Introduction
As today's PA elections approached, the PA increased the level of hate promotion by its leaders. The most widely reported incident was a Jan. 5 speech by PA leader Mahmoud Abbas in which he twice referred to Israel as the "Zionist enemy." What has not been publicized, however, is the general increase in hate promotion from other media venues controlled by the PA.

For example, after a few weeks of very moderate Friday TV sermons, including one in which the Imam actually read from a prepared text, the PA decided to return to the hate promotion that has been much more common for these sermons. This past Friday, Sheik Ibrahim Madiras preached about the corruption of the Jews, even blaming the Tsunami disaster on the Jews and America. The previous week, he preached about the Palestinians' longing for the destruction of Israel and America.

The following are the texts of these broadcasts:
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Sheik Ibrahim Madiras Friday sermon, PA TV Jan. 7, 2005:

"The Muslim remembers, how the Jews corrupted the land...
Oh Muslims! The Jews are Jews. Their character and custom are the corruption and destruction of this land. We keep warning you: the Jews are a cancer that spreads inside the body of the Islamic and Arab nation.... They invest in the East Asian countries, which were destroyed [by the Tsunami] because of the Jewish and American corruption and destruction."

Sheik Ibrahim Madiras Friday sermon, PA TV Dec. 31, 2004:

“[Sharon said] ‘No to the return to the 67 borders’. I will not add my voice to Sharon’s voice, but raise it above his voice and tell him: No to the return to the 67 borders. We are interested in returning to our genuine borders. We want to return to the 1948 [pre-Israel] borders... We want to return to these borders, and we will yet return to them, by Allah, even if it will take time.
We are interested in returning to the 1936 borders, to the revolution... and we are interested in returning to 1929 borders... [a time when] a group of our grandfather and fathers became Martyrs for Allah in the Al-Buraq revolution, as they were defending the Al-Aqsa mosque from the Hagana gangs, Allah curse them and curse those who supported them. We want to return to 1919 borders... [We have a claim] which we can't forget and will never forgive forever... [against] Britain and all governments who assisted that state [Israel] to be established on this land, which is a false state on a true land...

America today, America is the sponsor of terror on this land. America, who pretends for freedom and pretends for democracy, is the sponsor of terror on the face of this land. America has reached her peak, we admit in it, America has reached a peak but, by Allah’s will, is on the way to the abyss. America, led by its president now, [who is] leading it to the abyss, to destruction, to death, by Allah’s will. America, for whom Bush dug a grave the day he invaded Afghanistan, and prepared the grave for burial the day he invaded Iraq, by Allah, America will be buried the day the American embassy will be moved to Jerusalem, and it will be the last nail in her coffin.”