Palestinian Media Watch Special Bulletin

September 13, 2001

A compendium of Palestinian Authority hatred of America:
1997 and 2001

by Itamar Marcus and Ruthie Blum

Introduction

For years, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has actively promoted hatred of
the United States among its people. The recurring theme: the US is an
imperialist, colonialist usurper of land and human rights, enemy of the Arab
world, killer of Arab children, and supporter of Israel. Yasser Arafat has
repeatedly referred to Saddam Hussein as his "brother" and has linked an
Iraq victory over the US to a Palestinian victory over Israel. During a
period of US-Iraq tension, the editor of the PA official daily wrote that
America would pay for its war against Iraq with "45,000 bodies of American
soldiers [who] will return to the US like airmail .The Arab mothers will not
be the only ones crying..." The PA Mufti has called for Allah [god] to
destroy America and "paint the White House black." [See compendium below for
full quotes and sources.]

This active antipathy to the US espoused and preached by the PA leadership
has created a Palestinian society imbued with hatred toward America. It is
in this atmosphere that Palestinians took to the streets in spontaneous
celebration of the horrific terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

Quickly realizing that there could be nothing more odious to television
viewers in democracies than the sight of Palestinian festivities over the
deaths of Americans, the PA took two measures. First, PA Minister of
Information Yasser Abed Rabbo demanded of foreign bureau chiefs that they
cease broadcasting the celebrations, and threatened the lives of their
staff. Second, they orchestrated public displays of sympathy for America.
Photos of Arafat donating blood appeared in the press, alongside photos of
Palestinian children carrying signs (in English) expressing solidarity with
"fellow" victims of terrorism.

During the weeks prior to the attacks, PMW noticed an increase in the
anti-American vitriol and incitement appearing in the PA press, including
calls to attack the US.
The following selections are from 1997 - when PMW first began monitoring the
Palestinian media on this topic - and from 2001, prior to the attack. This
compilation demonstrates the consistency of Palestinian ideology.

A compendium of Palestinian Authority hatred of America

Part 1: 1997

1. PA Mufti calls for destruction of America
Arafat appointed Mufti of Palestine has called on Allah (God) to destroy
America, which is controlled by Zionist Jews
"Oh, Allah, destroy America as it is controlled by Zionist Jews...Allah will
avenge, in the name of his Prophet, the colonialist settlers who are the
descendents of monkeys and pigs... "
Ikrima Sabri, the Mufti of the Palestinian Authority, (from weekly sermon in
the Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem). Voice of Palestine, July 11, 1997.

2. The U.S. and Israel are the source of terrorism in the world.
Palestinian rejection of the US list of terrorist organizations, which
included Islamic and Palestinian organizations..
"We reject the definition of Palestinian and Islamic organizations as
terrorist organizations [by the U.S.]. The U.S. and Israel are the source
of terrorism in the world. "
Sheik Hamed Al-Bitawi, Head of the Palestine Association of Religious
Scholars [and the PA's appointed Manager of the Nablus Municipal Religious
Courts] Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, 10.11.97

3. The US, bloodsuckers and barbaric culture will disappear from history.
History will forget the United States, but will remember Iraq and Palestine.
"...History does not remember the United States, but it remembers Iraq, the
cradle of civilization, and Palestine, the cradle of religions. History
remembers every piece of Arab land, because it is the bosom of human
civilization. On the other hand, the murderers of humanity, the creators of
the barbaric culture and the bloodsuckers of nations, are doomed to death
and destined to shrink to a microscopic size, like Micronesia. " [Hafez
Al-Barghuthi, editor, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 15, 1997]

4. Arafat: "The two people, Iraqi and Palestinian, are together in the same
trench."
Arafat sends his blessings to the brother Iraqi people.
"[A PA leader]... expressed President Arafat's blessings to the brother
Iraqi people and its leadership, since the two people, Iraqi and
Palestinian, are together in the same trench."
Al-Quds, [Nov. 30, 1997]

