'Palestinian Authority' television calls the Har Nof terrorists 'victims'
Our 'peace partner's official government television station is calling the two terrorists who murdered five people in Har Nof last Tuesday 'victims.'
Let's go to the videotape.
But some people think this isn't incitement. More (including details of the terror attacks involved that passed too quickly to read on the screen) here.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the bloodbath, with a Hamas spokesperson saying it was a "response" to the suicide of an Arab bus driver Monday, which Islamists have nevertheless been blaming on "Israeli settlers" in order to stoke further tension.
An official statement from Abbas’ office said ”The presidency condemns
the attack on Jewish worshipers in their place of prayer and condemns
the killing of civilians.” However as is their practice of saying one
thing to the world community and something else to their own people, the
Palestinian Authority's official TV channel showed images of Bethlehem
residents handing out candy in the streets, in support of the attack.
Following the Palestinian Authority's condemnation of this morning's terror attack in which 4 Jews were murdered while praying in a Jerusalem synagogue, Abbas' Fatah showed on its official Facebook page that Abbas' condemnation is not sincere.
Fatah explained Abbas' condemnation of the murders by using Palestinian Media Watch documentation showing Arafat's bodyguard explaining that Arafat would lie and condemn terror attacks due to international pressure to do so, but that "it wasn't true."
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Fatah posted this text with the video: "For those who argue with Fatah: Why the PA condemns self-sacrifice operations!" [Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page", Nov. 18, 2014]
This shows that Fatah needed to justify the fact that Abbas, heading both the PA and Fatah, issued a condemnation in the name of the PA. Arguing that the reason Abbas issued the condemnation is the same reason Arafat condemned the killing of civilians - namely international pressure - Fatah states that Abbas' condemnation is not sincere.
Shortly after this post appeared on the Fatah Facebook page the content became unavailable.
I'm sure the US State Department and the European Union will have a talk with 'Abbas' and tell him not to make silly statements like that again....
The 'Palestinian Authority' fears the Islamists too
Here's a 'Palestinian Authority' television interview with Israeli Islamist leader Kamal Khatib. When Khatib says that Jerusalem will be the capital of the Caliphate, 'Palestinian Authority' television cuts him off!
PA Rep to 'human rights council': 'Israel follows international law, we don't'
A stunning admission on 'Palestinian Authority' official television by Ibrahim Khreisheh, the 'Palestinian Authority's representative to the United Nations 'human rights council.' Khreisheh admits that Israel follows international law in its strikes on Gaza, while the 'Palestinians' don't follow international law.
Grab the popcorn: 'Palestinians' accuse Livni of threatening Abu Bluff
Tzipi Livni can't make concessions to the 'Palestinians' fast enough but that's not enough to avoid an accusation that she threatened the life of 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen.
PA TV host: "[Tzipi] Livni, the Israeli Minister of Justice, the head of
the Israeli negotiating team, threatened President Abbas and said that
if he continues to refuse to recognize the Jewish state and adheres to
his positions, which are unacceptable to Israel and the world, he will
pay the price. What price is Livni talking about?"
Muhammad Abu Saada, lecturer in International Law, University of Palestine, Gaza:
"Livni
is a Mossad officer... These threats must be taken seriously... Based
on Livni's mentality and on an analysis of Livni's personality, could
she do something stupid? And could her threat be carried out? The answer
is yes. Why? First of all, Livni comes from a family that is extremely
far-right... I want to remind so-called Minister Livni: Livni, the
French government issued a warrant for your arrest in 1983. Why? Because
at the time, Livni was a Mossad officer working as a maid in the home
of an Iraqi nuclear scientist and she killed him with poison...
Livni,
in legal terminology, is a criminal. She has a criminal record. She is a
murderer. She committed murder in 1983 and Britain issued a warrant for
her arrest in 2009. Livni's personality has a criminal mentality, of
direct murder. Therefore, we must understand this [threat] on the
personal level. Regarding the price, we're talking about two things.
Either the price is President Mahmoud Abbas' life -- this is one price."
PA TV host: "Like what happened to the late Yasser Arafat."
Muhammad
Abu Saada: "Of course. The second price is the possibility of
destroying the foundations and rule of Palestine headed by the
President, in the political sense."
Let's go to the videotape.
By the way, that interview came from official 'Palestinian' television. Peace anyone?
How the 'Palestinians' promote peace once John Kerry leaves town
The 'Palestinians' are doing all they can to bring about peace. Here's how 'Palestinian Authority' Television is helping.
