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Terror
poems for kids on PA TV
Kid's call to
murder:
"Slaughter" the Israelis
"Their
leader will be carried in a coffin"
"My rock
has turned into an AK-47"
Kid's call to be killed:
"Our
blood is food for the revolution"
"Yasser
Arafat, for you we shall die"
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques
Zilberdik
Twice this month Palestinian Authority TV's children's program The Best
Home had young children recite poems encouraging violence. One poem called
for murder of Israelis "as we slaughtered them in your streets, Beirut." The
poem also urged Palestinians to seek death, emphasizing that if you are a member
of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas' party, your "blood is food for the revolution":
Boy: "Today, O our West
Bank, our Gaza, raise your voice
O our land, the time has still not passed
As we expelled them from Gaza and Sderot
As we slaughtered them in your streets,
Beirut
For you, Yasser Arafat, for you we shall
die
After the night comes the light of day, and the
fig leave will be removed...
Tomorrow we will take our vengeance, and their
leader will be carried in a coffin
We, Fatah, are a storm, and our blood is
food for the revolution..."
PA TV host: "Bravo, Muhammad,
thank you, thank you, thank you!"
[Official PA TV, The Best
Home, Jan. 6, 2017]
A girl and a boy recited another poem on the same children's program,
celebrating the escalation from violence of "rocks" to violence of automatic
rifles:
"We want to speak openly, with no hesitation and
with no fear
World, hear and see, my rock has turned
into an AK-47 [assault rifle],
Your words are true, Yasser Arafat
O mountain, the wind will not move you."
[Official PA TV, The Best
Home, Jan. 20, 2017]
These recitals by children on official PA TV of poems that advocate murder
and Martyrdom add to the efforts of PA and Fatah leaders to heat up the
atmosphere in the Palestinian street. Palestinian Media Watch has documented their many statements
promising "religious war" and violence should US
President Trump move the US embassy to Jerusalem. A Fatah official even
explained that Fatah is holding meetings with "all of the field leaders...
in preparation for a fierce popular
intifada."
The poem declaring that "my rock has turned into an AK-47" echoes a music
video which PA TV broadcast numerous times from 2000-2003 during the PA's terror
campaign (the second Intifada, 2000-2005). It featured a boy singing
"Don't be afraid. Allah is with them... The stone in their hand has
turned into an AK-47."
From 2000-2005, the PA leadership used its TV station to broadcast numerous
inciting videos encouraging Palestinians to
attack Israelis and seek Martyrdom in confrontations.
This week, PMW reported on a music video broadcast on Fatah-run Awdah TV,
which also featured content reminiscent of Intifada
broadcasts. | 
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