Commentary/Contentions
01 July '11
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/07/01/palestinian-authority-indoctrinates-its-youth-against-peace/
If you want to know the real obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peace, take a look at what Israel’s “peace partner” is doing in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. Taysir Nasrallah, a senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party who is currently director-general of the Nablus governor’s office, gave Haaretz reporter Avi Issacharoff a tour of Balata’s seven-year-old community center this week. And while the term “community center” evokes images of peaceful, wholesome activity, what’s actually going on there, by Nasrallah’s own proud account, is anything but:
“We give the kids courses on the right of return and teach them that the Israelis stole their lands. We’ve sent hundreds of camp children into Israel to see the villages and towns that were taken from us. We took them to Jaffa, Ramle.
“Our message is that without a doubt they will return to the places from which they were driven out,” he says.
Jaffa and Ramle aren’t West Bank settlements; they are towns in pre-1967 Israel. And these are the locales Israel’s “peace partner” is teaching Palestinian children to consider their own. Indeed, Issacharoff reported, Nasrallah’s “dream is to have the [community] center move to Jaffa when the day comes”; hence its name: the Jaffa Center. Moreover, children are regularly assigned presentations involving a map of Israel, but “for them it has always been and remains the map of Palestine.”
Then there’s the fact the children are being taught “Israelis stole their lands” – in other words, that Jews have no right to a state in any portion of what is today Israel; they are thieves who must be stripped of their ill-gotten gains. That’s hardly a message conducive to peaceful coexistence.
Nor is the effort to indoctrinate them into demanding a “right of return” – a euphemism for flooding pre-1967 Israel with 4.8 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants who, together with Israel’s 1.6 million Arab citizens, would outnumber its 5.8 million Jews and turn the Jewish state into a second Palestinian one (the first being the judenrein Palestinian state slated for the West Bank and Gaza).
And remember, this isn’t Hamas conducting these indoctrination sessions: It’s Israel’s “peace partner,” the “moderate” Fatah-led Palestinian Authority. Moreover, the PA is targeting precisely those youths it sees as future leaders. Just this week, Issacharoff reported, 35 children completed a leadership course at the center.
It ought to be obvious peace will never be possible as long as even Palestinian “moderates” insist Jews have no right to statehood in any part of this land, that Palestinians should seek to obtain pre-1967 Israel as well as the West Bank and Gaza, and that pre-1967 Israel should become another Arab-majority state instead of a Jewish one. Indeed, this is obvious to most Israelis; that’s why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu keeps reiterating that Palestinian recognition of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state is the key to peace.
Unfortunately, most Westerners still don’t seem to get it, and that’s precisely why all their efforts to broker a deal keep failing. To solve any problem, you first have to acknowledge its existence.
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Re: "Palestinian Authority Proudly Indoctrinates its Youth Against Peace"
ReplyDeleteby Evelyn Gordon
“We give the kids courses on the right of return and teach them that the Israelis stole their lands."
Here one has a perfect example of why there is no point in the State of Israel even wasting time discussing the concept of "making a peace deal" with their adversaries.
Clearly anything agreed to would not be worth the paper it was written on.
So the question then is why is Israel losing the public relations battle- in spades?
Obviously historic anti-semitism plays a major role, no doubt. But the Arabs et al never cease to supply such a mountain of written and spoken evidence of their obsessive dream of wiping Israel off the map, that surely Israel can and must do a better job of getting the real message/s of its adversaries before Court of world opinion.
While the President of the US apparently has a personal agenda that dictates that he may "Hear no Evil, See no Evil and Speak no Evil" when it comes to Israel's sworn enemies, he is only one individual in a gargantuan government comprised of thousands of decision makers of all political persuasions.
The Arabs never fail to provide all the ammunition on a silver platter which Israel could ever require to convince the world of who is really the obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
Why are the facts such as contained in this article not flooding the airwaves and print media?
We all know the sad tilt of the media but I cannot believe there is zero way that such information as contained in this article cannot be made generally known to 300 million American citizens- not to mention, millions beyond the shores of the US.
I would venture to guess that if any candidate opposing Obama in the next election, were to simply reduce this article to a thirty second message, with appropriate visuals and then blast it all over the airwaves with the subtitle:
"Can America afford four more years of a President who cannot understand a simple message repeatedly delivered to America's staunchest ally in the Middle East".
Or the info-message could simply end with the photo of infants holding small rockets and the words: "Is President Obama the only person on Earth who just doesn't get it ??"
Then superimposed over the photos of men, women and children holding guns and rockets, should appear the words:
"WE WILL BURY YOU ISRAEL- AND AMERICA WITH YOU"
Israel may be good at winning on the battlefield but Israel must start to gather together the talent they require to win "hearts and minds" on a global scale.
It seems the material is here on the internet, in abundance on so many web sites, read daily by people who need no convincing.
But 'preaching to the choir' serves no useful purpose. The real target audience, who hear only the jibberish relating to such insanities as the Flotilla for "peace", are being left in the dark vis a vis the indoctrination of children to hate.
When it comes to the Middle East, lies can be exposed and truth based on facts can, should and must be revealed to vast numbers of people but so far I do not see it happening to the degree necessary.
The facts and truth are clearly on the side of the State of Israel.
Leaving aside the bred in the bone, die hard antisemites of the world, that still leaves countless millions of human beings on this planet who would be receptive to learning the truth about the Middle East conflict/s if only the message starting being delivered in a fashion people could understand and internalize.
The hour is late and there is no time to waste. Especially with Sept and the UN circus act/s fast arriving on the world's doorstep.