5. Palestinian rally in support of Iraq
Arafat: A Palestinian victory over Israel and an Iraqi victory over the US
are mutually dependent.
"Yesterday in Hebron a large rally was held in support of the Iraqi people
who are facing the American arrogance. [A speaker said in Arafat's name]:
"The words of President Sadaam Hussein to President Arafat still reverberate
loudly in our ears: 'If you do not win this war, then we will not win, and
if you do win then we shall win.'"
The Minister of Supply, Abu Ali Shahin ... expressed his willingness to
fight as a soldier against anyone fighting Iraq." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
Dec. 1, 1997]

6. Palestinian Legislative Council condemns America and rioters burn US flag
The Palestinian Legislative Council condemned the American threats against
Iraq while hundreds, waving Iraqi flags and pictures of Saddam Hussein burn
an American flag.
"The Palestinian Legislative Council . Political Committee condemned the
American threats against Iraq .Hundreds of people participated in a sit-in
strike, waving Iraqi flags, pictures of President Saddam Hussein and posters
denouncing American policy...The rioters also burnt an American flag."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 11, 1997

7. Israel and America twin bastard entities
Israel is the bastard entity in Palestinian land and America is the bastard
empire of the New World Order.
" ... Everything that happens in Jerusalem is done with America's blessing,
in spite of the false announcements periodically released by Washington.
Whoever is familiar with the real connection between the bastard entity in
our land and the bastard empire in the new world order, undoubtedly grasps
this strong tie between the American resolution and the Israeli action. We
must not believe the Americans, especially since we have a long history with
them, full of schemes and false promises...perhaps you remember...the plots
of the infamous Jew Henry Kissinger..."
[Fuad Abu Hijla, columnist. Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 29, 1997

8. US's New Ambassador to Israel is worse than "Johnny Walker."
The US Congress, the 'Council of the Elders of Zion', appointed American
Ambassador to Israel Edward Walker, who is worse than the Whiskey "Johnny
Walker."
".the newly appointed American Ambassador to Israel, Edward Walker, who
"went through extensive hearings in the [US] Congress, or, that is, in the
'Council of the Elders of Zion' in order to win this post. He managed to get
a certificate of good conduct with an 'A+' on the scale of nausea, rather
than on the scale of honor, because he said that he once volunteered to work
on a kibbutz. He almost said that he is going to volunteer to be a settler
and revealed that he studied Hebrew, which proves that he is a worthy heir
to his predecessor, Martin Indick. .
This is Edward Walker's record, who has no connection to the Scottish
[Whiskey] Johnny Walker, but is much more damaging. For his mission will be
to intoxicate us by calming statements, so that we do not hear the sound of
the settlements' bulldozers that gobble up our lands. Albright says that we
believe [these bulldozers] are a provocation, but she does not think so.
From such a den, only foxes can come out."
[Editor, Hafez Al-Barghuthi Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 30, 1997]

9. America and Israel release darkness and hatred of mobs with long beards.
America and Israel release hatred, darkness, death and evil upon the world
as opposed to the 'jasmine and life' exuded by the Arabs. Albright and Ross
are equated with Israeli Prime Ministers Rabin and Netanyahu.
"...We have Sonia and Mahmoud and Halima and they [Israelies] have
Madeleine, Dennis, Binyamin and Yitzhak...We exude the [scent of]
jasmine...throughout the world, and they release the darkness and hatred of
the mobs with the long beards over the land. We declare [an allegiance to]
life...while they have shut themselves up behind death and have been
entrenching themselves in its [death's] excavations for the last fifty
years, which is also their age, the age of evil..." [Fuad Abu Hijla,
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, August 11, 1997]

10. Palestinian Authority sides with Iraq against the US.
The aggression against Iraq is aggression against Palestine.
"The aggression against Iraq is aggression against Palestine. Anyone who
does not say "no" to the U.S. is an enemy of Palestine." Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, November 12, 1997

11. Israel controls the American Congress
Congressional blind submission to world Zionism is due to Israeli power and
control of key U.S. institutions. The Zionist Congress uses threats of sex
and morals scandals against Clinton and his administration.
"What "Israel" is trying to do...by way of its control over a number of
institutions in the US, such as the Congress and its allies...reveals the
nakedness of those people and their blind submission to world Zionism... The
peace equation was somewhat violated, since the Zionists were able to
demonstrate their power in the US... that is the power which was clearly
revealed in the Zionist American Congress which led to the terrorizing of
the American president and the administration, through threats of sex and
morals scandals which are disseminated by the obedient media in the US..."
Brig. Gen. Khaled Al-Musmar, assistant head of the Palestinian
Indoctrination Directorate.
Falastin Al-Yaum, August 21, 1997