Let's go to the videotape.
As it happens, US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Ramallah three days before this was shown on 'Palestinian' television. Do you think the 'Palestinians' were trying to send him a message?
And what do you think the odds are that those kids and the kids who watch them will ever be able to live in peace with Jews?
Norway and UK foreign ministries lied: Wife of imprisoned 'Palestinian' terrorist confirms 'Palestinian Authority' pays salaries
In an interview with 'Palestinian Authority' Television, the wife of a 'Palestinian' terrorist has confirmed that the 'Palestinian Authority' pays salaries to terrorists imprisoned in Israel, and that the foreign ministries of Norway and the United Kingdom lied to their respective governments, when they claimed that the money was going to support the terrorists' families on the outside.
Yet for nearly two years, the British and Norwegian Foreign Ministries
have told their MPs that PMW's documentation was incorrect. They argued
that the PA does not pay salaries to security prisoners, which would be a
reward for terror, but gives "social aid to the families" like other PA
social welfare programs. This, they have now explained, was what the PA
assured them.
In spite of all PMW's documentation, Norway and the UK have justified
their continued funding of the PA, saying that none of their support
money was going into a funding program specifically for terrorists, but
was going to the wives and children. (See quotes below.)
PMW is now releasing a recent interview with a wife of a Palestinian
prisoner that verifies the accuracy of PMW's reports. In the interview,
the prisoner's wife and mother of five children complains repeatedly
that the prisoner, her husband, has not given her and their children control of his salary, but instead gave it to his brother.
Let's go to the videotape.
If that's not rewarding terrorism, I don't know what is.
Investigative reporter Richard Behar writes about how his family in Israel weathered Operation Pillar of Defense. One cousin was on the jeep that was hit in the attack. Another lives near an apartment building in Rishon LeTzion that was hit by rockets. And a third was near the bomb attack on a Tel Aviv bus the day before the operation ended. In the process, Behar does a good job of explaining why there's no peace in this region.
The four soldiers who were inside that jeep included a 21-year-old
distant relative of mine (not that Jews can ever be truly distant, given
our history.) To say they’re all lucky to be alive is – well, hell, – no words will make the rest of this sentence right. Instead, have a look at the video
that Hamas’s operational arm – the Popular Resistance Committees — made
of the occasion, before they claimed responsibility for it. They set
the video to jihadi music, amid their tiresome cries of “Alahu Akbar”
[God is Great].
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The PA is considered more “moderate” than Hamas, but as I’ll be
demonstrating here, that’s open to debate if you consider what they are
actually showing on official PA media, and teaching in PA-controlled
schools, summer camps and other institutions. In short, they are
indoctrinating the next generation for war with Israel, not for a
peaceful statehood alongside it. And it’s hard to imagine how that could
change for the better after a merger with the maniacs in Gaza.
The missile that nailed my cousin and his fellow soldiers was
identified in media reports as a Russian-designed or reverse-engineered
“Kornet,” which can penetrate up to 1.2 meters (3.9 feet) of the tank’s
steel skin. My information is that it was not a Kornet — but the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) declines to say what type it was, in part because
they are still investigating the incident.
Still, when used for their intended purpose – in other words, when fired at tanks, not jeeps
– all of these laser-guided missiles employ two stages. First, they
lodge themselves deep into the wall of a tank. In the second stage, they
are supposed to explode, producing a jet of heat that burns through the
armor. The molten armor becomes roastingly-hot fragments that
annihilate the crew and detonate the tank’s ammunition.
But in this case, the missile blew right through the jeep without
exploding inside of it. That’s probably why my cousin (he was the jeep’s
commander) and his buddies are still breathing. But not without serious
injuries, in part because the missile went through the jeep’s
windshield and – before continuing its journey — struck a metal section
of the jeep. That caused them all to be lacerated with glass, and lots
of flying chunks of that metal.
Thanks to family members, I’m able to provide some exclusive details.
My cousin escaped with the lightest injuries – which in this case meant
no fewer than 35 shards of metal inside his right arm and leg, plus a
blown-out eardrum. Worst hit was the driver, with serious head injuries,
blindness in one eye, and still-ongoing medical operations to try and
save the other eye. (As my cousin was lifting the driver from the jeep,
he saw that part of his brain was exposed.) The jeep’s medic suffered
metal pieces in both eyes, but he is expected to be okay. The fourth
soldier was an Arabian Bedouin ‘tracker’ who underwent one operation to
remove shrapnel from his body. (The Bedouins are known as “the IDF’s
sharpest eyes” because of their historic ability to spot and trace even
the lightest footsteps in desert terrain.)
