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Abbas Inaugurates ‘Martyr Abu Jihad Faculty for Administration and Military Sciences’ at Palestinian Authority University

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By Palestinian Media Watch, 23 Iyyar 5779 – May 27, 2019

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By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

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(JNS) Palestinian Authority leader Abbas earlier this month inaugurated the “Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir ‘Abu Jihad’ Faculty for Administration and Military Sciences” at the Al-Istiqlal University in Jericho, as part of the annual events marking the April 16 anniversary of Al-Wazir’s death.

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Al-Wazir was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terrorist organization’s military wing and also planned many deadly terrorist attacks from the 1960s to the 1980s. These attacks, in which at least 125 Israelis were murdered, included the single most lethal terrorist attack in Israeli history—the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children. He was assassinated at his home in Tunis by Israeli commandos on April 16, 1988.

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Speaking at a festival at Al-Quds Open University to mark Palestinian Prisoner’s Day and the anniversary of Al-Wazir’s death, Fatah second in command Mahmoud Al-Aloul, who served under Al-Wazir in Lebanon, said it had been a “shock” when he died, and that he had “created hope,” according to official P.A. daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. He added that the students should “should study the values of these leaders who led and died as martyrs.”

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As part of the events held to mark the anniversary of Al-Wazir’s death, the P.A. National Security Forces hosted on April 16 the “Martyr Khalil Al-Wazir Abu Jihad Chess Tournament.”

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Also in April, as documented by the Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch, the P.A. Education Ministry inaugurated a wall painting of Abu Jihad at a school for boys named after the terrorist.

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U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt responded to PMW’s exposure of this terror glorification on Twitter, saying:

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“Despicable glorification of violence and terrorism displayed at a Palestinian school w/ a painting of Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir). Palestinian students deserve to learn about respectable accomplishments of their community, not this.”

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In response to Greenblatt’s criticism, the P.A. Foreign Ministry was quoted by Al-Hayat Al-Jadida as saying:

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“Accusing the Palestinians of teaching ‘terror’ due to the hanging of a picture of martyr, commander and symbol Abu Jihad is ridiculous and expresses the extent of the American bias and its uselessness. It also again proves that the United States has adopted the occupation’s positions that deny the Palestinian people’s legal national rights that are anchored in the U.N. Charter, and primarily the right to self-definition and its legal and just struggle for freedom and independence, the national struggle of which Abu Jihad was one of its symbols.”

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Fatah, too, posted a response, in English on its official Facebook page, to Greenblatt’s criticism, expressing “pride” in Abu Jihad, the “great leader”:

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“Our response: We advise Mr. Greenblatt to take care of the scandals that are chasing the reckless administration of his boss instead of putting his nose in the affairs of our Palestinian people. He must realize that the first interest of our people is to end the occupation and colonization of our homeland and to express our pride in the sacrifices of the fighters of our people and their great leaders such as the martyr Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad).”

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(https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/abbas-inaugurates-martyr-abu-jihad-faculty-for-administration-and-military-sciences-at-palestinian-university/2019/05/27/)

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Palestinian Authority Prepares for Peace: ‘There’s No Such Thing as Israel’ Arab Children Are Told

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By Palestinian Media Watch, 11 Iyyar 5779 – May 15, 2019

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by Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch

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The U.S. “Deal of the Century” peace plan, which is about to be released, is built on the premise that the Palestinian Authority accepts Israel’s existence, albeit not in the current borders. However, this is a false premise. The PA tells its own people, including its children and Israeli Arab children, that all of Israel is “occupied Palestine” and that Israel’s existence should not be recognized in any borders.

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Not sufficing with disseminating these messages to its own children, the PATV children’s program The Best Home is also trying to alienate Israeli Arab children from their own country Israel. Clips from the program have been downloaded and translated by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) media watchdog.

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The official PATV host introduced an Israeli Arab boy who lives near Haifa as a resident of “occupied Palestinian lands,” and cheered “Bravo” when the Israeli Arab boy said “there is no such thing as Israel” and that he was actively encouraging other Israeli Arab children to see Israel as “Palestinian.”

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Official PATV host: “Faisal lives in the occupied Palestinian lands in the Tamra area (i.e., in Israel, near Haifa)… On the school radio he broadcasts Palestinian songs and tries to spread the consciousness within him and his love for Palestine, to all the surrounding cities and villages. This is very nice, particularly when they [Israelis] are trying to keep that area Israeli, but the Palestinians there need to emphasize to everyone that this area is Palestinian…”

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Israeli Arab boy Faisal: “I tell all the Palestinian children there and explain to them that there is no such thing as Israel… Israel can occupy Palestine, but it cannot occupy the Palestinian child’s memory, because we are keeping Palestine in our hearts.”

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Host: “Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Great job Faisal, thank you very much.” [Official PATV, The Best Home, April 26, 2019]

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Although the statements clearly contradict the PA statements to the international community, they are not unexpected, since denying Israel’s right to exist is a basic tenet of the PA.

