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Official PA TV narrator: “Because songs are a basic part of our ‎culture and they express our national identity… and because these ‎songs are present in our consciousness and still fascinate us with ‎values and meanings… It’s here: ‘The Tune of the Homeland.’”‎

Lyrics: “O the bullets of the revolution, call out!”

Songs about rifles, violence, ‎murderers, and Martyrdom - are PA’s “cultural and… national identity"

"There is no force in the world that can remove the weapon from my hand My weapon has emerged. My weapon has emerged."

"There is no force in the world that can remove the weapon from my hand My weapon has emerged. My weapon has emerged."

PA child abuse revisited

"The blood of the Martyrs flows in my veins"

Nephew Fares: “Uncle Ibrahim, I want you to teach me how to use the rifle” Uncle Ibrahim: “Why do you want to learn to shoot?” Fares: “So that if the Jews come to the village, I’ll shoot them...”

The Voice of Palestine, the official PA radio station, children's program The Little Ones' Heaven, a song honoring the hunger striking prisoners is sung by a child who calls in to the program. Child: "Our beautiful land is a prisoner in a cage surrounded by wolves, My shaded garden was destroyed by..."

Official PA TV program I Call You, hosting the niece of prisoner Saleh Abu Shusha - who is serving a 14 year sentence (Palestinian Media Watch has been unable to verify the nature of his crimes) - who sings him a song Niece of prisoner Saleh Abu Shusha: “Place sword against sword, The owner will...”

Two children recite a poem on official PA TV program The Best Home: "We want to speak openly, with no hesitation and with no fear World, hear and see, my rock has turned into an AK-47 [assault rifle], Your words are true, Yasser Arafat O mountain, the wind will not move you." PA TV host: "Bravo!..."

Official PA TV News reported on a solidarity rally held in Nablus for the jailed terrorist Bilal Al-Burini of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization, who, on the day he was to be released from jail following a 14-year sentence, was rearrested on administrative...

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi: “The Palestinian by nature and ‎education feels a sense of belonging to the land and the homeland. Listen, my son is ‎two years and ten months old. Yesterday, he sang to his mother: ‘Escort the Martyr to ‎his wedding.’ He doesn’t know the meaning of...”

Image taken from Official PA TV program “Photography”: An episode of the program showed chosen photos of Mahmoud Abu Hamdeh, a photographer from Gaza. Among the photos was one of two small children sitting on the grass. The girl is holding a bouquet of flowers and a Palestinian flag is draped...

Official PA TV program Link in a Chain hosted the son of prisoner Rami Al-Ayleh Son of prisoner Rami Al-Ayleh: “Dad gave me a rifle and a machine gun as a gift. When I’ll be very [big], I’ll join the liberation army. The liberation army taught us how to defend our homeland. Our homeland is dear,...”

PA TV program "Good Morning Jerusalem" about the state of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Two young girls dedicate a song to their aunt, female prisoner Sanaa Shehadeh: PA TV presenter: "The Palestinian prisoner, Sanaa Shehadeh, has been [imprisoned] 9 years." Prisoner's niece 1: "I..."

PA TV children's program on the importance of trees: Girl: "If a boy comes in front of your house, where a tree is planted, and cuts it down, what would you do?" Tarabisho, talking chick puppet: "I have two trees in front of my house. What I'll do to him? I'll fight him an make a big riot, I'll..."

PA TV violent music video, broadcast repeatedly 2000-2003: "Don't be afraid... The stone in their hand has turned into AK-47 [assault rifle]"