Arafat’s Cultureof Hatred & Violence

Anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred in thePalestinian Authority’s media, schools, summercamps, religious sermons and officials’ speeches

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“If you do a content analysis of thePalestinian Authority’s media, it isworse than the Nazis’ propaganda.”

—Raanan Gissin, Spokesman for the Prime Minister of Israel Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 2001

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About the Zionist Organization of AmericaThe Zionist Organization of America is the oldest, and one of the largest, pro-Israelorganizations in the United States. Founded in 1897 to support the re-establish-ment of a Jewish State in the ancient Land of Israel, its presidents have includedsuch illustrious Jewish leaders as Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis andRabbi Abba Hillel Silver. The ZOA was instrumental in mobilizing the support ofthe U.S. government, Congress, and the American public for the creation of Israelin 1948.

With a national membership of more than 50,000 and active chapters throughoutthe United States, the ZOA today works to strengthen American-Israeli relations,through educational activities, public affairs programs, support for pro-Israel leg-islation on Capitol Hill, and by combating anti-Israel bias in the media.

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Introductionby United States Senator Arlen Specter

The promotion of hatred and violence ispervasive in the Palestinian Authority’smedia, schools, summer camps andreligious sermons. The PalestinianAuthority deliberately disseminatesmessages filled with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hatred with the clear aim of promotingviolence against Israel and the Jewishpeople. These teachings foster anenvironment of hostility and violence, notpeace and conciliation.

Clearly, the Palestinian Authority has notobserved their obligation under the OsloAccords to terminate the messagespromoting anti-Israel and anti-Jewishhatred. Instead, the Palestinian Authority israising an entire generation of Palestinianchildren to despise Jews and Israel withtextbooks that urge the young people toengage in violence against the people ofIsrael. The calls to fight and eliminate Israelthrough holy war and martyrdom for Allahappear frequently in the school textbooks.

The Palestinian Authority’s mediareinforces this message in hate-filledbroadcasts with the explicit aim to promoteviolence. Palestinian television broadcastsa continuous flow of violent images withmessages glorifying the children in thestreets as martyrs participating in Jihad.These teachings send a direct message tothe Palestinian people to pursue thedestruction of Israel. We cannot tolerate this

behavior by a society that claims to becommitted to pursuing the peace process.

The continued promotion of hatred by thePalestinian Authority is unacceptable, as itnot only violates the spirit of the peaceprocess but also the letter of the OsloAccords. In signing the 1995 InterimAgreement on the West Bank and Gaza, theIsraeli government and the PalestinianAuthority agreed to use their respectiveeducational systems and media to supportthe peace process. Notwithstanding thatcommitment, the Palestinian Authority hasfilled the school textbooks and broadcastmedia with the most vitriolic condemnationof Israel and the Jewish people.

These messages of hatred and violence areabsolutely intolerable if there is to be anychance of peace in the region. Without afoundation of trust in the hearts and mindsof the Palestinian people, the peace processis doomed to failure. The PalestinianAuthority should be held to the commitmentit made in the peace process, not the leastof which is to use the media and schooltextbooks in a way that will contribute topeace between the Israeli and Palestinianpeoples.

It is my hope that this publication willenable people to understand the situation,and they will join in the campaign toterminate the hate-filled messagesdisseminated by the Palestinian Authority.

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Arafat’s Cultureof Hatred and Violence

Morton A. KleinNational President, Zionist Organization of America

Foreword

The Oslo accords signed by Israel and thePalestinian Arabs required the transforma-tion of Yasir Arafat’s Palestine LiberationOrganization from a terrorist organizationto an organization that promotes peace withIsrael.

The accords specifically obligate the PLO’sPalestinian Authority to “abstain from in-citement, including hostile propaganda.”(Oslo II, Article XXII [1]) But it is morethan just a provision in a treaty. Arafat wassupposed to end hostile propaganda in or-der to begin to transform the hearts andminds of the Palestinian Arabs, so that theywould stop hating and murdering Jews.

Instead, Arafat has been sending Palestin-ian Arabs the same message of bigotry thathe was sending them before the Oslo ac-cords were signed. The PA has created aculture of hatred and violence comparableto the culture of anti-Jewish hatred createdin Nazi Germany during the 1930s. And inthe recent waves of violence, we have seenthe bloody results of Arafat’s incitement.

The PA uses its official television, radio,newspapers, school textbooks, summercamps, and religious sermons–which are itsprimary means of communicating with thePalestinian Arabs–to promote anti-Jewishhatred and glorify violence.

This report begins with a survey of the ha-tred and incitement just prior to, and dur-ing, the most recent waves of mass Pales-tinian Arab violence. But Arafat’s cultureof hatred did not evolve overnight. It hasbeen operating at full intensity since thesigning of the Oslo accords in September1993. This report therefore also examinessome of the central themes in the culture ofhatred as they have been promoted inrecent years.

As we review Arafat’s culture of hatred andassess its impact, we must always remem-ber the words of the noted historian PaulJohnson (in his book A History of the Jews):“One of the principal lessons of Jewish his-tory has been that repeated slanders aresooner or later followed by violentphysical deeds.”

A recent cartoonin Arafat’s official

newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah:

Jews as worms,destroying peace.

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I. The Hatred That Incitedthe Latest Violence

The latest Palestinian Arab violence againstIsrael erupted at the end of September 2000.Here is a sampling of the incitement pro-moted in the PA media during the weekspreceding the violence:

July 20, 2000 - “Knives and rifles”: theofficial PA daily Al-Hayat al-Jadidah pub-lishes a threat by the PA-appointed gover-nor of Khan Yunis, Sakhr Basiso, declaredthat the PA “will use all available meansfrom the kitchen knife to the

Kalatchnikov rifle [to achieve] the ultimatepurification of the land”. It also publishesa threat by Yasir Arafat’s wing of the PLO,Fatah, “announced a general call-up in itsranks as a preparation for the next stage.The movement announced the opening ofregistration for boys until the age of 16, forweapons training.” (Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah,July 20, 2000)

That same day’s edition publishes a noticefrom Arafat’s Fatah movement announcing“a general call-up in its ranks as a prepara-tion for the next stage,” with “the openingof registration for boys until the age of 16,for weapons training.”

July 21, 2000 - “Satan’s agents”: Theofficial PA Television repeatedly broadcasts

A one-year-oldIsraeli childinjured in aPalestinianArab attack

military parades and video clips of violenceagainst Israeli soldiers. The announcer de-scribes the Israeli soldiers on screen as“Satan’s agents” and “enemies of man-kind.”

That day’s edition of the PA newspaper AlHayat Al Jadidah publishes a statement bythe PA Mufti, Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, threat-ening “massacres and rivers of blood” if“Jewish prayer” takes place on the TempleMount.

July 23, 2000 - “Eternal struggle”: ThePA Television program “Good MorningJerusalem” features an artist with a paint-ing of Jesus between two Israeli soldiers.The artist tells the viewing audience: “Ourstruggle today against the Other is an eter-nal struggle; one can say that it began 2,000years ago and it continues until today. Iportray this with the figure of Jesus whocame to the world with the gospel of jus-tice, and the Other Side did what they didto him, and the Palestinian demands thesame justice, and they deal with us thesame way.”

July 24, 2000 - “Jewish murderers”: Theofficial PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah pub-lishes an article in its issue headlined,“Nazareth: The City Where the Jews Mur-dered the First Palestinian of Her Sons.” Thearticle declares: “Nazareth became famousas the place where Jesus grew up ... TheJews tried to attack the city many times inorder to disperse the people of Nazareth anduproot them, just as they obliterated manyArab villages ... The forces of the Zionistoccupation did not succeed in altering theface of the Palestinian Nazareth, and thatshe did not forget and will not forget herfirst son that the Jews betrayed and handedhim over to the Roman emperor, and per-sisted until he was taken out to be killed.”

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July 28, 2000 - “Kill the Jews”: PATelevision broadcasts a speech by theIslamic preacher Dr. Ahmad Yusuf AbuHalbiah, in which he proclaimed: “Theresurrection of the dead will not occur, untilyou battle with the Jews and kill them!”

August 2000 - “Jewish rapists”: InAugust, PA Television begins dailybroadcasts of a 10-minute film in whichactors portraying Israeli soldiers murderPalestinian Arab men and then savagelyrape and beat their wives and daughters.

August 6, 2000 - “Destroy Israel”: PATelevision broadcasts a speech by theSecretary-General of the Movement for theIslamic Struggle,” in which he declared:“The end of the Zionist entity is a Koranicnecessity, there is no place for [Israel] nomatter how long it takes.”

August 9, 2000 - Sheikh Yusef Abu Sneinadeclares in his August 9, 2000 sermon atthe Al Aksa mosque, which is broadcast onPA Television: “Muslim Palestine is oneand cannot be divided. There is nodifference between Haifa and Nablus, Lodand Ramallah, Jerusalem and Nazareth orGaza and Ashkelon. Palestine is wakf landthat belongs to Muslims throughout theworld and no one has the right to give it upor to forsake it. Whoever does this is atraitor to the trust and is nothing but acriminal whose end shall be in hell.”

August 11, 2000 - “War against Jews”:PA Television broadcasts a speech by theIslamic preacher Dr. Ahmad Yusuf AbuHalbiah, in which he announced: “O, ourArab brothers, O our Muslim brothers, don’tleave the Palestinians alone in their waragainst the Jews!” and “Let me take thisopportunity to speak about the Jews, abouttheir cunning ways, their heresy, theirjealousy and their attempts to get you to loseyour way.”

August 11, 2000 - “The hour ofconfrontation”: The PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah publishes a pledge by PApolice commander Ghazi Jabali: “ThePalestinian police will be leading, togetherwith all other noble sons of the Palestinian

people, when the hour of confrontationarrives.”

August 16, 2000 - “Expect to die”: ThePA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublishes a threat by Abu Ali Mustafa,secretary-general of the Popular FrontMovement: “We want to die as sacredmartyrs and to sacrifice our souls for our

homeland. The settlers should expect to die,and we will yet see who will suffer the fireof war and the coming battle.”

The same day’s newspaper also publishesa statement by Mohammed Dahlan, chiefof the PA Security Forces in Gaza: “Wewill reach an independent Palestinian statewith Jerusalem as its capital even if it isby blood.

August 18, 2000 - “Jews are enemies”:PA Television broadcasts a speech by aMuslim religious preacher proclaiming:“Allah decreed that in our lives, we are tohumiliate the Jews sooner or later. TheMuslims and the Arabs must stand behindthe sons of the nation of Palestine, for theyare the vanguard against the enemies ofAllah. And by Allah’s life, the Jews are theenemies of Islam.”

Teenage Palestinian Arab girl learninghow to use an automatic weapon

at a Palestinian Authority training camp

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Also on August 16, Arafat’s Minister ofCommunications, Imad Falouji, threatens“We are capable of blowing up Israeli cities”and warns that the Palestinian Arabs wouldstrike at “Israel’s heart.” (Arutz 7, Aug.16, 2000)

August 22, 2000 - “Israel’s crimes”: ThePA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah,commenting on the anniversary of the fireset at the Al Aksa mosque in Jerusalem in1969 by a mentally deranged AustralianChristian, tries to incite anti-Jewish hatredby claiming that Israel was actually theculprit in the arson attack: “The crime ofthe Al Aksa fire was carried out with theplanning and knowledge of the Tel Avivgovernment. The evidence and the fire’sresidues pointed toward the involvement inthe crime of an entire group, and the above-mentioned Jew [the Australian Christian]had accomplices.”

August 24, 2000 - “Violence is near”: ThePA’s Al Hayat Al Jadidah publishes a threatby PA Justice Minister Frieh Abu Middeinthat “Violence is near and the Palestinianpeople are willing to sacrifice even 5,000casualties.”

August 28, 2000 - “All of Palestine”: Onthe PA Television children’s show “TheBird’s Garden,” the host announces: “TodayI have chosen a truly beautiful picture foryou, a picture of the map of Palestine. [Thehost displays a map of Israel, from Metullahto Eilat, excluding the Golan.] Let us alllook at it together. A drawing of Palestine.Truly beautiful. It has Akko [Acre], Haifa,Jaffa, Tiberias, Tulkarm, Shechem[Nablus], Ramallah, Gaza, Khan Yunis,Hebron, Jerusalem and Jenin. Palestine isso beautiful! You can also see the DeadSea, here. You can see how beautiful ourcountry is, how beautiful it is. And to allour cherished friends on the map, be theyfrom Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Nazareth, Jenin,Tulkarm, Ramallah, Jerusalem ... or fromeverywhere, to all: welcome!”

