Preparing for peace: 'Palestinian Authority' Television promotes anti-Semitic stereotypes
This is how the 'Palestinian Authority' is preparing its 'people' for 'peace.'The program Personal Encounter featured an interview with Abd Al-Rahman Abu Al-Qassam, a Palestinian actor living in Syria. He described the PLO's discovery that "the pen and the stage" can be effective weapons, and says his enemies are the Zionists "who were taken by World Zionism, and were transformed from the old Jew into the Zionist Jew, full of fascism." [PA TV, Jan. 23, 2011, rebroadcast Feb. 27, 2011]Let's go to the videotape.
He conceded that early Palestinian theatrical portrayals of the Jews as bent-nosed, weak and cowardly were not accurate, but insisted that the other early stereotype connecting Jews with money was indeed true:"Of course, he [the Jew] is interested in accumulating money - the Jews throughout history, and in the religions, and the Quran tells us about the Jews and their worry over money."His Antisemitic statements were not challenged by the PA TV host. PA TV is controlled by the office of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Peace has been put off for another generation.
What could go wrong?
Labels: anti-Semitic stereotypes, Education, Palestinian Authority Television
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:37 AM
1 Comments:
As Barry Rubin wrote, the extremism in the PA, which is reinforced by hateful portrayal of Jews on the one hand and the more hateful extremism of Hamas on the other hand, has all but ensured there won't be peace in our lifetime. And Israeli policy or personalities will not have the slightest affect on Palestinian extremism. Its not as if Tzipi Livni could induce them to do what Benjamin Netanyahu couldn't make them do: negotiate a compromise peace with the Jewish State.
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