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| Violence and terror |
After demonizing Jews and Israelis, including citing Islamic sources that depict Jews negatively, and culminating with ongoing lies and libels that portray Jews as an immediate threat to Palestinian life and existence, the Palestinian Authority foment violence against Jews and Israelis, presenting it as legitimate and even heroic self-defense.
PA terror promotion takes many forms. Nationalistically, the PA actively elevates violence as a valid and heroic means to achieve political goals, while religiously, fighting and killing Jews has been presented repeatedly by PA religious and academic leaders as Allah’s will. On the social level, Palestinian leaders and society honor even the most loathsome of murderers portraying them as heroes and role models: Dalal Mughrabi, who led a bus hijacking in which 37 were killed, has schools, summer camps, and many other events and places baring her name to immortalize and glorify her and her terror attack.
Click to view PMW special report: “From Terrorists to Role Models”
The success of the PA’s promotion of violence is readily evident: A majority of Palestinians support killing and suicide terror against civilian Jews and Israelis. A poll conducted after the murder of eight teenagers who were studying in a Jerusalem high school in 2008, found that 84% of Palestinians supported the murder [NY Times, March 19, 2008, citing the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research].
This violent image of a dagger being thrust into the Star of David has appeared hundreds of times in a video clip for children on PA TV, from 2001 – 2008.
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Palestinian political, religious, and social frameworks justify and promote violence and terror. On the one hand, Imams on Hamas and PA TV, political leaders and even children routinely express calls for future terror attacks against Jews and Israel. Citing the inherent evil Jewish nature, they proclaim that it is an Islamic and Palestinian duty to defend against the immediate threat and kill Jews.
On the other hand, the PA and Hamas actively glorify terrorists, particularly suicide terrorists, praising the killer and the act of killing as righteous and honorable.
At a PA cultural festival in June 2010, in the presence of the PA Minister of Culture, singers and dancers promote and glorify violence.
[PA TV (Fatah), The song was broadcast live on PA TV on June 4 and was rebroadcast June 24, July 9, July 13, July 16, July 20, Sept. 21, and Dec. 31, 2010. It was rebroadcast in 2011 on Oct. 3, 4, and 7]
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1- Violence for kids
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The Palestinian Authority, Fatah and Hamas have created vast educational, social and cultural networks aimed at children that promote and glorify violence and terror. Palestinian children are taught through educational videos, schoolbooks, TV mascots and cultural events, to see violence and the “armed conflict” as heroic and to see themselves as future fighters against Israel:
"I came here following the conference elections. I hope that there will be more conferences like the 6th Fatah Conference (August 2009). These conferences are important for us because it makes us aware of leadership and that we will be combatants and wage resistance (violence) against the Israelis."
[PA TV (Fatah), July 8, 2010] Click here to view
At a Fatah high school graduation event, under the auspices of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the student graduates explained what they were taught by Fatah:
Male graduate: "In the name of the Shahids (Martyrs), in the name of the prisoners, in the name of the stone and the rifle."
Female graduate: "In the name of Fatah, the school that taught us the meaning of nationalism."
Male graduate: "In the name of Palestine: Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, and our Arab Jerusalem."
Female graduate: "In the name of Palestine: Gaza, the West Bank and the flag of national unity."
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Male graduate: "Fatah is [still] with the rifle. And our rifles are not rusty even if they have fired thousands of bullets." [Al-Filistiniya (Fatah), July 28, 2009] Click here to view
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Cartoon promotes rock-throwing
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Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 2, 2014
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| Text: “Purification before prayer is performed with stones.” |
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official Palestinian daily, published a cartoon alluding to the Islamic custom of purification before prayer. In general, purification is performed with water; if there no water is available, sand is used. The cartoon shows a father handing his son a slingshot and telling him that purification before prayer is performed with stones.
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Boy at Fatah ceremony: "Pick up your rifle... Destroy, shock, burn and set fire"
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Official Palestinian Authority TV, Sept. 16, 2014
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Fatah ceremony in Tulkarem marking the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
A boy, Abd Al-Rahman Mustafa, recites poem:
"Pick up your rifle, resist and terrify [them].
Break your silence, free your thoughts...
Stand firm, strengthen your heart.
Destroy, shock, burn and set fire...
Heal your wounds and forget your cares...
Your homeland is your honor; protect it with your blood...
Find your weapon next to my weapon...
Al-Aqsa [Mosque] calls: ‘Where are my men?’
Palestinian, answer its call; Yasser [Arafat’s] men will not kneel."
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Note: Sabra and Shatila are Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. In 1982, during the first Lebanon War, Muslim residents of the camps were massacred by Christian Phalangists. The PA has a longstanding policy of falsely accusing Israel of committing the massacre or actively helping to carry it out. |
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Girl on Hamas TV to Jews: “May Allah blind their eyes”
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Aug. 29, 2014
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) broadcast a young girl singing a song:
Young girl: “Remove your shoes when you are in Gaza. It contains thousands of Martyrs’ (Shahids’) graves, and basil plants grow in its soil...