It was this incident – the attack on a patrol jeep making a routine
drive approximately 150 meters (500 feet) from the border with Gaza —
that was a game-changer for Israel. For one thing, Israeli civilians are living barely a half-mile from
the border. Moreover, in such attacks, IDF soldiers could more easily be
kidnapped, dragged through border tunnels, and made to suffer the same
fate as Gilad Shalit (also spelled as Schalit)– the soldier held for
five years in wretched conditions by Hamas. “The attack on the jeep was
the immediate catalyst for the escalation of this month’s conflict,”
says an IDF spokesman, Captain Eytan Buchman.
“That kind of thing — an attack on Israeli soldiers inside Israeli territory — you can’t let go unanswered,” he adds.
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Tzipi arrived with her parents in the early 1930s from Poland, just
as the persecution of Jews there was escalating. She worked as a clerk
in the Israeli Air Force during the war of independence. “I still
remember the period of 1936-39 [the Arab riots], and it was the same
situation – and we didn’t even have an army or a country. They just
don’t want us here, what can I tell you? And they don’t mind if their
own people are killed. I just don’t understand their mothers, because
when their own children are killed they are calling them shaheed [martyrs]. I am unable to understand their mothers.”
Her views are echoed by Itamar, a member of my kibbutz ‘family’ that I
pretty much adopted three decades ago when I picked bananas on one of
Israel’s collective settlements on the country’s northern coastline.
“People are not bothering themselves anymore with the question of
whether we should stay there [the West Bank] or not stay there, whether
we should continue to build [settlements] or should we not,” says
Itamar, a manager for an Israeli multinational that is largely owned by a
U.S. conglomerate.
“It’s not going to change anything,” he continues, “since the last
ten years have shown that there’s no one to talk with on the other side.
And if there is something to talk about, it’s not going to last. If
there’s an agreement [with Abbas], in 2-3 years he’s gone, and the area
will probably be left to those fanatical extremists who in the first
place would not agree to any negotiations with Israel. There is no
partner on the other side. It’s gonna be Hamastan.”
And this from an Israeli who has always been – and remains —
in the political center. “I’m not a left-wing fellow, I’m not a
right-wing fellow. I’m somewhere in the middle.”
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For years, official Palestinian media, schools and cultural
institutions have been breeding their younger generations for war – not
peace. It simply can’t be denied at this point. And I don’t mean Hamas
and Islamic Jihad in Gaza. While many of my colleagues still label these
groups as militants (rather than death-worshipping terror cults), most
Gazan youth have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that seeking peace
with them would be like asking Americans to negotiate with al-Qaeda.
Hopefully the recent blitzkrieg drove that fact home for most Western
journalists, or at least more of them than before.
No, forget Hamas. I’m talking about the Palestinian
Authority, in the West Bank, run by the unelected Abbas — who presides
over and controls the PA’s official newspaper, TV, schools, and cultural
institutions. Let’s see how truly moderate they are.
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Salah Khalaf, who planned the murder of two American diplomats — on
top of the killing of 11 Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics — has a
sports stadium in his name; it was even built with U.S. funding. Dalal
Mughrabi has schools, sporting events, camps and a square named in her
honor. She’s become an iconic figure throughout the West Bank. Her
achievement: directing the hijacking of a bus and killing 38 passengers
(13 of whom were children), in what was the most lethal terrorist attack
in Israel’s history. A young American nature photographer was shot to
death in that attack. Her crime: Responding to a gunman’s question about
what town they were in, as the terrorists landed their rubber boats on a
beach.
During the 2010 peace talks and ever since, the PA has maintained the practice of defining all of
Israel as “Palestine” on maps and websites. Even the Palestinian
Writers’ Union logo includes a map of “Palestine” erasing Israel – and
with a machine gun through the country. In geography textbooks, the name
“Israel” does not appear in maps of the Middle East. This means that
Palestinian kids aren’t even being taught the reality of what exists
today.
Just two months ago, Abbas and six other senior PA leaders were in
the audience at a packed concert when a singer from his political party
praised him by name — within a song that presented all of of Israel as
“Palestine.” These events happen all the time.
