The Palestinian “resistance” has made its way into Congress via Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (and their allies). It has become mainstream on American campuses through Muslim Student Associations. Its propaganda is sold virtually everywhere, leading innumerable people to accept the Palestinian jihad as a human rights issue. Yet its goal is and always has been “from the River [Jordan] to the [Mediterranean] Sea, Palestine will be free,” that is, to obliterate Israel utterly. The Palestinian hatred of the Jewish people and their state is reflective of Islamic teachings which existed centuries before the birth of Israel and have given rise to antisemitic behavior throughout the history of Islam.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas wrote his PhD thesis on Holocaust denial, and has declared that not a single Israeli will live in a Palestinian state. Now his office has released yet another piece of hatred and genocidal incitement:
Palestinian kids’ destiny is to die for Palestine – they should “sacrifice” themselves for Jerusalem and its holy sites! That is the official message from Abbas’ Presidential Office.
“PA proud it sends kids to die: ‘Our [children] teach the world what sacrifice and self-sacrifice are,’ says PA official,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, August 23, 2020:
Palestinian kids’ destiny is to die for Palestine – they should “sacrifice” themselves for Jerusalem and its holy sites! That is the official message from Abbas’ Presidential Office.
In an interview on official PA TV, the Director of the PA Presidential Office’s Jerusalem Unit bragged that “the boys and girls of Jerusalem are teaching the entire world what sacrifice and self-sacrifice are”:
PA Presidential Office’s Jerusalem Unit Director Mu’tasim Tayyim: “As long as Jerusalem is occupied, there will be an escalation in the Palestinian struggle. As long as Jerusalem is occupied, our souls and blood are for Jerusalem, for its holy sites. We won’t hesitate to protect and defend Jerusalem… and everything that is Arab-Palestinian-Islamic-Christian in Jerusalem… The boys and girls of Jerusalem are teaching the entire world what sacrifice and self-sacrifice are.”
[Official PA TV, Good Morning Jerusalem, July 24, 2020]
Palestinian Media Watch has exposed numerous similar statements by PA and Fatah officials, songs, and children’s poems that encourage Palestinian youth to “become Martyrs” for “Palestine.” Recently, in the context of Israel’s presumed application of Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and the Jewish towns on the West Bank, the PA broadcast several music videos urging Palestinians to seek death as Martyrs, tempting them with the promise of marrying the 72 Virgins of Paradise in a “wedding procession on the day that Martyrdom-death is granted” as is Islamic belief…