable religious war against the Jews. To justify this view, Palestinians repeatedly cite Islamic sources to demand as religious doctrine, that Jews be hated, even demanding the killing of Jews as the will of Allah.

Tens of times in recent years Palestinian religious leaders have taught publicly that a particular Hadith (Islamic traditions attributed to Mohammed) expressing Allah's will that obedient Muslims must kill Jews, is a current obligation of Islam. This Hadith, which demands the murder of Jews in order to bring Redemption, was cited again yesterday on Palestinian TV by a Palestinian academic, Dr Hassan Khader, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia, during a lecture focusing on what he describes as the war of the Jews against Palestinian trees.

His words quoting the Hadith:

"Mohammed said in his Hadith: "The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: `Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'"

[PA TV July 13, 2003]

The continued expression of this PA world-view is most ominous, for by depicting Redemption as dependent on Muslim's murder of Jews, the murder of Jews is being presented as mandatory religious obligation.

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Palestinian Media Watch