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Volume VIII, Issue # 236, December 6, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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MARCUS DISCUSSES HATE EDUCATION:
The Palestinian Authority's Double Game -- Preach Peace & Incite War
Itamar Marcus' Briefing to the Middle East Forum
By Joseph Puder
PA HATE EDUCATION: THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & ITS POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION OF PALESTINIANS -- THE
CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT THE PA SAYS IN ENGLISH TO THE WESTERN WORLD & WHAT IT SAYS IN ARABIC TO
PALESTINIANS, ESPECIALLY TO PALESTINIAN YOUTH -- PREACHING PEACE IN ENGLISH & INCITING WAR IN ARABIC --
TEACHING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TO HATE JEWS & WESTERNERS & TO GROW UP TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ISLAMIC
TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PA POLITICAL PROPAGANDA &
INDOCTRINATION: ANTI-WESTERNISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, DENIAL OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST, ISLAMIC JIHAD,
SUICIDE BOMBING, & MARTYRDOM
FULL STORY:
Itamar Marcus, Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), spoke at Philadelphia's Union League last
Tuesday, as a guest of the Middle East Forum/Bob Guzzardi Lecture Series.
Marcus, a resident of Efrat, Israel, is on a U.S. tour to acquaint Americans with the hate education produced and delivered
by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to its people -- with a particular focus on children. His powerful presentation was
accompanied by vivid images and words of Palestinian clerics, children, and political leaders.
"The Palestinian Authority," Marcus said, "preaches peace and incites war." Explaining this phenomenon, Marcus
asserted that his organization's main focus is to expose "the contradiction between what the PA says in English to the
Western world, and what it says in Arabic to its own Palestinian people."
"We wanted to know," Marcus continued, "what the PA is delivering to its people and especially to the children." PMW
analyzed music videos, crossword puzzles, children's pages and sport pages of newspapers, and other cultural and social
phenomena. The examples of hate education which PMW found were shocking, including a crossword puzzle with the
clue: "Name of a city in occupied Palestine that our Qassam missiles hit .... " The answer: Ashkelon -- or Askelan, in the
Arabic form. Then there are the soccer teams named after suicide bombers, a summer camp for girls named after the first
female suicide bomber Wafa Idrissi, a soccer field funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
and named after a Black September terrorist named Salah Khalaf.
Under the PA, children are taught to hate Jews. Programs stigmatize Jews with hateful labels that echo and support the
teachings of the religious authorities. A program with Tarabisho, a charming talking puppet, teaches preschoolers that,
"You cannot trust the Jews." A child in the studio then shouts:
"All of us join Tarabisho, and say to everyone: Watch out!
You can't trust the Jews, because they can strike us suddenly
at any moment." (PA TV, August 23, 2004)
Dealing with the impact of the Hamas victory in last January's elections, in which Hamas won 76 seats out of 132 in the
Palestinian Parliament, Marcus pointed out Hamas' uncompromising views on the conflict with Israel and quoted excerpts
from the Hamas charter, excerpts that included: "Palestine has been a Wakf land (i.e., an Islamic trust, J.P.)." Accordingly, all of
Palestine is part of the Islamic domain. The conflict, Marcus emphasized, is no longer a nationalist struggle, but a religious
war because, as the charter states, "God wants it that way," or put differently, it is not our (Hamas) choice, but God's
command.
The Hamas charter specifies, "Islam is in conflict with the Jews." Dr. Ahmed Yousuf Abu Halabiyah, member of the
Palestinian Sharia (Islamic religious law) Rulings Council and Rector of Advanced Studies at the Islamic University, stated
July 28, 2000, on PA TV that, "The hour of resurrection will not take place until you will fight the Jews and kill them."
Hamas operatives that send suicide bombers to Israel to kill innocent civilians, mainly women and children, "do not see
people with flesh and blood." Their only consideration is that "this is God's opinion."
The Hamas charter has 105 references to Allah, 33 quotes from the Qur'an, six from the Hadith, and seven
mentions of Muhammad. By way of contrast, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) charter has none of these
references. Recent poll findings presented by Marcus indicate that a vast majority of Palestinian youth wanted an Islamic
State. Yet, interestingly, polls also indicate that those educated under Israeli control (before Oslo, J.P.) wanted democracy,
while those educated since the PA took control sought an Islamic state. In short, the Palestinians have targeted their
education toward the de-legitimization of the Jewish state.