August 30, 2000 - “This is my land”: PATelevision begins re-broadcasting a film

clip for children that appeared dozens oftimes in the past but was taken off the airdue to Israeli pressure. The clip defines allof Israel as Palestine, and the Israelis asthose who ‘took everything in 1948.’ Theclip, called “This is My Land, its Name isPalestine,’ is enchanting. It opens with afew young children building ‘Palestine’with Lego-like game blocks. They ‘build’houses and ‘plant’ trees; the atmosphere isone of joy and happiness. The children aresinging: ‘My box in my room/ My room inmy house/ my house in my neighborhood/my neighborhood in my country/ mycountry is very beautiful/ it has homes andoranges and neighbors and trees...’ Then thesong suddenly stops, the music changes, andan ‘earthquake’ causes the houses to trembleand fall.

A young girl then says in a sad and solemnvoice: ‘Do you know what happened in1948? They took every single thing! Theyemptied the room, they smashed the house,they torched the forest, they changed the

names, changed the names... This is stillmy land, it is a beautiful land, the name ofmy land is Palestine.’ The clip ends withthe children presenting themselves in turn,noting their name and town: Kafr Kassem,Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa and other places inIsrael.

A cartoon in Arafat’s officialnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:The Jew as the Angel of Death.

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II. Textbooks

The textbooks cited below are published bythe Palestinian Authority, and are currentlyused in the PA’s school system.

* “Liberate through blood”: From apoem titled “Bayonets and Swords”: “Inyour left hand you carried the Koran, andin your right an Arab sword. Without bloodnot even one centimeter will be liberated.Therefore, go forward crying, ‘Allah isgreat’.” The text then adds: “The poemrepresents a reality lived by Palestinians.Explain this.”

—Reader and Literary Textsfor Eighth Grade, p. 135

* “Drive out the Jews”: “Know, my son,that Palestine is your country, that its puresoil is drenched with the blood of Martyrs.Why must we fight the Jews and drive themout of our land?”

—Our Arabic Language forFifth Grade, pp.64-66

* “ Jihad is a religious duty”: “Determinewhat is the subject, and what is the

predicate, in the following sentence: ‘Thejihad is a religious duty of every Muslimman and woman.’”

—Our Arabic Language forFifth Grade, #542, p.167

* “Die as a Martyr on the battlefield”:“The Muslim sacrifices himself for his faithand fights a jihad for Allah. He does notknow cowardice because he understandsthat the time of his death is already ordained,and that his dying as a Martyr on the fieldof battle is preferable to dying in bed.”

—Islamic Education forEighth Grade, #576, p.176

* “Martyred jihad fighters are the mosthonored”: “Martyred jihad fighters are themost honored people, after the Prophets.”

—Reading and Literary Textsfor Tenth Grade, #607, p. 103

* “The jihad fighter sacrifices himself”:“Jihad with one’s life: This is by fightingenemies. This is the highest level of jihadbecause the jihad fighter sacrifices himselfin accordance with Allah’s way for the sakeof his religion and to defend his nation.”

—Islamic Education forSeventh Grade, #564, p.107

* “Gather for war with red blood”: Froma poem titled “Palestine”: “My brothers!The oppressors have crossed the borders,therefore we must wage jihad and redeemour land. Are we to let them steal its Arabnature? Draw your sword, let us gather forwar with red blood and blazing fire. Deathshall call and the sword shall be crazed frommuch slaughter. O Palestine, the youth willredeem your land.”

—Reader and Literary Texts forEighth Grade, pp. 120-122

A woman waving a Palestinian Authority flag.In the background is a map of “Palestine”

in place of all of Israel. (National PalestinianEducation for First Grade, #509, p 11)

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* “Jews are evil”: “Why do the Jews hateMuslim unity and want to cause divisionamong them? Give an example of the evilattempts of the Jews, from events happeningtoday.”

—Islamic Education forSeventh Grade, p.19

* “The Zionist enemy”: “Complete thefollowing blank spaces with the appropriateword: ‘The Zionist enemy _______civilians with its aircraft.’”

—Our Arabic Language,Part 2, for Third Grade, p.9

* “The fanaticism of theJews”: “Write in your exercisebook: An event showing thefanaticism of the Jews inPalestine against Muslims orChristians.”

—Islamic Educationfor Ninth Grade, p. 182

* “Jews kill Muslims andChristians”: “The Jews havekilled Muslim and Christian inhabitants ofPalestine, whose inhabitants are stillsuffering oppression and persecution underracist Jewish administration.”

—Islamic Education forNinth Grade, #589, p.182

* “Jews are treacherous”: “One mustbeware of the Jews, for they are treacherousand disloyal.”

—Islamic Education forNinth Grade, p.79

* “Jews are the enemies of the Prophets”:“Learn from this lesson: I believe that theJews are the enemies of the Prophets andthe believers.”

—Islamic Education forFourth Grade, Part 2, p.67

* “Jews foment wars”: “Lessons to belearned: One must beware of war betweenbrothers, which the Jews try to foment, andof the trap that they set for the Muslims.”

—Islamic Education forNinth Grade, p.94

* “Jews are evil racists”: “ ‘Racism’:Mankind has suffered from this evil both inancient as well as in modern times, for,indeed, Satan has, in the eyes of manypeople, made their evil actions appearbeautiful...Such a people are the Jews.”Islamic Education for Eighth Grade, p.95

* “The Jews fought Mohammed”: “TheJews adopted a position of hostility anddeception towards the new religion [Islam].They called Mohammed a liar and deniedhim; they fought against his religion in allways and by all means, a war that has notyet ended until today, and they conspiredwith the hypocrites and polytheists againsthim, and they are still behaving in the sameway.”

—Islamic Education forSeventh Grade, p.125

* A map titled “Our Country, Palestine,”which shows “Palestine” replacing all ofIsrael, appears in Palestinian NationalEducation for Second Grade, #519, p.2.

* A map titled “Map of Palestine Beforeand After the War of 1967,” defining pre-

Palestinian Arabs smashing a synagoguethat was under construction near

the Israeli town of Beit El.

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1967 Israel as “The Arab lands conqueredbefore 1967,” appears in Modern ArabHistory and Contemporary Problems, Part2, for Tenth Grade, #613, p.66.

* Maps of the Middle East omitting Israeland showing “Palestine” in its place appearon pp. 81, 84, 88, 89, 103, 107, 109, 110,120, 122, and 124 of Social and NationalEducation for Fifth Grade, Part A, #549.

* Maps of the Middle East omitting Israeland showing “Palestine” in its place appearon pp. 12, 20, 23, 36, 48, 50, 53, 55, 61, 66,72, 73, 80, 81, 88, 90, 115, and 124 ofGeography of the Arab Homeland for SixthGrade, #557.

* A “Map of the Arab Homeland,” showing“Palestine” in place of Israel, appears inPalestinian National Education for FifthGrade, #550, on p.6 and again on p. 20.

The PA’s New Textbooks:

In September 2000, the PA Ministry ofEducation issued fourteen new textbooksfor use in grades 1 and 6. The books usedpreviously for all other grades (includingthe books cited in this report) continue tobe used.

Palestinian Media Watch, which analyzedthe new books in detail, found:

No mention of peace: “The newPalestinian schoolbooks make no attemptto educate for peace and coexistence withIsrael. Indeed, the opposite is true. Thepeace process is not even referred to in theschoolbooks. The Oslo Accords arementioned once, but are not defnied as apeace process, rather as a point in timeconnected to the PLO’s ‘liberation armyforces’ entering ‘Palestine’.”

Israel de-legitimized: “The bookscontinue to instruct de-legitimization ofIsrael. Israel is defined as foreign to theMiddle East and is categorized as acolonialist conqueror, which occupied‘Palestine’ in 1948 ... Israel is mentionedonly in contexts that breed contempt, suchas having expelled and massacredPalestinians.”

No Israel on the maps: “The bookscontinue to teach non-recognition of Israel.Israel’s name does ont appear on any mapand Israel’s place on the maps is marked‘Palestine’.”

All of Israel is “Palestine”: “Everyreference to Israeli cities, regions, andgeographic areas identifies them as part of‘Palestine’.”

No tolerance for Jews: “A chapter inNational Education for Grade Six isdedicated to “Tolerance,” yet the PAschoolbook does not mention Jews orIsraelis in the entire chapter. A prominentpicture shows a Christian shaking handswith a Muslim.”

Official emblem of the Palestinian Authority’s“Az-Ramla” High School for Girls in Gaza,

depicting all of Israel as “Palestine”

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* Weapons Training for Arab Children:According to Palestinian Media Watch,“The official summer camps of the P.A. inno way resemble what one would expect tofind in a summer camp. There are nocounselors in shorts teaching basketball.Rather in the PA summer camps thecounselors wear army uniforms, and thechildren undergo weapons training. Theofficial Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, (July 18, 2000) describedtheir summer camps as follows:

‘Maru’an Barood, aged 13, who is wearingan Army uniform consisting of camouflagepants... speaks with great enthusiasm afterhe completed special training on takingapart and re-assembling a weapon: ‘We trainin order to defend ourselves and ourmotherland against any Israeli attack, andin order to defend our independentPalestinian state. We want peace but the

III. Summer Camps

Israelis don’t want peace’. Abu-Jasser, aged14, says, ‘We are undergoing militarytraining in order to defend our motherlandPalestine, chase out the settlers, and returnJerusalem to us, because it is our eternalcapital’...

Brig. General Salim El-Wadia, who isresponsible for the “Political Education” inthe Gaza Strip said: ‘We organize thesecamps within the framework of the generaltraining program ... and this includesmilitary training. We tell them [to the boys]that there will not be peace without thereturn [of millions of Arab ‘refugees’ fromaround the world] without the freeing ofprisoners [Arab terrorists jailed in Israel],and without the establishing of anindependent Palestinian state whose capitalis Jerusalem. We want peace, while theIsraelis only want co-existence that willimpede our independence, our honor, and

Youths at a Palestinian Authority summer campbeing trained in how to kidnap an Israeli soldier

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our sovereignty.’ Next to the report is apicture of young children learning how touse automatic weapons.” A PA Televisionbroadcast on July 16, 2000 showed a skit performed at a PA summer camp for girls.In the skit, an Arab man tells his daughterhow the Jews, whom he calls “dogs,” are“stealing our land.” When the man goesout to plough his field, he is confronted bya group of armed Jews who beat him todeath and take his land.

* Cities in Pre-1967 Israel Are“Palestine”: According to PalestinianMedia Watch, “Twice this week, the emceeof the PA children’s television program ‘AGarden of Birds’ displayed drawings ofwhat she defined as ‘Palestine’ for the fiveand six year olds that included all of Israelas part of Palestine. In one she displayedthe map and this is how she described it: ‘Ihave chosen a beautiful picture today, themap of “Palestine”...It has Acre, Haifa,Jaffa, Tiberias...Jerusalem. Palestine is sobeautiful. Our country is so beautiful. Yousee how beautiful our country is...To all ourdear viewers who are on the map, whetherfrom Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Nazareth ...welcome!” (July 18, 2000) The cities shelisted are within pre-1967 Israel.

“In a second program, a similar map of‘Palestine’ is completely fettered in chains,which encircle the entire country several

times. The emcee tells the children: “Wehave a very nice drawing ... it has a man,and some real pretty things...a drawing ofthe map of Palestine with chains andshackles on it. Allah willing my dear[children], these chains will be freed andPalestine will remain ours forever.”

* The PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidadescribed, on July 18, 2000, a PAeducational program called “Know YourCountry”:

“The Ministry of Youth and Sport organizeda trip yesterday for [campers] from ages 5to 12 ... They visited the city of Acre [inNorthern Israel]...and they heardexplanations about the hardship that thePalestinians of Acre are suffering ... Duringthe trip the children sang nationalisticPalestinian songs which aroused the angerof Jewish guards at the site ... Later on, thechildren met with their counterparts fromsummer camps from within the area of theGreen Line [Israeli Arab children] ... in amanner that emphasized the happiness ofthe Palestinian children ... The children alsovisited Caesarea, Nahariya, [both Israelicities within the pre-1967 borders] Sebastia,and Jericho, in order to increase theeducational identity of the Palestinian child.The camp is run under the framework ofthe educational program entitled ‘KnowYour Country’.”

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The chief Mufti of Jerusalem, SheikhIkrama Sabri, is the most senior Muslimreligious authority in the city. He isappointed by the PA, and he has under hisjurisdiction numerous religious preachers.The sermons they deliver each Friday at theAl Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem are broadcastover PA Radio.

