Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin
January 11, 2004

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
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PA Editor: Israel attacked Paris synagogue to encourage French Jews to come
to Israel
by Itamar Marcus

Introduction:
One of the common tactics of Palestinian Authority (PA) propaganda is to
blame Israel for Palestinian and Arab terrorism. Now a prominent PA
newspaper editor has come up with a new twist on this tactic.

On June 13, 2003, a Belgian citizen tried to blow up a synagogue in Belgium,
using two gas balloons hidden in his car. Two months ago (November 15,
2003), two cars exploded in front of a synagogue in Istanbul, causing the
deaths of 23 people.

Last week a new libel was invented by the editor of the PA official daily,
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, in an interview on PA TV. The editor explained that
because Israel suffers from low immigration, it was Israel who started last
month's fire in the Parisian Synagogue -- to convince French Jews to
immigrate to Israel.

The following are the words of Hafez Barghouty on PA TV:

"The Secret Zionists gangs have been trying, and are acting in France in
the same way they used to act in Arab countries- Iraq, Egypt and Morocco,
blowing up... Jewish synagogues in order to force them [the Jews] to
immigrate [to Israel]. So after the attack on a synagogue, the Israeli
ambassador in France called for all the Jews in France to immigrate [to
Israel]...

...There are Israeli or Zionist gangs that carry out terror attacks
against Jews and force them to immigrate [to Israel], because Israel suffers
from emigration."

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