PA libel: Israel uses drugs in war against Palestinians
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Discussing the war on drugs in Jerusalem, a Palestinian Authority TV
host stated that Israel is deliberately targeting young Palestinians with drugs.
The Palestinian coordinator of a UNDP-sponsored campaign against drugs,
Isaam Jweihan, endorsed this PA libel, stating that
Israel uses drugs as "an unconventional weapon" to "empty Jerusalem of Arabs:"
PA TV host: "Jerusalem is
probably the Palestinian district that suffers the most from drugs, [because]
the occupation mainly targets young age groups in Jerusalem..."
Coordinator of the Project of the War on
Drugs in Jerusalem, Issam Jweihan: "A war is being waged [by
Israel] against Jerusalem. This is an unconventional war in which unconventional
weapons are being used. The goal of the war is clear - to Judaize the city and
empty it of its [Arab] residents. They are using unconventional
weapons. The weapon that brings the best results for the Israelis is
drugs."
[Official PA TV, Palestine
This Morning, June 21, 2017]
Palestinian Media Watch has documented this drug
libel numerous times, and it is even being voiced by close associates of PA
Chairman Abbas. Imad Hamato, who Abbas recently appointed to head a system of
Islamic schools and who is also the host of a weekly PA TV program
teaching Islam, has similarly taught that "Israel's... war against the Arabs and
Muslims is through sex mania... drugs... to destroy... our children's
values":
Imad Hamato, appointed by PA Chairman
Abbas as dean of Gaza Al-Azhar schools, host of weekly PA TV program on
Islam: "What has Israel given to the world in our times, aside
from moral corruption and corrupt values, aside from the use of drugs and pills?
I said in a previous lesson that the CIA has a unit called the Unit for Creating
the Global Mood. They look at a map: ''What is appropriate for Gaza, or Jordan,
or Syria? Tramadol pills (i.e., pain killers)? Mood enhancers? Hallucinatory
substances?" They are produced in India, sent to Israel, and distributed in
Sinai. Afterwards they are spread in the region, in order to destroy what
remains of our children's values."
[Official Palestinian Authority
TV, June 12, 2015 and April 14, 2017]
A similar accusation was presented by a Hamas member of
PA Parliament:
Hamas member of the PA Parliament Marwan
Abu Ras: "Who are the Jews? ... Who are they? The most impure
people, the most impure nation, with the lowliest values that mankind has
seen... The Jews are currently recruiting from their army... prostitutes in
order to entrap Arabs in their net and the net of their intelligence services...
What values do they have left? Treachery and betrayal... and war against morals
throughout the world... They were the first to spread usury. They were the first
to spread lowly filthy porn movies. They were the first to spread porn websites.
They are the largest distributors of drugs and alcoholic
drinks... The enemy declares that it is sending young women, disguised
as tourists, infected with AIDS in order to fornicate with young Muslims... and
spread AIDS among the young Muslims."
[YouTube channel of the
International Union of Muslim Scholars, Jan. 6, 2017]
The following are additional examples of the libel that Israel
deliberately spreads drugs to destroy Palestinian youth:
PA Security Forces spokesman: Israel is responsible for rise in
drug labs in the West Bank, is interested in "destroying Palestinian society
socially, morally, and nationally"
Headline: "Adnan Al-Damiri: The security
situation in the West Bank is stable and the occupation is trying to undermine
it"
"In order to be updated on the security
situation in the West Bank and the large challenges it is facing, the
Al-Quds [newspaper] interviewed Official Spokesman of the Palestinian
[PA] Security Forces in the West Bank [and General Political Commissioner of the
PLO Political and National Guidance Authority] Adnan Al-Damiri...
[Q:] 'In your opinion,
what is the reason for the rise in the number of drug labs in the West
Bank?'
[Official Spokesman of the PA
Security Forces Adnan Al-Damiri:] 'The occupation is
interested in destroying Palestinian society socially, morally, and nationally,
and in destroying its norms, culture, and way of behaving. Some of the people
are still not convinced of this to this day, as if it were a hidden matter.