[Note: The examples below are from theperiod prior to September 2000. For themost recent examples of religious sermonsby Sabri and other preachers incitingviolence, see Section I of this report, TheHatred That Incited the Latest Violence.]

“Suicide bombings legitimate”: SheikhSabri said that Palestinian Arab suicidebombings against Israelis are justified as “aresponse to the occupation.” (Reuters,March 19, 2000)

“Enemies of Islam”: Shikah Abu Sneinah,in his sermon at the Al Aqsa mosque onJanuary 15, 1999, declared: “Our strugglein Palestine is an ideological strugglebetween Islam and the enemies of Islam.”(Palestinian Media Watch, Jan.19, 1999)

* “Encourage martyrs”: Sheikh Sabri,commenting on efforts to pressure Israel tosurrender the bodies of Hezbollah terrorists,said: “To have a grave with the name ofthe martyr and the date of the battleencourages people to follow his path.Honoring martyrs is very important forpolitical reasons.” (Jerusalem Times, July3, 1998)

* “America is the chief of the terrorists”:Excerpts from Sheikh Sabri’s September12, 1997 sermon at the Al Mosque mosque,which was broadcast on PA Radio: “OMuslims, we must raise our voices against

IV. Religious Sermons

America, its ally Britain and all the infidelnations ... America is the chief of theterrorists. O Allah, destroy America, heragents and her allies! Cast them into theirown traps, and cover the White House withblack!” (Israel Gov’t Press Office, Sept.14,1997)

* “O Allah, destroy America”: Excerptsfrom Sheikh Sabri’s July 11, 1997 sermonat the Al Aksa mosque, whch was broadcaston PA radio: “O Allah, destroy America,for she is ruled by Zionist Jews ... Allah willpaint the White House black! ... Allah shalltake revenge on behalf of his prophet againstthe colonialist settlers who are sons ofmonkeys and pigs ... Forgive us,Mohammed, for the acts of these sons ofmonkeys and pigs who sought to harm yoursanctity.” (Israel Gov’t Press Office,Sept.14, 1997)

* “The Jews are devious”: Sheikh Sabrideclared in a sermon at the Al Aqsa mosque:“There is no one that can deny the Jews actdeviously, as the Koran itself shows, andno one knows when they will be stopped ...We must rise up against the occupation withall our might to achieve what we want.”(Jerusalem Post, June 14, 1996)

* “Liberate Jerusalem by jihad”: SheikhSabri said: “Jerusalem is under occupationand the Moslems of the world shouldliberate it by jihad and put it under Islamicand Arabic authority.” (Jerusalem Post,May 3, 1995)

* “Israel will be destroyed”: In a March1995 sermon at the Al Aqsa mosque, SheikhSabri said: “Muslims I am sure that Israelwill eventually be destroyed and that thesettlements will be your spoils.” (AssociatedPress, March 6, 1995)

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V. Recent Incitement

Once the mass Palestinian Arab violenceagainst Israel began at the end of September2000, the official PA media —television,radio, and newspapers— continually incitedadditional violence by publishing andbroadcasting appeals to kill Jews, as wellas false accusations designed to whip uphatred against Jews and Israel.

In addition to the specific quotes listedbelow, PA television and radio broadcastsmaintained a steady drum-beat of war-likepronouncements, such as repeatedlyannouncing the names of Palestinian Arabswho were killed and praising them as “holymartyrs” and “stars of the blessed intifada”;giving the times and locations of thefunerals; graphic descriptions of thewounded, such as “occupation bullets

pierced his eye”; and playing martial music,such as patriotic marching tunes withIslamic lyrics emphasizing the need formartyrs. To further legitimize violenceagainst Israelis, the PA media routinelyreferred to all Israeli self-defense actions as“aggression” or “massacres,” and Israeli

leaders, including then-Prime MinisterEhud Barak, were characterized as “warcriminals.”

What follows is a sampling of the incitementbroadcast by the PA media during the firstmonths of the violence.

September 29, 2000: PA Radio broadcasta sermon from the Al Aqsa mosque, inwhich the preacher urged his audience to“eradicate the Jews from Palestine.” (PMW)Members of the audience then engaged inmass rock-throwing against Israeli policein the Temple Mount plaza outside themosque, and against Jews worshipping atthe adjacent Western Wall. This was thefirst instance of mass rioting in the recentwaves of violence. (Washington Post, 10/04/00)

October 3, 2000: The director-general ofthe PA Information Ministry, Hassan Al-Kashef, writing in his daily column in thePalestinian Arab newspaper Al Ayyam,stated: “The only way to impose ourconditions is inevitably through our blood.Our national duty is to continue theconfrontation, continue the intifada,continue to sacrifice our martyrs so that theblood of our martyrs and injured will nothave been spilled in vain.” (MEMRI)

October 8, 2000: Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublished a Fatah announcement, also readaloud on PATV, declaring: “The Fatahmovement calls for its brave sons who standat the front lines in all the disturbances tocontinue their great struggle and even toincrease it ... The Fatah movement gives itsblessings and support to the guns of Fatah.”(IMRA)

October 10, 2000: Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublished an interview with the highest

From a cartoon in Arafat’s officialnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:

A Jew’s hands dripping with Arab blood

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ranking Muslim religious authority inEgypt, Sheikh Mohammed Tantawi, callingfor “ jihad against what is called ‘Israel’!”(MEMRI)

October 13, 2000: PA Television broadcasta sermon by Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya,given in a mosque in Gaza, declaring:“Have no mercy on the Jews, no matterwhere they are, in any country. Fight them,wherever you are. Wherever you meetthem, kill them.” (IRIS)

October 19, 2000: A PATelevisionbroadcast conducted conversations with 2ndgrade school children. An interviewer askeda child who had thrown rocks at Israelis,“You threw stones at the army and injuredyour leg. Will you throw again?” Child:“Yes”. Interviewer: “You aren’t afraid todie?” Child: [embarrassed, hesitant]Interviewer: [indicates “No” to the child byshaking her head in the negative] Child:“No.” (PMW)

October 24, 2000: Sheikh Col. Nader Al-Tamini, Mufti of the PLO’s PalestinianLiberation Army, said in a television debateon the Qatari Arabic cable news channel Al-Jazeera, which is broadcast in the PAterritories, that “there can be no peace withthe Jews because they suck and use theblood of Arabs on the holidays of Passoverand Purim.” (MEMRI)

October 27, 2000: PA Television broadcastschoolgirls reciting the “Song of theMartyr”: “I will take my soul in my handand toss it into the abyss of death. And theneither life that will gladden friends or deaththat will anger the enemy. The honorablesoul has two objectives: Achieving deathand honor.”(The poem appears in 5th, 6thand 12th grade PA school books.) (PMW)

October 27, 2000: An editorial in Al-HayatAl-Jadidah by its editor in chief, HafezBarghouti, said that parents who discouragetheir children from throwing rocks at Israelisare committing “the most severetransgressions...These destructive,

abominable individuals harm us more thanthe bullets of the occupation, because theyconstitute a fifth column.” (PMW)

October 31, 2000: PA Television broadcastarchival footage intended to give the falseimpression that Israel was bombing housesin the Jerusalem Arab suburb of Beit Jala.The Israeli Army spokesman called the

broadcast “incitement whose purpose is toinflame the region.” (IDF)

November 1, 2000: PA Televisionbroadcast interviews (not live, but edited)with young Palestinian Arab women—oneat a demonstration saying “All we ask isthat the Arab countries stand by our side,give us weapons, and we, on our own, willprevail—we’ll kill them on our own, murderthem, slaughter them, all of them, we askonly for weapons, and we won’t spare asingle Jew,” and a group of high schoolgirls, speaking during recess, saying, “Wewant all the Arab countries to arm us withweapons, then we’ll see who will win, usor the Jews. We want neither medical aidnor money. We need only weapons.”(PMW)

November 2, 2000: Al Hayat - Al Jadidahinterviewed the father of a Palestinian Arabkilled while attacking Israelis, 23 year-old

An Israeli mother, Mrs. Sima Gal, hospitalizedalong with her one-year-old daughter, Miriam,after a Palestinian Arab rock-throwing attack

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Mohammed Hiza Halas, reporting: “[Hehas] great pride that his progeny has becomea Martyr .... With regard to his mother, shesays that her offspring wished to become aMartyr and she anticipated it.” The sameday, PA Television broadcast an interviewwith a teacher, standing next to students,saying: “Our blood is a sign of our fightingfor our precious Palestine.” (PMW)

November 3, 2000: PA Radio repeatedlybroadcast a statement by Arafat’s #2 man,Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) saying “theIntifada will continue until the Palestiniansreach their goals.” (MW)

November 6, 2000: PA Radio’s seniorcommentator, Yousef al-Kazzaz, assertedon the air: “We threw the Israelis out ofLebanon, and we will throw them out ofHebron.” Another commentator said:“Palestinian blood will defeat occupation,settlements, and Judaization and siege andbullets and tanks and missiles.” A statementfrom the Fatah Shabiba (Youth) Movement

was read aloud, which stated: “Carrying outthe intifada is an effort to achieve the goalsof freedom and independence for ourpeople.” (MW)

The same day’s edition of Al Hayat - AlJadidah interviewed young Palestinian

Arabs wounded while attacking Israelis, andreported: “The wounded 11-year-old, AmrQarut, wants to win the honor of a Martyr’sdeath... and he insists on continuing the[violent] struggle.” ... “The wounded Sa’edAwad Allah [aged 11], from the Jaballiya[refugee] camp said: We are all potentialMartyrs for Jerusalem and the Homeland”(PMW)November 8, 2000: Al Hayat - Al Jadidahinterviewed young Palestinian Arabswounded while attacking Israelis, andreported: “What pushes our children andyouth to the arenas of death?... [RamadanSaadi Abd Rabbo, an injured 13-year-old,said:] ‘my goal is not to be injured, butrather something higher: Martyrdom.’” Italso reported: “The Martyr Wajdi [aged 14,said] to his father: ‘I will bring you aShahada (Martyrdom) that you will beproud of for the rest of your life’. His mothersays: ‘My son is not my son only, he belongsto his noble Palestinian people. One of hisfriends said that the last words of the Martyr,that he repeated over and over, spoke of thesignificance of Martyrdom and onbecoming a Martyr.” (PMW)

November 8, 2000: The 7:00 a.m. newsroundup on PA Radio began with a songwhose lyrics included: “The voice of therocks above the voice of the thieves / Theeyes cry with yearning, the small hands holda stone, daring the aggressors”. (MW)

November 9, 2000: Al Hayat - Al Jadidahinterviewed the father of a young PalestinianArab killed while attacking Israelis, andreported:

“[He] sacrificed his son (aged 18) in orderto redeem the homeland and Jerusalem. Hestated that becoming a Martyr is atremendous source of pride and a medal onhis chest... he added that his son alwaysspoke about martyrdom and his desire tobecome a Martyr.”

It also reported: “The Martyr MuhammadAbu Tahoun wrote down his final words onhis notebook:

Palestinian Arabs throwing rocks andfirebombs at Israelis in Hebron

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‘The Martyrs will attain Paradise, and I willbe with them, Allah willing.’”

And: “The Martyr Wajdi Al-Hattab (9thgrade) responded to the call of Allah andachieved the Martyrdom that he yearned for,so that it would clear the way for theliberation of Al Aksa and Palestine from thedefilement of the occupation. He would

always say to his friends: ‘When I becomea Martyr, give out Kannafa [sweet cake].He always spoke about his uncle whobecame a Martyr in southern Lebanon, andyearned to become a Martyr like him and[now] he attained what he yearned for. Hereached the highest levels with Allah.[Wajdi’s gym teacher relates:] Wajdi askedme to give out Kannafa if he becomes aMartyr. His classmates swore that theywould continue in the path of Martyrdomuntil the liberation of Jerusalem.”’ (PMW)

November 13, 2000: PA Radio broadcasta call by Hamas leader Sheikh AhmedYassin urging Arabs to “transform theIntifada into an armed struggle against theIsraeli conquest.” (Ha’aretz)

November 23, 2000: In an interview on PARadio, PA Justice Minister Freih AbuMedein said: “We have to close Israelinside a ghetto. She does not feel like part

of the region, but wants to control theregion.” He also said: “The United Statesis the real enemy, the first and the mostdirect with its capital, its weapons in bloodand protection.”