Remove your shoes, for here the women perfume themselves with the scent of the Martyrs and adorn themselves with the blood of the smiling Martyrs.
Remove your shoes, when you enter [Gaza], for power and greatness are in it, more than in the palaces of the leaders who do nothing to help" [...]
Al-Aqsa TV host: “And what do you say to the Jews?”
Young girl: “May Allah take them and blind their eyes, Allah willing.”
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Hamas cleric proud of 2-year-old son for pretending teddy bear is a kidnapped soldier
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Aug. 22, 2014
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) broadcast the Friday sermon from the Al -Shafi‘i mosque in Khan Younis, delivered by Sheikh Muhammad Salah Abu Rajab.
Sheikh Muhammad Salah Abu Rajab: “My two-year-old son’s toy, his favorite toy at home – like many other [children] – his favorite toy is a teddy bear. Before the war he used to hold it in his lap. Play with the teddy bear. But today, the bear has become [something else]. My son says every day: ‘Where’s the soldier?’ He carries it on his back, and in his other hand [carries] a toy rifle, and he walks around the house and wants to hide the soldier. Can you [Israel] face them [these children]? You can’t face them. We are training an army against you, which you cannot face.” |
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Hamas TV: Every Muslim mother "must nurse her children on hatred of the sons of Zion"
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Aug. 1, 2014
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Tareq Al-Suwaidan, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait: "Without a doubt, the blood being spilled [in Gaza] is dear. But the equation is: 'Those killed from our side are in Paradise, and those killed from their side in Hell.' (Hadith)
We are not afraid of Martyrdom. Not long ago, you cried out loud: 'Death for Allah is our most exalted wish!' (Muslim Brotherhood slogan) You received the death you wanted. We have no problem with death. We are not like the children of Israel: 'And you will surely find them the most greedy of people for life.' (Quran) Whereas we yearn for death and Martyrdom... Every mother - especially the mothers in Palestine, but every mother in the [Islamic] Nation, not just Palestine - must nurse her children on hatred of the sons of Zion. We hate them and they are our enemies. We will plant this in their [our children’s] souls, so that a new generation will grow among us, which will erase them from the face of the earth."
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Fatah vows: "We will turn Tel Aviv into a ball of fire!"
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Facebook, Fatah - The Main Page, July 28, 2014
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Text: "The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Palestine"
Speaker: "The enemy (i.e., Israel) must understand that the Martyr Commander Nidal Al-Amoudi left behind an army of well-trained fighters. We swear to you that we will turn the beloved [Gaza] Strip into a graveyard for your soldiers, and we will turn Tel Aviv into a ball of fire. Ball of fire..."
Song: "We are going on the way. We are the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' [Brigades]
Oh usurper, don't forget it."
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page," July 28 and Jan. 21, 2014
Al-Aqsa Brigades YouTube channel, Jan. 20, 2014]
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2- Violence for adults
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The Palestinian Authority justifies all terror as legitimate armed conflict, coining it “resistance,” the Palestinian euphemism for violence ranging from the terror to suicide bombings to stone throwing:
Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and former PA senior official, Jibril Rajoub:
"Building a school and throwing a hand grenade, in my opinion, are resistance. I build the school in order to strengthen the reasons for my people's resolve, as one of several aspects of the resistance, and when there is a need to throw a grenade [or launch] a rocket, I'll do that as well out of my belief in the inevitable victory of my cause and its justness." Click here to view [PA TV (Fatah), May 12, 2010]
The PA at times adds that violence must be used wisely as an effective political tool. Depending on the political circumstances the Palestinian Authority alternates active calls for violence and terror with periods when they say that terror is being postponed because of temporary conditions:
Dr. Nabil Shaath, Fatah Foreign Affairs Commissioner:
"The popular struggle is a fundamental principle whose importance equals that of the armed struggle, since it is the responsibility and task of all the people. The current distancing from the armed struggle does not mean its absolute rejection." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 21, 2010]
Fatah leader Diab Al-Louh once worded it this way on PA TV: “The rifle seeds and diplomacy reaps.”
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PA minister views murdering Israelis as legitimate "resistance"
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WAFA news agency, Dec. 16, 2014
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"In a statement published today [Dec. 16, 2014], Prisoners' Affairs Authority Director [and PA Parliament Member] Issa Karake said that the Palestinian government had, in accordance with the new prisoners' regulations, stopped paying the fines continuously imposed on the prisoners by the occupation courts. He clarified that the occupation courts collect large sums from the prisoners, and that 95% of the verdicts pronounced by these courts involve fines, some of which are exceedingly high...
