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\nPay to Slay: Palestinians Glorify Terrorists,
\nGive Big Rewards to Those Who Murder Jews

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\nJERUSALEM, Israel – Israel is continuing its crackdown on two Palestinian villages a day after an apparent lone-wolf terrorist murdered three Israeli security personnel near Jerusalem. But what motivated him to carry out the attack while entering the place where he worked?
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\nNimr al-Jamal was on his way from Beit Souric where he lived to the neighboring Jewish community of Har Adar when he opened fire on security personnel, killing three and critically wounding a fourth.
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\nHar Adar residents were shocked. "They have all the rights like the Israelis and they betrayed big time," Har Adar Council member Anat Knafo told CBN News.
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\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blames Palestinian incitement in the media, school books and society.
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\nFollowing the attack, Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to condemn it. Instead, Abbas' Fatah organization glorified the terrorist and said the morning was "scented with the fragrance of the martyrs."
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\nPalestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus says the blame doesn't stop there. [Note: Click here to see the filmed interview]
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\n"[The] Palestinian Authority, through Fatah, is telling its people that what was done was a religiously positive act," Marcus told CBN News. "Killing Israelis is a religiously positive act and this of course is the worst message you can give in a religious society like the Palestinian Authority."
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\nMarcus says potential terrorists are well aware of the honor bestowed on the terrorist's family.
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\n"The first thing that happens is the family receives honor, and this is critical," he explained. "The honor the family receives, every potential terrorist sees it as well."
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\nThat "honor" includes public praise and sometimes even naming schools, town squares and sporting events after terrorists.
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\n"And the second thing that happens is financial rewards. In this case, the wife and children of the terrorist who murdered yesterday will be receiving 2,600 shekels – about $800 a month for life," he said.
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\nA statement from Israel's security apparatus indicated that the terrorist was a troubled individual, but Marcus said that's no excuse.
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\n"It's not the troubled terrorist who committed terror because he was troubled. He was troubled and then he heard the messages and he was more receptive because he was troubled," Marcus said. "In any case the full responsibility is of the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah, who are giving these messages, who are rewarding terror, who are honoring terror, who are telling them that Israelis deserve the terror."
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\nMarcus says Israel could crack down on entire villages, revoking work permits into Israel. That would increase peer pressure not to carry out attacks. But the West could also play a role, he said.
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\n"The only way this will stop is if the leadership of the Palestinian Authority is forced by the international community to completely change the messaging," he said. "The international community can force them. The Palestinian Authority is so dependent on foreign aid. The United States gives them foreign aid. The European Union gives them foreign aid – most of the Western European countries. They have the power to stop this."
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\nMeanwhile, the three men who were killed, including an Israeli Arab, are being hailed as the real heroes. They stopped the terrorist from entering Har Adar and killing civilians.\n

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","indexId":"index65","news":false,"tagIds":["190","193","254","1035","1036","1038","1045","1162"],"id":13016,"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1506470400,"nanoseconds":0},"tags":[],"lang":"en","published":true,"author":[{"about":"","id":58,"citeName":{"en":"Stahl, J.","he":""},"name":{"he":"","en":"julie stahl"}}],"title":"PMW director interviewed on CBN News about Palestinian Authority \"pay-to-slay\" program following terror attack in Jerusalem","contentType":"Article","thumbnail":"/STORAGE/ARTICLES/impacting_media/CBN_news.jpg"},{"lang":"en","description":"\"Palestinian Media Watch, an independent research group, said the cartoon shows the Muslim man kneeling before a U.S. fighter jet. His prayers are enclosed in four missiles aimed at the American plane.\"","tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"published":true,"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1191974400,"nanoseconds":0},"indexId":"index3","content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - A cartoon published Tuesday in an official Palestinian Authority newspaper shows a Muslim man calling on Allah to kill Americans, said a group that monitors Palestinian media.
