CAMERA Snapshots..
10 July '13..
On July 3rd, official Palestinian Authority (PA) television broadcast two adorable little girls reciting a poem. Nice? Not really. Here are some of the verses, as translated and posted by Palestinian Media Watch:
Oh, you who murdered Allah’s pious prophets [Jews in Islamic tradition]Oh, you who were brought up on spilling bloodYou have been condemned to humiliation and hardship.Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creationsOh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs
This is not an isolated incident. Palestinian Media Watch has documented numerous examples of similar hate speech by children in PA and Fatah (the party of PA leaders) media.
A quick search of Google news turned up only five stories about this shameful episode, and those only in the Israeli press and some specialty media. However, if you type “Israel” into a Google news search you turn up 46,000,000 stories, including a New York Times review of an Israeli movie and an ABC News story about investors buying a bankrupt Israeli electric car company. Is this not at least as newsworthy?
By broadcasting these sentiments on its official television station, it is clear the Palestinian Authority endorses the sentiments in the poem. How difficult will it be to achieve a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when these attitudes are taught to children?:
Jerusalem vomits from within it your impurityBecause Jerusalem, you impure ones, is pious, immaculateAnd Jerusalem, you who are filth, is clean and pure.I do not fear barbarity.As long as my heart is my Quran and my cityAs long as I have my arm and my stonesAs long as I am free and do not barter my causeI will not fear your throngsI will not fear the rifle.
Young minds poisoned with hatred and bigotry. Children encouraged to embrace violence. And yet… Where’s the coverage?
Link: http://blog.camera.org/archives/2013/07/wheres_the_coverage_palestinia_3.html
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