What’s going on here? Basically, there are two Abbas’s – the one who
speaks in English to the international community, spouting the
politically correct things the West wants to hear. And then there is the
duplicitous Abbas – the one who works in the shadows, speaking in
Arabic, and making his people believe that Jews and Israelis are
inherently evil and that there is no room in the region for the state of
Israel. His deputies are doing it, too. As Richard Chesnoff, a former
executive editor of Newsweek, and a prize-winning veteran reporter with
four decades of global news experience, wrote in an article last January: “If there were an Oscar given for doublespeak, the Palestinian political leadership would win it, hands down.”
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The bottom line: Israel has always been willing to give land for peace –
as it did with the Sinai and with Gaza. But the result has not led to
the end of the hatred. Just how much more should they give, when all
indications are that the hostility – now being pummeled into the younger
generations — will continue? Put another way, if children on a daily
basis are being indoctrinated to see Jews and Israelis as innately
demoniac, then how can they ever grow up to accept a Jewish state and
not work to destroy it.
Kids tell 'Palestinian Authority' television: The Jews killed Arafat
'Palestinian Authority' television has rebroadcast once again an annual commemoration of Yasser Arafat's death in which children claim that the Jews killed Arafat.
Girl tells 'Palestinian Authority' Television Jerusalem to be 'redeemed' with children's blood
A young 'Palestinian' girl has told viewers on official 'Palestinian Authority' Television that Jerusalem will be 'redeemed' with children's blood.
On a children's program, Palestinian Authority TV broadcast a girl
singing a song anticipating the defeat of Israel in battle. The opening
of the song demonizes Israel as an oppressor that took the young girl
prisoner, thereby preventing her from attending "school" and playing
"games": Israel "took my book away... tied me up, blindfolded me and
threw me in a tank."
The end of the song encourages youth to take part in "free[ing] every
inch from the foreigner's clutch," and promotes sacrificing themselves
"by the blood of the youth," so that "Jerusalem will return to us."
[PA TV (Fatah, Sept. 8, 2012]
Let's go to the videotape.
You teach your children nursery rhymes, and the 'Palestinians' teach their children to be 'martyrs.'
For those who still wonder why there is no peace between Israel and these savages, there are more examples here.
'Palestinian Authority' television shows Israel as a monster that stabs and eats people
'Palestinian Authority' television is preparing the 'Palestinian people' for peace by showing their children 'artwork' that show Israel as a monster that stabs and eat people.
A Palestinian Authority TV host asked an artist to discuss one of his paintings "dealing with the Palestinian nation's problems such as the Gaza massacres."
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The Palestinian artist said this painting "is about the Gaza massacre... and the Zionist enemy's cruelty and savagery."
The painting shows an ogre impaling children on his bayonet and eating them one by one. On the lower right, dead children are piled up to be eaten and two baby ogres are also shown eating children. The three monsters wear skull caps with a Star of David. The scene is taking place in the ogre's underground lair under cactuses that are growing on the surface. A Star of David is also painted on the lock of the lair.
But the window of peace is open, says Barack Hussein Obama....
'Palestinian Authority' television: Suicide bombers more honored than all of us
Recently, in yet another obscene 'gesture' to the 'Palestinian Authority,' Israel turned over the bodies of 90 dead terrorists. Official 'Palestinian Authority' television particularly celebrated two of the dead terrorists, who had died as suicide bombers in Jerusalem in 2004: Ali Ja'ara who murdered 11 and Muhammad Za'ul who murdered 8.
'Palestinian' television lauds 'brave' suicide attack planner sentenced to 54 life terms
In the past two months, official 'Palestinian Authority' television has played ten times a clip lauding suicide attack planner Ibrahim Hamid. Hamid, who is responsible for the death of more than 45 Israelis, including the two pictured at top left - David and Nava Applebaum HY"D, who were murdered at Cafe Hillel the night before Nava's wedding - was sentenced to 54 life terms on Sunday.
Recently Palestinian Media Watch reported that PA TV broadcast a video dedicated to Hamed and other terrorists serving multiple life sentences for murders, calling them "brave prisoners" and flashing their pictures on the screen. The video was broadcast over 10 times in the months in the past two months.
Hamed, who planned and organized numerous suicide bombings including the ones at Hebrew University (9 killed), Cafe Moment (12 killed), and Cafe Hillel (7 killed), was among the terrorists specifically mentioned by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, when he publicly wished for their release. Speaking at a PA ceremony celebrating the release of Palestinian terrorist prisoners by Israel in exchange for Hamas-captured soldier Gilad Shalit, Abbas said:
"We now see some of the most prominent among them [released] and the rest, Allah willing, will be [freed] soon, very soon. Allah willing, soon we will see here brother Marwan Barghouti, brother Ahmad Sa'adat, Ibrahim Hamed, and Abbas Al-Sayid."