November 25, 2000: Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublished a statemet by PA Minister ofSupplies Abu Ali Shahin: “The intifada is a

liberation movement, and therefore allmeans may be used in order to accomplishits goal.” (MEMRI)

November 27, 2000: On PA Radio, a“Special Ramadan Show” authored by PABroadcasting Corporation director RadwanAbu Ayyash, called on listeners to “purifythe Holy Land for the Zionist presence.”(MW) Discussing the importance of theMuslim month of Ramadan, PA MuftiSheikh Sabri said on PA Radio thatMohammed’s first major military victory,the Battle of Badr, took place in Ramadan,as did Mohammed’s conquest of Mecca andthe 1973 Arab invasion of Israel. (MW) Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah published a statement bythe head of the PA’s National GuidanceDirectorate, Othman Abu Gharbiyya, “Theintifada will not stop halfway. It willcontinue until it accomplishes the goals ofour people.” (MEMRI)

Palestinian Arab rioters on the march

November 30, 2000: Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahreported: “A 12 year old boy who died inthe fighting named Karam, so yearned forhis own Martyrdom, that he wrote his own“death announcements” on the walls of hisown home ... Prior to his being injured...Karam announced his own death on thewalls of his home and attributed to himselfMartyrdom and its honor, in his handwritingon the walls. The notice read: ‘The Al-Kardfamily announces the death of itscourageous Martyr Karam Fat’he Al-Kard...”

December 2, 2000: Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublished a column declaring: “We mustchoose a battlefield that will cause themdeath and fear and preserve our sons... Wemust choose the place, the time and themethod which will not only leave them

sleepless, but will cause them every formof pain and fear... We must take the battleto the enemy’s land, if we may use this term,in the knowledge that all of Palestine isunder occupation... Let us carry the battleinto Palestine occupied since 1948...”(PMW)

December 14, 2000 - The PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah publishes a four-pageinsert with a detailed daily schedule for mobviolence against Israelis. One day wasdesignated “General Escalation Day,”featuring “expanded resistance activity andconfrontation in the villages.” The dailyschedule is introduced with the words, “Theintifada leadership reiterates its promise tostrengthen national unity and continue alongthe common course: blood of the martyrsuntil success.”

Jewish worshippers being evacuated from the Western Wallbecause of rock-throwing attack by Palestinian Arabs from the Temple Mount above

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Key to sources cited in this section:

MEMRI = Middle East Media Research InstitutePMW = Palestinian Media Watch

MW = Michael Widlanski, Hebrew UniversityIDF = Israel Defense Forces SpokespersonIRIS = Information Regarding Israel’s Security

The PA’s official television station, radiostation, and newspapers are filled with hate-filled statements by Yasir Arafat and otherPalestinian Authority officials. These arenot merely statements criticizing Israelipolicies; they are venomous attacks on Jews,Judaism, and Jewish history.

From statements made by Palestinian Arabparents and children to the media, it is clearthat the PA media are having a significantimpact:

On October 27, 2000, PA Televisionshowed schoolgirls singing, “I will take mysoul in my hand and toss it into the abyss ofdeath / And then either life that will gladdenfriends or death that will anger the enemy /The honorable soul has two objectives:Achieving death and honor.”

On October 29, 2000, the New York Timesdescribed a Palestinian Arab mother askingher 2 year-old son what he wants to be whenhe grows up, and the child answered, “Amartyr.” It also quoted a Palestinian Arabfather, speaking of his teenage sons whothrow rocks at Israelis and who “all yearnfor just one thing: to be martyrs forPalestine.” The father added: “I pray onlythat God will choose them.”

On November 2, 2000, a teacher appearedon PA Television alongside her students andsaid, “Our blood is a sign of our fightingfor our precious Palestine.” In that sameday’s edition of the PA newspaper Al-HayatAl-Jadidah, the father of an Arab youthkilled while attacking Israelis was quotedas saying that he has “great pride that hisprogeny has become a martyr,” and theyouth’s mother was quoted as saying that“her offspring wished to become a martyrand she anticpated it.”

VI. Mass Media

On November 6, 2000, the PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah quoted a “wounded 11year-old, Amr Qarut,” as saying that he

“wants to win the honor of a martyr’sdeath...and he insists on continuing thestruggle.” It also quoted “the woundedSa’ed Awad Allah, aged 11,” as saying:“We are all potential martyrs for Jerusalemand the homeland.”

On November 8, 2000, the PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah quoted a wounded 13year-old, Ramadan Saadi Abd Rabbo,saying: “My goal is not to be injured, butrather something higher: Martyrdom.”

(a) Use of ClassicAnti-Jewish Stereotypes

* “Protocols of the Elders of Zion provesJews seek to conquer the world”: ThePA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah claimed, onJanuary 25, 2001, that the Protocols of the

From a cartoon in Arafat’s officialnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:

A five-star (five-skull) Israeli General

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Elders of Zion lays out the secret plan ofIsrael and world Jewry to “hold the reins ofmost of the newspapers” in order to “havethe means to propel and to influence.”

* “Israel acts according to the Protocolsof the Elders of Zion”: “‘Netanyahu’s —Plan’ completely matches the foundationsof the greater Zionist plan which isorganized according to specific stages thatwere determined when the Protocols of theElders of Zion was composed and whenHerzl along with Weizmann traveledaround the world in order to determine theappropriate location for the implementationof this conspiracy,” according to an articlein the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahon Nov. 30, 1997.

* “The Jews seek to conquer the world.”The PA’s Minister of Agriculture, AbdelJawad Saleh, told the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Nov. 6, 1997 that “Wemust expose the Zionist-Colonialist plot andits goals, which destroy not only our peoplebut the entire world.”

* “Israel is Shylock”: “We do not wantShylock-style banks that empty our pockets,but national banks; we have had enough ofthe Shylock of the lands and settlements,”said Hafez al-Barghouti, editor of the PAnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, in acolumn on Nov. 5, 1997.

* “The Judaized Congress.” An articlein the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahon Nov.18, 1997 by its editor, Hafez al-Barghouti, referred to the United States

Congress as “the Judaized Congress.”

* “Netanyahu’s Talmudic arrogance.”On Nov. 4, 1997, the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah published an officialbiweekly communiqué from Yasir Arafat’sFatah movement, which referred to PrimeMinister Netanyahu’s “outdated Talmudicarrogance and his absolute belief that he isthe spoiled child of Brooklyn’s nymphs.”

* “The Jews spread death and spillblood.” An article in the PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Oct.31, 1997condemned “those who spread death andmurder and spill blood, and who are said tobe our cousins and, like us, ‘the children ofAbraham,’ despite the fact that Abraham didnot immigrate to Poland, did not visit NewYork and New Jersey, and did not live inRussia.”

* “Israel has a Talmudic quarrel-mongering mentality.” The Israeligovernment exhibits “a Talmudic quarrel-mongering mentality,” according to anarticle in the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Oct. 29, 1997. The column alsoreferred to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s“blood-sucking lips.”

* “The Jews live by the Protocols of theElders of Zion.” “These Zionists are notfit to establish a nation or to have their ownlanguage or even their own religion. Theyare nothing more than a hodgepodge,”according to an article in the PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Sept. 2, 1997.Another article in the same issue claimed:“The Jews live by the Talmud and theProtocols of the Elders of Zion. The conflictbetween Muslim and Jews is an eternalconflict, similar to the conflict betweenmankind—the Muslims, and Satan—theJews, and how unfortunate the Palestiniansare that they have to serve as the Muslims’avant garde in the eternal battle of theMuslims and all the nations against the‘nation of Jews.’” (quoted in Ma’ariv, Sept.12, 1997)

“These Zionists are notfit to establish a nation

or to have their ownlanguage or even theirown religion. They are

nothing more thana hodgepodge.”

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* “Chewing of the peace by the teeth ofthe Talmud.” “Netanyahu’s claws ofhatred dive into our Palestinian blood insearch of oxygen-rich blood cells [with]fangs of hatred and the chewing of the peaceby the teeth of the Talmud,” declared aposition paper by Arafat’s Fatah faction ofthe PLO, published in the PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Oct. 18, 1997.

* “The Jews are like Satan.” “Theconflict between the Jews and the Muslimsresembles the conflict between man andSatan,” according to an article in the PAnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Sept. 1,1997.

* “An enemy which bares its Jewishfangs.” On Aug. 6, 1997, the PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah published an articlewhich urged the PA to “protect its peopleand itself from an enemy which bares itsJewish fangs from the four corners of theearth.”

* “Jews are stingy.” “Generosity is anArab custom and stinginess is a Jewishcustom,” according to an article in the PAnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Aug. 5, 1997.

* “Zionism’s Talmudic offensive.”“Zionist racism reaches its peak with thisTalmudic offensive, which tears the pagesof the Koran, and which offends the Masterof Prophets, Mohammed, and the BlessedVirgin,” said Hasan Al-Kashef, director-general of the PA’s Ministry of Information,in the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahon July 7, 1997.

* “Jesus was the victim of the roots ofTalmudic extremism.” “Jesus was thevictim of the roots of Talmudic extremism,which is currently waving a national flag,wearing a helmet of a national army andemploying state-run terrorism by means ofarmed settlers and an army,” said Hasan Al-Kashef, director-general of the PA’sMinistry of Information, in the PAnewspaper Al -Hayat Al-Jadidah onJuly 7, 1997.

* “Israel is a demon.” Arafat called Israel“a demon” that swallows up everything.”(New York Times, Aug. 7, 1996)

(b) Libelous Accusations

* “Israel bring drugs into Palestiniansociety”: PA cabinet minister asserted thatthe Israeli authorities are working hard on

bringing drugs into the Palestinian society.”Her accusation was broadcast on PATelevision on July 23, 2000.

* “Israel causes cancer among Arabwomen and children”:Yasir Arafat’s wife Suha, at a pressconference with Hillary Clinton, accusedIsrael of “daily and intensive use ofpoisonous gas,” causing “cancer and otherhorrible diseases” among Palestinian Arabwomen and children. She claimed Israel had“poisoned our air with poisonous gases” andcaused Palestinian Arab women andchildren to suffer “cancer and other horriblediseases”. Mrs. Arafat also claimed thatIsrael has contaminated 80% of PalestinianArab water sources with “chemicalmaterials.” (Reuters, Nov. 11, 1999)

A Palestinian Arab rock throweraims at his target

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* “The Jews plan to destroy Al AqsaMosque.” Speaking at the Muslim Summitin Teheran, Iran, on Dec.10, 1997, Arafatsaid: “I am ringing the bell of danger to warnagainst the Jewish plan to build the Templeof Solomon in the place where today standsAl Aqsa Mosque, after removing themosque.” He added: “Rescuing Jerusalemfrom the devil of invasive settlements andfrom the danger of Judaization obliges usto take serious and urgent actions to protectthe city and prevent the Israeli plan...toprotect it from the danger of invasiveJudaization, which aims at eliminating itsIslamic and Arab identity, obscure itshistoric and cultural heritage, and sully thelofty holy and religious sites.”

* “Israel spreads Mad Cow disease.”Maher al-Dasouqi, director of thePalestinian Authority’s Committee forConsumer Protection, declared: “Citizensmust be vigilant regarding chocolate fromEngland, especially ‘Cadbury’s,’ which isvery popular in Palestinian markets, sincemilk used in the production of all types of

[Cadbury’s] chocolate was infected with‘mad cow disease.’ The sale of thischocolate is forbidden in England, but it wassmuggled into the Palestinian regions byIsraeli merchants...” Dasouqi’s allegationwas published in the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Dec. 8, 1997.

* “Israel poisons Arab food.” Israel isdistributing “spoiled goods and foodsupplies” among the Palestinian Arabs, saidAbd al-Fatah Hamid, director of the Controland Inspection Department of the PA’sMinistry of Supplies, to the Palestinian Arabnewspaper Al Ayam (Oct.29, 1997). “Thisis one of Israel’s means in its war againstPalestinian society,” Hamid asserted.

* “Israel will create artificialearthquakes to destroy Al Aqsa.”“In order to establish the Temple in placeof the Al Aqsa Mosque,” Israel will use “thecreation of artificial earthquakes that can betriggered from afar which will undermineits foundations and will destroy it,”according to the PA newspaper Al-HayatAl-Jadidah on Oct. 26, 1997.