Karake noted the existence of an even more severe policy, which the occupation courts have been adopting, and which involves the passing of sentences on prisoners that force them to pay large sums in financial compensation to Israelis who have been exposed to resistance by Palestinians (i.e., terror attacks). He noted that [a fine of] 3.5 million shekels had been imposed on prisoner Ali Sa'ada, as compensation for the families of the killed settlers, with the aim of delegitimizing the [Palestinian] national resistance against the occupation."
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Note: Ali Sa’ada and Wa’al Al-Araja were members of a Palestinian gang of stone-throwers and were convicted of the murder of Asher Palmer, 25, and his baby son Yonatan near Kiryat Arba in the West Bank on Sept. 23, 2011. Al-Araja threw two stones at Palmer’s car from a vehicle driven by Sa’ada, hitting Yonatan in the head and causing Palmer to lose control of his vehicle, which ran into a gulley, killing both of them instantly. |
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Abbas advisor: All of "Palestine" will "return" to Palestinians through "resistance"
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Official Palestinian Authority TV, Dec. 12, 2014
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Friday sermon in the presence of Mahmoud Abbas.
Supreme Shari’ah Judge and Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor on Religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash:
"All of this land will return to us, all our occupied land, all our rights in Palestine - our state, our people's heritage, our ancestors' legacy - all of it will return to us even if it takes time. Patience is the key to victory, and we are patient. In terms of resistance, all options are on the table, and in terms of diplomacy as well."
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Fatah’s military wing calls to “respond in kind” to Israel’s alleged “assassination” of PA Minister
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Ma’an, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 10, 2014
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Headline: "The Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Gaza call on activists in the West Bank to respond to Abu Ein’s death as a Martyr (Shahid)"
“Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa [Martyrs’] Brigades, called on its members in the West Bank to respond to the assassination of Minister Ziad Abu Ein. In a statement, it said: ‘We call on the Al-Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank to respond in kind to the cowardly assassination crime,’ noting that Palestine would be liberated through the barrel of the rifle. In addition, it demanded the cessation of all security cooperation withthis treacherous enemy, and called on the masses of the Palestinian people to expand the Intifada and the resistance to the occupation.”
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Note: Ziad Abu Ein - Fatah Revolutionary Council member and head of the PA Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall. Abu Ein died on Dec. 10, 2014 at a demonstration in the West Bank that turned violent. Immediately following his death, PA and Fatah leaders claimed that Abu Ein was murdered. Footage from the event shows Abu Ein in an altercation with an Israeli soldier who grabbed Abu Ein by the neck, and later shows Abu Ein on the ground clutching his chest in pain. The autopsy, which was overseen by Israeli and Palestinian pathologists, revealed that the cause of death was a heart attack, but disagreement remains over the extent to which the altercation with Israeli forces may have caused the heart attack. Palestinians have continued to describe Abu Ein's death as a "murder" and "assassination" by Israel.
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PA Minister of Religion praises and rewards Martyrs, prisoners, and those who carry out Ribat
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Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 1, 2014
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| “Fatah’s Jerusalem branch, under the patronage of the Qatannah Association for Development and Strengthening, honored [PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Sheikh Yusuf Ida'is for his efforts in [ensuring] the success of the season of the pilgrimage to Mecca for the year 1435, according to the Islamic calendar… Ida’is dedicated this honor to the Martyrs (Shahids), prisoners, wounded and Murabitin (those who carry out Ribat, religious conflict/war over land claimed to be Islamic) in the plazas of Al-Aqsa, and promised to award grants for the duty of pilgrimage to Mecca to the Murabitin and the defenders of Al-Aqsa.” |
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PLO: Palestinians have the “right to resist in all possible ways (i.e., including violence)”
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Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 25, 2014
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“The organizations, trade unions and popular associations in the PLO asserted their support for the [Palestinian] leadership’s appeal to the [UN] Security Council and to the relevant international organizations to issue a decision to set a time frame for ending the Israeli occupation… In addition, they stressed our people’s right to resist in all possible ways, and the need to restore national unity, it being our path to liberation, freedom, return [of refugees] and independence.”
From WAFA, official PA news agency
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Fatah song: "I'm coming towards you, my enemy... with cleavers and knives"
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Facebook, Fatah - The Main Page, Nov. 22, 2014
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"I'm coming towards you, my enemy, from every house, neighborhood and street
Our war is a war of the streets.
I'm coming towards you, my enemy
We're going down from every house with cleavers and knives
With grenades we announced a popular war
I swear, you won't escape, my enemy, from the revolution and the people.
How will you escape the ring of fire while the crowds are blocking the way?
I'm coming towards you, my enemy, from every house, neighborhood and street"
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Note: This song was broadcast just days after knives and cleavers were used in a terror attack on worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue (Nov. 18, 2014). |
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