Whoever thinks that the settler government in Israel wants a satisfied
Palestinian people is mistaken. At best, the Palestinian Security [Forces] still
have no control over the borders, and drugs are goods that can be transferred
across the border. Therefore, the one responsible for them being smuggled and
brought in is the one who controls the borders, and that is first of all the
Israeli occupation... We see, and everyone with intelligence knows and sees,
that there are local issues that the occupation is responsible for and which are
being carried out with external funding. After all, growing drugs for instance
costs hundreds of thousands of [Israeli] shekels as it requires equipment, and
there are also types of drugs that require labs, and all of these things are
very expensive. An issue like this not only affects individuals, but is also
directed against a whole society, first by the enemies, but also by the
criminals, law breakers, and those with [private] agendas - and all of them have
an interest in destroying Palestinian society.'"
[Falestinona, website of
Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon, Apr. 5,
2017]
Member of PA Supreme Fatwa Council accuses Israel of spreading
drugs among Palestinian youth
Headline: "Drugs - the occupation's weapon
in Area C (i.e., areas of the West Bank under full Israeli security and
administrative control)"
"President of the Shari'ah Court of
Appeals and member of The [PA] Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council, Judge Ata
Al-Muhtasib said that the plague of drugs of all types has crushed whole
nations, and threatens existing nations and an active culture. He added that
Islam was the first to ban drugs and intoxicating drinks and to warn against
them and their dangers...
He continued: 'It is everyone's
responsibility to fight this dangerous plague in order to build a state whose
people and institutions are strong, so that we will rebuild what the Israeli
occupation has destroyed, repair what it has ruined, and plant what it has
uprooted...'
Al-Muhtasib added: 'The drugs are a weapon
that the occupation has taken advantage of in order to crush our young. This is
by drugging them, disabling their efforts, wasting their potential, and firstly
destroying their religion and eliminating their future. Despite everything we
have mentioned above, several immoral people in our society have stretched out
their hands to use [drugs], and worse - in order to help the occupier distribute
them.'"
[Official PA daily,
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 4, 2017]
PA Minister of Jerusalem Affairs accuses Israel of "spreading drugs
in order to harm the young [generation of Palestinians] and destroy it"
Headline: "The governor of the Jerusalem
district briefed a Turkish delegation regarding the suffering of Jerusalem's
residents"
"[PA] Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and
[Jerusalem] District Governor Adnan Al-Husseini briefed a Turkish Red Crescent
delegation regarding the suffering of the [Palestinian] citizens in the holy
city and its environs due to the Israeli occupation... In the meeting, measures
were reviewed that could be taken to overcome the occupation authorities'
attempts and role in spreading drugs in order to harm the young [generation of
Palestinians] and destroy it, which will affect all of society."
[Official PA daily,
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 22, 2016]
PA: Israelis target young Palestinian boys and give them drugs, as
part of an Israeli policy meant to destroy Palestinian society
Official PA TV program Topic of the Day on the opening of a
juvenile court, hosting Chairman of the High Judicial Council Sami
Sarsour.
Official PA TV host:
"There is another issue for which we hold the Israeli elements responsible, and
in which we appreciate the role of the Palestinian Security Forces - chases,
solving [crimes], relying on their sources - and that is the drug issue. This is
a worldwide issue, and we in Palestine are a part of the world, and may be
affected by it. It cannot be said that this phenomenon is different from our
situation. No, we are a part of the world. However, marking young boys as a
target in this matter is very grave for us. Those who were caught [dealing
drugs] have Israeli citizenship, while the planting and production are carried
out in the Palestinian territories, and the young boys are marked as targets.
True, this method is one of many methods employed by the occupation in order to
destroy Palestinian society. It begins with the young generation. It [Israel]
wants to build a generation that was raised on drugs and smuggling. The problem
here is controlling these things. In my opinion, this is extremely difficult,
especially in regard to points along the border between us and the areas under
Israeli rule... This policy is one of the methods that Israel uses to destroy
Palestinian society, from children to adults. It destroys the children
morally."
[Official PA TV, Apr. 6,
2016]
Libel on PA TV: Israel is "drowning our youth in the swamp of
[drug] addiction"
PA TV newsreader: "PA TV
has exposed that the occupation is using all means to destroy our people
and perhaps the most striking one is the drowning of our youth in the swamp of
[drug] addiction, after facilitating the entry of all kinds of drugs for
our youth."
[Official Palestinian Authority
TV, Mar. 1, 2015]
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