Incitement Double Standard Strikes Again
PA’s Karake honors the mother of four terrorists [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 28, 2010, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch]
As we noted last week, any incident whiffing of Israeli incitement, including Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s vitriolic remarks make big news, but Palestinian incitement, including Abbas and Fayyad’s honoring of a mastermind of the Munich massacre, continue to go unreported.
With a new week, we are confronted with fresh examples of officially-sanctioned Palestinian Authority incitement, and yet again, the continuing silence of the Western press corps.
In the first incident, the Palestinian Authority’s Minister for Prisoner Affairs Issa Karake honored a mother whose four sons were involved in suicide bombings and other terror attacks. He praised her:
The Palestinian mother is a central partner in the struggle…
It is she who gave birth to the fighters, and she deserves
that we bow to her in salute and in honor.
Karake also visited the home of Ayyat Al-Akhras, who murdered two Israelis in a 2002 suicide bombing attack in a Jerusalem supermarket.
Second, the Palestinian ambassador to Tehran, Salah Zawawi, called for “eradication of the fabricated regime [ie, Israel] in due course.”
While this information is published in the government controlled Palestinian and Iranian media, and translated into English thanks to Palestinian Media Watch, Western journalists simply can’t be bothered to report Mideast incitement unless they can point a finger at Israeli Jews.
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