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In 2017, the current PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh (who was then Commissioner of Treasury and Economy and Fatah Central Committee member), made clear that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, that has ruled the PA since its creation, still refuses to recognize Israel.

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“The Fatah Movement never demanded that Hamas recognize Israel. To this moment, Fatah does not recognize Israel. The topic of recognition of Israel has not been raised in any of Fatah’s conferences.”
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Whereas the PA tells the international community that it sees the territories Israel acquired in 1967 as “occupied,” on multiple occasions Abbas has denied the legitimacy of Israel’s existence in any borders, declaring that the Palestinians have been living under occupation since Israel’s creation.

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Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2015, Abbas said, “Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, don’t you ask yourselves: Until when will the Israeli occupation of our land continue? After 67 years (i.e., since Israel’s establishment in 1948), until when? Do you think it can continue, and that it benefits the Palestinian people?” [Official PATV, Oct. 28, 2015]

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In 2016 he repeated the claim. “I do not deny that countless obstacles and difficulties stand before us, but all of these are no match against our will. We have been under occupation for 67 or 68 years (i.e., since Israel’s establishment in 1948). Others would have sunk into despair and frustration. However, we are determined to reach our goal.” [Official PATV, March 11, 2016]

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The fundamental nature of the PA rejection of Israel’s existence in any borders was recently reiterated when PA Minister of Culture Atef Abu Saif was quoted by German media saying “he would accept Jaffa remaining Israeli.”

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Immediately after the publication of the German report, Abu Saif hurried to deny the claim and emphasized that “nothing at all was said in the interview that relates in any way to relinquishing Jaffa, because no one has the right to do that.” [WAFA, official PA news agency, May 11, 2019]

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It should be stressed that Jaffa is part of Tel Aviv, and part of the State of Israel since 1948. These expressions are confirmed by many other daily PA expressions and activities by the PA leadership denying Israel’s right to exist. For example, outgoing PA Education Minister Sabri Saidam presenting a child poet with plaque containing a map of “Palestine,” which includes all of Israel.

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Hundreds of maps such as these appear in the current PA school books and are presented by the PA regularly in the daily life of Palestinian Authority Arabs.

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Official PA TV recently taught children that “All of Palestine will return to us,” while pointing to a map of “Palestine” that includes all of Israel.

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Having indoctrinated generation after generation of Palestinians to reject Israel’s existence, it is no wonder that the PA leadership is unable to accept any offer of peace. The message they have been giving their people for years is that nothing other than the termination of Israel, will suffice.

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For all these reasons, today May 15, the anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel remains one of the most important days on the Palestinian calendar, as the day they mourn the “Nakba” – the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation and existence.

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(https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority-prepares-for-peace-theres-no-such-thing-as-israel-arab-children-are-told/2019/05/15/)

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Keeping Up the ‘Narrative’

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By Judith Bergman, 10 Iyyar 5779 – May 15, 2019

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{Originally posted to the MIDA website}

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The official Palestinian Authority (PA) daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, recently published an op-ed, claiming, “Anyone who follows the prattle of Jason Greenblatt, President Trump’s envoy in the matter of the deal of the century, sees that his condition is very similar to Down Syndrome… Anyone who looks at the American envoy [Greenblatt] discovers that he has external and inner characteristics similar to those suffering from Down Syndrome: He is short, his eyes are similar to Mongoloid eyes, he prattles unrestrainedly, and is politically retarded.”

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As reported by Palestinian Media Watch, the author, Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, a regular columnist for the official PA daily and once the advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs, went on to add, ”The ill Greenblatt is not the only one who has Down Syndrome, for it strikes all the components of the American administration. Anyone who examines the general genes of the components of the Trump administration sees that it is a politically crippled creature.”

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The PA does and publishes much that is outrageous, but it rarely meets with much, if any, external consternation. This time was only slightly different, as the op-ed did elicit some criticism in the US: According to Palestinian Media Watch, US Congressman Ted Deutch (Dem.) said, “It is an outrageously offensive attack to level on anyone, anywhere” and AIPAC stated: “This is an outrageous personal attack on a distinguished U.S. official and an insult to basic human dignity.” A week prior to al-Ghoul’s op-ed, Fatah, of which Mahmoud Abbas has been chairman since 2009, published a statement on its official Facebook page, that Jews “deserved to be killed” during the Holocaust “because of who they are”. The statement did not produce any reactions anywhere.

