Posted on 07/23/2006 3:01:36 PM PDT by SJackson
HIZBALLAH AND PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ESCALATING ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA By Michael Widlanski Jerusalem, Sunday, 23 July, 2006
Hizballah is now placing an unambiguous "bulls-eye" on the United States, calling America and its leaders state terrorists, and symbolically placing America in the same "enemy" class as "the Zionists"-Israel.
"Here is the head of terror," proclaims a Hizballah propaganda film montage Sunday morning on Al-Manar television, showing the face of President George Bush.
As faces of dead and wounded children appear on the screen, crude pictures of bombs rain down on the pictures, all of them labeled "MADE IN AMERICA."
A similar though less pronounced change has occurred in the media propaganda of the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by Mahmoud Abbas, which receives millions of dollars in American aid.
Nazir al-Ghul, anchorman of Voice of Palestine radio, began Sunday morning broadcasts with a condemnation of American transfers of precision laser-guided bombs to Israel.
The change in the Abbas regime's view of America is not unexpected, because the Abbas and his Fatah movement have-for more than a week, at least-been supporting the killing and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers as a legitimate form or "muqawwama": "resistance" in Arabic.
A cartoon in the Abbas-controlled Fatah newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida this week depicted an Arabic holding up a bandaged hand in a sign of victory in which the fingers were kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Al-hayat- al-Jadeeda July 19-06 www.alhayat-j.com/char.php?cid=501
The tough anti-Israeli and anti-American attitude of the supposedly moderate Abbas regime has been largely ignored or excused by Israeli policy makers and Israeli army intelligence analysts (such as former intelligence chief Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash) since Abbas publicly referred to Israel as "al'udu al-sihyouni"-the Zionist enemy-during his election campaign.
Identical terminology is used by Sheikh Hassan Nasserallah, the leader of the Iranian-financed and trained Hizballah, though Hizballah does so incessantly and without even a trace of camouflage, as is often the case with the PA.
Both Hizballah and PA news and interview shows include coverage of the war in Lebanon and Gaza in which Israel is condemned for hurting innocent civilians, but neither Hizballah nor the PA has condemned, criticized or even frowned on the killing and wounding of Israeli civilians by indiscriminate Hizballah and Palestinian attacks.
"Notice how scared and confused they are," noted a Hizballah commentator Friday afternoon to his colleague on Al-Manar television as they reviewed films from Israeli television showing bloodied Israelis against the background of destroyed buildings in Haifa and Nahariya Israel.
For their part, the Palestinians make no attempt to hide their delight at the deaths of Israelis in or near Lebanon.
Al-Ayyam, a Palestinian paper controlled by Abbas's Fatah movement, had a cartoon this week that showed an explosive mine-shaped like Lebanon-waiting to blow up an Israeli naval vessel.
The largest Palestinian newspaper, Al-Quds, which is also vetted by Abbas and the PA, has featured several cartoons this week showing Israelis burying themselves in a grave marked Lebanon, in quicksand marked Lebanon, or Prime Minister Ehud Olmert being hung out to dry on a clothesline.
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The same newspaper's lead story Sunday morning is about the "martyrdom" of "a 21-year old youth."
The sympathetic story features a member of Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, Ahmad Abu-Awad, the rocketeers who have been trying to attack Israeli cities or Israeli soldiers trying to suppress the rocket fire on Israeli cities. © 2006 Michael Widlanski Associates [Material may be cited with source attribution] =================== Dr. Michael Widlanski is a specialist in Arab politics and communication whose doctorate dealt with the Palestinian broadcast media. He is a former reporter, correspondent and editor, respectively, at The New York Times ,The Cox Newspapers-Atlanta Constitution, and The Jerusalem Post.
It's Islam.
Don't waste your time looking for rationality.
I wonder if that nice boy in the picture made that poster at Vacation Satan School this summer?
Perfect! Use their OWN words against them.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."
-CAIR chairman, Omar M. Ahmad, San Ramon Valley Herald July 1998
“Once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it...There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means to do it..."
-Abdulrahman Alamoudi, 1996
He served in the 1990s as State’s goodwill ambassador to Muslim countries
(In 2004 Alamoudi was sentenced to a 23-year prison sentence for violating anti-terrorism sanctions, including a plot to kill the Saudi ruler.)
"..because they are nothing more than satan's minions."
That they are.
Never Forget.
Why do you think America was attacked on 9/11 by fascist Islamic fundamentalists? It had nothing to do with Israel or America's support for Israel. The reason Bin Laden attacked the US and killed over 3,000 innocent civilians was because the US had stationed troops in Saudi Arabia during Gulf War I.
America, being a non-Muslim ("infidel") inside of a Muslim country is enough to be marked for extermination. The goal of Islamic fundamentalists is to turn the entire world into a giant caliphate with Islam as the only religion permitted and with Shariah being the only law of the land.
If you like cutting off the hands and feet of thieves and hanging teenagers for the crime of being raped, then you will love Shariah, Iranian-style.
America represents democracy -- the antithesis of Shariah -- and consequently, represents what Islamic fundamentalists wish to destroy. They want to destroy Israel for only two reasons: (1) it is also a democracy among a sea of dictatorships, and (2) it is also a Jewish homeland.
The only illegal occupation of land in Israel is by Arabs (who call themselves "Palestinians" after a nonexistant country) who stole the land away from Jews just as they have stolen millions of acres of land from other non-Arabic people.
PLEASE, do yourself a favor and read the book, "A Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer," if you wish to know the true history of Islam and how their current agenda is an extension of their bloody past.
If you wish to know the true history of the present Middle East conflict, then I strongly recommend the book:
"FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL: The origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine."
All of your questions will then be anwered.
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