The Hate Industry: the Palestinian media

Appendix I

Increased anti-Israel incitement in Palestinian-controlled television
General description

1. Controlled Palestinian television is under the supervision of Abu Mazen's
presidential office and considered his mouthpiece. After a long period when
Palestinian TV reduced the volume of its anti-Israeli incitement, during the
months before and after the Annapolis meeting it was again
integrated into broadcasts. The trend began in the second half of October
2007 and continues to this day (late January 2008).

2. Anti-Israeli incitement appears in programming throughout the day. One of
the most effective ways of brainwashing viewers with anti-Israeli propaganda
is by the repeated broadcasting of video clips accompanied by songs
depicting
the cruelty of the Israeli "occupation," the suffering of the Palestinian
people,
funerals of casualties of the confrontation, the destruction of buildings,
the
Palestinian opposition to the "occupation" and its adherence to "Palestinian
rights." The broadcasts stress the "right to return" and show maps of
"Palestine" which include all of the State of Israel with no mention of it.
(Examples follow).

3. The songs promote the unequivocal message of the "liberation of
Palestine" from Israel and the Jews (mentioning Haifa, Acre, Beersheba,
Tiberias and Ramla, all incorporated cities within the State of Israel, and
to
which the refugees expect to return). The message that the restoration of
the
Palestinians' "rights" will be accomplished by violence and not negotiations
is
part and parcel of the songs, with no mention of the Israeli-Palestinian
peace
process. Another means of sending hate messages is the broadcasting of
onesided
"documentary" programs which deal with exceptional events which
occurred during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (For example a movie about
the events in Kafr Kassem, which occurred 52 years ago.) (Examples
follow).

4. The songs, several of which are broadcast daily, are not new. They were
broadcast by Palestinian TV during the Palestinian terrorist campaign
(intifada) to gain support for terrorism from the Palestinian populace, and
are
being recycled. Ironically, they were given momentum by the renewed
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which increased as the Annapolis
meeting approached and have continued since.

5. The objective of the anti-Israeli incitement broadcast by controlled
Palestinian TV is to provide a foundation for the claim that Israel was
established by slaughtering and expelling poor, unfortunate
Palestinians, and in that way to increase hatred for Israelis. That is
particularly conspicuous in view of the absence of programs encouraging
peace or the reconciliation which was supposed to accompany the Annapolis
process. The hate messages broadcast by Palestinian TV contradict
the peace messages sent by Abu Mazen to palliate public opinion in
Israel and the West.

Examples

6. A new video clip broadcast continuously since October 2007 by Palestinian
TV promises a mother that that Palestine will be violence, claiming the
Palestinians have the right to the country. The translation (from the Hebrew
version) is as follows:[5]

[5] The song was translated into Hebrew by Itamar Marcus and Yaara Peiron,
the PMW Bulletin,
January 9, 2008.

"Mother, they destroyed our
house, and the house of my
brother and our neighbor."
"Don't be sad, mother, we have more rocks
We are Palestinians,
We are not terrorists.
We are in favor of the right, oh mother,
we want to restore our home.
Hand in hand, arm in arm, we will defend your land, Palestine
We will pray in Al-Aqsa and [the church of] the Birthplace,
Muslims and Christians.
And we will liberate the land of the religions
and build Jerusalem of the homeland
[of all the religions],
We are the sons of glory, oh mother,
our honor is above the sky
We are Palestinians
We are not terrorists
We desire liberty
We are not terrorists.
We have the right, oh mother, we want
To restore our home
Oh mother, they destroyed our house
And the house of my brother and our neighbor
Don't be sad, oh my mother, we have more rocks.
"Don't be sad mother, we
have more rocks."
"Mother, they destroyed our
house, and the house of my
brother and our neighbor."
"Don't be sad mother, we
have more rocks."
Oh Arab, oh noble son, your blood is my blood,
and your cause is my cause
This land is Arab in history and identity
Palestine is Arabic is history and identity.
We will live in peace, oh mother and
our lives will not be lost.
From Jerusalem and Acre
and Haifa and Jericho and
Gaza and Ramallah
From Bethlehem and Jaffa and
Beersheba and Ramla
From Nablus to the Galilee
and from Tiberias to Hebron
And from Nablus to the Galilee
and from Jenin to Hebron
We are all in the same ditch, oh mother
And our resolve is [as sharp as] a sword
(Palestinian TV, January 2008, broadcast continuously since October 2007).

"My enemy, my enemy"

7. Another video currently heard is a song called "My Enemy, My Enemy,"
broadcast many times in the past. It depicts the Jews as snakes twisting in
the
earth (the snake is an anti-Semitic symbol for the Jews)

"We have the right, we are
not terrorists."
"From Jerusalem, Acre,
Haifa, Jericho, Gaza, and
Ramallah"

8. The film "Blood Wedding" was rerun before the Annapolis meeting. It
is horrifying to watch and presents a Palestinian version of the events in
Kafr
Kassem in 1956. It depicts IDF soldiers as sadists who torture and murder
women and kill Palestinian farmers in cold blood.

The opening of the film "Blood Wedding"
My enemy [is] a snake twisting in the earth
My enemy, my enemy, stop your crimes
We are heroes. We will report to the battlefield when called.
Enemy, you have no choice, leave my country.

Israeli officer represented as a sadist torturing a Palestinian woman
You must tell all residents that the curfew begins in an hour.
Don't you know Kafr Kassem is under curfew?
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