“THEY ARE POISONING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN WITH DEEP HATRED”
Israeli Official Points to ‘Incitement’ by Palestinians
By Jodi Rudoren New York Times January 7, 2014
JERUSALEM — Adolf Hitler is quoted on the websites of Palestinian Authority schools. A young girl appears on Palestinian television, describing Jews as “barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs” and the “murderers of Muhammad,” the Islamic prophet. Maps on the Facebook page of the Palestinian presidential guards do not show Israel. President Mahmoud Abbas himself embraced as “heroes” released Palestinian prisoners who killed Israelis. These are among dozens of examples highlighted by Israeli officials in a new presentation documenting negative statements about Israel and Jews in official Palestinian Authority media and textbooks.
As Secretary of State John Kerry departed here on Monday after an intense four-day push for a framework agreement outlining prospects for a peace deal, Israeli leaders said that such statements had not abated since negotiations began this summer and did not bode well. “The general phenomenon is very clear: They are poisoning Palestinian children with deep hatred of Israel and the Jewish people,” Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, said on Monday as he showed the presentation to international reporters. “At the end of the day, let’s assume we’ll be able to resolve all the technical issues, which are extremely complicated. Are we going to get genuine peace, or just a piece of paper?”
The presentation, which Mr. Steinitz delivered at an Israeli cabinet meeting on Sunday, is part of an intensifying campaign in which he, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others have emphasized what they call “incitement” as a prime obstacle to peace. It underpins their increasing demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which they argue is the only way they will be assured that an agreement will end the long-running conflict.
Palestinian leaders dismiss the renewed focus on incitement as a ruse to distract from disagreements over issues including borders, the future of Jerusalem and the rights of refugees. They say that Israel has refused to reconvene a committee, which included Americans, that was established in 1998 to deal with incitement but disbanded after two years and about 20 meetings. “If there is any incitement against Israel, this is a forum where they can provide it officially, and we can do the same,” said Majdi Khaldi, a diplomatic adviser to Mr. Abbas. “Why do we have to continue just complaints from one to the other? It’s better for all to go to the trilateral committee, and that will solve the whole issue.”
Asked about reviving the committee, Mr. Steinitz said Monday that it had been “completely useless” and would not help because the problems were coming from Palestinian government sources, not rogue individuals. Mr. Khaldi says the problems go both ways. He pointed out that Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has repeatedly accused Mr. Abbas of “diplomatic terrorism,” and said he also saw Israel’s continued construction in West Bank settlements and military raids on Palestinian cities as forms of incitement. Xavier Abu Eid, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization, noted that weather maps in Israeli newspapers do not demarcate Palestinian territory, just as maps cited in Mr. Steinitz’s report do not show the land divided.
Incitement is an issue as old as the conflict itself. An unusually comprehensive recent study of Israeli and Palestinian Authority textbooks found that each presented the other side as the enemy, but that the Palestinian books contained more negative characterizations. David Pollock, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who in September published a 172-page study of the issue, said that while incitement had decreased markedly since the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, a decade ago, it persists. “There are ups and downs, there are exceptions,” Mr. Pollock said in an interview, “but unfortunately I think it is true that the official Palestinian media continue to incite against Israel and to claim that all of Palestine belongs to the Palestinians.
There’s almost no positive discussion of peace, two peoples, any of that sort of favorable or even just moderate messages about Israel.” On the Israeli side, Mr. Pollock said, “what you have are unofficial, extremist fringe individuals” whose statements are “disowned and discouraged, for the most part,” by government leaders. Mr. Steinitz’s ministry has four people working full time tracking incitement, and since 2009 it has issued quarterly reports trying to quantify it.
Mr. Steinitz said that numbers for the fall of 2013 were not yet available, but that “amazingly, surprisingly, since the resumption of the negotiations we see even more incidents.” On the Nov. 2 anniversary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain endorsed the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine, the website of Mr. Abbas’s presidential guards posted bloodied pictures of Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary for whom the declaration is named, and Israeli prime ministers under the banner, “A promise from one who did not own it to one who did not deserve it,” according to the presentation.
The same site, on the Nov. 29 anniversary of the 1947 United Nations vote to partition Palestine, had a headline, “Palestine Is Not to Be Divided,” with a map that did not show Israel. The presentation also included a picture of a Nazi flag hung in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar in October. And there was a November video on a website of Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction in which masked members of its military wing threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers and showed off weapons, singing, “With these rockets we will liberate Jerusalem, with these rockets we will crush the Zionist enemy.” Mr. Steinitz said that Mr. Netanyahu had shown Mr. Kerry some of these examples during a recent meeting in Rome.