12. Palestinian Council demands boycott of American Embassy celebrations.
Palestinian Legislative Council members request an internal investigation
into the presence of PA Council's member at American Embassy 4th of July
celebrations, in spite of official PA boycott.
"Minister of Communications, Imad Al-Falouji sent a request to the
presidency of the Palestinian Legislative Council to investigate the
presence of council members at Fourth of July ceremonies organized by the
American embassy, especially since the council decided to boycott these
ceremonies. Council member Hatem Abd Al-Qader...demanded to conduct an
investigation in order to find out who were the members who attended [the
ceremony], and Ziyad Abu Ziyad... expressed approval for [the proposals]."
Al-Ayam July 16, 1997

13. Call to raise Hell in Albright's face
In a televised interview, the Palestinian Authority Minister for Trade and
Industry calls for the Palestinian nation to raise hell in Madeline Albright
's face.
"We, as a nation, must raise Hell in Albright's face."
Muadh Al-Abed, Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, P.A. Television Aug.
31, 1997

14. The War of the West and the Jews against true Islam
Arafat and the PA will never fight their brothers of Hamas and Islamic
Jihad (who represent true Islam), despite the demands of Washington's Jewish
emissaries Ross and Albright. This is why Ross's current mission has
failed as will any in the future.
"Dennis Ross' mission is finished...This Jewish emissary failed to convince
our president and our national authority to wage war against our brothers
the "Hamas" and the "Islamic Jihad". It was made clear to him that we will
not be the spear in the war of the West and the Jews against the true
Islam... Ross...will return, and with him or in his place will return his
Jewish Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, when Washington feels Israel
is in distress..."
Fuad Abu Hijla, in his column "Window". Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, August 14, 1997

15. Congress accused of being Zionists
Abu Alaa, the PA Legislative Council chairman, accuses Congress of being
more extremist and Zionist than the Netanyahu government.
"Ahmad Qurei [Abu 'Alaa], Legislative Council Chairman, said that he is not
surprised by the American resolution [to shut down the PLO offices in
Washington] ...since it appears that the Congress of the number one world
superpower is more extreme and more Zionist than the Netanyahu government,
and even more than the extreme of the extremist right-wing movements in
Israel. Abu 'Alaa pointed to the stupid, irresponsible congressional
resolution on Jerusalem and the settlements."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug.14, 1997

16. Nablus demonstration against U.S.
Effigies of U.S. envoy Ross, Netanyahu, as well as American and Israeli
flags, were burned during a sanctioned mass demonstration in Palestinian
Authority controlled Nablus.
"...Yesterday, on Aug. 12, a mass demonstration was held in Nablus...The
demonstration was organized by the National Emergency Committee... A number
of demonstrators burned an effigy of the prime minister of Israel, Binyamin
Netanyahu, which was attached to an effigy of special envoy Dennis Ross, and
also burned US and Israeli flags." Al-Ayyam Aug. 13, 1997

17. The American administration afflicted by Zionism
The PA Secretary of the Cabinet claims that the American administration
suffers from a disease called the Zionist lobby in Washington.
"Let us not forget that the American administration suffers from the disease
called the Zionist lobby in Washington."
Ahmad Abdul Rahman, Secretary of the Cabinet of the Palestinian Authority.
Voice of Palestine, April 14, 1997

18. Terror attack the impetus for Ross meeting with PA
A senior member of the Palestinian Legislative Council comments that Ross
"honors" them with a visit only after Jews are blown to bits at a Jerusalem
market by Islamic suicide bombers.
"...Mr. Ross honors us with his visit today, only after the shattered limbs
of the Jews are scattered throughout Mahane Yehuda."
Nabil Amru, Member of the Palestinain Legislative Council.
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,August 9, 1997

