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| Libels |
Since the Palestinian Authority was established it has systematically indoctrinated young and old to hate Israelis and Jews. Using media, education, and cultural structures that it controls, the PA has actively promoted religious hatred, demonization, conspiracy libels, etc. These are packaged to present Israelis and Jews as endangering Palestinians, Arabs, and all humanity. This ongoing campaign has so successfully instilled hatred that fighting, murder and even suicide terror against Israelis and Jews are seen by the majority of Palestinians as justified self-defense and as Allah’s will.
Throughout history bogus conspiracy accusations have been used to incite hatred, violence, and mass murder. The myriad conspiracy libels concerning Israel, Israelis and Jews are an integral part of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing hate promotion. PA libels claim that Israel conspires to infect Palestinians with AIDS, spread drug addiction, conspired and successfully murdered Arafat, and more. The PA’s goal has been to inculcate hatred to the degree that fighting and murdering Jews and Israelis will be glorified as heroic self-defense. |
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| Libel: Israel to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque |
Both Fatah and Hamas have generated and sustained religious hatred by disseminating the libel that Israel is attempting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. With close to 100% of Palestinians identifying themselves as believing Muslims, this claim is highly
inflammatory and is often combined with the call to “defend Al-Aqsa” from the Jews. The Al-Aqsa libel includes numerous fabrications: Israel was behind a mosque fire in 1969; Israel is currently digging under the mosque in order to topple it; Israel plans to replace it with a new Temple; Israel is preparing a missile attack on the mosque, and more. This libel has been actively promoted since 1998.
This Hamas TV cartoon video depicts demonic Jews digging under the mosque in an attempt to topple it.
The following are more examples of the Al-Aqsa libel: |
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Israel prepares destruction of Al-Aqsa to build alleged Temple
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Al-Ayyam, Sept. 23, 2009
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| "Sheikh Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi [PA Chief Justice of Religious Court, and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law:] ... in an Id al-Fitr sermon which he delivered at the Ibrahimi Mosque [in Hebron], called upon the Palestinian people, wherever they may be, to continue to head for the Al-Aqsa Mosque... to defend it and to ruin the Israeli plans of excavations beneath its foundations and establishing synagogues and settler outposts around it and preventing [Muslim] worshippers from reaching it, in order to seize control of it in preparation for its destruction and the establishment of the alleged Temple in its place." |
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Hamas MP and cleric: Redemption of Jerusalem through our spirit, blood, and money
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Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Aug. 28, 2009
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Ahmad Bahar, Acting Chairman of Parliament (Hamas):
"Today, as you know, Jerusalem is subject to the most serious attack and Zionist crime: Judaization, exile, change in Jerusalem's landmarks, destruction of the surrounding homes and the settlement surrounding Jerusalem like a bracelet around the wrist. Indeed, these people [the Jews] challenge the feelings of Muslims in the world and are destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque and want to build their supposed Temple upon the ruins of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
[Swears in the name of Allah:] "We shall not give up Jerusalem and we shall redeem it through our spirit, our blood, and our money."
[Friday prayer and sermon (first Friday of Ramadan) from Ismail Abu-Shanab Mosque in Khan Younis.] |
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Abbas libel: "Israel wants Jewish-only Jerusalem"
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Ma’an, Palestinian news agency, July 20, 2009
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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas:
"Abbas: Israel wants Jewish-only Jerusalem... Israel intends to eliminate Jerusalem's Islamic and Christian character, President Mahmoud Abbas insisted in a speech in the central West Bank on Sunday evening... 'Israeli excavations across the holy city endanger its historical buildings and holy places, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque,' Abbas said in Bethlehem." |
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PM Netanyahu destroys Al-Aqsa to build "mythical Temple"
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Al-Ayyam, June 10, 2009
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Sheikh Raed Salah warns of intensification of occupation plans against Al-Aqsa:
“Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Palestine, has warned in statements to the press of an escalation in the assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Israeli occupation. One of his warnings was that the present Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu, will carry out crazy, historical exploits in an attempt to implement a plan to build the mythical Temple at the expense of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Salah said… "Netanyahu tends towards crazy exploits; he demonstrated this when he opened the tunnel which he had dug over the course of years under the Al-Aqsa Mosque…”
Salah directed a letter to all Muslims, saying: "This is a letter to all Muslims… the issue of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the business of every Muslim and every Arab and every Palestinian. So long as Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa are under occupation, every Muslim and every Arab and every Palestinian is under occupation." |
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Mosque in midair after Israel removed foundations
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 9, 2009
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Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi, PA Chief Justice of Religious Court, and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law:
"The [Israel] excavations' purpose is to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. In fact, its foundations have been removed. Chemical acids were injected into the rocks to dissolve them. The soil and the pillars [were moved] so the mosque is hanging in midair. There is an Israeli plan to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to build the Temple."
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PA TV clip warns that Israel endangers Al-Aqsa
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Apr. 24, 2009
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One verse of a song of video clip broadcast several times on PA TV:
"Nation of Islam - awaken!