\nPalestinian Media Watch, an independent research group, said the cartoon shows the Muslim man kneeling before a U.S. fighter jet. His prayers are enclosed in four missiles aimed at the American plane.
\nHe prays: "Allah, scatter them!" "And turn their wives into widows!" "And turn their children into orphans!" "And give us victory over them!"
\nAl Hayat al Jadida is the newspaper of P.A. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction and is controlled by the P.A., Palestinian Media Watch said.
\nThe U.S. is supporting Abbas as a moderate Palestinian leader and a peace partner for Israel. But according to PMW, anti-American sentiments are nothing new in the P.A.
\nIn a recent report on 12th grade Palestinian textbooks, PMW said the United States is presented as a "human rights abuser, violator of international humanitarian law" and "an 'occupier' of Iraq."
\nThe world history book presents those fighting American soldiers in Iraq as the "brave resistance to liberate Iraq."
\nThe U.S. also is depicted as leading the West in a "clash of civilizations" against the Islamic-Arab world.","tags":[],"id":850,"title":"Palestinian Authority Cartoon Prays That Allah Will Kill Americans","news":false,"author":[{"about":"","name":{"he":"","en":"julie stahl"},"citeName":{"en":"Stahl, J.","he":""},"id":58}],"authorId":[58],"imageUrl":"","contentType":"Article","thumbnail":""},{"author":[{"id":58,"about":"","name":{"en":"julie stahl","he":""},"citeName":{"he":"","en":"Stahl, J."}}],"lang":"en","tags":[],"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1190937600,"nanoseconds":0},"indexId":"index3","content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' government has instituted a new "morality" patrol in the West Bank to make sure Palestinians are not eating or drinking in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, reports said.
\nIt's seem as the latest sign of a growing rivalry between Fatah and the radical Islamic faction Hamas over which group is more Muslim. Fatah, which is generally thought of as a secular Palestinian movement, is trying to prove that Hamas has not cornered the market on religion.
\nThree weeks ago, in dueling videos, Hamas and Fatah accused each other of defiling the Quran -- something the Palestinian Media Watch called a "sign of the growing influence of Islam in Palestinian society."
\nFatah now has its own vice squad to monitor the observance of Ramadan in the West Bank. Even Hamas does not do that in Gaza, the Associated Press reported.
\nThe 12-member morality police squad was deployed in Ramallah, the most cosmopolitan of the West Bank and Gaza Strip cities, according to the A.P.
\nAnyone violating the fast in public would be taken in for questioning, a vice squad spokesman was quoted as saying.
\nPolice spokesman Adnan al-Damari was quoted as saying that at least 50 suspected offenders had been arrested in public places but the patrols did not go into homes to check if the fast was being observed.
\nAccording to Islamic tradition, Muslims are forbidden to eat, drink or engage in other forms of physical gratification from sunrise to sunset for the entire Muslim month of Ramadan. They can feast during the night.
\nEarlier this month, a video produced by Fatah showed scenes of destruction, a bloodstained floor and copies of the Quran covered with grenades and bullet casings. The video blamed Hamas for the desecration, according to Palestinian Media Watch.
\nAn animated Hamas video depicted Fatah members as rats burning the Quran and other Islamic texts, removing a veil from a woman's face, and targeting a mosque with machine guns.
\nHamas, represented by a lion that strongly resembled Walt Disney's Lion King, rose up to scatter the Fatah "rats."","description":"\"Earlier this month, a video produced by Fatah showed scenes of destruction, a bloodstained floor and copies of the Quran covered with grenades and bullet casings. The video blamed Hamas for the desecration, according to Palestinian Media Watch.\"","title":"Hamas and Fatah Trying to Out-Muslim Each Other","tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"news":false,"contentType":"Article","id":845,"authorId":[58],"published":true,"imageUrl":"","thumbnail":""},{"description":"\"Nahool is a giant yellow and black-striped bumblebee, suspended from the studio ceiling. He says he wants to follow in his cousin Farfur's footsteps and calls for jihad, according to a translation provided on Monday by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).\"","authorId":[58],"imageUrl":"","content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Hamas television has created a new character to replace the Mickey Mouse look-alike named Farfur that called for jihad and a global Islamic takeover.