19. American abuses of the American Indians
America inflicted violence, torture, mass murder, camp burning, and
expulsion against the American Indians.
"Netanyahu, Albright. and the Indians" by Dr. 'Isa Salti
".. Hollywood movies do not show the violence, torture and crazy coercion
that the unarmed peace loving American Indians suffered, these included mass
murder, camp burnings, the expulsion of tribes from their land, the
eradication of wild life, the spreading of contagious diseases and the
desecration of holy sites.. The American administration disregarded the
agreements that it signed with the tribal chiefs and forced the tribes to
live in closed reserves with poor living conditions.Anyone who knows this
subject can recognize the similarity between our Palestinian problems and
the history of the American Indians." Al-Quds, Dec.14, 1997

20. Palestinian warning: "The Arab mothers will not be the only ones crying"
The Americans won't learn their lesson in Iraq without 45000 deaths, warns
the PA daily
"...Iraq will not succeed in the conflict with the US... however, the firm
Iraqi stand against the [US] dinosaur military apparatus that bases itself
on the myth of the blood-spilling cowboy who chases Indians will remain an
achievement...
Warning-signs will light for the American people only after the American
Ambassador escapes, defeated from the Embassy's roof, and after 45,000
bodies of American soldiers will return to the US like airmail... This is
the same mentality that caused the Marines to enter Beirutand to run away
from it, after one bold operation was carried out by a Shahid [holy martyr]
who suckled from his mother's bosoms a pure Jihad tradition... [ed - nearly
250 US Marines were killed in Beirut by a suicide bomber]
If most Americans support hurting Iraq it is because they think it will be a
television war, without American bodies. But Arab reality will not remain
frozen. It can change and send gifts back to the US via airmail. The Arab
mothers will not be the only ones crying..."
Editor of the official PA daily, Hafez Al-Barghuthi, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
November 23, 1997

21. U.S. and Israeli flags burned
U.S. and Israeli flags were burned at a memorial service for Shkaki (leader
of the Islamic Jihad whose members have been suicide bombers) at Hebron
University in PA controlled territory. Speeches were also delivered on
behalf of many terror organizations (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.)
"The Islamic Association in the University of Hebron held a memorial service
marking the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Fathi Al-Shqaqi, [leader
of Islamic Jihad, whose members participated in suicide bombings]...
Speeches were delivered during the ceremony on behalf of the Hamas Movement,
the Fatah, the Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front... The participants burnt
American and Israeli flags ."
Al-Quds, November 4, 1997

22. A Palestinian columnist decries the "dangerous Jew" Ross
Ross is labeled a "dangerous Jew", Martin Indyk is labeled "the Jew" and
Madeleine Albright is "half Jewish".
[The Palestinians] conduct negotiations with the "dangerous Jew" Dennis
Ross, whom they view as a mediator, coordinator, and delegate and hold
negotiations with the American State Department where the person heading the
Middle East portfolio is "the Jew" Martin Indyk, and the one in charge of
guiding the policy is Madeleine Albright, who discovered she is half Jewish.
Al-Ayyam, November 5, 1997

23. Pro Iraq Rally
Hundreds at a PA controlled refugee camp rallied in support of and in
solidarity with Saddam Hussein.
"Hundreds of students from the schools of the Daheyshe refugee camp, near
Bethlehem, demanded in a rally yesterday to remove the blockade of Iraq. The
slogan used in the rally was "solidarity with the Iraqi people and their
children."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 6, 1997

24. Gaza rally condemns the US Policy against Iraq
National and Islamic forces in PA controlled Gaza have condemned American
policy and called for an end to the blockade of "sister" Iraq and a revival
of Arab and Muslim solidarity in support of Iraq.
The national and Islamic forces in Gaza called for a removal of the
exploitative blockade from the sister Iraq and condemned the American policy
in the area... The national and Islamic forces called for a revival of Arab
and Muslim solidarity, which will assure Iraq's return to the Arab house as
an active force supporting the national Palestinian problem.
Al-Ayyam, November 6, 1997

25. PA support Iraq against US
The PLO , in a meeting in PA territory, called on Arabs to support Iraq by
public actions, and to act in every way against the American danger which
threatens all Arab people.
...The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called to act in every
way against the American danger, which threatens all Arab peoples...
Al-Quds, independent daily, November 9, 1997

