Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Apartheid / Restriction of movement
Jerusalem’s Armenians outraged as city approves Jews-only parking lot in Old City
Haaretz 3 Feb — Armenian residents of Jerusalem’s Old City are protesting a municipal decision to designate a parking lot in the area solely for Jews, although part of it stands on land belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/jerusalem-s-armenians-outraged-as-city-approves-jews-only-parking-lot-in-old-city-1.410694
Settlers install new outpost near Hebron
IMEMC 3 Feb — A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers installed on Friday a new illegal settlement outpost, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while another group of armed settlers invaded areas in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron. Rateb Jabbour, coordinator of the National Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, reported that approximately 250 settlers, accompanied by Israeli Border Police officers, invaded that Al-Carmel village, and installed six new caravans in Um Ash-Shuqhan area, near the Maoun illegal outpost that was installed on privately-owned Palestinian lands.
In related news, Yousef Abu Maria, media spokesperson of the National Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, stated that approximately 150 settlers attacked Palestinian farmlands in Za’ta area, east of Beit Ummar, and blocked the Jerusalem-Hebron road in front of Palestinian traffic.
http://www.imemc.org/article/62953
Israel decides not to deport Palestinian bookshop owner
Haaretz 2 Feb — The Palestinian owner of the American Colony Hotel’s English-language bookshop will not be deported, after a special inter-ministerial committee granted him a two-year reprieve, after which he can apply to be a permanent resident. Munther Fahimi, the owner of the bookshop frequented by many foreign journalists and diplomats, was born in East Jerusalem, but lost his residency rights after spending years in the United States.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-decides-not-to-deport-palestinian-bookshop-owner-1.410500
Gov’t to withhold aid from settlements
Ynet 2 Feb — The government has decided to exclude 70 West Bank settlements from the list of national priority areas, Ynet has learned Thursday … On Sunday, the government voted to approve an updated version of the list, which included the 70 settlements. A day later, it was proposed to remove towns that are located beyond the Green Line from the priority map; the initiative was put up to a telephone vote, and was passed by a 15-10 margin. Several ministers abstained from the vote. Government sources estimate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was concerned that including the settlements in the list will hurt the latest efforts to restart the peace talks with the Palestinians. Due to this fear, the West Bank communities were deemed ineligible for automatic aid. The settlements can still apply for incentives, but the decision to grant them these benefits is left up to the government.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4184623,00.html
Violence
61-year-old Palestinian woman in intensive care after settler attack
ISM 3 Feb by Fransisco Reeves — When your land is occupied by those who harbor hatred towards you emanating from a belief that they are inherently superior to you, each day brings with it a genuine threat to the security of your life and the lives of your loved ones. “They want to kill,” is how Fares Muhammed Ibrahim simply put it. And on February 2nd, “they” very nearly did. At approximately 1pm Maysar Abd Al Majeed Ghanem, Fares’ 61 year old mother, was travelling in a car along with her husband and her son in law on their way to visit her daughter in Ramallah. The family were travelling along the main road connecting their village of Sarah to Ramallah, known as Yitzhar Road due to its proximity to the infamous settlement. They were attacked by three settlers standing near the entrance to the illegal Yitzhar settlement … The rocks thrown by the three attackers were of such a size and thrown with such force they destroyed both the large rear window and smaller right rear window before striking Ghanem, causing three fractures to her skull and bleeding to the brain.