* “Israel is trying to harm Arab males’virility.” Abdel Hamid al-Qudsi, DeputyMinister of the PA’s Ministry of Supplies,declared: “Israel is distributing foodcontaining material that causes cancer andhormones that harm male virility and otherspoiled food products in the PalestinianAuthority’s territories in order to poison andharm the Palestinian population. Weabsolutely feel that it is an organized planand conspiracy which is under the auspicesof the Israel Defense Forces. This is a plannedand initiated war against the Palestinianpeople.” (Yediot Ahronot, June 25, 1997)

* “Israel uses Russian prostitutes tospread AIDS among Arabs.” Israel“brought Russian Jewish girls with AIDSto spread the disease among Palestinianyouth,” according to Abdel Razek Al-Majeeda, head of the Palestinian GeneralSecurity Service in Gaza, quoted in the PAnewspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah, May 15, 1997.

* “Israel infects Arab children withAIDS.” “The Israeli authorities infected byinjection 300 Palestinian children with theHIV virus during the years of the intifada.”—Nabil Ramlawi, the PLO representativeto the United Nations in Geneva, JerusalemPost, March 17, 1997

From a cartoon in Arafat’s officialnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:

A Jewish octopus strangles the dove of peace

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(c) Attempts to De-LegitimizeJudaism and Jewish History

* “Jews never had any connection toJerusalem.” In a statement issued Dec. 10,1997, the PA’s Ministry of Informationclaimed that archaeological excavations inthe Old City have found “Umayyad Islamicpalaces, Roman ruins, Armenian ruins andothers, but nothing Jewish.” The Ministryalso falsely claimed that “there is no tangibleevidence of any Jewish traces/remains in theold city of Jerusalem and its immediatevicinity.”

* “The Tombs of Rachel and Joseph areactually Muslim sites.” The PA newspaperAl-Hayat Al-Jadidah published an article inits issue of Dec. 1, 1997, which declared:“I call to be alert and to treat the Tomb ofJoseph and the Tomb of Rachel as dunamsof Palestinian land which must be liberated,and to treat Joseph and Rachel as just twopeople who died, like anyone else who dies.”

Similarly, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz quotedPalestinian Authority officials as saying that“Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem is thetraditional tomb of the Cushite servant ofMohammed.” (Ha’aretz, Oct. 9, 1996)

* “The Western Wall is not a Jewish holysite.” The Arafat-appointed Mufti ofJerusalem, Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, who is thePLO’s senior religious authority for the city,said: “The Al-Buraq Wall [Western Wall]and its plaza are a Muslim religiousproperty, and the Israeli government’sdecisions do not affect it...The Al-BuraqWall is part of the Al Aqsa Mosque. TheJews have no relation to it.” (Al Ayam, Nov.22, 1997)

Arafat’s Minister of Religious Affairs,Hassan Tahboob, said: “The Al-Buraq wallis Muslim property and it is part of the AlAqsa Mosque, of course.” Tahboob saidthat in accordance with a Muslim religiouscourt decision in 1929, Jews “are allowedto pray towards the Wall,” but they mustremain “two meters [six feet] away from the

Wall” and not touch it. (Interview with theIsraeli news agency IMRA, Nov. 23, 1997)

Yasir Arafat himself remarked: “That is notthe Western Wall at all, but a Moslemshrine.” (Ma’ariv, Oct. 11, 1996)

* “The Jewish brain is cowardly.” Anarticle in the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on July 27, 1997 asserted that “the

Jewish brain is cowardly” and referred to“the baseness of this reactionary and cruelAmerican Jewish world.”

* “The settlers are monkeys and pigs.”“The colonialist settlers are the descendantsof monkeys and pigs,” declared the seniorPLO religious authority, Mufti IkramaSabri, in a sermon at the Al Aqsa Mosqueon July 11, 1997, broadcast on the officialPA radio station Voice of Palestine.

* “The Jews never lived in ancientIsrael.” A program broadcast on PalestinianAuthority Television in June 1997 featuredPalestinian Arab historian Jarid al-Kidwa,who claimed that “all the eventssurrounding Kings Saul, David andRehoboam occurred in Yemen, and noHebrew remnants were found in Israel, fora very simple reason—because they werenever here.” Al-Kidwa said: “Most of theKhazars [a Turkish tribe that converted toJudaism in medieval times] are theAshkenazic Jews who arrived in Palestine.As Allah is my witness, in my blood flowsmore of the Children of Israel and theancient Hebrews than in the blood of ArielSharon and Benjamin Netanyahu.”

“There is no tangibleevidence of any Jewishtraces or remains in theold city of Jerusalem andits immediate vicinity.”

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According to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz (July6, 1997), Al-Kidwa also said: “The storiesof the Torah and the Bible did not take placein the Land of Israel—they occurred in theArabian peninsula, primarily in Yemen.The identity of our father Ibrahim[Abraham] who is mentioned in the Koranis clear. From the Koran’s description ofhim it arises that he lived in the southernHejaz [Saudi Arabia], near Mecca.”

* “Jerusalem was never a Jewish city.”“Jerusalem is not a Jewish city, despite thebiblical myth implanted in someminds...There is no tangible evidence ofJewish existence from the so-called ‘TempleMount Era’...The location of the TempleMount is in question...it might be in Jerichoor somewhere else.” (Walid M. Awad,Director of Foreign Publications for thePA’s Ministry of Information,interviewed by the IMRA news agency,Dec. 25, 1996.)

* “Abraham was not a Jew.” “Abrahamwas neither Jewish nor a Hebrew, but wassimply an Iraqi. The Jews have no right toclaim part of the Tomb of the Patriarchs inHebron, Abraham’s resting place, as asynagogue. Rather, the whole buildingshould be a mosque.” (Yasir Arafat, quotedin the Jerusalem Report, Dec. 26, 1996)

* “There never was a Jewish Temple inJerusalem.” “The people of Israel realizeperfectly well that they have no temples orruins near Al Aqsa Mosque. According tothe Koran, the people of Israel livedsomewhere to the west of Bethlehem...theywere living in Bethlehem and not inJerusalem.” (Sheikh Ismail Jamal, the PA’sDirector of the Islamic Wakf in Jericho,quoted in the Chicago Jewish Sentinel,May 18, 1995)

(d) Denying or Distorting the Holocaust

PA officials and publications regularlyinvoke the Holocaust as part of their

promotion of hatred against Jews and Israel.In some instances, they compare Israelibehavior to the Nazis’ behavior, or allegethat Israel is even more brutal than theNazis. At the same time, PA spokesmenfrequently claim that the Holocaust is ahoax, fabricated by world Jews in order togain sympathy and financial compensationand to justify the creation of the State ofIsrael. PA officials have also publiclydefended Holocaust-deniers in othercountries.

* PA Television: “No Auschwitz”: Onthe PA Television program “Pages FromOur History” on November 29, 1999, anArab historian, Dr. Issam Sissalem, said:“Lies surfaced about Jews being murderedhere and there, and the Holocaust. And, ofcourse, they are all lies and unfoundedclaims. No Chelmno, no Dachau, noAuschwitz! They were disinfection sites.”

* Mein Kampf a best-seller: An Arabic-language edition of Adolf Hitler’sautobiography, Mein Kampf, with anintroduction praising Hitler as “a greatman,” has become a best-seller among thePalestinian Arabs.(Agence France Presse, Sept. 8, 1999)

* “The Holocaust and the Lies”: OnFebruary 18, 1999, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublished a crossword puzzle which gaveas its clue, for 7-across, “Jewish Center foreternalizing the Holocaust and the Lies.”The “correct answer” was “Yad VaShem.”

* “The Lie of the Holocaust”: OnDecember 8, 1998, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidahpublished an article by Dr. Samir Sahda,General Secretary of the PA’s Desk of theNational Institutions, in which he contendedthat “Israel convinced the world of the lieof the massacre and racism which they [theJews] were exposed to in Germany, and[thus] gained the world public opinion.”

* PA’s Newspaper Calls the Holocaust“a Deceitful Myth”: Excerpts from a July2, 1998 article entitled “The Jews and the

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Media Monopoly” in the official PalestinianAuthority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:

“Everywhere, the Jews have been thesubjects of hatred and disdain because theycontrol most of the economic resourcesupon which the livelihoods of many people

are dependent. The clearest example of thisis Shakespeare’s play ‘The Merchant ofVenice’, in which the merchant Shylockrepresents the image of the greedy, cunning,evil, and despised Jews. And yet, how havethe Jews succeeded in brainwashingAmerican and European public opinion andchanging the image of the Jew to that of awise, brave, ingenious and creative personto whom the world’s eyes are turned?

“There is no alternative but to say that thesuccess of the Jews is not coincidental butrather the result of long years of planningand a great investment of effort in order toobtain their wretched control over theworld’s media...The winds began glowingin their favor when the campaign ofpersecution against them was begun byHitler the Nazi...the international Jewish

communications media under their controlexploited this in the best possible way, andthen the show started. They began todisseminate frightful pictures of massexecutions and invented the shocking storyof the gas ovens, where Hitler allegedlyburned them. Newspapers began to fill up

with pictures of Jews cut down by Hitler’sbullets and of Jews being led to gas ovens.In these pictures, they focused on women,children and old people and have exploitedthis to arouse sympathy for themselveswhen demanding financial compensation,donations and grants from all over theworld.

“The truth is that the persecution of the Jewsis a deceitful myth which the Jews havelabeled the Holocaust and have exploitedto get sympathy. The most credible ofhistorians have challenged the Jews to bringconvincing evidence to prove it. TheHistorical Studies Association, based in LosAngeles, announced a grant of $50,000 towhomever could bring compelling proofthat the Jews were murdered in gaschambers, but the Jews resorted to pressure

Mural on a wall in the Palestinian Authority-controlledcity of Tulkarm, glorifying an Arab conquest of Jerusalem

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and allegations of anti-Semitism to silencethese voices. And even if it is possible thatHitler’s assault against the Jews hurt thema little, the fact is it did them a clear servicewhose fruits they are reaping until today...”

* PA Officials Lead Public Rally onBehalf of Holocaust-Denier: PACommunications Minister Imad al-Faloujiand PA general-secretary Ahmed Abdel-Rahman were among the leaders of a rallyby prominent Palestinian Arabs in supportof Roger Garaudy, who was on trial in Parisfor denying the Holocaust, which is acriminal offense in France. Garaudy hassaid that the Nazis committed some“pogroms” against Jews, but that there wasno genocide and the Nazis did not kill sixmillion Jews.

At the pro-Garaudy rally, in Gaza onJanuary 19, 1998, Minister Falouji said:“We condemn the trial of the Muslim writerRoger Garaudy and we ask all believers inhuman rights and freedom of expression to

back him.” Abdel-Rahman said that filmsand books about the Holocaust “have toldwhat happened to the Jews in anunbelievable and exaggerated manner, sowhy not give Garaudy the right to state hispoint over the issue?” (Reuters, Jan. 19, 1998)

* “Israel is as brutal as, or more brutalthan, the Nazis.” In a statement issued Dec.10, 1997, the PA’s Ministry of Informationsaid that Israeli police checks of identity

cards of some Arabs entering Jerusalem“should remind the Europeans of Nazioccupation by Nazi soldiers surroundingchurches and places of worship during thesecond World War. Israeli practices inmany aspects are equal with, if not morebrutal than, those practiced by occupyingNazi soldiers dealing with French-Dutchcitizens during the second World War.Everyone can visualize this because it hasbeen shown in war films and documentedin museums all over the world.”

* “The Nazism of the occupation.” Anarticle in the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Dec. 8, 1997, said that Arabrock-throwing attacks against Israelis “showthe world the Nazism of the occupation atthe end of the 20th century.”

* “No more than 400,000 Jews werekilled by the Nazis.” “It is well-known thatevery year the Jews exaggerate what theNazis did to them,” said the moderator of acultural affairs program on PalestinianAuthority Television, during an Aug. 25,1997. “They claim there were 6 millionkilled, but precise scientific researchdemonstrates that there were no more than400,000.”

* “Zionists forged Holocaust claims.”On Sept. 3, 1997, the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah featured an article byPalestinian Arab author Nabil Salam, whichdeclared: “Since its establishment, the racistZionist entity has been implementingvarious forms of terrorism on a daily basiswhich are a repetition of the Nazi terror.This proves the shared roots of Nazi andZionist thought. This also explains thecooperation between the Jews and Nazisduring World War II, through which wasrevealed the forged claims of the Zionistsregarding the alleged acts of slaughterperpetrated against the Jews during the sameperiod.” (Quoted in the Israeli dailyMa’ariv, Sept. 12, 1997)

* “Netanyahu acts in the style of theGerman armies.” An article in the PA

“...The persecutionof the Jews is a

deceitful myth whichthe Jews have labeled

‘the Holocaust’and have exploitedto get sympathy”

newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Aug.17, 1997 charged that Israeli Prime MinisterNetanyahu is acting “in the European styleof the German armies so that he will be ableto impose greater Israel and establish theirsuperiority of the Hebrew race.”