26. Racial discrimination and crimes against humanity in American policy
The US must understand that he who draws the sword of oppression against the
"Third World" will die by the sword, Allah willing.
Mahmud Yusef Al-Khatib : "The US is Beating the War Drums":
The "diseased" world order and the new racial discrimination in American
policy lead a terror campaign against the so-called "Third World". The US
uses its hegemony and influence in order to harm "The Third World" by using
Iraqi children, the Iraqi people and all of the peoples of the region.
Whatever the excuses and outcomes of this policy may be, [the question is
whether] the US could wash its hands of the blood of the innocent? The
stubbornness and despotism [of the US] do not justify its crimes against
humanity, crimes that have reached an intolerable level.
We are not complaining about the [American] fire of oppression and
aggression, but draw strength from it, because the will of Allah is superior
to all else. The US and all those who beat the drums of war with it must
understand that he who draws the sword of oppression from its sheath will
die by the sword, and those who play with fire will be burnt by it, Allah
willing.
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 20, 1997

27. Union of Workers of Palestine calls for Jihad against US.
The organization's Secretary General pledged solidarity with Sudan in the
face of US sanctions and called for a position of Jihad to remove oppression
from the Arab nation.
The Secretary General of the Union of the Workers of Palestine, Haydar
Ibrahim, emphasized the standing of the workers of Palestine, both "inside"
[the land] and "outside," alongside the sister Sudan against the new
sanctions put on it by the US....
The letter added that America's aggressive behavior... aims at bringing the
Arab nation to its knees by putting sanctions on Iraq, Sudan, and Libya...
Ibrahim called on all the Arab and Islamic forces to take a position of
Jihad alongside The Sudan, Palestine, Iraq and Libya in order to remove the
siege and oppression from the masses of the Arab nation...
Al-Quds, November ?, 1997

28. America is attempting to subjugate the entire Arab World.
A PA editor writes that America is targeting not only the Iraqi regime but
the people and its history. This is part of an American effort to subjugate
and terrorize the entire Arab world and force it to "vomit up" its Arabism ,
Islam and history.
Immediately after the Gulf War, James Baker spied on the Arab States in
order to bring the Arab capitals, which transformed into obedient females,
under Israeli protection, after they were already put under American
protection during the Gulf War...
An American U-2 plane, which flies now in Iraqi skies, says to the Arab
capitals "You, Too," namely, "your turn will come," because no capital which
will be saved from American punishment...
The target of the abhorent display is conducted on Iraq's body is not the
Iraqi regime alone, rather the Iraqi people and its history as well; [and
that] in order to terrorize the whole Arab world and cause it to vomit up
its Arabism, its religion and its history and remain at the periphery of the
21st Century, as the humiliated slave of the bloodsuckers, those who steal
the nation's bread and rob the lands.
Will these [Arab] regimes use the opportunity to say "no," or will the Arab
people under siege who will have to break the siege one way or the other?
Allah willing [this will] occur shortly.
Hafez Al-Barghuthi, editor-in-chief, in a column:
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 11, 1997

29. PA support for Iraq
The PA Political Committee denounced American threats against Iraq and
demanded the immediate removal of the siege of Iraq, Sudan and Libya.
Additionally, at PA rallies in support of Iraq, American flags were burned.
"In a meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council yesterday...the
Political Committee denounced the American threats against Iraq and demanded
to resolve the current conflict by peaceful means... The Committee also
demanded to immediately remove the siege of Iraq, Sudan, and Libya...
Representative 'Abd Al-Fatah Hamal proposed to publish an announcement
denouncing the American aggression against the Arab nation and the peoples
of Iraq, Sudan, and Libya. [He] demanded of the Council to send letters of
support to the Heads of Parliament in those states. Representative Nahed
Al-Rayyis supported this proposal...
In a letter sent to the U.N.'s Secretary General the "National and Islamic
Forces" in Gaza denounced the aggressive American policy.
Hundreds of people participated in a sit-in strike, waved Iraqi flags,
pictures of President Saddam Hussein and posters denouncing American
policy...The rioters also burnt an American flag...[Rallies of solidarity
with Iraq in opposition to "the American aggression" took place in Gaza,
Ramallah, and al-Bireh]."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 11, 1997