http://palsolidarity.org/2012/02/61-year-old-palestinian-woman-in-intensive-care-after-settler-attack/
Medics: Israelis attack shepherd in northern West Bank
NABLUS (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — A 20-year-old Palestinian shepherd was injured on Friday after being attacked by Israelis in the northern West Bank, medics said. Red Crescent medics told Ma‘an that Mahdi Daraghma was beaten by Israelis from the Mehola settlement in the northern Jordan Valley while he was tending his sheep. Daraghma was moderately injured and transferred to a Jenin hospital, they added. On Dec. 5, Israeli settlers kidnapped a 60-year-old shepherd south of Nablus, and stole all 50 of his sheep, local officials said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457580
2 hurt in Israeli attack on north Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — Israeli warplanes fired on sites across the Gaza Strip early Friday, injuring a young man and a child in northern city Beit Lahiya, a Ma‘an correspondent and medical officials said. Medical officials said the child suffered serious injuries to the head and hands. A young man was also hurt, and he was taken to hospital, said Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmiya. In southern Gaza, Israeli forces fired on a house east of Rafah and open lands near Bani Suheila east of Khan Younis, Salmiya added. At least one of the airstrikes targeted a tunnel in Rafah, onlookers said. An Israeli army statement said the strikes “targeted two weapon storing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, three terror tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a weapon manufacturing facility in the central Gaza Strip.” … Seven projectiles were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with no reported injuries, Israeli news site Ynet reported.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457504
Hamas accuses Israel of violating international law
Tel Aviv/Gaza City (dpa) 3 Feb — The militant Islamist movement Hamas on Friday accused Israel of violating international law, after two civilians, including a four-year-old, were seriously injured in nighttime Israeli bombing raids on the Gaza Strip. ‘The Israeli war machines are still practicing crimes against Gaza civilians and violating all the world’s laws and conventions,’ said Adham Abu Selmeya, a spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry. An Israeli military statement Friday morning said aircraft had bombed six targets in the Gaza Strip, in response to rocket fire targeting towns and villages adjacent to the salient on Wednesday night.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1688895.php/LEAD-Hamas-accuses-Israel-of-violating-international-law
AFP stands by Palestinian abuse story after Israeli complaint
Al-Akhbar 3 Feb — Major news wire Agence France-Presse (AFP) defended a report it made on a Palestinian construction worker injured when an Israeli army driver drove over his legs on January 25, after the Israeli embassy in the US complained the incident was false. AFP ran the story along with an image (seen here) of the man, Mohammed Abu Qbeita, who was trying to prevent Israeli soldiers from seizing building equipment in the village of Al-Dirat in the West Bank.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/afp-stands-palestinian-abuse-story-after-israeli-complaint
Israeli forces
PCHR Weekly Report: 5 wounded, 14 abducted in 50 Israeli invasions this week [26 Jan – 2 Feb]
IMEMC 3 Feb — …In the Gaza Strip, on 31 January 2012, Israeli forces stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Shujaiya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, opened fire at Munther Rashad Saleh al-Nakhala, 44, wounding him by a bullet to the left foot. He was hunting birds with friends with his near the building of the Energy Authority. He was nearly 500 meters from the border. On 26 January 2012, Israeli forces stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip opened fire at farms and residential areas in the east of Abasan village, east of Khan Yunis. Palestinian farmers were forced to flee their farms. Israeli forces continued the sporadic firing for approximately one hour. Neither casualties nor damage to property were reported….Full Report
http://www.imemc.org/article/62950
IDF: Soldier left in PA village refused locals’ assistance
Ynet 2 Feb — Details of incident in which soldier was left behind in Budrus during operational activity revealed; force belongs to brigade in which Gilad Shalit served … The Palestinians claimed Budrus residents escorted the soldier out of the village, but army officials stressed that he refused to receive any assistance from Palestinians and was picked up by an IDF vehicle within a few minutes. IDF soldiers are instructed thwart kidnapping attempts by all means necessary, including opening fire on would-be kidnappers.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4184681,00.html
Commander of soldier left in PA village suspended
Ynet 3 Feb — IDF chief orders full inquiry into the incident, suspends 188th Armored Brigade commander pending investigation’s results
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4184878,00.html
Gaza
Warning of ‘health disaster’ due to power crisis
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — The health minister in Gaza, Basem Naim, warned Thursday of a health and environmental crisis due to an increase of power cuts and their dangerous implications. Naim said hospitals and health facilities, subjected to 10-hour power cuts every day, may have to close down some sections like operation rooms and intensive care units which depend completely on electricity. He added they will have to also shut down central heating although it is winter. Naim added that depending on generators will not solve the problem, as the quantity of electricity generated from them is not enough to operate medical devices with high efficiency.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457423
Political detention
Health of Palestinian seized in Ukraine ‘deteriorating’
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — A report by the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs says prisoner Dirar Musa Abu Sisi is suffering from various health issues in the liver, gallbladder, heart disease, high blood pressure, and anemia. The report says Sisi, in solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison, was detained in February. Abu Sisi’s condition is getting worse, and he lost nearly 32 kilos. He told a lawyer for the ministry, Kareem Ajwa, that the prison administration isn’t providing any necessary medical treatment or examinations … The prisoner, 42, was kidnapped by a special [Israeli] unit in the Ukraine.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457354
Palestinian on 48th day of hunger strike chained to hospital bed / Yossi Gurvitz
972mag 2 Feb — Khader Adnan, aged 34 of ‘Araba near Jenin, is on the 48th day of his hunger strike, and is held chained to a bed in the Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak. So reports Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I). Adnan is protesting his administrative detention.
