by Dr. Edy Cohen
In English, Palestinian leaders call stone-throwers “peaceful protestors.” In Arabic, they admit that stones can kill and encourage their people to use them for that purpose.
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,599, June 7, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Palestinians,
always quick to adapt to new circumstances, are taking full advantage of
the coronavirus crisis to incite the murder of Jews.
Ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus
pandemic, many influential Palestinians have maliciously spread the lie
that Israel is using the virus as a biological weapon and is
deliberately spreading it in the Palestinian areas.
These slanders start at the top. Palestinian PM
Muhammad Shtayyeh launched a campaign pushing this incitement, and
almost immediately thereafter, other senior Palestinian officials,
including government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem, the health minister, and
city mayors, all issued similar statements. They claimed Israel
intentionally spread the virus through nearby infected Jewish residents
and through infected Palestinian workers returning from work in Israel.
Palestinian political cartoonists quickly spread the smear with efforts like this:
A new trend in Palestinian political cartooning
emerged with the stoning killing by a Palestinian of 21-year-old IDF
soldier Amit Ben Yigal last month. A new campaign with the theme “If you
don’t have a gun, kill an IDF soldier with a rock” was widely
circulated on social networks. Many such cartoons appeared on Fatah’s
official website and in the Palestinian press, including these:
In English, Palestinian leaders call
stone-throwers “peaceful protestors.” In Arabic, they admit that stones
can kill and encourage their people to use them for that purpose.
Inciting their people to hatred and violence is a
major weapon for Palestinian organizations, including the Palestinian
Authority and Hamas, in their fight against Israel.
The Palestinian public is force-fed this
incitement from infancy. It is fed to them through the education system,
the media, and the mosque. The goal of institutionalized incitement is
to indoctrinate each new generation of Palestinians with an unquestioned
idea—“Occupied Palestine”—and encourage them to carry out acts of
violence against the “Zionist enemy.”
Incitement is also intended to prepare the people
for future uprisings, when they will be expected to take to the streets
and act with no holds barred. To encourage this behavior, the leadership
indoctrinates the people into believing they are fighting for the
noblest of causes. This strategy has proven very effective—so much so
that even some Jewish organizations, in Israel and elsewhere, justify
Palestinian violence against the “Israeli occupation.”
Senior Palestinian officials have used propaganda
and incitement against Israel nonstop since the signing of the Oslo
Accords in the 1990s. In contrast to the fluctuating intensity of the
“armed struggle,” Palestinian incitement against Israel is continuous
and adapts to current events. For example, the Palestinians used to
routinely call IDF soldiers “Nazis” and the Israeli PM “Hitler.” Then,
during the time of ISIS, they began calling Israeli soldiers “ISIS
terrorists” and the PM “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” (the ISIS leader).
Generations of Palestinians have been brought up with this kind of brainwashing, and it makes peace with Israel impossible.
Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinians-incitement-murder/
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