The prime minister also complained about incitement in an August letter to Mr. Kerry, and has frequently raised the issue in his public statements since the negotiations began. “This Palestinian government incitement is rampant,” Mr. Netanyahu said at a joint appearance with Mr. Kerry when he arrived here on Thursday. “Instead of preparing Palestinians for peace, Palestinian leaders are teaching them to hate Israel.”
“A FOG OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS USUALLY KEEPS EVENTS LIKE THE AL-QUDS RALLY FROM GETTING MUCH ATTENTION IN THE WESTERN MEDIA” A pro-terror rally on a Palestinian campus
By Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe November 24, 2013
THEY WEREN’T wearing swastika armbands or chanting “Sieg Heil!” during the Islamic Jihad rally this month on the campus of Al-Quds University. They didn’t need to. Everything about the event reeked of fascism and anti-Semitic bloodlust. Demonstrators at the Palestinian school paraded in paramilitary gear, with massed black flags, mock assault weapons, and arms extended in Nazi-style salutes. There were banners lionizing suicide bombers, and hand-drawn Israeli flags on which students trod. Islamic Jihad — long identified as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union — posted photos of the rally on its website. In one, students representing dead Israelis sprawl on the ground as black-clad jihadists brandishing weapons stride past.
Such celebrations of terrorism and incitement to violence are pervasive in Palestinian society. Children raised under the Palestinian Authority are indoctrinated from an early age to regard Israelis and Jews as enemies to be destroyed and infidels to be loathed. Nothing about the nearly three-hour rally at Al-Quds would likely have surprised the estimated 1,000 students who saw it. Most of them have been fed a steady diet of such poison all their lives, and not just in schools and mosques.
From TV shows and popular music to the naming of sports clubs and public squares, the next generation of Palestinians has grown up amid the most violent culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich. A fog of political correctness usually keeps events like the Al-Quds rally from getting much attention in the Western media. But this one, first reported by veteran British journalist Tom Gross, made news last week when it led Brandeis University into suspending a longstanding academic partnership with the Palestinian school. It wasn’t the grotesque rally itself that provoked Brandeis to pull the plug, though that should have been sufficient: One of Islamic Jihad’s many innocent victims was a 20-year-old Brandeis undergraduate, Alisa Flatow, who was one of eight people murdered in 1995 when an Islamic Jihad bomber blew up the bus in which they were riding.
What finally forced the issue was the refusal of Sari Nusseibeh, the president of Al-Quds and a well-known Palestinian intellectual, to condemn the hate-drenched rally even after being asked to do so by Brandeis president Frederick Lawrence. Nusseibeh replied instead with an outrageous letter that denounced “vilification campaigns by Jewish extremists,” and suggested their only purpose in raising the issue was to “prevent Palestinians from achieving our freedom.” Nusseibeh is often described as a Palestinian “moderate.” But in a culture as poisoned with vitriolic anti-Semitism as the Palestinian Authority, moderation doesn’t go very far.
It doesn’t even go as far as repudiating the Nazi-like salutes and tableaux of dead Israelis during a public rally on an East Jerusalem college campus. Not even to retain the goodwill of an institution as dovish and liberal as Brandeis, a Jewish-sponsored university that was proud of its relationship with Al-Quds.
The genocidal values of Islamic Jihad are no anomaly. They are the values of Hamas and the PLO. Haj Amin al-Husseini, leader of the Palestinian Arabs, meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1941. The Arabs were Nazi Germany’s “natural friends,” Husseini assured the führer, “because they had the same enemies” – namely, the Jews. They are the values that led the Arab League to spurn the UN’s proposed two-state solution in 1947, and to announce that it would crush the newborn Jewish state in “a war of extermination and a momentous massacre.” They are the values that induced Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the leader of the Palestinians in the 1930s, to form an alliance with Adolf Hitler, eagerly collaborating with the führer in the hope of importing the Final Solution to the Jews of the Middle East.
“Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany,” Husseini wrote in his journal, “was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world.” He asked Hitler “for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem … according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews.” There may have been no actual swastikas at the Islamic Jihad rally, but the lethal values represented by the swastika have been a part of the Palestinian national movement for the better part of a century. They still are, however much people of goodwill might wish otherwise. So long as even famous Palestinian “moderates” cannot bring themselves to bravely defy those values, Palestinian sovereignty will remain a reckless gamble — and peace as far off as ever. –
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The murderous incitement is not the problem; it is one of the manifestations of the problem. The problem is that the “Palestinians” and the rest of the Arabs are Moslems, steeped in and obedient to the doctrines of Islam. Those doctrines, as promulgated in the Koran and the sayings of Muhammad, command Moslems to make war on the Jews and either to subjugate them or kill them. That is why not a single Moslem -majority country recognizes Israel’s right to exist. The murderous incitement and glorification of those Moslems who murdered Jews are only a reflection of what the Moslem god and Moslem prophet command Moslems to do. Any analysis of the situation which does not refer to the doctrines of Islam is bound to be superficial at best.