30. Anti-American rally in Hebron
American and Israeli flags were burned at a mass rally in PA controlled
Hebron in support of the Hamas terror organization.
"Five thousand supporters of the Islamic movement participated in a rally
organized by Hebron University Islamic Movement under the banner "The Rally
of Clear Victory."... After the speeches the participants, together with
some masked students, burnt American and Israeli flags..."
Al-Quds, independent daily, November 11, 1997

31. PA support of Iraq
In a public statement, Fatah, headed by Arafat, has called upon all Arab
forces to unite to aid Iraq. They denounced the American escalation and
asked the U.N. to find a peaceful solution to the fabricated crisis.
"The Fatah movement called upon all the official and popular Arab forces to
unite in order to face the challenge confronting the entire Arab nation and
in order to end the suffering of the brother Iraqi people, who has never
been stingy in sacrificing for Palestine and in defending the Arab nation as
a whole. In a public statement published yesterday by the movement the Fatah
expressed its denunciation of the latest American escalation and called on
the UN to accept responsibility, put an end to this escalation, and find a
peaceful solution to the fabricated crisis against Iraq... "
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November 12, 1997

32. Islamic Movement criticizes US policy
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel accuses the power crazy,
uncivilized US of being the sole world policeman and opposing any Arab
rapprochement and cooperation. This is typified by the American campaign
against Iraq.
The leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheik Abdallah Nimr Darwish:
"The American campaign against Iraq comes after signs of reconciliation and
rapprochement between Iraq and many of the Arab states. The US fights
against any step toward Arab rapprochement and against any spark of hope for
cooperation between the Arab and Islamic states. The US is today the only
policeman of the world... and this policeman strives to reorganize the world
according to its faulty international order...
The fabricated American attack against Iraq wraps itself as usual in a cloak
of what is called "international legitimacy"... all in order to leave the
Arab world in a whirlpool of inner conflicts and self-destruction...
When the US wakes up from its power-craziness and become a civilized state
which examines [matters] according to the principles of justice and treats
others with respect, we will be among the first to view it as a friend and
even more than a friend;...
We recognize our strength and our size and recognize also the strength and
size of the US, but we are absolutely convinced that the strong does not
[forever] remain strong and the weak does not [forever] remain weak. Only
Allah is unchangeable."
Al-Quds, November 14, 1997

33. PA sanctioned demonstration: "Death to the US."
During a demonstration in Bethlehem .the participants in the demonstration
called: "Death to Israel and the US, victory to Iraq."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida [PA Newspaper], November 15, 1997

34. PA delegation to Baghdad: we are "sister states"
The PA press reports on the participation of a Palestinian delegation at a
Baghdad exhibit. Important discussions were held with Iraqi officials which
included the necessity of strengthening the relationship between the
'sister-states'.
"The State of Palestine won a gold medal and a certificate of appreciation
for its participation in an international exhibit which took place in
Baghdad... In addition to participating in the exhibit, the Palestinian
delegation held several important meetings, including one with the Iraqi
Minister of Commerce...
Means of strengthening the relations between the sister-states were
discussed in these meetings. " Al-Quds, November 16, 1997

35. Pro Iraq, anti-US sentiment
American domination of Iraq, subordination of its people and the seizing of
its land, oil and natural resources are the goal of US led attacks on Iraq,
according to a PA announcement. Defense of Iraq is equated with protecting
Palestine. The PA, Hamas and other factions held a joint pro-Iraq rally in
Nablus.
"The Political and National Guidance Directorate of the Jenin district
demanded of the Arab and Islamic states and the Palestinian public to stand
alongside Iraq and its people against the American aggression.
An announcement published by the Guidance Directorate... emphasized that the
goal of the cruel US led attack on Iraq is to subordinate Iraq's people and
[its] leadership to American domination, to seize its land, its oil and its
natural resources. The defense and support of Iraq is in fact like
protecting the land of Palestine and its people. In the announcement the
National Guidance Directorate called on the Arab and Islamic nations for a
higher level of confrontation in order to liberate [themselves] from foreign
rule... The purpose of the White House threats is to subjugate Iraq and to
disarm it of its strength, in order to facilitate [American] domination of
the area as a whole.
[Al-Ayyam [PA-Affiliated Daily]: The Guidance Directorate called in its
announcement to the Palestinian people to continue its legitimate struggle
in all its forms, until its national goals and rights are realized...]
The Palestinian Ba'ath party will hold a large rally in Nablus today under
the banner "Victory to Iraq--Steadfastness Against Imperialist Aggression--a
Holy National Duty." Participants in the rally will include representatives
of the PA, the Hamas, and other Palestinian factions."
Al-Quds, November 16, 1997