\nNahoul is a giant yellow and black-striped bumblebee, suspended from the studio ceiling. He says he wants to follow in his cousin Farfur's footsteps and calls for jihad, according to a translation provided on Monday by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
\nDuring the episode of the children's program "Tomorrow's Pioneers" that aired on Friday, the child hostess Saraa looks up and sees Nahoul. She asks him who he is and what he wants.
\n"I am Nahoul [the bee], Farfur's cousin...I want to continue the path of Farfur, -- the path of 'Islam is the solution; the path of heroism; the path of Martyrdom; the path of the Jihad warriors. Me and my friends shall continue the path of Farfur," Nahoul says in the same squeaky voice that his cousin had.
\n"And in his name we shall take revenge upon the enemies of Allah, the murderers of the prophets [i.e. the Jews], the murderers of innocent children, until Al-Aqsa will be liberated from their filth," he said. Saraa welcomes Nahoul to the show.
\nAl-Aqsa is the mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that is the third holiest site in Islam. Al-Aqsa was the name given to the violent Palestinian uprising that began in 2000.
\nFormer Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat vowed that there would be a million martyrs if necessary to take the Al Aqsa mosque - currently under Israeli sovereignty.
\nIt is also the name of the Hamas television station and the military wing of the Fatah faction.
\nThe use of Farfur to preach Islamic world domination angered many in the Western world. On the program two weeks ago, Farfur was "martyred" when an actor playing an Israeli interrogator beat him to death for refusing to sell his land.
\nPMW said it was clear that the show would continue its "rabidly anti-Israel messages" through Nahoul after the death of the character of Farfur.","indexId":"index3","news":false,"title":"Bumble Bee replaces Mickey Mouse lookalike on Hamas TV","author":[{"about":"","citeName":{"he":"","en":"Stahl, J."},"name":{"he":"","en":"julie stahl"},"id":58}],"tags":[],"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1184544000,"nanoseconds":0},"id":810,"contentType":"Article","published":true,"lang":"en","tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"thumbnail":""},{"tags":[],"description":"\"PMW Director Itamar Marcus said his group had contacted the Walt Disney Company about the use of its character but had not yet received a reply...\"","author":[{"id":58,"name":{"en":"julie stahl","he":""},"citeName":{"he":"","en":"Stahl, J."},"about":""}],"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1178496000,"nanoseconds":0},"published":true,"lang":"en","id":763,"tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"authorId":[58],"contentType":"Article","news":false,"title":"Hamas Uses Mickey Mouse to Push Islamic Supremacy","content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Hamas television is using the image of the popular American cartoon figure Mickey Mouse to teach Palestinian children to hate America and Israel and to promote the idea that Islam should rule the world, an Israeli research institute said.
\nThe human-sized, costumed Mickey Mouse look-alike, complete with squeaky voice, is called Farfur. He and his co-host, a young girl named Saraa, appear weekly on the official Hamas television station, Al-Aksa TV, as part of a children's program called "Tomorrow's Pioneers."
\nFarfur and Saraa teach children about the importance of daily prayers and drinking milk, the Palestinian Media Watch said.
\nThey also take every opportunity to indoctrinate the young viewers with teachings of Islamic supremacy, hatred of Israel and the U.S., and support of "resistance" (terrorism), PMW said.
\nPMW Director Itamar Marcus said his group had contacted the Walt Disney Company about the use of its character but had not yet received a reply. It is ironic that Hamas is using an American cartoon character against America, he said.
\nIn one program that aired on April 16, Farfur tells children that they are laying the "cornerstone" for Islamic world domination and must therefore pray five times a day in a mosque.
\nThe two TV characters, in referring to Palestine, make it clear that they are talking about a state that includes all of the West Bank, Gaza and Israel.
