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Like Hamas, the Palestinian Authority Also Wants to Eradicate Israel

Palestinian Media Watch Director Itamar Marcus speaks to CBN news outlet about recent Palestinian terror, saying that “We already warned about this terror wave back in February… the PA was looking toward this period and literally calling for violence”

CBN News article about Biden's bid to strengthen ties with Fatah, the PLO and Abbas, uses Palestinian Media Watch's report on Fatah Official who calls Israel a "Nazi terror state" and threatens a possibility of "armed confrontation"

Christian News Network CBN publishes article quoting Palestinian Media Watch director as he shares insights into Tik Tok videos and their incitement to violence, the delay of PA elections and theories behind the 2021 Fatah riots in Jerusalem

"'The Palestinian Authority sees killing Israelis, killing Jews as something heroic,' Itamar Marcus, founder and director of the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) told CBN News."

"The passing of the Taylor Force Act by Congress... is a very, very important message to the Palestinian Authority that when you reward terror, you can no longer receive American aid," Itamar Marcus, director of PMW told CBN News."

"Itamar Marcus, director of the Palestinian Media Watch, told CBN News Hamas wants people to be killed."

"'The Palestinian Authority claims to its people that they have a right to kill Israelis, literally, a right to kill Israelis,' PMW Director Itamar Marcus told CBN News."

"'[The] Palestinian Authority, through Fatah, is telling its people that what was done was a religiously positive act,' Marcus told CBN News."

"Israel recently returned the body of Bashar Masalha, 22, who was killed by Israel Police in March after stabbing to death American tourist Taylor Force... Reporting on Masalha's funeral, the Palestinian Authority television repeatedly called him a 'shahid' showing posters of the 'heroic martyr'..."

"The P.A.'s practice of naming streets and public squares after terrorists who've killed dozens of Israelis is well known... Equally odd and perhaps even more sinister is naming children's soccer teams after these 'heroes.' The Palestinian Media Watch monitors such P.A. practices... PMW recently..."

"Palestinian Media Watch founding director Itamar Marcus will receive the Abramowitz Israeli Prize for Media Criticism for outstanding coverage of the Palestinian Authority. For nearly two decades, Itamar Marcus and his staff have monitored the P.A. media, exposing what other news agencies often..."

"According to a 2014 congressional report, the U.S. government has committed more than $5 billion to the Palestinian Authority since the mid-1990s. Yet the average Palestinian is still living in abject poverty. In a video interview, obtained courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian..."

To understand the ideology embraced by Hamas and Fatah, a working knowledge of Arabic is very helpful. The two Palestinian factions formed a unity government in early June. The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) staff makes it their business to monitor both factions' Arabic-language websites, Facebook...

Marcus says there's widespread support for kidnapping Israelis among Palestinians. But the celebrating stopped once Israel launched the massive search operation. "And the Palestinian population went into shock, so that the cartoons that were appearing the first days in celebration all of a sudden..."

"Despite talk about peace talks, the Palestinian Authority, is continuing to air anti-Semitic content and is even using children to do so. Palestinian Media Watch has been monitoring P.A. television, newspapers, and magazines, and websites for years. Last week, the Palestinian Authority's official..."

"Two months ago (on April 30), [Palestinian Media Watch reported that senior Fatah official Jibril] Rajoub told viewers of official P.A. television, 'We as yet don't have a nuke [nuclear bomb], but I swear that if we had a nuke we'd have used it this very morning.' Last December, [PMW exposed that]..."

"It's another example of what Itamar Marcus calls mixed messages by the Palestinians. He documents this phenomenon in the book titled, Deception: Betraying the Peace Process. 'The Palestinian Authority gives two messages,' Marcus told CBN News. 'There's the English language message to the media, to..."

On his website, [PMW Director Itamar] Marcus documents the glorification of Mughrabi and other martyrs in the official Palestinian media. He says it reflects the kind of values that permeate Palestinian society. These values of glorifying terror and terrorists are often out of sight of much of the...

"This report from Palestinian Media Watch on the stunning curriculum through which Fatah, in the rhetoric of radical Islam, delegitimizes Israel and Jews."

"Palestinian Media Watch presented its findings in a report today and the group had a big name to announce it: presidential front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y."

"Extremist Islam reaches out, especially, to the young who are encouraged to act out, embracing 'shahada,' or martyrdom. A boy recorded by Palestinian Media Watch, said, 'How sweet is the shahada,' as he falls to the ground."