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PA television: Israel can be destroyed

Noah | 15.09.2005 12:35

The Palestinian Authority's state-run television station broadcast various programs this past week conveying the message that Israel's destruction is attainable.

In the days since the IDF began to withdraw completely from Gaza, PA TV broadcast several programs all emphasizing the goal of destroying the Jewish State. Palestinian Media Watch has issued a report on the broadcasts, including translations and video clips.

One of the broadcasts was a rerun of a so-called "historical educational" program first aired in 2003. It reiterates the PA teaching that Israel has no right to exist because all of Israel is "Palestine." It featured claims that Israel's continued existence is, by its very nature, a threat to the entire Arab world and displayed a map of all of Israel, marked Palestine under the PLO flag. The narrator, meanwhile, said that if Palestine is not "whole," meaning if Israel continues to exist, it is like a fatal knife thrust into the heart of the Arab nation, which threatens it in its entirety.

The following are quotes from the program, aired September 6, 2005 and July 1, 2003, which can be viewed by clicking here:

"The countries of our [Arab] homeland also have a heart...

"If the heart is whole and healthy, then all the other parts are whole and healthy. The heart of the Arab homeland is Palestine. The homeland remains whole and healthy if Palestine is whole and healthy...

"A stab in the heart is a deathblow.

"Throughout the generations of history there were those who directed the first stab at the heart of the Arab nation, to Palestine."

In a separate broadcast in PA television, an Arab academic expressed similar anticipation of Israel's eventual destruction, describing the joy of the Gaza withdrawal as incomplete until Israel experiences total destruction. "Nothing compares to this joy, the oppressed overcomes the oppressor," said Dr. Ismaeil Al-Fara, a lecturer at Al-Quds University, "but our happiness will be complete only with the return of all of our lands - the [West] Bank, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, Tzfat, and other stolen cities."

During another program aired on PA-controlled TV this past week, three children displayed their drawings of maps of "Palestine." All three children had erased Israel's existence completely in their drawings, while the maps were tied in barbed wire symbolizing "Palestine" as ensnared by Israel. "In this painting I wanted to emphasize the chains that the occupation puts on our people," said Mahmoud Eid, one of the children. "I painted this map of Palestine, with the Palestinian flag to say to our people that Palestine is still Palestine, and that the Palestinians deserve it - not the Jews."

"Destroying Israel continues to be a desired and attainable goal candidly presented in Palestinian Authority discourse and education," said Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook in their report. "The intensity of this hate message has increased on PA TV since Israel left Gush Katif in Gaza, as religious, political and educational leaders have encouraged Palestinians to perceive the events there as a first step towards Israel's destruction."

Noah

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They live in a perpetual fantasy land

15.09.2005 13:49

But I can hear their drooling from here at the imagined realisation of their fantasy of destroying Israel. Unfortunately for them it's not about to happen any time soon. They should get on with building up the state they have instead of destroying anyone else.

Oh sorry, I was talking about Palestinians wasn't I? They don't know about building. Only destroying.

Ex-Brit

No surprise really

15.09.2005 14:43

This is hopefully just rhetoric, but I fear it is being taught all too widely to new generations, ensuring that there will be no peace for many years to come.

Dressing up babies as suicide bombers and teaching children that to die and kill for Jihad is, quite simply, child abuse.

J&P

justice for the Palestinians and Humanity

15.09.2005 14:44

European and american jews, using tactics that would have made Hitler blush, invaded and stole the land from the Palestinians. European and American jews, using their well placed presence in the political systems of those countries (and the USSR), together with their control of Western Mass Media, applauded and supported the crime against humanity that was the creation of Israel.

So far, we have a sickening crime, as judged by any of the Earth's moral codes. The Palestinians (together with all decent humans on this Earth) want to see the crime fully punished, and justice done by restoring ALL LANDS back to their rightful owners.

If this crime was fully punished, and all the victims of Israel compensated at LOCKERBIE LEVELS for the acts of murder, torture, rape, terrorism, property destruction, and land-theft committed by the jews of Israel, and those that have supported them, including ALL companies soley or partially operating within its borders, this world would have a chance at peace and harmony.

Without justice, Israel and its supporters can consider the demographic disaster that faces them, as other minorities, especially the muslims within Europe and the US, rise to greater political power than the much smaller (by numbers) jewish minority, and plan appalling crimes to stem the tide.

PNAC, and the sickening wars against Afghanistan and Iraq are just the beginning of this planning. Israel, and its supporters, are planning genocidal wars against the muslim peoples of this Earth, motivated by the dream of eliminating muslim influence in Europe and the US. Blair uses this sick racist doctrine to his own ends. Remember, the vast majority of the lies used to maintain the genocidal sanctions against Iraq, and then to launch the devestating invasion, were a co-production of the UK and Israel!!!

Of course, Israel hardly hides its true nature! Did you know that the bread queues blown apart in Bosnia (during that conflict) were targeted by Israeli fragmentation bombs, specifically given for that purpose to the Serbs, as part of a racist deal that allowed the Israelis to remove jews from Sarajevo. Did you know that apartheid South Africa received nuclear weapons from Israel. Did you know that Israel runs the major LIVE DONOR organ removal and transplant facilities across the globe (ironic story- as part of the alliance with Turkey, jews from Israel travel to Turkey to receive the organs from LIVING Turks. How do we know this? Because the Israelis were complaining on a major US news program that they were NOT allowed to take the poor turks to Israel, to have their organs harvested there.)

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