Thursday, December 29, 2005
Here's the latest from PA Media Watch. I'm not sure if this is really "new levels" -- it's always been pretty bad -- but this is just further indication that there is no serious movement for peace, even in state controlled media.
PA TV program on Jaffa (Tel Aviv):
"It is time for you [Israelis] to be gone. Live wherever you like, but don't live among us. It is time for you to be gone. Die wherever you like, but don't die among us. We have the past here. We have the present, the present and the future. So leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds. Everything. And leave the memories."
These words of hate are the parting moments of yet another program on Palestinian Authority television calling for the destruction of Israel. The words, calling for the expulsion of every last Israeli from Israel, are spoken while the screen is showing Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israelis and Israeli flags. Official PA TV has aired this twice in recent months.
The program about Jaffa opens with a revision of history, by casting the ancient Canaanites as Arabs. By doing this, the more than 3,000 years of Jewish history in the area are pre-dated by a fabricated Arab history. (The Arab Conquest actually took place in the seventh century of the Common Era.)
Jaffa, a part of Tel Aviv, is defined as a Palestinian city, and all of Israel's coastal cities, Acre, Haifa, Caesarea, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Jaffa, are said to be situated in what is "known today as Palestine." According to this PA program, Israel is already non-existent.
The final words of this television program are those of Israeli-Arab poet, Mahmoud Darwish, calling for the expulsion of every Israeli: "Die wherever you like, but don't die among us."
Utterly disgusting.
I am so very bothered by the aid we're giving to the PA. There is such a disconnect between what Bush and Rice apparently think is possible, and what is going on over there. I'm baffled by the US comittment to the PA. What sort of alternate reality are Bush and Rice seeing over there? How do they think more $$$ and a "road map" will change things? In what sort of time frame? At what cost?