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In a sermon on official PA TV a few months ago, also translated by Palestinian Media Watch, Sheikh Osama Al-Tibi preached: “The Jews… expose their fangs whenever they get the chance… [They] are always fighting, corrupting, scheming and plotting against humanity – not just against the Muslims, but rather against all humanity. These malignant genes and cursed characteristics continue in them. They transfer them from generation to generation. Humanity will never be able to live together with them… That’s why Europe, America and others, have spit them out, down to the last one…” He also added: “Our prophet informed us – at the end of time, the Muslims will fight the Jews until the Jews hide behind a stone or a tree and the stone or tree will say: ‘Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him’… Allah strike your enemies, the enemies of the religion, count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one”. These aberrations did not provoke any reaction anywhere either, despite the undiluted hatred and incitement to murder.

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There is a reason for the general lack of outrage:

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Nothing excites the political and emotional sensibilities of the Western political, media, and cultural classes more than the mythical, political never-land of ‘Palestine’, a place that has never existed on any map.

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No other cause has received so much political and financial capital – the PA is estimated to have received a total of $25 billion in foreign aid since the mid-1990s, making the PA one of the world’s largest per capita recipients of international foreign aid;

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No other cause has been graced with such single-minded attention from political leaders across the globe and no other cause so fuels the emotional imaginations of young people looking to ‘do good’ in the world.

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With all this financial, political and emotional capital already invested in the cause of ‘Palestine’, it is vital to keep up a certain ‘narrative’, which corresponds to the fantasy of a blameless, disenfranchised people, robbed of its birthright to its mythical homeland of ‘Palestine’ – a narrative that facts must never be allowed to interfere with. This narrative is kept up in two ways: By never publicizing inconvenient historical and current facts about the conflict that contradict the ‘narrative’ in mainstream outlets and by regularly publicizing resolutions, political statements and ‘reports’ that reinforce the ‘narrative’, such as the recently publicized report of the UN Human Rights Council on the Gaza border conflict.

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Both the PA and Hamas regularly commit atrocities, not only directed against Jews, but against their own people, most of which are completely ignored by their Western champions, because publicizing them would amount to admitting that when it comes to the PA and Gaza, they are supporting terrorist entities beyond the pale of civilized societies. This is the reason why terrorist murders of Israelis by Arab terrorists from the PA, for instance, rarely receive much more than a small notice in the international mainstream media, if they are mentioned at all. Those murders are officially encouraged and rewarded by Mahmoud Abbas’s regime, which remunerates the murderers by paying the terrorists or their families monthly stipends, financed by Western taxpayer money – another inconvenient fact that destroys the ‘narrative’.

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That is why calling for the murder of Jews, like Sheikh Osama Al-Tibi did on official PA TV, or blaming the Holocaust on the Jews will never be met with anything more than a yawn on the part of Western elites who have made ‘Palestine’ their favorite cause.

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(https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/keeping-up-the-narrative/2019/05/15/)

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Hamas Threatens the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Via Its TV Channel

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By Palestinian Media Watch, 3 Iyyar 5779 – May 8, 2019

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Following two days in which Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired around 700 rockets at Israel, Hamas’ official TV channel warned that if Israel does not honor the understandings to Hamas’ satisfaction, the terrorist organization can disrupt the Eurovision contest as it is being held in Israel.

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The footage was downloaded and translated by the Palestinian Media Watch organization, a media watchdog that monitors Palestinian Authority print and broadcast media.

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After praising the performance of the joint war room of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Mu’min Meqdad, the “Hebrew Affairs Editor and Expert” for Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV, warned that Hamas can disrupt the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel.

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Al-Aqsa TV “Hebrew Affairs Editor and Expert” Mu’min Meqdad: “There is no doubt that the resistance [Hamas] or the negotiator gave the occupation very little time to implement these understandings. I think that the coming days will be a test for the occupation. If the occupation evades [its responsibilities], I believe that the resistance [Hamas] can deprive the occupation the pleasure of a number of the coming opportunities, such as the European Song Contest. There is still room to maneuver in the coming days.” (Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas, May 6 2019)

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Later in the broadcast, the Al-Aqsa TV editor assured the viewers that Hamas “will have the last word” :

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Host: “Clearly there is a decision regarding the siege that it needs to be eased or changed in a clear manner in which the civilians will feel it, because the situation here in Gaza is very difficult.”

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Mu’min Meqdad: “[Hamas] will monitor… the implementation of the understandings… If the occupation changes its mind or evades these things, there is no doubt that the resistance will have the last word.”

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Currently, the “understandings” between Israel and Hamas that ended the rocket fire have not been publicized, but the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations do not only expect a ceasefire from Israel, but also an easing of the blockade on the Gaza Strip, imposed by Israel to prevent smuggling of weapons to the terrorists.

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If the agreement is not implemented in accordance with the understanding of the terrorist organizations, this interview implied that Hamas always has the option of renewing rocket attacks any time before or during the Eurovision contest, which begins next Tuesday, May 14, in Tel Aviv. The finale of the Eurovision takes place on Saturday, May 18.

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The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the most important annual European cultural events, and is viewed on television by 180 million people. It is being held this year in Israel because Israeli singer Netta Barzilai won last year’s contest.

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