by Itamar Marcus

Introduction
PMW has been documenting the duplicity of the Palestinian Authority towards the United States for years. In its English statements, the PA presents itself as an American ally, while its Arabic messages incite its people to hate and kill Americans. Never has this hypocrisy been more striking than today, after the Palestinian ambush that targeted and killed three American diplomats in the Gaza Strip. The official PA rushed to condemn the attack -- even as the PA-controlled media continues its relentless campaign of anti-American indoctrination.

[Click here to view examples on Web site of hate America indoctrination broadcast on PA TV.]

During the war in Iraq, the PA actively endorsed the killing of Americans, and even produced a music video celebrating the deaths of US soldiers that was broadcast repeatedly on official PA TV. [Click here to view video] In the months before the Iraq war, the official PA daily published calls to Saddam Hussein to turn Iraq into a graveyard for American soldiers. At a pro-Iraq rally they “praised the role of Iraq and the Commander Saddam Hussein, and stressed that Iraq’s land will be a graveyard for the American soldiers...” [Al Hayat Al Jadida, Dec. 19, 2002]

Since the war, hatred of the USA has continued unabated in the official and tightly-controlled PA media. This morning’s political cartoon in the official daily Al Hayat Al Jadida attacks the US for trying to “paint” the entire world American.

[Click here top see PMW web site examples of hate - America cartoons in the PA press.]

A recent sermon on official PA TV described the US as “the foremost enemy of the Muslim nation” compared to Pharaoh of the Bible saying: “There is no God besides me”. [PA TV February 21, 2003]

This past Friday, the PA sermon broadcast on official PA TV included the following threats and warnings to the US:
“We hear statements by the little American President, oppressive statements. He says Israel has the right to defend itself… These statements carry destruction for America itself… This president sees himself like one who has ascended to the mountaintop and like one expecting someone to push him so that he falls into the abyss, he and his people with him. We warn the American people that this president is dragging them to the abyss… [Allah] take vengeance on Your enemies, our enemies, enemies of religion.” [PA TV Sheikh Ibrahim Madiras, Oct. 10, 2003]

A recent sermon on official PA TV told Muslim believers to anticipate the destruction of the US:

“If we go back 1400 years in time, we find that history is repeating itself, worshippers of Allah. The Prophet Mohammed was besieged by two powers, Persia in the east and Rome in the west. These represent the Soviet Union and America of today. Persia represents Russia in the east, and America stands for Rome in the west. Persia fell first in the east, just as Russia fell first in the east, and America will fall, may it be Allah’s will, just as Rome fell…”
[Official Sermon PA TV, September 5,2003,Sheikh Ibrahim Madiras.]

Clearly, the American diplomats were murdered today by Palestinians fulfilling their role in their war against Americans, as they have been taught by their leaders, through years of hate-mongering and calls for violence against Americans.

[Click here to see PMW reports reviewing years of PA promotion of hate of America.]

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