* “Israel’s birthday is PalestineHolocaust Day.” In an address to thePLO’s Palestinian Council in Ramallah onMay 10, 1997, the eve of IsraeliIndependence Day, Arafat said that theanniversary of the creation of Israel is“Palestine Holocaust Day” and “thePalestinian people were subjected to theworst holocaust in history.” (Ha’aretz, May11, 1997)

* “Israel holds Palestinian Arabs in onebig concentration camp.” On April 22,1996, the Palestinian Authority distributeda document titled “Statement Issued by theMinistry of Information on the PalestinianPrisoner’s Day.” It said:

“While the Israeli government is speakingabout the atrocities committed against theJews at Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachauconcentration camps, the violations againstthe human rights of the Jewish individual,and the tragic consequences of themassacres and collective punishment, it [theIsraeli government] is directly involvedthese days in weaving plots and causing twomajor catastrophes to their neighbors.”

The document accused Israel of persecutingPalestinian and Lebanese Arabs, thenreferred to “the inhumane legacy” of theHolocaust and adds: “As a Palestinianpeople we are still experiencing the legacyof this catastrophe, being applied againstthem by the ancestors of those Jews whohave suffered one day its consequences. Ourhomeland was transformed into a bigconcentration camp...”

* “Zionists were partners with the Nazisin the Holocaust.” Mahmoud Abbas (AbuMazen), the number 2 official in the PLOand architect of the Oslo accords, authored

and has refused to retract a book claimingthat “the Zionist movement was a partnerin the slaughter of the Jews.” The book isentitled The Other Side: The SecretRelationship Between Nazism and theZionist Movement. The book also claimsthat the Nazis may have really killed lessthan one million Jews. (Jerusalem Post,Jan. 26,1995)

* “Israel is comparable to the Nazis.”The Jewish Telegraphic Agency DailyNews Bulletin reported on Dec. 2, 1994:“Nabil Ramlawi, the PLO representative toU.N. groups meeting [in Geneva], said thatPalestinian resistance to the Israelis wassimilar to the European fight against theNazis during World War II.”

Dan Cohen, a 20-year-old Israeli,permanently crippled by

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From a cartoon in Arafat’s official newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:An Israeli soldier eating an Arab while roasting other Arabs over coals on a barbecue

On Jan. 24, 1996, PLO official Affif Safiahdeclared at a Jerusalem gathering, “Israelmust apologize to the Palestinian people forits conduct in the past, just as Germanyapologized to the Jewish people for huntingthem down in Europe.” (Yediot Ahronot,Jan. 25, 1996)

On Jan. 4, 1996, by PA Justice MinisterFreih Abu-Medein, who told Israel Radio:“Israel did not hesitate to receive reparationsfrom the government of Germany but it

refuses to pay reparations to the victims ofthe intifada.”

On Aug. 7, 1997, PA Health Minister Riyadal-Zaanoun said that Israel’s use ofblockades to help capture terrorists wascomparable to the actions of the Nazis. “Iwonder how Jews who suffered collectivepunishment from the Nazis can practicesuch punishments on the Palestinianpeople,” al-Zaanoun said. (AssociatedPress, Aug. 8, 1997)

VII. Glorifying Murderers

As part of their effort to encourage hatredof Israel and Jews, Arafat and the PAregularly issue statements or take actions topublicly glorify those who have murdered Jews.

* “Courageous” killer: The PAnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah published(Sept.3,2000) a glowing feature story aboutthe “hero” and “courageous warrior”Mahmoud Abu-Hanud, who is responsiblefor attacks that killed 19 Israelis and 3Americans (Mrs. Leah Stern of New Jersey,14 year-old Yael Botwin of Los Angeles,and 16 year-old David Boim of New York).Abu-Hanud was recently wounded in ashootout with Israeli soldiers, in which threeIsraelis were killed; he escaped to PA-controlled Nablus. The PA’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah quoted young Palestinian Arabwomen saying their dream is to marry Abu-Hanud, “a legend of the struggle against theoccupation.”

* “Warrior, struggler”: PA Televisionbroadcast a program on August 31, 2000,called “Panorama,” which presented a playglorifying the late Dalal Maghribi, one ofthe leaders of the Palestinian Arab terroristsquad that carried out the 1978 Tel Avivhighway massacre, killing 37 Israelis andMs. Gail Rubin of New York, niece of then-U.S.Senator Abraham Ribicoff. The hostof the PA program declared: “Dalal is asymbol of Palestine...in this play weenlighten the viewer as to the function ofthe Palestinian woman as a warrior, astruggler...a builder of Palestiniansociety...we stand by Dalal, she is a part ofPalestinian awareness.”

* Hero’s burial: Sufian Jabarin was one ofthose responsible for the bombing of a busin Jerusalem in August 1995, in which fourpeople were killed, including JoanDavenny, a teacher at the Ezra Academy in

Woodbridge, Connecticut. In addition,more than one hundred people —includingU.S. citizens— were injured. WhenJabarin’s body was handed over by Israelto the Palestinian Authority, the PA gavehim a “hero’s burial” with full honors,complete with “Palestinian policemenfir[ing] shots in the air as his body waslowered into the ground.” (Jerusalem Post,June 30, 2000)

“Courageous commandos”: The PAnewspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah (in anarticle reprinted in the Arab weeklyJerusalem Times on May 5, 2000) assertedthat “In the 1970s, the Popular Front for theLiberation of Palestine [a faction of thePLO] executed courageous commandomissions against Israel.” Those “courageousmissions” included an attack on the Istanbulairport on August 11, 1976, killing fourpeople, including Harold Rosenthal ofPhiladelphia, an aide to U.S. Senator JacobJavits; an attack on Israel’s Lod Airport, on

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May 30, 1972, in which 23 people werekilled, including 11 U.S. tourists fromPuerto Rico; an ambush of a tourist bus inIsrael on February 23, 1970, killing Mrs.Barbara Ertle of Grandville, Michigan, wifeof the Reverend Theodore Ertle; and anambush of an Israeli bus on December 27,1969, killing U.S. tourist Leon Holtz, ofBrooklyn, New York.

“A holy martyr”: The PA newspaper AlHayat Al Jadidah on Nov.27, 1983 praisedthe Arab terrorist who murdered 241Americans in Beirut in 1983—an article byeditor Hafez al-Barghouti said the attackwas “a bold action that was carried out by aholy martyr who suckled from his mother’sbosom the pure jihad tradition.”

Prayers at the killer’s tomb: The Speakerof Arafat’s Palestine National Council,Salim Zanoun, recited prayers at the tomb

of Abu Jihad in Damascus, Syria (JerusalemPost July 1, 1999). Abu Jihad mastermindednumerous terrorist attacks, including the1978 attack in which Gail Rubin of NewYork was murdered; the Munich Olympicsmassacre in September 1972, in which 12people, including David Berger ofCleveland, were murdered; and the May1980 Hebron massacre, in which six Jewishworshippers, including U.S.citizens ZviGlatt and Eli Haze’ev, were murdered.

“Holy martyr”: Arafat permitted a mass“memorial service” at Bir Zeit University,near Ramallah, for “the holy martyr” KhalilSharif, on October 30, 1997. Sharif wasinvolved in the attacks in which David Boimand Yael Botwin were murdered. Arafatalso permitted Bir Zeit University to holdthree days of mourning for Sharif.

* Arafat honors killer of Israelipoliceman: Arafat announced on August19, 1999, that he has bestowed the“Jerusalem Decoration” upon Khalil Al-Ra’i, in honor of Al-Ra’i’s “struggle.” Al-Ra’i was convicted in 1974 of murderingIsraeli policeman Moshe Carmeli.

* Arafat aide praises killer of Americans:The Speaker of Arafat’s Palestine NationalCouncil, Salim Zanoun, recited prayers atthe tomb of Abu Jihad (Khalil Wazir) inDamascus, Syria (Jerusalem Post July 1,1999). Abu Jihad was responsible forplanning numerous terrorist attacks,including the March 1978 Coastal Roadmassacre in Israel, in which 37 people weremurdered, including Gail Rubin of NewYork (niece of U.S. Senator AbrahamRibicoff of Connecticut); the MunichOlympics massacre in September 1972, inwhich 11 Israeli athletes —includingAmerican-Israeli citizen David Berger ofCleveland— and a German policeman weremurdered; and the May 1980 Hebronmassacre, in which six Jewish worshippers,including U.S.-Israeli citizen Eli Haze’ev,were murdered.

* Arafat’s wife praises terrorist: YasirArafat’s wife, Suha Arafat, said in a speechon Palestinian Television in honor ofInternational Children’s Day: “I would liketo comfort ourselves and the Palestiniannation on the loss of a great fighter, oursaintly brother, Mohi a-Din a-Sharif.”(Arutz 7 - April 9, 1998, quoting from acassette of Mrs. Arafat’s remarks made bythe “Peace for Generations” organization.)PA Cabinet Minister Faisal Husseinidelivered the official public eulogy at thefuneral on April 2, 1998, for Muhi a-Din a-

Yasir Arafat’s wifeSuha, appearing onofficial Palestinian

Authority television,praised Palestinian

Arab suicide bomberMohi a-Din a-Sharif as

a “great fighter, oursaintly brother.”

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Sharif, and Mrs.Arafat paid a condolencevisit to Sharif’s family and praised thebomb-maker as “a Palestinian martyr.”(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily NewsBulletin, April 6, 1998)

Sharif, who was killed in an internal Hamasdispute, was connected to the August 21,1995 Jerusalem bus bombing, in which fourpeople, including Connecticut schoolteacher, Joan Davenny were murdered. OnMarch 13, 1996, Israel asked the PA toextradite Sharif; the PA ignored the request.Sharif was subsequently involved inadditional attacks, including the bombingin Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda marketplaceon July 30, 1997, in which 16 people,including Mrs. Leah Stern, an American-Israeli formerly of New Jersey, were killed;and the bombing on Ben-Yehuda Street indowntown Jerusalem on September 4, 1997,in which five people, including YaelBotwin, a 14 year-old American-Israelischoolgirl formerly of California, werekilled.

* Arafat’s newspaper praises killer ofAmericans: Arafat’s official newspaper,Al Hayat Al Jadidah, praised the Arabterrorist who murdered 241 Americans inBeirut in 1983. It published an article by itseditor, Hafez al-Barghouti, in its November23, 1997 edition attacking the United Statesas “a blood-spilling cowboy.” Barghoutiwrote that “This is the same mentality whichcaused the Marines who enter Beirut and torun away from it [in 1983], after one boldaction was carried out by a holy martyr whosuckled from his mother’s bosom the purejihad tradition.”

* Arafat aide praises bomb-maker:Marwan Barghouti, chairman of Arafat’sFatah movement for the Judea-Samariaregions, called the late Hamas bomb-makerYiyhe Ayyash “a martyr.” In an interviewwith the Israeli news agency IMRA onNovember 6, 1997, Barghouti was askedwhy Arafat and representatives of Arafat’sFatah movement take part in memorialservices for Ayyash and other terrorists. He

replied that “it is a tradition” and “weappreciate these people as persons andinviduals and consider them martyrs.”

* Arafat leads rally for “martyredfighter”: Arafat personally presided overa memorial rally for “the martyred fighter,Salah al-Qidwa,” in Gaza on November 3,1997. PLO Executive Committee memberZakaria al-Agha, speaking at the rally onbehalf of Arafat, declared “we stillremember the martyrs and still follow theirpath.” Amad Hils, Secretary-General of theHigher Committee of Arafat’s Fatahmovement, told the rally that Yiyhe Ayyashand Imad Aql (the first commander ofHamas’s military wing) were “holymartyrs.”

* Memorial rally for killer of Americans:Arafat permitted a mass “memorial service”at Bir Zeit University, near Ramallah, for“the holy martyr” Halil Ibrahim ToufikSharif, on October 30, 1997. Sharif wasinvolved in the May 1996 drive-by murderof David Boim, an American-Israeliteenager; Sharif was also one of the threesuicide bombers who carried out the attackon Jerusalem’s Ben-Yehuda Street onSeptember 4, 1997, in which five peoplewere killed, including a 14 year-oldAmerican-Israeli schoolgirl, Yael Botwin.Arafat also permitted Bir Zeit University tohold three days of official mourning forSharif, during which all classes weresuspended.

* Salaries for jailed terrorists: Jawad al-Tibi, chairman of the Social AffairsCommittee for Arafat’s PalestinianLegislative Council, visited Arab terroristsin Israeli prisons on October 30, 1997. Tibiannounced that his committee “will act toimplement the Legislative Council’sdecision, which states that each prisonershould receive an income identical to thatof a soldier.

