Palestinian Authority promotes, then condemns killing of Americans
By Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin, October 15, 2003.
PMW has been documenting the duplicity of the Palestinian Authority towards
the United States for years. In its English statements, the PA presents itself as
an American ally, while its Arabic messages incite its people to hate and kill
Americans.
Never has this hypocrisy been more striking than today, after the
Palestinian ambush that targeted and killed three American diplomats in the
Gaza Strip. The official PA rushed to condemn the attack — even as the
PA-controlled media continues its relentless campaign of anti-American
indoctrination.
During the war in Iraq, the PA actively endorsed the killing of Americans, and
even produced a music video celebrating the deaths of US soldiers that was
broadcast repeatedly on official PA TV.
In the months before the Iraq war, the official PA daily published calls to
Saddam Hussein to turn Iraq into a graveyard for American soldiers. At a
pro-Iraq rally they praised the role of Iraq and the Commander Saddam Hussein,
and stressed that Iraqs land will be a graveyard for the American soldiers…
Since the war, hatred of the USA has continued unabated in the official and
tightly-controlled PA media.
A recent sermon on official PA TV described the US as “the foremost enemy of
the Muslim nation compared to Pharaoh of the Bible saying: There is no God
besides me.”
This past Friday, the PA sermon broadcast on official PA TV included the
following threats and warnings to the US: “We hear statements by the little
American President, oppressive statements. He says Israel has the right to
defend itself These statements carry destruction for America itself This
president sees himself like one who has ascended to the mountaintop and like
one expecting someone to push him so that he falls into the abyss, he and his
people with him. We warn the American people that this president is dragging
them to the abyss take vengeance on Your enemies, our enemies,
enemies of religion.”
A recent sermon on official PA TV told Muslim believers to anticipate the
destruction of the US:
“If we go back 1400 years in time, we find that history is repeating itself,
worshippers of Allah. The Prophet Mohammed was besieged by two powers,
Persia in the east and Rome in the west. These represent the Soviet Union and
America of today. Persia represents Russia in the east, and America stands for
Rome in the west. Persia fell first in the east, just as Russia fell first in the east,
and America will fall, may it be Allahs will, just as Rome fell.”
Clearly, the American diplomats were murdered today by Palestinians fulfilling
their role in their war against Americans, as they have been taught by their
leaders, through years of hate-mongering and calls for violence against
Americans.