Marcus went on to discuss the role the Palestinian academic community played, in injecting something akin to
"replacement theology." He showed a video clip from PA TV of an academic discussion with three leading Arabic
archaeologists who negated the Jewish connection to Jerusalem (the Western Wall), any ancient connections to the
Land of Israel (asserting that any connections only began in the 16th century), and claimed that the Palestinians are
direct descendants of the Canaanites and Hebrews.
Anti-Semitism, the denial of the Jewish state's right to exist, and martyrdom are constant staples on PA TV. PA clergy,
academics, and public officials present unending messages of hate and intolerance. Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris, head of
the Association for Memorizing the Quran at the PA Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, in a sermon
on PA TV September 10, 2004, exclaimed:
"The hour of resurrection will not come until Muslims
fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims
will kill the Jews, rejoice!"
The same Sheikh Mudayris charged on PA TV, June 4, 2004:
"Every time Muhammad came back from his raids, he
would find treachery and betrayal by the Jews of Medina,
since treachery and betrayal are two character traits of
the Jews' nature ... that their descendants inherited from
their ancestors until today."
Every agency of the PA serves as a motivating force for the encouragement of suicide killing and martyrdom. Programs
on television, on radio, and in mosques exhort their listeners with messages such as "Oh hero, your enemies seek life,
and you seek death." Muhammad Dura, the young boy accidentally killed, most likely, by PA snipers in an exchange of
fire with the Israeli Defense Forces, is continually immortalized on TV. He has become the PA's poster-child for
Shahidism (martyrdom) as he is shown floating in heaven with the message: "I am waving to you not in parting but to
say follow me."
Marcus underscored today's reality in the PA as he quoted from Hitler's Mein Kampf: "If you want adults to be
killers, teach the youth hate."
"The Israeli Left," Marcus charged, "is in denial." They are like "gamblers that double their debt." Likewise, the Israeli
media was in denial about the level of PA hate education -- an issue that was integral to the Oslo Accords and which
should have been monitored from its inception. Only after the recent Intifada, Marcus said, was the Israeli media finally
willing to accept PMW materials. And, Marcus added, although the U.S. Congress tightened its rules for aiding the PA,
"serious loopholes still exist," especially in the absence of any moderate voices on PA TV."
Marcus' trip to the U.S. is two-fold -- to educate and to gain additional support so that PMW can expand its outreach
and distribution.
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
Islamism & Jihadism -- Radical Islam & Islamic Terrorism
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International Politics & World Disorder:
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Born and raised in Israel, Joseph Puder came to America to pursue his university studies, earning a Master of Arts
degree at Columbia University in International Relations and a Master's degree at Seton Hall University in
Judeo-Christian Studies. His sympathies clearly on the Right of the Western political spectrum, Puder has had a
radio show at WMCA, New York, New York, and has served as director of a number Jewish-American organizations,
including the American Jewish Congress of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the Interfaith Taskforce for America and
Israel (ITAI), and Americans for a Safe Israel. Puder's articles have appeared in The Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania), Front Page Magazine (www.frontpagemag.com), CronWatch (www.cronwatch.com),
and Orthodoxy Today (www.orthodoxytoday.org).
Itamar Marcus is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), established in 1996 to gain an understanding
of Palestinian society through the monitoring of Palestinian Arabic language media and schoolbooks. As the leading
organization monitoring and reporting on the media of the Palestinian Authority, PMW has documented in detail the
contradictions between the image the Palestinians present to the world in English and the messages they communicate to
their own people in Arabic. Marcus addressed the Middle East Forum on Tuesday, November 21, 2006. The foregoing
article by Joseph Puden is an account of Marcus' briefing, as reported in the Evening Bulletin.
Joseph Puder's article was originally published in the Evening Bulletin, December 4, 2004, and can be found on
the Internet website maintained by the Middle East Forum.
Republished with Permission of the Middle East Forum
Reprinted from the Middle East Forum News
mefnews@meforum.org (MEF NEWS)
December 6, 2006
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