* Memorial rallies for Islamic Jihadleader: Arafat permitted the Islamic Jihadterrorist group to hold a mass public rally

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in Gaza on October 31, 1997 tocommemorate the “martyrdom” of IslamicJihad leader Fathi Shikaki. An officialrepresentative of Arafat’s Fatah faction ofthe PLO, Fareeh al-Gharabli, spoke at therally and urged unity between the PLO and“the Islamic forces and factions.” Jamil al-Majdalawi, representing the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine, a PLOfaction, told the rally that Shikaki was “aholy martyr.” At the rally, Islamic Jihadspokesman Ramadan Shalah declared that“the option of resistance is legitimate,” andHamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin urgedthe audience to “follow the path of the holymartyrs.” Their statements were publishedin the official Palestinian Authoritynewspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah.

Arafat also permitted 3,000 students at A-Najah University, in PLO-controlledNablus, to hold a memorial rally for Shikaki.Islamic Jihad spokesman Ramadan Shalahtold the rally by telephone that the group“will continue its jihad against the Zionistenemy. His statement was published in theofficial Palestinian Authority newspaper,Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah.

* Fatah rally for “martyrs.” The youthwing of Arafat’s Fatah movement held apublic memorial service to commemorate“the martyrdom of Osama al-Najjar andAnwar Asleih,” two Fatah Hawk terrorists.

The rally, held in Khan Yunis (Gaza) onNovember 3, 1997 was attended by PLOExecutive Committee member Zakaria al-Agha and the deputy chairman of the PA’sPolitical Guidance Directorate, Mazen Izzal-Din.

* Hebron rally for Islamic Jihad“martyr.” Arafat permitted a mass rally atthe Islamic University of Hebron incommemoration of the “martyrdom” ofIslamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki, onNovember 3, 1997. Representatives ofArafat’s Fatah movement and another PLOfaction, the Popular Front for the Liberationof Palestine, spoke at the rally. Islamic Jihadleader Ramadan Shalah, addressing the rallyby telephone, “renewed the oath to themartyrs to follow their path.”

* Arafat aide praises Islamic Jihadleader: Hani al-Hasan, a senior adviser toArafat, praised Fathi Shikaki, leader of theIslamic Jihad terrorist group, as “a giantamong giants of the Palestinian people, oneof the giants of the nation” and “the teacherof generations.” Shikaki and Islamic Jihadwere responsible for the April 1995bombing in Kfar Darom in which BrandeisUniversity student Alisa Flatow was killed.(An Nahar, Oct. 29, 1996 —from IsraelGov’t Press Office, Nov.27, 1996)

* Arafat praises bomb-maker: Arafatpublicly praised Yiyha Ayyash, the masterHamas bomb-maker who killed at least 60Israelis, as “a martyr” (Jerusalem Post, July28, 1996) and as “the struggler, themartyr.”(New York Times, January 8, 1996)

* Arafat names public square afterbomb-maker: In February 1996, Arafatnamed a public square in Jericho after YiyheAyyash.

* Arafat praises bus hijacker: Arafatpublicly praised terrorist Dalal Maghribi as“one of the heroes...She commanded thegroup that established the first Palestinianrepublic in a bus. This is a Palestinianwoman...the woman we are proud of.”

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Maghribi’s group carried out the 1978 TelAviv Coastal Highway massacre, in which37 people, including American Gail Rubinof New York, were murdered. (JerusalemPost, August 3, 1995)

* Arafat praises bus attacker: Arafatwrote a letter to an imprisoned Hamasterrorist Sheikh Abdelhadi Gheinam, calling

him “my brother the holy Sheikh AbdelhadiGheinam, I recognize your participation inthe struggle to free Palestine. Because ofyou, Palestine is free.” Gheinam carried outthe July 6, 1989 terrorist attack on bus #405,on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, inwhich 15 people were killed, including anAmerican woman, Rita Levine ofPhiladelphia. (Ha’aretz, October 5, 1994)

From a cartoon inArafat’s official

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VIII. Promoting WarAgainst Israel

* “The settlements must be erased”:A broadcast on the Palestinian Authority’sofficial “Voice of Palestine” radio station,May 31, 1999, declared: “The settlementsmust be erased from the face of the earth.”

* “Employ all means”: Longtime Arafataide Hanan Ashrawi urged the PalestinianArab masses to “employ all means ofprotest” against Israel. (Arutz 7, June 1,1999)

* “Ignite the land under their feet”:A leaflet distributed by Arafat’s Fatahfaction of the PLO on May 31, 1999,threatened: “We will ignite the land undertheir feet until they leave our land forever.”(Associated Press, June 2, 1999)

* “Intensify the confrontations”: SamirShehada, the PA official in charge oforganizing anti-Israel demonstrations,vowed on May 31, 1999: “We will intensifythe confrontations against the settlementsand the settlers.” (Arutz 7, June 1, 1999)

* “Ready to fight a new battle”: In aspeech in Ramallah on March 19, 1999,Arafat threatened: “We carried out thelongest intifada in history...They shouldknow we can start it again if they try toprevent us from exercising our rights,” and“We, the Fatah and PLO, are ready to fighta new battle of Karameh every single day,”referring to a battle between Israel and PLOterrorists in 1968. (Agence France Presse,March 19, 1999)

* “The rifle is a means of life” : OthmanAbu Gharbiya, adviser to Arafat and headof the PA’s National Guidance Directorate,at a ceremony in Gaza: “We are right tobelieve that the rifle is a means of life andnot death.” (Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, March

1, 1999)

* “Explode with force”:From the biweeklycommunique of Arafat’sFatah faction, published inthe PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, Dec.21, 1998: “It is impossibleto struggle against thesettlements, theconfiscation of land andcold-blooded killings vianegotiations. There is noalternative but a strugglethat will smash the Israeli

aggression and emphasize the readiness ofour people to explode with force against anyaggression...”

* “Our rifles are ready”: Arafat, to hisFatah faction, on November 15, 1998: “Ourrifles are ready, and we are ready to raisethem if they stop us from praying in the holycity of Jerusalem.” (Jerusalem Post, Nov.16, 1998)

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* “The path of jihad”: Speaking at thefuneral of an Arab terrorist in Gaza on June4, 1998, Ahmad Hils, secretary-general ofYasir Arafat’s Fatah movement in Judea-Samaria, said: “The path of jihad, struggle,and heroism continues to be the only wayto liberate Palestine and to establish ourindependent state with Jerusalem as itscapital, and so it will be in the future.”(Quoted in the Palestinian Authority-affiliated newspaper Al Ayyam, June 25, 1998.)

* “To fight, to resist”: In an interviewwith the Israeli news agency IMRA on May17, 1998, Marwan Barghouti, chairman ofArafat’s Fatah movement in Judea-Samaria,was asked about recent Palestinian Arabdemonstrations in which models of Israelitowns in the territories were exploded:

IMRA: “Blowing up models of settlementsis in order to encourage people to resist thesettlements?”Barghouti: “Yes. And I think that we havethe legitimacy to resist the settlementpolicy.”IMRA: “To blow up settlements?”Barghouti: “To fight, to resist thesettlements.”IMRA: “So that would include blowingthem up.”Barghouti: “Everything. Because thesettlement policy is terrorism. We have theright to fight against the terrorism.”

* “Become a martyr”: On Egyptian OrbitTV on April 18, 1998, Arafat declared: “Ienvy the martyrs and I hope to become oneof them.”

* “Burn the ground under their feet”:In a statement published in the officialPalestinian Authority newspaper Al-HayatAl-Jadida on April 16, 1998, Arafat sentthis message to his people: “O my dear oneson the occupied lands, relatives and friendsthroughout Palestine and the diaspora, mycolleagues in struggle and in arms, mycolleagues in struggle and in jihad ...Intensify the revolution and the blessedintifada ... We must burn the ground under

the feet of the invaders.”

* “Swear by the blood of the jihad”: Alsoon April 16, 1998, Arafat’s official Voiceof Palestine radio station broadcast a speechby Marwan Barghouti, chairman of Arafat’sFatah movement in Judea-Samaria, in whichhe said: “The rifle of Fatah, the rifle carriedby the Palestinian people which ignited the

revolution, will not be buried...Brothers andsisters, I swear, I swear, I swear by the bloodof the jihad and the blood of our nation’smartyrs.”

* “Suicide bombings are legitimate”:The PA-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem,Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, said in March 1998:“I believe suicide bombings are a responseto the occupation...If Israel does not respondto peaceful initiatives to solve the problemwith the Palestinians, then it is legitimate tofight against it as a sort of self-defense.”(Reuters, March 19, 1998)

* “March as warriors of jihad”: From asong sung by children on the program “TheChildren’s Club,” broadcast on PATelevision on February 13, 1998: “Eachand every part of your soil I have drenchedwith all my blood. And we shall march aswarriors of jihad. O my exalted martyr, youare my example.”

* “Convoys of martyrs”: On the 80thanniversary of Balfour Day —the 1917

“The rifle of Fatah, therifle carried by thePalestinian peoplewhich ignited the

revolution, will not beburied...Brothers and

sisters, I swear, I swear,I swear by the blood

of the jihad andthe blood of our

nation’s martyrs.”

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British declaration endorsing theestablishment of a Jewish national home inthe Land of Israel— Mazen Izz Al-Din,chief of the PA’s National GuidanceDirectorate said on PA Television: “Ourpeople is capable of erasing the politicalimplications of the Balfour Declarationthrough convoys of martyrs.” (Arutz 7radio, Nov. 6, 1997)

* “There will be severe clashes”: “If asolution is not found to the situation andthe political process is not returned to itscourse, there will be severe clashes betweenus and the Israelis . All options are openbefore us.” —Jibril Rajoub , head of thePalestinian Preventive Security Forces, ina television interview (Middle EastBroadcasting Corp., June 20, 1997)

* “Ready for sacrifices”: Abbas Zaki,member of the PA legislative council andthe Fatah central committee: “There is a planwhich was prepared by the Palestinianleadership with the aim of confronting

Israel’s intransigence. The Palestinianpeople is ready for a confrontation and isprepared to make additional sacrifices. Thepeople are in a state of preparedness.” (Al-Sharq al-Awsat, June 16, 1997)

* “React via all means”: “The policy ofsettlements and land confiscation constitutesorganized state terror against the Palestinianlands. The Palestinian people have the rightto react to settlement terror via all means.”—from a statement issued by Fatah afteran emergency meeting on June 14, 1997,broadcast on PA Radio on June 14, 1997.(Israel Government Press Office)

* “Revolutionary violence”: From a leadeditorial in the Fatah organization’snewspaper (cited in Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah,June 4, 1997): “Only the uprising of themasses and the intifada in the Palestinianhomeland in September 1996 enabled thePalestinians to hope for international andArab support. It is this intifada whichcompelled the Israeli side to implement theOslo Accords. What distinguished thisintifada was its official nature. Palestiniansecurity forces took part side by side withthe masses. Only once the flow of bloodbegan and Israelis died at the hands of thesecurity forces’ gunfire did Netanyahuunderstand that his assumption that thePalestinians and Arabs did not have otheroptions was baseless. Only then did heunderstand that he must get used to newrealities. Revolutionary violence, whichenjoys international legitimacy as a struggleagainst occupation, is the option that mustbe put on the discussion table. This is theoption that will bring about a breakthroughin the current impasse and breathe new lifeinto the agreements.”

* “All options are open”: “All optionsare open for defending the land of thePalestinian people.” —PA PlanningMinister Nabil Shaath, at a forum in KhanYunis. (Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, April 30,1997)

* “With blood and fire”: “I now see thewalls of Jerusalem, the mosques ofJerusalem, the churches of Jerusalem. Mybrothers! With blood and with spirit we willredeem you, Palestine! Yes, with blood andwith spirit we will redeem you, Palestine!”