Abbas Al-Sayid who was also specified by Abbas is serving 35 life sentences for planning two suicide bombings including the Passover Seder bombing that murdered 30.
The PLO's Ambassador to India, Adli Sadeq, has referred to Hamed as one of the "fighters who carried out quality operations."
Let's go to the videotape.
Think about that the next time someone tells you that the 'Palestinian Authority' is a peace partner.
'Peace partner' television wishes for the end of Israel
A 'Palestinian Authority' television host on official 'Palestinian Authority' television prayed for the realization of a purported CIA report that said that Israel will cease to exist by 2022. Just imagine what they would say if they were not seeking 'peace' with us.
'Palestinian Authority' television calls dead kidnappers 'martyrs'
You will recall that I reported on Sunday that an Israeli truck driver had shot and killed two 'Palestinians' who attempted to kidnap him and steal his truck. As you might guess, the 'Palestinian Authority' is characterizing the two dead kidnappers as 'martyrs' (link in Arabic, English translation from here).
A funeral of thousands of people in the town of Yatta south of Hebron, took place on Sunday afternoon with the bodies of martyrs Naim Mohammed Najjar (32 years) and Anwar Khalil Abed Rabbo (35 years).
Representatives of factions and national forces participated in the funeral procession.
...Speakers denounced the crimes of the settlers under the continued support and protection of the Israeli occupation army, demanding the international community to intervene to end the occupation and an end to crimes against our people and land and property. They stressed the importance of national unity and closing ranks and activating the popular resistance against the occupation and the settlers to leave our land, and establish an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.
The martyrs were killed this morning after settlers shot them in the Alsemia near the town of Samu-west of Hebron.
'Palestinian' television: 'Let every person know that I do not compromise'
On May 14, the day before Israel's Independence Day, PA TV broadcast the following political statements as printed text on the TV screen:
"Let all of humanity know that I'm not an immigrant" "Let all religions know that I do not make truces" "Let every person know that I do not compromise" "Let all of humanity know that we are proud of [our] patriotism" "Let all the nations know that we are proud of [our] aspirations" "Let Palestine know that I am madly in love with it" "Let Jaffa (Israeli city) know that I will return to it" [PA TV (Fatah), May 14, 2012]
The threat, many details of which were never made public, appeared to recede after Azerbaijani authorities rounded up nearly two dozen people in waves of arrests early this year. Precisely who ordered the hits, and why, was never conclusively determined. But U.S. and Middle Eastern officials now see the attempts as part of a broader campaign by Iran-linked operatives to kill foreign diplomats in at least seven countries over a span of 13 months. The targets have included two Saudi officials, a half-dozen Israelis and — in the Azerbaijan case — several Americans, the officials say. In recent weeks, investigators working in four countries have amassed new evidence tying the disparate assassination attempts to one another and linking all of them to either Iran-backed Hezbollah militants or operatives based inside Iran, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern security officials. An official report last month summarizing the evidence cited phone records, forensic tests, coordinated travel arrangements and even cellphone SIM cards purchased in Iran and used by several of the would-be assailants, said two officials who have seen the six-page document. Strikingly, the officials noted, the attempts halted abruptly in early spring, at a time when Iran began to shift its tone after weeks of bellicose anti-Western rhetoric and threats to shut down vital shipping lanes. In March, Iranian officials formally accepted a proposal to resume negotiations with six world powers on proposals to curb its nuclear program.
That last paragraph is bewildering. The arrests mentioned occurred in the middle of March. Couldn't that have accounted for the attacks halting "abruptly," rather than, as the "officials" suggest, that Iran was softening its stance? How does the United States react to this apparent "clenched fist?"
The Obama administration has declined to directly link the Azerbaijan plot to the Iranian government, avoiding what could be an explosive accusation at a time when the two governments are engaged in negotiations on limiting Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. officials say they are less convinced that top Iranian and Hezbollah leaders worked together to coordinate the attempted hits, noting that both groups have a long history of committing such acts on their own, and for their own purposes. “The idea that Iran and Hezbollah might have worked together on these attempts is possible,” said a senior U.S. official who has studied the evidence, “but this conclusion is not definitive.”