CuriousAmerican Said:
Depends on how you want to define war.
Is Iran and their proxies Hezbollah and surrogates Syria in a state of war with Israel? Egypt under Mubarak was the patron and enabler of Hamas to war against Israel for over 30 years. Syria in a state of war with Israel since 48′ after 73, used Hezbollah to do their war making against Israel. The Saudis still in a state of war with Israel have been the primary financier of all Terrorist groups arrayed against Israel. Egypt and the Saudis were and still are the primary movers of all anti-Israel movements in the world and in international forums like the UN.
Define what you mean by war because our agreement with Egypt required much more than just cessation of open HOT warfare and in those treaty obligations they have reneged.
@ CuriousAmerican:
The following were not met completely by Egypt:
Article 1: Diplomatic and Consular Relations
The Parties agree to establish diplomatic and consular relations and to exchange ambassadors upon completion of the interim withdrawal.
Article 2: Economic and Trade Relations
1.
The Parties agree to remove all discriminatory barriers to normal economic relations and to terminate economic boycotts of each other upon completion of the interim withdrawal.
2.
As soon as possible, and not later than six months after the completion of the interim withdrawal, the Parties will enter negotiations with a view to concluding an agreement on trade and commerce for the purpose of promoting beneficial economic relations.
Article 3: Cultural Relations
1.
The Parties agree to establish normal cultural relations following completion of the interim withdrawal.
2.
They agree on the desirability of cultural exchanges in all fields, and shall, as soon as possible and not later than six months after completion of the interim withdrawal, enter into negotiations with a view to concluding a cultural agreement for this purpose.
Article 4: Freedom of Movement
1.
Upon completion of the interim withdrawal, each Party will permit the free movement of the nationals and vehicles of the other into and within its territory according to the general rules applicable to nationals and vehicles of other states. Neither Party will impose discriminatory restrictions on the free movement of persons and vehicles from its territory to the territory of the other.
2.
Mutual unimpeded access to places of religious and historical significance will be provided on a non- discriminatory basis.
Article 5: Cooperation for Development and Good Neighborly Relations
1.
The Parties recognize a mutuality of interest in good neighbourly relations and agree to consider means to promote such relations.
2.
The Parties will cooperate in promoting peace, stability and development in their region. Each agrees to consider proposals the other may wish to make to this end.
3.
The Parties shall seek to foster mutual understanding
@ CuriousAmerican:
Egypt has not honored normalization of relations. Reneged on gas and oil provisions. Good News no wars.
@ CuriousAmerican:
The hell it has. There was to be full normalization of relations and there has been anything but. We have had exactly the same “peace” as we’ve had with Syria which is technically in a state of war with Israel. The only thing that has kept the peace with or without treaty is the threat of the IDF and it will always be so.
@ CuriousAmerican:
That agreement with Egypt was, at best, a cold peace and was maintained only because of Egypt’s fear of Israel’s military which had thrashed the Egyptians so thoroughly in the past.
I do not believe Egypt has gone to war with Israel since Camp David. That was honored.
Is Steinitz insane? Have the Arabs ever, ever honored any agreement they have signed with Israel?
Does anyone really believe for a minute that even if they sign on to “Jewish state”, “end of conflict”, yah – land for piece, that it will be worth the paper it’s written on?
We should just hand over our strategic depth, our ancestral homeland, our G-d given patrimony, because now we have a peace of paper with all the nice words we want to see.
There is only one solution and that is to rid ourselves of this enemy population that can not be appeased short of our destruction and not rid ourselves of our land that we need to defend ourselves from this rabble and their co-religionists that surround us on all fronts in the 100 millions!
Let’s end this grossly demeaning, suicidal charade of a “piece” process. There are already 2 fakestinian states on land promised to the Jewish people imposed on us. We can’t afford to create a third.
Why did the NY Times publish this article? Before we celebrate it may be just another opportunity for the NYT, and other adversaries, to attribute such bitter Arab hostility to the key element of “Israeli occupation” as the cause of all the trouble. My concern is that if the Arabs wised up they would begin a charm offensive. They would exploit a fatal Jewish weakness for kind words from a mortal enemy. The Jews plead for a few nice words from the Arabs such as “Israel is a Jewish state” and “you are not sons of monkeys and pigs”, etc. Soon enough Israel would be making far reaching suicidal concessions. It is only the extreme hostility of the Arabs that is causing the Jews to hesitate. Note that Obama and Kerry see no problem with the murderous hatred of the Arabs against the Jews.