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"According to Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli research institute studying Palestinian society, Palestinian textbooks, for example, 'make no attempt to educate for peace or coexistence with Israel. Instead Israel’s right to exist is adamantly denied and the Palestinian war against Israel is..."

"The children’s educational magazine Zayzafuna, sponsored by the Palestinian Authority, enlightens youngsters with Adolf Hitler’s flair by wrongly attributing 10 quotes to the diseased dictator. The magazine, the advisory board of which includes Palestinian Authority Deputy Minister of Education..."

"A leading Palestinian Authority said in an interview broadcast earlier this month that he supported violence against Israel, including a nuclear attack. 'I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning,' said Jibril Rajoub, the deputy secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and..."

"[PMW reported that] a Palestinian NGO, the Burj Luq-Luq Social Center Society organization, performed a puppet show for children in East Jerusalem to promote non-smoking. The educational message delivered by the puppets instructed children to replace cigarettes with machine guns."

"The Palestinians [...] have continued their ugly history of incitement against the Jewish state. Consider that PA TV, the PA's official television station, last month broadcast from the home of the planner of the infamous 2001 Sbarro Pizza suicide bombing… During the show, according to a..."

Most tellingly, flotilla passengers were seen on Al Jazeera last week [in video released by PMW] chanting, "Khyber, Khyber," a favorite chant of jihadists because it recalls a battle where Muhammad's army is said to have killed large numbers of Jews.

Mr. Obama would be well-advised to comb through the Web site of the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch, which has documented hundreds of examples of violent Islamic indoctrination from both Hamas and Fatah. Simply put, ordinary Palestinians are not ready to accept peaceful coexistence with a Jewish...

"Thanks to the dogged efforts of groups such as Palestinian Media Watch and Middle East Media Research Institute, we know Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza miss no opportunity in textbooks or television to poison the minds of parents and children alike."

"Mr. Abbas' comments alone would not have sparked this fracas. But just one day after news of the interview shocked key legislators and staffers, who learned of it last Thursday when it was translated into English by watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the administration sent over its..."

"The tidy Western view of Palestinian politics coming down to Islamists vs. secularists faces yet another reality check. Both Hamas and the supposedly secular Fatah are engaging in a new propaganda war, each portraying itself as the defender of the faith, while accusing the other party of defiling..."

Millions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid have been given in the past several years to two Palestinian universities-one of them controlled by Hamas-that have participated in the advocacy, support or glorification of terrorism.

"...Palestinian Media Watch has noted, that the PA municipality of Yaabid has recently named a school and its main street (newly paved by American taxpayer dollars) in honor of Saddam Hussein."

"As Miss Rice was praising Mr. Abbas in Jericho, the Israeli group Palestinian Media Watch issued a report showing how PA television...and the...newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida glorify suicide bombings."

"This pernicious propaganda campaign has been meticulously detailed by the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch, yet most foreign policy elites seem unaware of the changing face of Palestinian society."

“Palestinian Media Watch, a nonprofit that operates on a tight budget, has easily reported more on incitement and indoctrination by the Palestinian Authority, for example, than all Western media outlets combined."

"Palestinian Media Watch, a nonprofit that operates on a tight budget, has easily reported more on incitement and indoctrination by the Palestinian Authority, for example, than all Western media outlets combined."

"The presentation of terrorism as legitimate 'resistance,' together with the honoring of terrorists, both past and present, was a cornerstone of Palestinian Authority ideology and society during the Arafat era," [said PMW Director] Itamar Marcus… "It continues today under the administration of..."

"Natan Sharansky, Israel's Diaspora Affairs minister, marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Tuesday with a presentation entitled "Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven" compiled by Palestinian Media Watch."

"[PMW] last week released a study charging that weaknesses in current U.S. law have allowed USAID money to be channeled to suspect groups."

"The Washington Times wrote about the effect PMW's report 'Four Loopholes in US Anti-Terror Laws' had on US Senators. As a direct result of the PMW report, US law was changed to make the misuse of US funds to promote terrorism harder."

"Itamar Marcus, director of an outstanding Jerusalem-based organization called Palestinian Media Watch, will present evidence of the relentless effort Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority makes to brainwash its people – and most especially their children – to hate not just Israel but also its..."

"Itamar Marcus, head of the Israeli-based Palestinian Media Watch, called the statement 'propaganda for international public consumption.'"

"'Here you have a situation where people happen upon kids and they feel like they're doing Allah's work by smashing their heads,' said Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, an Israeli organization that monitors Palestinian media."