\n"Our beloved children may say that we had glory [in the past], and we had culture, and we Muslims had greatness and respect. But with the will of Allah, we, tomorrow's pioneers, will restore the glory of this nation," Saraa says.
\nFarfur says that tomorrow's pioneers "will liberate Al-Aksa, with Allah's will, and we will liberate Iraq, with Allah's will, and we will liberate the Muslim countries, invaded by murderers."
\nIn another episode, Saraa issues a religious warning, which PMW, says is "striking" considering the young age of the viewers.
\nSaraa cautions the children that they will have to answer to Allah on judgment day for what they did or did not do for the Al Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem and for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
\n"I remind you that Al-Aksa and the prisoners are a responsibility on our shoulders, and Allah will ask us on Resurrection Day what we gave for their sake," she said.
\nMarcus said the message catches Palestinian children off guard, at a time when they are relating to a "friendly, wholesome character." It comes across with such "candy coating" it can "seep very deep into their consciousness," he said.
\nSpeaking from California, a Walt Disney Company spokesman had no immediate comment Monday on the use of the Mickey-like character.","indexId":"index2","imageUrl":"","thumbnail":""},{"author":[{"id":58,"name":{"en":"julie stahl","he":""},"citeName":{"en":"Stahl, J.","he":""},"about":""}],"contentType":"Article","title":"Hamas TV Shows 4-Year-Old Girl Vowing Suicide Bombing","news":false,"id":737,"published":true,"tags":[],"tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1174521600,"nanoseconds":0},"authorId":[58],"description":"\"Palestinian Media Watch Director Itamar Marcus told Cybercast News Service that there have been other programs where young teens express their desire to become martyrs, but he has never seen a child as young as the actress playing Duha serve as an advocate for suicide bombing.\"","lang":"en","content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Hamas television broadcast a video dramatization on Wednesday in which the four-year-old daughter of female suicide bomber vows to do what her mother has done. The child is an actress, but the point was clear.
\nAccording to Palestinian Media Watch, the child actress, playing the part of a real child named Duha, finds her mother preparing explosives in her bedroom and sings, "Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me?"
\nThe mother tries to hide the bomb. Later, Duha sees a television news story about her mother's suicide bomb attack. "Instead of me, you carried a bomb in your hand," Duha sings. "Only now, I know what was more precious than us."
\nDuha asks her mother to tell the Muslim prophet Mohammed that she sends her love -- and that she will be following in Mommy's footsteps. The last image shows Duha finding explosives in her mother's bedroom drawer.
\nThe video is based on real people. Duha's mother was Reem Riyashi, who, at the age of 21, blew herself up at the Erez crossing, killing four Israelis. Hamas and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah faction claimed responsibility for the 2004 attack.
\nPalestinian Media Watch Director Itamar Marcus told Cybercast News Service that there have been other programs where young teens express their desire to become martyrs, but he has never seen a child as young as the actress playing Duha serve as an advocate for suicide bombing.
\n"This is Hamas' ideology," said Marcus. Reem Riyashi was said to be the first female suicide bomber employed by Hamas.
\nAfter she killed herself and others, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, praised her for setting an example for other women to die in the fight against Israel.
\nIn an unrelated story on the same topic, Iraqi police said on Wednesday that two children were used as decoys to help a bomb-laden car make it through a U.S. checkpoint in northern Iraq.
\nBoth children died when the car blew up. According to press reports, the driver of the car was allowed to park in a busy shopping area after he made it clear that he was leaving his kids in the back seat.