36. US propaganda, controlled by Jews, fails to "whitewash the
slaughter...by Bush.
No Arab is convinced by American and British propaganda of the justice in
punishing Iraq by humiliation and hunger. Their foreign policies are based
on Jewish intellect - and the peace process is an attempt to whitewash the
slaughter of Iraqis by George Bush.
Under the title "The Drums of Propoganda Weapon Storm," Tariq Masarwah of
the Jordanian paper Al Rai writes:
"The American and British drums of propaganda... will not convince even a
single Arab [of the fairness] of the punishments of hunger and humiliation
against Iraq... This is [merely] the continuation of the show that has been
staged for several years now in New York... about Iraq, the US, and Britain
who due to the Jewish intellect which moves their foreign policies reached
the same plato which the Jewish intellect brought Netanyahu.
America's followers ridiculed themselves and almost ridiculed us, too,
through the peace process which amounted to an attempt by George Bush to
whitewash the crimes of slaughter of Iraqis... "
Al-Quds, November 16, 1997

37. Oppressive American aggression against the Iraqi children
Palestinian children demonstrated in solidarity with Iraq against the
oppressive American siege and burned Israeli and American flags.
"Hundreds of children demonstrated yesterday in Beit Furiq near Nablus in
solidarity with the children of Iraq who suffer from lack of food and
medicines due to the oppressive siege which was put on their country. The
children carried banners condemning the American aggression against the
Iraqi children, such as 'Palestine's children stand beside Iraqi children
against American barbarism.' The children were ages 4-7, and marched in a
precession through the village streets and burned Israeli and American
flags.
Al-Ayyam, December 23, 1997

38. American and Israeli flags burned in Gaza
".During an election rally at the Islamic University in Gaza, Hamas and
Islamic Jihad supporters burned an effigy depicting the Israeli Prime
Minister and the flags of Israel and the United States."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec.16 1997

39. An Attack on Secretary Albright
Under the title "The Sullen-Faced Secretary" [In spoken Arabic: "The Immoral
Woman"] the editor of the paper, Hafez Al-Barghuthi writes of the American
Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright:
"In the past, when Madeleine Albright served as the representative of her
country and Israel in the UN, she adopted vulgar and insolent positions
against the Arabs and later would sweet-talk them. But after becoming
Secretary of State and discovering her [Jewish] origins, she stopped
sweet-talking. Two days ago she declared that settlement is legal, a
position that contradicts the stated American position for decades.
. the position adopted by Albright indicates that she has reached the stage
of "immorality" in the popular sense of the expression.
She is no longer perturbed by Arab condemnations. The lady visited the
region and spat like a snake in the face of Arab statesmen. They praised her
and would have sang love songs to her were it not for her advanced age and
the fact that she has passed her prime and is no longer fit for anything,
except serving Israel and defending it."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, October 3, 1997

40. Solidarity with Carlos
Salutations to Carlos and to a Lebanese journalist sympathizer,Carlos the
man who fought American imperialism and will spend the rest of his life in
jail.
In an article dealing with Carlos's trial, Khalil Al-Sawahri identifies with
Carlos and his struggle and concludes:
".A humble salutation to you Carlos as well as to you Lebanese journalist
'Asem Al-Jundi for publishing a book in London a few days ago entitled The
Other Face of Carlos or Carlos the Man.The man who has spent his life
fighting American imperialism and who will spend the rest of his life in the
darkness of dungeons."
Al-Ayyam, December 30, 1997

41. PA support of Iraq
The PA has sanctioned a rally in Ramallah in support of Iraq's struggle
against the U.S. The advertisement denounced the aggressive American policy
against "our people in Iraq".
"A large rally with many participants will take place today in Ramallah
under the banner "Victory to Palestine and Iraq" in support of the Iraqi
people's struggle against the US
[Al-Quds:An advertisement, signed by the PLO factions, called for the public
to participate in the rally in Ramallah "to denounce the aggressive American
policy against our people in Iraq... Victory to Palestine and Iraq."
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, November, 1997

