ARAB MEDIA WATCH

PA Hate TV: Israelis murder brides and Jaffa is Palestinian
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Two foundations of Palestinian Authority hate ideology are the denial of  Israel's legitimacy as a state and the depiction of Israel and Israelis as  cruel and inhumane murderers. The PA under Mahmoud Abbas continues to  promote this hate ideology. The following are two examples of these hate  messages, as they appeared on Palestinian Authority Television in recent  days. [PA TV, October 6, 2005]: In the first, an actor depicting an Israeli soldier gleefully and  cold-bloodedly murders a bride in her wedding gown. In the second, a televised play has the Palestinian actor declare that the Israeli cities of Jaffa and Haifa are Palestinian, and the PA audience responds with cheers and applause.

1. Israeli soldier murders a bride in her wedding gown: The Canaanite is a Palestinian-produced series for daily viewing during the month of Ramadan. The story centers on a young man who, according to the script, underwent torture in Israeli prisons and feigns insanity. The scene opens with a bride dancing by herself in her flowing gown on the beach. An Israeli soldier sees her from his watchtower, and then races to the beach to murder her. Her murder is followed by the sick evil laughter of the hook-nosed Israeli soldier. Filfil, the series' hero, runs and holds the dead woman in the water. Unable  to revive her, he stands in rage, races off and fires his rifle in the air. The next scene sees the hero wake up- it had all been a dream.[PA TV, October 6, 2005]

2. PA Play: Israeli cities "Jaffa and Haifa are Palestinian": A play filmed in front of a live audience and broadcast on PA TV shows Palestinian actors depicting terrorists (called "resistance fighters") in Israeli jails. One prisoner recounts how he was repeatedly beaten by an Israeli soldier for saying he came from Jaffa. Jaffa is an Israeli city, part of Tel Aviv, but the PA often defines it is an as "occupied Palestinian city." The soldier insists the prisoner say he is from Gaza. Upon hearing the story, a second prisoner responds, almost in tears, "No, definitely not! Jaffa and Haifa are ours! Jaffa and Haifa are ours!" The studio audience reacts with cheers and applause. This presentation of all of Israeli cities as "Occupied Palestine" is reflected throughout PA society, media and education.

Full text from the PA TV play: Prisoner A: "The soldier asked me, 'Where are you from?' I said, 'From Jaffa,' so he hit me. He asked me again, 'Where are you from?' I said, 'From Jaffa,' so he hit me. I could not stand it any more, so I told him, 'Tell me what to say!' "He said, 'Say you are from Gaza! Jaffa and Haifa are not yours.' Prisoner B: "No, definitely not. Jaffa and Haifa are ours! Jaffa and Haifa  are ours!"