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Thursday, August 16, 2007
PMW: ["moderate" PA] has Soccer tournament named for "Bat Mitzvah attack" terrorist

Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin - August 16, 2007
View this bulletin online here
http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_aug2007.htm#b160807

Soccer tournament named for
"Bat Mitzvah attack" terrorist
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Contact Palestinian Media Watch:
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@pmw.org.il
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.pmw.org.il

The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to glorify terrorists and to
present them as role models for children.

In a school in Tulkarem (West Bank) this week, a soccer tournament was named
after Ziyad Da'as. Da'as planned the attack in which a gunman opened fire
with an M-16 rifle at a Bat Mitzvah in Hadera in January 2002, killing six
and wounding 30. He was also behind the kidnapping and murder of two
Israelis in Tulkarem in 2001. Da'as, a Fatah-Tanzim city commander, was
killed by Israel in August 2002.

Significantly, the article indicated that the tournament took place in a
Palestinian school and that the school administration was thanked "for
providing the means for its success." Some Western governments have recently
renewed funding of the Palestinian Authority, including its educational
infrastructures, based on the assumption that schools are involved in
positive education.

It should also be noted that in reporting the story, the PA daily glorified
the terrorist as "one of the brave people of the Palestinian resistance."
The daily Al Hayat Al Jadida is owned by the Palestinian Authority, and is
therefore indirectly funded by Western money.

The following is an excerpt from the article:

Headline: "The team named after the Shahids (Martyrs) of the Southern
Quarter wins the tournament cup named after the Shahid Ziyad Da'as.

This tournament.commemorates one of the brave people of the Palestinian
resistance, whom the Israeli occupation forces assassinated in cold blood.

The committee that organized the tournament thanked the administration of
the school... for hosting the tournament in the school yard and for
providing the means for its success...

At the end of the tournament, the viewers indicated that the tournament was
in a level to suitably commemorate the brave Shahid (Martyr), the mercy of
Allah be upon him, Ziyad Da'as, and that an annual tournament should take
place on the anniversary of his death."

[Al Hayat Al Jadida, August 15, 2007]
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