Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Here's the ad: PMW US TV ad shows PA glorification of terror as major obstacle to peace
And here's the link to the report: PMW and Deputy FM Ayalon release report on PA glorification of terrorists
...The report documents that: "Terror glorification is highly visible in Palestinian society. A Palestinian child can walk to school along a street named after the terrorist Abu Jihad, who planned a bus hijacking that killed 37, spend the day learning in a school named after Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin, in the afternoon play football in a tournament named after suicide terrorist Abd Al-Baset Odeh who killed 31, and end his day at a youth center named after terrorist Abu Iyad, responsible for the killing of the 11 Olympic athletes in Munich. A young woman can join a university women's club named Sisters of Dalal, after Dalal Mughrabi, attend a week at Al-Quds University honoring suicide bomb builder Yahya Ayyash, and participate in university rallies named after numerous terrorists. Honoring terrorists envelops and plays a significant part in defining the Palestinian world."...
The ad is good as far as it goes. I hope it gets a lot of airplay. The glorification of terror the ad condemns is just the tip of the iceberg. It flows from Arab rejectionism and the irredendist dream of controlling the entire area between the River and the Sea—pushing the Jews into theh Sea, driving them out or subjugating them as dhimmis.
The ad could have been a lot stronger in talking about the Dalal Mugrhabi and the Coastal Road Massacre of 1978. All they say is that 37 [unarmed] Israeli civilians were killed, they don't mention that 13 were children, that 71 others were wounded or that 38 were killed counting the American photographer Gail Rubin.
Nappy knows that there's only so much you can say in a short ad, but they really downplay and understate the brutality of the terror whose perpetrator the PA celebrates as heroes.