From a cartoon in Arafat’s officialnewspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak,wielding a bloody axe, mutilates an Arab

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—Arafat, addressing a crowd in Tulkarm,broadcast on PA Radio on April 28, 1997.(Israel Government Press Office)

* “I will kill”: From a poem read on thePLO’s Voice of Palestine on May 22, 1997during the morning news program “A NewDay.” It was read as part of a series of“Songs of the Homeland.” The same poemwas read on theVoice of Palestineduring the Sept.1996 riots. “O ourbeautiful, preciousland imprisoned ina cage andsurrounded bywolves, My shadedgarden, the crueltormentors havedestroyed you, andthe dogs havesettled in you, OJerusalem, O mycity, With mynotebook and pencil and the fire of my rifleI will shatter the cage, I will kill the wolvesand plant the flag, The dogs will not bark inthe heroic cities.” (Israel Government PressOffice)

* “Ready to sacrifice again”: “We didnot pay with the dear blood of thousands ofmartyrs so that the Israeli government couldestablish settlements on our land in the nameof peace. We have sacrificed in the pastand we will be ready to sacrifice again inthe future for the sake of liberating our landand returning it to the bosom of thePalestinian nation and for the sake ofestablishing an independent Palestinian statewhose capital is Jerusalem.” —from astatement issued by the PA cabinet inNablus on May 16, 1997 (PA Radio, May17, 1997)

* “We know only one word: jihad”:Speaking at a rally in Dehaishe, nearBethlehem, on October 21, 1996, Arafatsaid: “We know only one world, jihad,jihad, jihad. Whoever does not like it can

drink from the Dead Sea or from the Sea ofGaza.” (Yediot Ahronot, Oct. 23, 1996)

* “Prepare the stones”: Arafat to adelegation of Hebron Arab notables urgingthe use of violence: “Have you run out ofstones in Hebron? Prepare the stones.”(Israel Radio, Oct. 21, 1996)

* “Ready in every way”: Arafat in anOctober 10, 1996 speech before thePalestinian Council: “Negotiations haveachieved nothing up until now. As aconsequence, we must be ready in everyway to confront all possibilities. You mustunderstand what I mean by this.” (Near EastReport, Oct. 21, 1996)

* “Mass confrontations”: Arafat, in aninterview with the Palestinian newspaperAl-Ayyam, called for “mass confrontationsin all cities and villages to confront theIsraeli aggression against Al-Aksamosque.” (cited in the New York Times, Oct.4, 1996)

* “Kill and be killed”: Arafat toPalestinian security forces in Gaza onSeptember 24, 1996: “They will fight forAllah, and they will kill and be killed, andthis is a solemn oath...Our blood is cheapcompared with the cause which has brought

A recent Palestinian Arab riot

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us together and which at moments separatedus, but shortly we will meet again inheaven... Palestine is our land and Jerusalemis our capital.” (Ma’ariv, Oct. 4, 1996)

* “Return to armed struggle”: OnAugust 30, 1996, Muhammad Dahlan, asenior Gaza PA security official, said: “ThePalestinian Authority does not exclude thereturn to the armed struggle, and it will thenuse its weapons.” (Jerusalem Report, Nov.28, 1996)

* “Use all means”: On August 6, Arafatcalled Israel a “demon” and urged Arabs touse “all means” at their disposal to fightIsrael. (New York Times, Aug. 7, 1996)

* “Rise up with all your might”: PAGrand Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh IkramSabri in a sermon at Al-Aqsa Mosque:Palestinians should “rise up with all theirmight against the occupation.” (JerusalemPost, June 14, 1996)

* “We have 30,000 men”: Arafatthreatening Israel with violence: “If Israelrejects our demands there will be a”reactionand we have a 30,000 man armed force.”(Israel Radio, June 7, 1996)

* “All acts of violence will return”: PAPlanning Minister Nabil Shaath at asymposium: “If the negotiations reach adead end, we shall go back to the struggleand strife, as we did for 40 years. It is notbeyond our capabilities

... If and when Israel will say, ‘That’s it, wewon’t talk about Jerusalem, we won’t returnrefugees, we won’t dismantle settlements,and we won’t retreat from borders,’ thenall the acts of violence will return. Exceptthat this time we’ll have 30,000 armedPalestinian soldiers who will operate inareas in which we have unprecedentedelements of freedom” (Jerusalem Post,March 15, 1996)

* “From the small jihad to the greatjihad”: Selim Zaanoun, acting chairmanof the Palestinian National Council, atArafat’s inauguration: “We are returning toPalestine, and we are passing from the smallJihad to the great Jihad.” (Jerusalem Post,Feb. 13, 1996)

* “Sacrifice the lastboy and girl”: “TheIsraelis are mistaken ifthey think we do nothave an alternative tonegotiations. By Allah,I swear they are wrong.The Palestinian peopleare prepared to sacrificethe last boy and the lastgirl so that thePalestinian flag will beflown over the walls, thechurches and themosques of Jerusalem.”

—Arafat, speech on August 6, 1995 at aparty celebrating the birth of his daughter,quoted in the Jerusalem Post, Sept. 7, 1995

* “Soul and blood”: Arafat in a speech inGaza: “The soul and the blood we shallsacrifice for thee Palestine.” (JerusalemPost, Aug. 3, 1995)

Palestinian Arab riotersmaking the “V” for victory sign

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* “The weapon of jihad”: Speaking toArab laborers in Gaza in January 1995,Arafat said: “All of us are willing to bemartyrs along the way, until our flag fliesover Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine. Letno one think they can scare us withweapons, for we have mightier weapons—the weapon of faith, the weapon ofmartyrdom, the weapon of jihad.” (Parademagazine, June 25, 1995)

* “ Jihad via deaths”: In a speech at AlAzhar University in Gaza on June 19, 1995,Arafat said: “The commitment still standsand the oath is still valid: that we willcontinue this long jihad, this difficultjihad...via deaths, via battles.” (JerusalemPost, Aug. 3, 1995)

* “Liberate Jerusalem by jihad”: ThePA-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, SheikhIkrama Sabri, said: “Jerusalem is underoccupation and the Moslems of the worldshould liberate it by jihad and put it underIslamic and Arabic authority.” (JerusalemPost, May 3, 1995)

* “The military option”: Faisal Husseiniin an interview with the Egyptian weeklyAl-Arabi: “If Israel continues to underminethe path to peace there will be no other

alternative but that called for by the IslamistPalestinian opposition—the militaryoption.” (Agence France Presse,May 1, 1995)

* “No option other than jihad”: The GazaArab newspaper Al Watan, reported onFebruary 28, 1995, that PA cabinet ministerNabil Sha’ath said: “In response to a

question on steps the Palestinian Authoritymight take to confront Israeli measures,Sha’ath stressed that the PalestinianAuthority is waging a struggle at thenegotiating table. If it becomes certain thatthe negotiations process with Israel isending in failure, there will be no optionother than jihad.”

* “A nation of jihad.” In a speech relayedby telephone to a rally in Hebron, andbroadcast on the PA’s Voice of PalestineRadio on February 14, 1995, Arafat said:“Our nation is a nation of sacrifice, struggle,and jihad.”

* “Until the last martyr”: Arafat in aspeech on the 30th anniversary of Fatah’sfounding: “We are going to continue thePalestinian revolution until the last martyr

From a cartoon in Arafat’s official newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah:The Jew depicted as a large, menacing snake, wearing a yarmulke,

with blood dripping from its mouth

to create a Palestinian state” and “We areall seekers of martyrdom...I say to themartyrs who died, to the martyrs who arestill alive, we hold to the oath, we hold tothe commitment to continue therevolution...” (PA Television, Jan. 1, 1995)

* “Our people’s jihad.” In a 1994 speechto the Organization of the IslamicConference, Arafat said: “The gloriousIslamic solidarity together with our people’sjihad is an additional inducement for therealization of our hopes.” (IsraeliGovernment Report, November 27, 1996,quoting the PA Radio, December 15, 1994)

* “Our people’s jihad.” Addressing theOrganization of the Islamic Conference in1994, Arafat said: “The glorious Islamicsolidarity together with our people’s jihadis an additional inducement for therealization of our hopes.” (PA Radio, Dec.15, 1994)

* “Continue with jihad”: At a rally inGaza, Arafat declared: “Our people willcontinue with its jihad.” (Ha’aretz, Nov.22, 1994)

* “Continue the war”: Arafat in a letterto Saddam Hussein: “The Palestinianpeople will continue their war until theestablishment of a state whose capital willbe Jerusalem.” (Yediot Ahronot, July 24,1994)* “We sanctify the weapons”: JibrilRajoub in a lecture at Bethlehem University:“We sanctify the weapons found in thepossession of the national factions whichare directed against the occupation ... Ifthere are those who oppose the agreementwith Israel, the gates are open to them tointensify the armed struggle.” (YediotAhronot, May 27, 1994)

* “The jihad will continue”: In a speechin a Johannesburg mosque on May 10,1994, Arafat said: “The jihad will continue,

and Jerusalem is not for the Palestinianpeople, it is for all the Muslim people ...You have to come to fight and to start thejihad to liberate Jerusalem.” (Ha’aretz, May23, 1994)

* “Return to the armed struggle”: JibrilRajoub: “We shall distribute weapons tothe Palestinian residents and return to thearmed struggle.” (Yediot Ahronot, March 4,1994)

* “The intifada is continuing”: Arafatduring a speech in Gaza: “The heroicintifada, which has entered its seventh year,is an extension of the 29-year old Palestinianrevolution and will go on relentlessly ... Itis continuing, continuing, continuing.”(Associated Press, Jan. 7, 1994)

* “Revolution until victory”: Arafat in aradio address: “It is a revolution untilvictory, until victory, until victory.”(Algiers, PA Radio, Dec. 31, 1993)

* “We have not given up the rifle”: FaisalHusseini in a speech at Bir Zeit Universityon November 22, 1993: “Everything yousee and hear today is for tactical andstrategic reasons. We have not given up therifle. We still have armed gangs in the areasand if we do not get our state we will takethem out of the closet and fight again.”(Ma’ariv, Nov. 24, 1993)

* “Continue the struggle”: Voice ofPalestine report: “Yasser Arafat stressed thecontinuation of struggle until the Palestinianflag is hoisted over Jerusalem’s walls.”(PA Radio, Oct. 24, 1993)

* “Only a stone’s throw away”: Arafatin a speech on Jordanian TV: “Palestine isonly a stone’s throw away for a smallPalestinian boy or girl.” (Jordanian TV,Sept. 13, 1993)

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Zionist Organization of AmericaNational Board of Directors

Morton A. Klein, National PresidentDr. Alan Mazurek, Chairman of the Board

Dr. Michael Goldblatt, Chair, National Executive CommitteeDr. Janice J. Sokolovsky, Executive Director

Arnold AronoffJanet AronoffHerschel AuerbachMarc C. Baker, Esq.Dr. Stanley BenzelGeorge Bernstein, Esq.Bart Blatstein*Dr. Herbert CaskeyDr. Ben ChouakeLewis DasheMel DubinDr. Michael J. Franzblau*Carl Freyer*Sylvia Freyer*Jack FriedlerHarvey FriedmanDr. Jonathan GoldMiriam GoldbergerDr. Michael Goldblatt*Taffy GouldN. Richard GreenfieldMartin Gross, Esq.Al GrossbergEdie GrossbergProf. Malvina HalberstamDr. Esther HirschenbaumIrwin HochbergDaniel Katz, Esq.Dr. Jerome Kaufman*

Dr. Munr KazmirHon. Alfred KleimanJay KnopfNathan Lipson, Esq.*Joseph Loshinsky*Rose MattusJoseph MermelsteinJay P. MillerDr. Irving MoskowitzIsaac M. ObermanMichael Orbach*Seymour Pikofsky, Esq.*James RappBernard Rifkin, Esq.*Samuel SchachterHoward Schaerf, Esq.David Schoen, Esq.*Henry Schwartz*Herbert SetlowDr. Zalman ShapiroEdward M. Siegel, Esq.Henry Silverman, Esq.Sidney SilvermanSamuel (Sonny) SklarHarry Taubenfeld, Esq.Henry Z. TenJacques Torczyner*Larry Wenig, Esq.

*National Officer

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Atlantic City District: Sam Krantz, Esq.Tri-County District: Gideon EvansBronx District: Ike ObermanBrooklyn District: Rubin MargulesNY-Ben Hecht Young Leadership Group: David CrystalLouis D. Brandeis Society for Zionist Lawyers: Edward Siegel, Esq.Palm Beach County District North: Edward HelfontPalm Beach County District South: David SolomonTheodor Herzl District: Alan BergsteinBoca Del Mar District: Anna CohenDallas District: Prof. Zsuzsanna OzsvathLas Vegas District: Herschel AuerbachNew Orleans District: William D. HessTri-State Region: Mark BelinkyPittsburgh District: Dr. Zalman ShapiroYoungstown District: Dr. Saul FriedmanPhoenix District: Farley Weiss, Esq.Tuscon District: Sol ResnickWestchester Region: Jack GingoldIsrael District: Murray GreenfieldKfar Silver: Ziona Lahav, Director General

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