\n"Children in the back seat lowered suspicion," Major General Michael Barbero was quoted as saying. "We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back."","imageUrl":"","indexId":"index2","thumbnail":""},{"contentType":"Article","lang":"en","tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"published":true,"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1173916800,"nanoseconds":0},"tags":[],"authorId":[58],"id":724,"author":[{"about":"","name":{"he":"","en":"julie stahl"},"id":58,"citeName":{"he":"","en":"Stahl, J."}}],"imageUrl":"","news":false,"description":"\"Palestinian Media Watch, an independent media watchdog group, reported on Wednesday that Hamas' new Al Aksa satellite television station has been broadcasting a 2004 statement from Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was targeted and killed by Israel that same year.\"","title":"Hamas TV Promoting Destruction of Israel, Group Says","indexId":"index2","content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Hamas television has been broadcasting taped messages from the group's deceased founder predicting the destruction of Israel and promoting terrorism as the way to push Israel out of the land, a media watchdog group said.
\nPalestinian Media Watch, an independent media watchdog group, reported on Wednesday that Hamas' new Al Aksa satellite television station has been broadcasting a 2004 statement from Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was targeted and killed by Israel that same year.
\nYassin, in the taped message, says Palestinian terrorism forced Israelis to leave their Gaza Strip settlements -- and he suggests that terrorism is the key to destroying Israel.
\nYassin also refers to a comment made by former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before the Israeli disengagement, in which Sharon said Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim was as important to Israel as Tel Aviv is.
\nSharon suggested that Israel would never leave Netzarim -- and then, a short time later, he proposed the evacuation of Netzarim and 20 other Gaza Strip communities (plus four in the West Bank).
\nAccording to Yassin, Israel was established to protect the Jewish people from murder and destruction, but if murder and destruction follows the Jews to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and their other cities, the Jewish people will flee back to Europe and America, he predicted.
\nAccording to PMW, Yassin's statements have been broadcast frequently, an indication of "how important this political message is to Hamas."
\nCritics of Sharon's disengagement plan warned at the time that it would send a message of weakness and defeat to Hamas and other terror organizations.
\nProponents of the plan believed it would give the Palestinians a trial run of their much-desired independence -- without Israel in the picture. But it didn't happen.
\nInstead, according to Israeli security estimates, Hamas is training and equipping a veritable army in the Gaza Strip, preparing for the next round of fighting against Israel.","thumbnail":""},{"contentType":"Article","lang":"en","tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"published":true,"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1106697600,"nanoseconds":0},"tags":[],"id":476,"authorId":[58],"author":[{"citeName":{"he":"","en":"Stahl, J."},"id":58,"about":"","name":{"en":"julie stahl","he":""}}],"imageUrl":"","news":false,"description":"\"The report was produced by the independent Israeli watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch. It charges that the PA teaches 'an ideology of virulent hatred of Jews and Israel that mandates the killing of Jews solely because they are Jews.'\"","title":"'Positive Developments' Prompt Renewal of Israeli-Palestinian Contacts (abridged)","indexId":"index2","content":"… Israel insists on a halt to Palestinian incitement – not just a cessation of violence and terrorism – if progress is to be made in the diplomatic process, Sharon’s spokesman Dr. Ra’anan Gissin said.
\nFor years, Israel has accused the PA of promoting hatred of Israel and anti-Semitism through school textbooks, television programs and other means.
\nIsraeli cabinet minister Natan Sharansky, who coordinates the government’s efforts against anti-Semitism, on Tuesday unveiled a new report alleging rampant anti-Semitism in the PA.
\nThe report (entitled “Kill a Jew - Go to Heaven”) was produced by the independent Israeli watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch. It charges that the PA teaches “an ideology of virulent hatred of Jews and Israel that mandates the killing of Jews solely because they are Jews.”
\n“Even as the Palestinian Authority works to prevent a few hundred terrorists from attacking Jews and Israelis, it prepares hundreds of thousands more,” Sharansky said.
\nSharansky compared the “culture of hatred” in Palestinian society – found in textbooks, crossword puzzles, day camps and TV music videos – to that found in Nazi Germany.
\nWhile there have been demands made of various countries in the international community and organizations to combat anti-Semitism, the same demand has not been made of the PA, Sharansky said.
\n“However successful the tactical steps by Mahmoud Abbas and the PA leadership to fight Palestinian terrorists may be, the strategic direction of the leadership can be seen in the messages it relays to the Palestinian people and especially the younger generation,” he said.
