Our Impact

Two months after PMW reported that a square in a Palestinian city was to be named for terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, the PA cancelled event due to international pressure. (March 11, 2010)

Contrary to the PA's moderate statements to the West, its statements to its people in Arabic continue to delegitimize Israel's existence, deny Israel's right to exist, define the conflict with Israel as a religious war for Allah, promote hatred through demonization, slander and libel, and glorify terror and violence, according to PMW's Itamar Marcus, Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Barbara Crook.

Elliot Abrams, a senior advisor on Mideast policy at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush presidency, has written an OpEd in the New York Daily News about the duplicity of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, documents his argument with examples from recent Palestinian Media Watch bulletins.

The Palestinian Media Watch, which monitors newspapers, broadcasts and teaching in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, produced an extensive, detailed account of Israel hate emanating from areas controlled by Abbas... On June 21, Palestinian Authority TV rebroadcast a show claiming prominent Israeli cities such as Jaffa, Haifa and Tiberias are Palestinian. Another PA-TV program described Israeli soldiers as "wild animals" and said, "The Jews are our enemies." In late June, a PA-TV game show, "The Stars," solicited answers describing "Palestine" as including all of Israel. In a June 25 sermon, the Palestinian Authority-appointed Mufti, an interpreter of religious law, claimed the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is threatened by "the enemies of Allah," a term used for Jews.

It is increasingly clear Israel is judged by very different measures and with decreasing objectivity by every actor independent of Israel. Israel herself cannot be objective because she is entrenched in a terrible dilemma. A Hamas that cares not to fill the bellies of those starving in Gaza is also the same agency spending millions of dollars on televised indoctrination designed to manipulate young, plastic minds. See for yourself: go to Palestinian Media Watch. Children, in the prime ages of 5-7 are critically vulnerable to developing attachment figure-like relationships to God. At precisely these ages, they are bombarded with "Hamas Box Office" productions: aspirational propaganda extolling the virtues of suicide bombing as vengeance. Through his work at Palestinian Media Watch, Itamar Marcus has revealed just how institutionalized terror has become in the territories.

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