The official Palestinian Authority Wafa news agency has a weekly feature describing all of the cases of supposed Israeli media “incitement” that would cause Israelis to want to murder or attack Arabs.
Obviously they do this just to counter the very real incitement that they have daily in their media; if they can point to Israeli incitement they feel that they are blunting the message from Palestinian Media Watch and MEMRI and others. Even the most ridiculous pretense of incitement irs enough for them to be able to point to statistics that no one will challenge of “Israeli media had X number of articles this weekinciting violence.”
Here is the very first example from their report from last week.
The report presents a number of news articles that incite incitement and racism against the Palestinians.According to journalists Asaf Jibur and Yishai Friedman, Israeli Arab terrorists, who were recently released from prison, were received like kings in Ramallah in the presence of senior officials of the Palestinian Authority. Among those who received a certificate of appreciation, during a ceremony held a few weeks ago, were Samir Sarsawi and Mahmoud Jabarin, who were accompanied by a convoy of long cars, horses, applause and encouragement from the public, and a ceremony at the grave of Yasser Arafat.
Sarsawi was charged with throwing hand grenades at civilians on the Noordo Street in Haifa in 1998, and was imprisoned on charges of placing explosives in order to kill, manufacture weapons or explosive materials, and membership in illegal organizations. Jabarin was accused of killing an Arab collaborator. The wife of the terrorist, Walid Daqqa, also participated in the ceremony.
The concert was broadcast live and live on Palestine TV channel, within the program “Giants of Patience”, which follows the families of “terrorists”.
From what I can tell, the story is largely accurate – I couldn’t confirm that Jabarin, an Israeli citizen was honored in Ramallah at the celebration for Sarsawi but both of them were released in recent months after serving full 30 year sentences and both were highly honored – Jabarin in Umm al Fahm and Sarsawi in Ramallah.
Accurately reporting on how Palestinians honor murderers is considered “incitement” by the Palestinian Authority.
In a sense I suppose it is, because it causes Israelis to get angry at their “peace partners.”
It is interesting how little coverage both these events received in English at the time. Everyone should see how Arabs – including Israeli Arabs – honor murderers.
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