\nAccording to Sharansky, the official PA media has continued to broadcast “the most virulent forms of anti-Semitism in the world” even after Arafat’s death and the election of Abbas.
\nThe report is based on analysis of official PA television and newspapers over the last eight years.
\nIt examines how the PA has “built a case” in the PA-controlled print and broadcast media using the religious, political and academic elite in Palestinian society against the existence of the Jewish people, showing how they are an “existential danger” to all the world and promoting the elimination of that “threat.”
\nAccording to Sharansky, Palestinian society must first be “detoxified” if Israel and the Palestinians are ever going to live together peacefully.
\n“The PA should pursue a policy of zero-tolerance of any and all displays of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in Palestinian media, to promote a ‘detoxification’ of Palestinian society and enable a public acceptance of our two nations living side-by-side,” he said.","thumbnail":""},{"published":true,"id":450,"tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1175"],"imageUrl":"","description":"\"Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, an independent Israeli watchdog group, said that while incitement to violence has stopped, the Palestinian media continues 'pumping people up' with a message of hatred, he said.\"","news":false,"authorId":[58],"tags":[],"author":[{"about":"","name":{"he":"","en":"julie stahl"},"citeName":{"en":"Stahl, J.","he":""},"id":58}],"contentType":"Article","title":"Palestinian Incitement Lessens but Hatred Continues, Group Says (abridged)","date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1101772800,"nanoseconds":0},"content":"Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The Palestinian media has scaled back its incitement to violence against Israel, but the hatred continues, an Israeli monitoring group said.
\nPalestinian presidential candidate and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) ordered the Palestinian media to stop its incitement against Israel, the London-based Arabic-language daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.
\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon recently challenged Abbas to prove that the PA was ready for peace by stopping what he called “the poisonous incitement on television and in the education system, demonizing Israel, Israelis and Jews.”
\nItamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, an independent Israeli watchdog group, said that while incitement to violence has stopped, the Palestinian media continues “pumping people up” with a message of hatred, he said.
\nThe situation now is similar to the level of incitement that was present in the Palestinian media from 1996 to 2000, which led to more than four years of Palestinian terrorism and violence, he added.
\nAn example of “ideological” incitement is a program on Palestinian refugees, which aired on Sunday, Marcus said.
\nPalestinians insist that up to 6 million Palestinian refugees and their descendents have the “right of return” to cities and lands that are now part of Israel.
\nIn 1948, several hundred thousand Palestinians fled their homes during Israel’s War of Independence, after the fledgling state was attacked by the combined forces of surrounding Arab nations.
\nThose refugees were housed in camps in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank (under Jordanian rule) and Gaza Strip (under Egyptian rule) and have remained there ever since.
\nPalestinians have refused to budge on the issue of return, but Israeli leaders from every part of the political spectrum agree that allowing millions of Palestinians to take up residence in Israel would be tantamount to the Jewish state committing suicide. Israel has a population of about six million.
\nIsrael believes that a solution for the refugees should be found in the countries where they have resided for the last half century – or in a future Palestinian state.
\n“Refugees,” a movie shown for the sixth time on Palestinian television on Sunday, depicts the map of “Palestine” as stretching from the Israeli city of Metulla on Israel’s northern border to the Israeli city of Eilat by the Red Sea.
\nThe repeated message is that Israel has no right to exist because it took all its land from the Palestinians. The program’s refrain is, “There is no escaping the fact that one day we shall return.”
\nA history program broadcast a week earlier featured a historian telling viewers that this land was a prophetic land and the Palestinians were those who were to inherit it. “We are the people of this land,” he said.
\nThe historian also said, “The Jews remind us of parasitic worms that live in the sea, eat a snail and afterwards move to live in its shell. No one else is allowed to live in the shell.”
\n“There is no message of co-existence with Israel,” Marcus said.","indexId":"index1","lang":"en","thumbnail":""}]

Julie Stahl