Abbas rejects Jewishness of Israel,
doesn't rule out armed conflict
proud to have taught terror to world
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Feb. 28, 2008
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he doesn't rule out armed conflict against Israel. He also said that he was "honored" to have fired the first bullet of the Fatah terror organization in 1965, and to have taught terror tactics around the world, including to such groups as Hizbullah. In an in-depth interview published today in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustur, Abbas said that the PA is "unable" to pursue armed conflict for now, but said that "in the future stages things may be different."He rejected Israel as a Jewish state, and said that it was the PA's rejection of Israel's Jewishness that almost aborted the Annapolis Conference last November.Abbas said that he won't demand that Hamas recognize Israel. In fact, as PMW has reported in the past, he said that the only "recognition" of Israel he demands is that Hamas and Fatah members of a Palestinian unity government will recognize their Israeli counterparts due to pragmatic necessities during contacts with Israelis.
Here are some highlights from that interview:
The Arab Situation
"Now we are against armed conflict because we are unable. In the future stages, things may be different..."
We reject the Jewishness of the state
The Palestinian President emphasized his rejection of what is described as the Jewishness of the state [Israel], and said: "We rejected this proposal at the Annapolis conference last November in the USA, and the conference was almost aborted because of it..."
The Resistance [Editor's note: PA euphemism for terror]
The Palestinian President spoke about the resistance, saying: "I was honored to be the one to shoot the first bullet in 1965 [Fatah terror against Israel began in 1965] ,and having taught resistance to many in this area and around the world, defining it and when it is beneficial and when it is not... we had the honor of leading the resistance.We taught everyone what resistance is, including the Hezbollah, who were trained in our camps [i.e. PLO camps in the 60s and 70s]."
Recognition of Israel
"I don't demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel. I only demanded of the [Palestinian] national unity government that would work opposite Israel in recognition of it. And this I told to Syrian President Bashir Assad, and he supported this idea."
Al-Dustur, February 28, 2008
Hamas Kids TV:
Don't eat Danish food -- eat the Danes
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) Feb. 22, 2008
By Itamar Marcus And Barbara Crook, Feb. 26, 2008
Hamas children's TV dedicated a program to hatred of Denmark, the West and Israel, climaxing with a statement about the West by the co-host, a giant rabbit character named Assud:
"If they repeat it we will kill them ... I will bite them and eat them!"
The program focuses on the demand to boycott Danish and Israeli products. Denmark and the West are targeted because of the cartoons featuring Muhammad that first appeared in a Danish newspaper. Israel is targeted because it exists. Saraa, the young TV hostess, describes the publication of the Muhammad cartoons as "the West's attack against the Messenger [Muhammad]."
Palestinian children phone into the program to condemn the "cowardly
infidels" and vow to fight them.
The children's program, Tomorrow's Pioneers, has used
its previous animal character co-hosts, the Mickey Mouse lookalike Farfur
and the bee Nahul, to champion violence, promote hatred of Israel and
preach about world Islamic supremacy. To further reinforce its anti-Israel
message, Hamas has killed off both characters and blamed Israel.
Click here to
view: From Hamas children's TV program Tomorrow's Pioneers
The following is the transcript:
Saraa: Did you see the West's attack against the Messenger [Muhammad]?
What do you have to say about this?
Amaani, 10 year old girl by phone: I say to the cowardly infidels...
Assud: Criminals.
Amaani: Criminals.
Assud: Do you boycott Israeli and Danish products?
Amaani: Yes
Assud: You don't eat them at all?
Amaan: I don't eat them at all.
Assud: Great! Keep it up!
Saraa: We will all boycott Danish products, and Israeli products first.
* * * * * * * * * * * *
Saraa: What can we do for the Messenger?
Inaas, 10 year old girl by phone: We can fight them because
they cursed Allah's Messenger.
Saraa: 'Tomorrow's Pioneers' army will redeem the Messenger,
with their possessions and their blood, Assud,
and will not let them repeat this attack.
Assud: If they repeat it we will kill them, by Allah.
Saraa: In His will.
Assud: I will bite them and eat them!
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) Feb. 22, 2008]
Hamas rabbit to children:
"I'll finish off the Jews and eat them!"
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Feb. 11, 2008
Using
charming children's characters to teach hate and violence
Farfur (Mickey
Mouse) was beaten to death by an israeli policeman
Nahul the Bee died when the Israeli "siege" of Gaza prevented him
from reaching a hospital
Now there's a new character for Tomorrow's Pioneers, Assud the Rabbit
A girl asks the Hamas rabbit:
"Why is your name 'Assud' ["lion"], since you are a rabbit?"
Assud, the rabbit: "A rabbit is a [term] for a bad person
and coward. And I, Assud, will finish off the Jews and eat them. "
The girl hostess agrees: "Allah Willing!"
This was part of a children's
broadcast on Hamas Television this week. The program is called Tomorrow's
Pioneers, which previously featured a fuzzy Mickey Mouse character named
Farfur and a cute bee named Nahul. We've learned from previous episodes
of the program that both Farfur and Nahul were "martyred" by Israelis.
In the latest episode, we learn that Assud, the new rabbit character,
has come from Lebanon "in order to return to the homeland and liberate
it." Later in the show Assud and the child hostess discuss the eventual
conquering of Tel-Aviv through terror.
Assud: "Do you know what the original name of our city ... Tel Aviv!"
Hostess: "It's our city: Tel-Rabia... but the Zionists today call it Tel Aviv, but it will stay ours... and we will return with Allah's will".
Assud: "How will we go to our city if the Jews took it?"
Hostess: "We will continue the resistance (terror)."
The program ends with singing:
"We will never recognize Israel"
And the hostess emphasizes:
"until we liberate our homeland from the Zionist filth".
[Palestinian Television, Al-Aksa channel (Hamas), Feb 8 2008].
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