By Maxine Dovere.. “If your enemy says he will destroy you, believe him.”
Those were the words of Itamar Marcus, founding director of Palestinian Media Watch, when he recently joined The Jewish Week Associate Editor Jonathan Mark on stage at the 92nd Street Y in New York City to discuss the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership’s use of culture, education, and media to influence its population. (more…)
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.. One of the most important impediments to long term peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist – and its teaching, especially children, that all of Israel is “occupied” land. As Palestinian Media Watch has reported, part of Israel is said to have been “occupied” since 1948 during the “Nakba” or “catastrophe,” the term Palestinians use to delegitimize Israel’s establishment. The rest, the PA says, was occupied in 1967 during the Six-Day War. All of Israel’s existence is said to be an “occupation” and illegitimate. (more…)
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik.. A Palestinian university lecturer taught during a recent Palestinian Authority TV program on religion that Moses, a Muslim, brought “the Muslims of the Children of Israel out of Egypt.” He refers to the subsequent Israeli conquest of the Land of Israel as the “first Palestinian liberation… of Palestine.” This conquest, he taught, was led not by Joshua, as the Bible tells, but by Saul (Talut) who is also said to have slayed Goliath. (more…)
