INTRODUCTION:
Short indoctrination clips and music videos for children, promoting violence as an ideal that is expected of them, were broadcast daily on PATV, often for several hours a day, during the period of conflict, Oct. 2000 - mid 2003.
The following are several examples from among many:
Song and Dance to Violence:
This MTV style music video from PA TV calls upon children to attack Israelis with stones: “You will not be saved, Oh Zionist, from the volcano of my county’s stones” and is sung to scenes of children throwing stones and participating in frenzied "war dances”. [PA TV Mar. 2002- June 2003, repeatedly]
Song and Dance to Violence: [PA TV Mar. 2002- June 2003, repeatedly]
[This song calls upon children to attack Israel with stones. It reiterates the preparedness to die: "I will even willingly fall as a Shahid!," is sung to scenes of children throwing stones and participating in a frenzied "war dance."]
"What is dearer to us than Al-Aqsa, Shake the earth, Raise the stones. You will not be saved, Oh Zionist, from the volcano of my country’s stones, You will not be saved, Oh Zionist, from the volcano of my country’s stones, You are the target of my eyes, I will even willingly fall as a Shahid[martyr]. You are the target of my eyes, I will even willingly fall as a Shahid. Allah Akbar, Oh the young ones". | |
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Music Video to Children: Fight and "Don't be Afraid"
This PA TV music video instructs children to attack soldiers with stones and attempts to allay their fears. "Don"t be Afraid" the 10 year old sings to the 5 year old repeatedly. "The stone in their hand turns into a rifle..."
This was broadcast repeatedly 2000 - 2003.
Music Video to Children: Fight and “Don’t be Afraid” This was broadcast repeatedly 2000 - 2003.
[a young boy talking to an even younger child. (Jan 11, 2001) the older one is explaining and reassuring the younger about young stone throwers who appear on the screen:“Don’t be afraid”. We hear his plaintive voice singing in the background as the screen melts to large assemblies of children, in vivid colors, blues and greens, throwing stones, and waving, and at soldiers with weapons, as he continues]
"Don’t be afraid. Allah is with them. Don’t be afraid, the stone in their hand has turned into a Kalachnikov. Don’t be afraid. Allah is with them. Don’t be afraid, the stone in their hand has turned into a Kalachnikov. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Allah is with them. Don’t be afraid". | |
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Teaching Children they can Destroy Israeli Symbols.
One of the most frequently broadcast PA music videos over 3 years teaches children that throwing stones at Israelis defends mother's honor. In one scene young boys throw stones at a glass window - smashing Jewish symbols and extinguishing the flames on a Menorah [Jewish Traditional Candelabra], teaching children that their stones are stronger than Judaism.
Teaching Children they can Destroy Israeli symbols [2001-2004]
[The prize-winning “You Shall Not Be Humiliated Mother”, ( recorded June 2001), opens with a woman in tears, sitting among the ruins of her home, when her son and his friends arrive. He sadly wipes the tears from her face with his hand. and suddenly jumps up and runs off to avenge her honor. The scene switches intermittently to a choir singing] "Beware, oh Zion! My mothers tears- how humiliated. Beware, oh Zion! My mothers tears-how humiliated. Even if they[Jews] gathered from the world, Even if they[Jews] gathered from the world, Your debt remains open with me! Your debt remains open with me!"
[The children are shown in various battle scenes, processions of flag-waving children, throwing stones, causing symbols such as the Israeli flag, Star of David, the seven branch candelabra (menorah), a soldier, to disappear or shatter] " Even if you decreed my death, even if you decreed my death, The stone is my revenge, my answer!" | |
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PA Teaches Young Children to Replace Toys with Rocks:
Young Palestinian boys and girls taught to replace their trucks and dolls with rocks [PA TV May 2, 2001]
PA Teaches Young Children to Replace Toys with Rocks: [PA TV May 2, 2001]
“Palestine’s child”
[A Palestinian Authority TV clip (recorded May 2 ’01) explicitly tells the children: “The promise of peace has ended, the time for talk has ended” spoken as the TV screen shows the White House handshake between Arafat and Rabin at the time of signing of the Oslo Accords]
"The promise of peace is over The time of talking is over. The promise of peace is over The time of talking is over."
[At the end, the boy and the girl both stand still, the boy drops his toy car, the girl drops her doll, as they bend over to pick up stones, and run off to fight Israel]
"How will I find you, Muhhamad, Palestine’s child? How will I find you, Muhhamad, Palestine’s child?" | |
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Kill all the Jews - Words of Palestinian Teenager on TV:
A teenage girl calls for the killing of Jews: “We won't leave a single Jew here.” [PA TV Oct. 22, 2000]
Kill all the Jews- Words of Palestinian Teenager on TV [PA TV Oct. 22, 2000]
Young girls about 12 years old, in a crowd with white head covers, flags waving across the screen, were interviewed on PA TV on 22 October 2000. One with an increasingly vituperative shrill voice and angry expressive hand and arm movements, says:
"We ask that countries stand by our side We want them to help us. We only want them to give us weapons. We on our own young boys and girls, we kill them[the Jews] on our own, murder them, shoot all of them. Just give us weapons, the boys and the girls themselves we will kill them all[the Jews]. We won’t leave a single Jew, We won’t leave a single Jew here". | |
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PA Children Taught to be Combatants - Visual Messages
In the very same week that the Palestinian Journalists Union “banned journalists from photographing Palestinian children carrying weapons ... [because] the pictures harm the Palestinian cause” [AP, Jerusalem Post Aug. 26, 2002] PA TV interviewed a child in his home - and for the purpose of the interview - he held a Kalatchnikov automatic rifle. The media regularly shows pictures of children with weapons.
[PA TV Aug. 23, 2002]
PA Children taught to be Combatants- Visual Messages [PA TV Aug. 23, 2002]
Boy: I want to address Sharon and tell him that my father’s blood was not shed in vain. | |
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