ZOA To Obama: Condemn Abbas For PA TV Calling Israelis Land Thieves Who Must "Return" To Europe & Ethiopia

Would Abbas tell Americans to “return” to Mexico, Africa, South America & Europe?


Morton Klein
ZOA Press Release
14 May '10

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has urged President Barack Obama to hold Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas accountable for a broadcast on PA TV on May 4 and May 7 which called Israelis thieves and advised them to return to Europe & Ethiopia.

In the program broadcast on PA TV, We Are Returning, the PA TV narrator said:

“I’m from Jaffa, I’m from Haifa, I’m from Acre, I’m from Nazareth, I’m from Gimzu, I’m from Zakariya, I’m from Ein Kerem. [All are cities and towns in Israel] Where are you [Israelis] from? Where are you from?

Of course, you’re from Ukraine; of course, you’re from Germany, from Poland, from Russia, from Ethiopia, the Falasha (a pejorative term for Ethiopian Jews, Ed.) Why have you stolen my homeland and taken my place? Please, I ask of you, return to your original homeland, so that I can return to my original homeland. This is my homeland; go back to your homeland!” (PA TV (Fatah), May 4 and 7, 2010, translation courtesy of Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, ‘PA to Israelis: Go to Europe and Ethiopia - Israel is “stolen” land,’ Palestinian Media Watch bulletin, May 11, 2010).

Only four days following the second of the two broadcasts of this program by PA TV, President Barack Obama had a telephone conversation with the PA’s Abbas, in which he actually raised the issue of incitement, but not in reference to this or any other PA act of incitement. Instead, President Obama “urged that President Abbas do everything he can to prevent acts of incitement or delegitimization of Israel” (‘Readout of the President’s Call with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority,’ May 11, 2010).

The Obama Administration has on occasion raised the issue of incitement against Israel but has never made continuing U.S. aid or diplomatic support conditional on an end to PA-sponsored incitement.

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