Bulletin
Aug. 29, 2010

PA TV to kids: Israeli cities
Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Acre
are all "occupied cities"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=2962

Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org

Official Palestinian Authority TV continues to teach children that all of
Israel is "occupied Palestine." A repeating message on the children's show
The Best Home, currently broadcast three times a week during the month of
Ramadan, is that all Israeli cities are "occupied" Palestinian cities.

The PA TV host refers to cities in Israel alternately as "1948 occupied
cities," "occupied cities" or "occupied territories." The Israeli cities
described as Palestinian cities include Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle and Acre.

The following are examples from three of the TV programs in which the PA TV
host refers to Israeli cities as "occupied Palestinian cities."

Click here to view
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=381&fld_id=381&doc_id=2963

PA TV host to girl: "You live in Jerusalem. Do you visit the 1948 occupied
cities (Israeli cities)?"
Girl: "I've been to Hebron."
TV host: "No, Hebron is a city [in the Palestinian Authority] that we all
can enter. The occupied cities - such as Lod, Ramle, Haifa, Jaffa, Acre (all
Israeli cities) - have you visited them?"
Girl: "I've been to Haifa and Jaffa."
TV host: "Tell us, are they beautiful?"
Girl: "Yes..."
TV host: "We hope all children of Palestine will be able to go to the
occupied territories, which we don't know and have never been able to see.
Personally, I have never been there."

[PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 25, 2010]

PA TV host to children in studio:

"No doubt you've all been waiting to know lots of things about Ramadan in
those days, in some of the occupied areas, in the occupied territories.
Today we'll find out lots about Jaffa in those days of Ramadan."

[PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 22, 2010]

PA TV host to children in studio:

"Don't you want to see Ramadan from those days in an occupied Palestinian
city, to which we hope to return?"

The children are told a story of Ramadan in Ramle.

[PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 24, 2010]

PA TV is controlled by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's office.

See more examples on PMW's website of how the PA presents Israel as
"occupied Palestine."
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=433