PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
November 20, 2014
A week before the brutal murders of four rabbis during prayer and a policeman in a Jerusalem synagogue, the official Palestinian Authority daily published an op-ed that demonized Israel and Jews. It specifically singled out “the rabbis of the secret societies” as the ones giving the instructions to Israel to “set the foundations for an eternal hegemony”:
“The danger posed by Israel remains the greatest and most significant of all, and the first [threat] we must come out against. For the Zionist settler ideology does not seek temporary influence or gains, and does not strive to exploit and exhaust resources, but rather sets the foundations for an eternal hegemony based on the instructions of the ‘rabbis’ of the secret societies. And all this is in order to take revenge on history and their minority and false persecution complex.” [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 12, 2014]
Having established that Israel is “the greatest and most significant danger,” the writer of the op-ed repeated the PA libel that Israel is planning and working at destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque – a libel that PA leaders are presenting as the main theme in the current terror promotion against Jews in Jerusalem:
“It is Al-Aqsa that they are desecrating, Al-Aqsa- not the grave of a Turkish sultan or turbaned foreigner – it is Al-Aqsa that is calling you.”
To prove that Israel poses a great danger, the op-ed also reiterated the PA libel documented by Palestinian Media Watch that accuses Israel of being behind all the world’s dangers……
ArchitectGuy on Israel 