A compendium of Palestinian Authority hatred of America
Part 2: 2001- Just prior to the attacks

1. "The suicide bombers of today are the noble successors of their noble
predecessors...the Lebanese suicide bombers, who taught the US Marines a
tough lesson in [Lebanon]... These suicide bombers are the salt of the
earth, the engines of history...They are the most honorable [people] among
us..." [Al Hayat Al Jadida - Official Palestinian Authority daily, Sept. 11,
2001]

2. "[The Palestinians must] . harm American interests in the Arab world,
with all possible means, in all places, at all levels, because the United
States does not understand the language of logic and wisdom, but only the
language of interests and force."
[Omar Helm Ghul, Al-Ayyam, Aug. 30, 2001]

3. "The Zionist Movement is an American invention...The American leaders are
nothing but priests, obedient to their Hebrew High Priest ..." [Al-Ayyam,
Sept. 2, 2001]

4. "Saher Habash, a member of the central committee of [Yasser Arafat's PLO
faction] the Fatah... said that the body goes but the spirit of the martyrs
lives on. Habash expressed his hope that the Arab and Islamic world will act
against America and Israel... Habash demanded to strike and to threaten the
American interests in the Arab world..."
[Al-Quds, Aug. 30, 2001]

5. "[George] Bush Jr. [who] suffers from a psychological complex in regard
to Arabs in general, whose details we don't know, even though we don't serve
alcohol to his two daughters, and there is no Arab who is involved with
their alcohol addiction or with their pursuit by the US police.
"What is astounding and surprising is to find a series of articles in
American newspapers by columnists, infected with moral AIDS and. who call on
Israel to deal fast blows to the Palestinians ...
"These writers, who are Charles Krauthammer, William Safire and Michael
Malley [sic] try to portray us as if we are threatening New York and as if
fighting us is an American need and that a good Palestinian is like a good
Indian - dead. This is the culture of the Zionist Lobby that rules even over
the bedrooms of the senior Members of Congress and the White House. It whips
them in the morning and evening for fear lest they awaken from their
servitude. It castrates them and supplies them with 'Viagra Monica'.
"And the last to judge us in this area is the pathetic scoundrel Thomas
Friedman who called upon NATO to conquer the [West] Bank and Gaza in order
to protect his beloved Israel.
"These examples of beastly writings which surpass Nazism, require that their
authors be tried in an international court, for they are considered inciters
who have committed crimes against humanity...." [Official daily
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, August 29, 2001]

6. "[Maher Taher] a member of the political bureau of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine ... said in a press conference in Damascus: we
say to the Arab nation:
"Hit American interests and threaten them. United States is a fundamental
enemy which takes part and holds responsibility to the elimination of the
Palestinian people and the Palestinian villages. He asked the Arab countries
to take a clear and strict position towards USA, which is the a fundamental
enemy of the Palestinian people and Arab Nation." [Al Hayat Al Jadida Aug.
28, 2001]

7. "...History presents political regimes that were governed by political
and economic greed, and that conquered other lands and peoples with the
intent of robbing and exploiting their resources. Thus did Columbus... who
carried out collective extermination of the original peoples of Latin
America, laying the basis for the Western Colonialism which embraced
Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection [Survival of the
Fittest -ed] -theories which presume the technologically primitive nations
to be evolutionary vestiges of the apes...
"...This is the same 'Philosophy' that the Zionist Movement adopted in
Palestine, against the Palestinian people...
"...This is [the essence of] racism itself, for racism stems from
exaggerating a certain race's value as opposed to that of all other races
combined, as Hitler did by raising the banner of Arian blood and the
doctrine of blue blood flowing in the veins.
"...The United States of America and the Zionist State are two identical
cases of historical development. Each of them came into existence by
invasion and mass extermination of the original residents, and [each] still
occupies land belonging to others..."
[Op-ed in PA Official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sep. 6, 2001]

Anti American sentiment continues to appear in the PA press even after the
attacks. These will be sent out shortly after the translations are
completed.