The Al-Aqsa mosque is threatened, a tunnel is being dug underneath, the so-called 'Temple' will be renewed.
I shall give my blood for you, Al-Aqsa"
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Note: The clip was broadcast numerous times March - April 2009. |
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Religious war to protect Al-Aqsa
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 21, 2009
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Ali Abu-Shaykha, Council for "Jerusalem, Capital of Arab Culture 2009":
"The purpose of the festival is for our children to depict the suffering of the Al-Aqsa mosque... In addition, this activity is an activity of Ribat and protection of the Al-Aqsa mosque, in the shadow of the campaign of Judaization and the invasion of the Al-Aqsa mosque that are being undertaken by Jewish associations and organizations."
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Israel falsified name of Western Wall
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 21, 2009
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Naseen Arabi, in the name of the Al-Aqsa Youth:
"The Al-Aqsa mosque has been placed at the center of the Israeli target, with all its plazas and domes and walls. The names and the sites have been falsified, such that the 'Al-Burak [western] Wall' has forcibly and falsely become the 'Wall of Tears' [Wailing Wall], and the Al-Aqsa plazas have become a pilgrimage site for tourists. Under it there is an empty space, and above it an empty space, and a voice is heard there - the voice of the Murabitin [Ribat people] who hold onto it day and night, to protect it." |
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Israel to destroy Al-Aqsa to build Temple
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 3, 2009
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Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi, PA Chief Justice of Religious Court, and Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law:
"The number of Israeli tunnels and their scope is growing daily under the Al-Aqsa mosque and in its environs and... the constant breakdowns of the roads and the walls emphasize that [Al-Aqsa] is subject to a plot that threatens its structure and its identity, with the aim of destroying it and establishing on its ruins the alleged Jewish Temple."
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Israeli nuclear test to bring down Al-Aqsa
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Feb. 27, 2009
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| "It is possible that there will be an artificial earthquake. Some time ago the Israelis had the idea of carrying out a nuclear test in the Dead Sea. That would be an artificial earthquake [that would bring about the collapse of the Al-Aqsa mosque]." |
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Israel plots to cause earthquake to destroy Al-Aqsa
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Feb. 3, 2009
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Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Palestinian Authority Mufti:
"There are [Israeli] plans to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque both directly and indirectly. For instance, use of explosives, aerial or long-distance bombing, digging at the foundations and the walls of the mosque. By means of the tunnels they are trying to cause a natural earthquake." |
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Israel planning missile attack on Al-Aqsa
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 1, 2008
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[Israel is] "stationing missile launchers in the Old City in occupied Jerusalem" for the purpose of "bombarding Al-Aqsa mosque with missiles attacks." |
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Bombing of Al-Aqsa planned by Jewish extremists
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 1, 2008
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"The people in Jerusalem took seriously the threats published in the Israeli media against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the worshipers. They mentioned the rocket launchers that were brought into the Old City of occupied Jerusalem by a group of Jewish extremists, and there is a possibility that Al-Aqsa will be shelled in an attempt to destroy it.” |
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Call to join forces against Zionist organizations
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 21, 2008
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"The National Action Council in the Rafah district in the Southern part of the Gaza Strip advocated to unite the efforts and the facilities and to direct them toward withstanding the Occupier's aggression and the plans of the Zionist terrorist organizations who aim to harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque and all the other holy sites in Palestine." |
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Greed threatens Al-Aqsa
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Al-Ayyam, Aug. 20, 2008
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"The Institute [The High Islamic Council in Jerusalem] appealed to our supporters, the defenders of Muslim land of Jerusalem-Beit al-Makkdes and its surrounding areas, to pay a visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to protect the mosque, which is threatened by greed. The institute, furthermore, called on the Arab and Muslim world to take on the responsibility for Jerusalem and its holy sites and to end Israeli occupation.” |
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Israeli army plans raid on Al-Aqsa
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 20, 2008
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[Israel is] "putting up a bridge that can hold hundreds of soldiers, police officers and vehicles, strategically placed to allow Israeli forces to raid the Al-Aqsa Mosque." |
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Israeli excavations proceed to destroy mosque
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 17, 2008
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Dr. Hassan Khater, Secretary General, Islamic-Christian Front for Defending Jerusalem:
“The occupation continues to pursue the excavations until it reaches its grand and dangerous goal of destroying the mosque.” |
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Israel plots to replace Al-Aqsa with Jewish temple
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 16, 2008
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"Palestinian Member of Parliament, Acting Head of Jerusalem Committee Ahmed Abu-Halbiyyah said that Israel has a strategic purpose for attacking Al-Aqsa, that is, 'to destroy the mosque and to erect a Jewish temple in its stead. This is supported by the escalated and continuous efforts to Judaize the city and to expel its residents.'" |
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World Islam needed to save Al-Aqsa
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Al-Ayyam, July 23, 2008
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"Al-Aqsa Institute warned against escalated Israeli sanctions against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It said that the Israeli moves demand Palestinian, Arab and Islamic responses and both popular and official efforts to save the Mosque and thwart any aggression it is subject to." |
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