Palestinian Authority Incitement Continues

Karl Vick might pooh-pooh the idea that Palestinian incitement exists, but the Palestinian Authority seems to be doing all it can to demonstrate that hate indoctrination remains a serious stumbling block on the road to peace.

Palestinian Media Watch recently translated three articles published in the PA’s official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that promote hatred of Jews and Israel.

The following are two excerpts from the official PA daily’s section on religion:
Sheikh Ishaq Feleifel teaches religion: “The old-new despicable plot: The struggle between truth and falsehood is as ancient as life upon this earth… yet the mighty Islam, from the breaking of its dawn and the spreading of its light up until our time, has been targeted by its enemies, who do not agree on anything as they agree on cultivating evil against Islam and uprooting Muslims. The challenge still exists; moreover, the enemies have announced in a clear and provocative manner their despicable and terrible plot. Sixty-three years ago, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ben Gurion, stood at the UN after the entire world granted recognition to the malignant cancerous growth known as the State of Israel… The Prime Minister of this destructive cancerous growth stood up to declare the religion of the Jews in Palestine to the entire world. I hope that the [Islamic] nation will study this faith in order to know with certainty that the Jews talk, in conferences and in negotiations, only through their distorted, corrupted, falsified religion which they have adopted, which they glorify and honor, and they are lying when they deny the owner of the right the right… And the conflict between us and the Jews is not a conflict about land and borders, but rather a conflict about faith and existence.”[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 3, 2011]

Sheikh Ishaq Feleifel teaches religion: “In this lesson I wanted to talk about Cain and Abel – that’s the first story on earth, whose victim was Abel, at the hands of his brother Cain – because this story shows a similarity to the Jews and their crimes. The parallel is that when Allah mentioned the rebellion of the Children of Israel and their disobedience of Allah’s commandment to wage war against the Giants, He mentioned the two sons of Adam and Cain’s disobedience of Allah’s words, and his unjust killing of an innocent soul, which Allah forbade. The Jews, by throwing off their yoke, followed in the footsteps of the first person on earth who threw off the yoke of Allah. Their [the Jews’] evil nature is drawn from Adam’s first son… I chose this story because of the similarity it contains: here the Zionist Jews kill many of the Palestinian people every day… and they imprison their [Palestinian] youth who are defending their right and seeking by all means to restore the land to themselves. This is our right, and no one is permitted to prevent us from attaining it. We are destined to restore our homeland to ourselves, Allah willing, and we shall raise our flag over Al-Aqsa [Mosque] and the rest of Palestine, Allah willing.”[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 13, 2011]

The following is an excerpt from an article in the official PA daily:
Article in official PA daily: “There was no period [like it] in history, and no other nation has acted with such recklessness, expelling and spilling blood, as the Zionist movement did against the Arabs of Palestine. The source of the name ‘Zionism’ is ‘Mount Zion’, one of the four mountains upon which the city of Jerusalem was founded. The Jews believe that their God lives there. Zionism is an extreme religious ideology whose aim is political hegemony and the transformation of a Jewish monarchy in Palestine into a basis for their eternal rule over the world, [and] that others, “Goyim” [non-Jews], must submit to their will, [their rule] which is drawn from the will of God.”[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 15, 2011]

And just yesterday, PMW noted that “A Palestinian summer camp for children and a girl’s college in the West Bank have continued the Palestinian Authority policy of presenting terrorist Dalal Mughrabi as a role model for children. Mughrabi in 1978 led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, in which 37 civilians were killed, 12 of them children.” Read more here.