Flame contains 20 megabytes of code. Though malware’s size is not per se a measure of sophistication, Schouwenberg said, in this case “its size shows that it’s taken a lot of time and work to create.” So far Kaspersky, which has clients around the world, has identified Flame infections primarily in Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries but none in Europe or North America. The infections have hit computers belonging to individuals, educational institutions and state- related organizations, Kaspersky said. The virus’s creators seemed interested in general intelligence — e-mails, documents, even instant messages, Kaspersky said. But the lab has no evidence so far to document any data stolen.
Kaspersky is a Russian anti-virus firm. I guess (but can't be certain) that they're in the employ of Iran.
Symantec, which has also begun analyzing Flame (which it calls “Flamer”), says the majority of its customers who have been hit by the malware reside in the Palestinian West Bank, Hungary, Iran, and Lebanon. They have received additional reports from customer machines in Austria, Russia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates. Researchers say the compilation date of modules in Flame appear to have been manipulated by the attackers, perhaps in an attempt to thwart researchers from determining when they were created. “Whoever created it was careful to mess up the compilation dates in every single module,” Gostev said. “The modules appear to have been compiled in 1994 and 1995, but they’re using code that was only released in 2010.”
The Jenin events have alarmed the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, where officials are divided on the strategy of building state institutions as a step toward nationhood, and even defenders of the idea say its credibility has a limited shelf life. “The calm and stability that you achieve in the occupied territories cannot be maintained for a long period of time without any sort of political progress toward a final agreement,” said Qais Abdul-Karim, a Palestinian lawmaker who said he never supported the state-building project. Today, he said, “there is a lot of unrest in the security services.”
What's frustrating about this way of portraying the security issue is that it ignores other factors.
Mr. Haniya began talks with officials from the Central Elections Commission, a group appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority to begin registering voters in preparation for an election. Hamas — among its many disputes with Mr. Abbas’s Fatah party and the Palestinian Authority — had banned the elections commission from operating in Gaza. That move had delayed a deal that Qatar brokered in February between Hamas and Fatah that envisioned the appointment of a transitional government that would rule both the West Bank and Gaza in preparation for elections. Hanna Nasser, the head of the elections commission, told reporters after the meeting that Mr. Haniya had “blessed” its role in Gaza. “Now, the C.E.C. works in complete confidence,” he said.
This will likely amount to nothing as neither Hams nor Fatah seems willing to subordinate its will to the other. But Hamas should be beyond the pale if Fatah is interested in peace. Time after time, though, Abbas seeks agreements with Hamas without insisting that it change its official position regarding Israel.
Contrary to the Palestinian Authority's claim that it recognizes Israel's right to exist, PA TV and official cultural events continue to reinforce the message of non-recognition of Israel by depicting all of Israel as "Palestine." This month marked the 27th broadcast by official PA TV of a song that presents all of Israel's land as Palestinian land. The song was originally performed at a Fatah event last year in the presence of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and many other senior PA officials. The Palestinian singer declares that "my land" and "our coast" span from Rosh Hanikra in Israel's north to Rafah in the Gaza Strip in the south, and from Haifa on Israel's western coast to Beit Shean on Israel's eastern border.
Nation building isn't the only obligation of the Palestinian Authority. Rejecting terror and promoting coexistence are parallel obligations that the PA still seems reticent to fulfill.
4) Not Jordan
Last week I wrote about Sen. Mark Kirk's efforts to have Palestinian refugees accounted for. I wrote that Jordan was against the effort.
An intensive background set of discussions took place between Leahy, the State Department, Kirk's office, and the Jordanian Embassy, two congressional aides told The Cable. Initially the Jordanians were inclined to oppose the amendment and agreed with Leahy, but after being given the final text, decided not to weigh in on what is essentially an internal U.S. government reporting requirement. "The government of Jordan has informed congressional staff they do not oppose the Kirk amendment," one senior GOP Senate aide said. "That is definitely the correct decision for a foreign government, as this is simply a request for info on behalf of the U.S. taxpayer to the U.S. state department."
'Palestinian Authority' television calls for armed attacks against Israel
The official 'Palestinian Authority' television station recently broadcast a music video calling for armed attacks against Israel.
Palestinian Authority TV recently broadcast a music video glorifying and calling for armed attacks against Israel. The official PA TV broadcast, which resembles videos that were common on PA TV during the 5-year PA terror campaign (the Intifada, 2000-2005), shows masked fighters shooting automatic weapons, launching rockets and RPGs, and blowing up an Israeli tank. While showing numerous armed attacks, the song's refrain is: "The revolution calls to its men."
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