June 4, 2003 Contact: (212) 481-1500 Attn: NEWS EDITOR

ON SAME DAY THAT PA LEADER PROMISES TO END INCITEMENT, PA PRESS INCITES
ARABS TO HATRED AND VIOLENCE

NEW YORK- On the very day that Palestinian Authority prime minister Mahmoud
Abbas (Abu Mazen) was promising President Bush to halt incitement to hatred
and violence, the official Palestinian Authority Press Center is circulating
cartoons inciting hatred and violence against America and Israel.

Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America
(ZOA), said:

"Ten years ago, in the Oslo accords, the Palestinian Arabs promised to end
their incitement. In President Bush's June 2002 speech, he again demanded
they halt their incitement. More than five weeks ago, President Bush
proclaimed the Road Map, which again demands a halt to incitement. Yet every
day, the vicious anti-Israel and anti-American incitement continues in the
official PA media, school textbooks, speeches, summer camps, and religious
sermons. Ten years of broken promises, ten years of vicious
incitement--incitement that continues at the very moment Abu Mazen is
telling President Bush that the PA is stopping its incitement. "Abu Mazen's
worthless, general statements against incitement and violence are no
different than the dozens of similarly worthless statements that Yasir
Arafat made throughout the past ten years. The words of Arafat and Abu Mazen
to the Western media are meaningless; their pro-terrorist actions speak
louder than their vague words."

The cartoons are appearing today on the official website of the PA
Information Service - International Press Centre:

#1 - A recruiting poster featuring Uncle Sam in a death mask, declaring: "I
want you for the "Iraqi Freedom"; Join our forces and massacre the Iraqis"
SEE: www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Carcature/ipc-e_car7.html

#2 - Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, wearing a bloody shirt and
brandishing a blood-drenched butcher knife over a bleeding Arab baby. The
scene is a butcher shop, with two bodies hanging on meat hooks. One sign
reads: "Palestinian Blood"; the other sign reads "Sale." SEE:
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Carcature/ipc-e_car2.html

#3 - Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, with blood dripping all over him,
holds a knife dripping blood. Veteran Labor Party leader Shimon Peres holds
a mop to wipe up the blood on the floor. SEE:
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Carcature/ipc-e_car5.html

#4 - Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon holds a whip, aimed at an Arab tied
to a post. Sharon is saying: "You must stop the violence." SEE:
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Carcature/ipc-e_car1.html

#5 - Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, wearing an army uniform, holds a
list and a pencil. Next to him is an Israeli soldier holding binoculars and
asking "We've killed 80 Palestinian, is that enough?" Sharon replies: "Just
19 more..." SEE: www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Carcature/ipc-e_car3.html

#6 - A Palestinian Arab woman holding a PLO flag in one hand throws a rock
that bounces off the helmet of one of two Israeli soldiers in a tank. One
soldier tells the other: "I told you before, all of them are terrorists."
SEE: www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_Carcature/ipc-e_car4.html

(Courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch)[Actually, IMRA - Independent Media
Review and Analysis is the source]

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The Zionist Organization of America, founded in 1897, is the oldest
pro-Israel organization in the United States. The ZOA works to strengthen
U.S.-Israel relations, educates the American public and Congress about the
dangers that Israel faces, and combats anti-Israel bias in the media and on
college campuses. Its past presidents have included Supreme Court Justice
Louis Brandeis and Rabbi Dr. Abba Hillel Silver.