http://972mag.com/palestinian-on-48th-day-of-hunger-strike-chained-to-hospital-bed/34486/
Disobedience campaign to support Jihad leader
JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — The PA Minister of Prisoners Affairs said Friday that detainees in Israeli jails have launched a disobedience campaign to support detained hunger-striking Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan. Issa Qaraqe said Palestinian detainees are returning food, and refusing outdoor breaks and medical treatment to support Adnan’s 49-day hunger strike … The Jihad leader, who was detained from his Jenin-district home on Dec. 17, is protesting his treatment by Israeli prison authorities and the practice of detention without charge.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457600
Totah and Abu Arafa refuse to see in their cell Red Cross delegates
WEST BANK (PIC) 2 Feb — Palestinian lawmaker Mohamed Totah and former minister Khaled Abu Arafa refused to see Red Cross delegates who tried on Monday to visit them in Al-Maskobiyeh interrogation center. Totah and Abu Arafa said they took this step in protest at the failure of the Red Cross to fulfill its international obligations to protect Palestinian civilians and its complicity in Israel’s violations against 26 Palestinian lawmakers in detention.
Link to www.palestine-info.co.uk
Fayyad meets father of detained Islamic Jihad leader
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 2 Feb — Ramallah prime minister Salam Fayyad on Thursday met with the father of detained Islamic Jihad leader Khader Adnan. Adnan’s father appealed to Fayyad to save his son’s life. The Palestinian Authority prime minister appealed to human rights organizations to intervene in Adnan’s case … The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said Tuesday it was concerned over a deterioration in Adnan’s health.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457370
Activism / Solidarity
Video: 13 injured in Nabi Saleh demo
(1 minute ) BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) — Israeli forces injured 13 people in the village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, during a Friday demonstration against Israeli land confiscation, witnesses said. A French national sustained an injury from a tear-gas canister, activists said. She was taken to a hospital in Ramallah where she received stitches before being released, they said.
Haitham al-Khatib photos of injury: http://on.fb.me/zSk5Gf
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457589
13 injured in Nabi Saleh during weekly nonviolent protest
ISM 3 Feb — During the weekly non-violent protest in the village of an-Nabi Saleh on Friday several injuries were reported including that of a French citizen who was struck in the neck by an Israeli projectile. The young woman, reported to be named Amessi, was struck in the neck, initially thought to be by a tear gas canister, but later reported to be a rubber coated steel bullet. As of yet reports remain conflicted. The young woman was cut by the shot and lead to bleeding from the wound. Reports state that the young woman has been transferred to hospital where she is stable. Israeli military major, Peter Lerner, has claimed via his Twitter account that the young woman was struck by Palestinians throwing stones. Furthermore, it was reported by activists at the scene and by the Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee that Nariman Tamimi attempted to film the young woman’s injuries, but was assaulted by Israeli soldiers. In addition to the injury sustained by Amessi, another international activist was struck in the waist by a tear gas canister. The young man, reportedly, has extensive bruising to the area. In total residents of the village have reported 13 injuries in an-Nabi Saleh, not including those suffering ill effects from tear gas inhalation..
http://palsolidarity.org/2012/02/13-injured-in-nabi-saleh-during-weekly-non-violent-protest/
Music against the No Go Zone
ISM 31 Jan by Rosa Schiano — Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11:00 AM. We headed for the No Go Zone. The No Go Zone is an area taken by Israel that extends along Gaza’s entire northern and eastern border inside Palestinian territory. For all intents and purposes, the No go Zone imposed by Israel is illegal and prevents the farmers from working part of their lands. Those who enter the area are attacked by Israel with live rounds. This week we brought with us musical instruments, small drums, and a trumpet. We marched into the No Go Zone raising our Palestinian flags, playing music, and singing Palestinian songs like “Filisteeni” and “Onadekom.” We marched on the land ruined by the Israeli bulldozers, we crossed big ditches using our hands in a vain attempt to not to fall down into the mud, and we arrived near the separation barrier. At one point, our music was interrupted by Israel firing live ammunition at us. We were speechless at the Israeli live fire.
http://palsolidarity.org/2012/01/music-against-the-no-go-zone/
Soldiers break up weekly Qalqiliya demonstration
QALQILIYA (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — Israeli military forces clamped down on a weekly non-violent demonstration on Friday in the Qalqiliya village of Kafr Qaddum. The demonstration started after traditional Friday prayers and included hundreds of locals, internationals and Israeli peace activists, Murad Eshterwi, media coordinator of the protests, said. Soldiers fired tear gas and sound grenades at demonstrators, Eshterwi said, and erected a temporary checkpoint at the entrance to the village.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457593
Palestinian hackers: A web of struggle
Ramallah (Al-Akhbar) 3 Feb – by: Fadi Abu Saada — Armed with keyboards and modems, the “Palestinian Electronic Struggle” announces the birth of a new means of resistance against the Israeli occupation. Palestinian hacktivists, shielded behind aliases and firewalls, take aim at Israel’s fortified servers. Among them is a young Palestinian woman who goes by the name al-Aanida (the stubborn one). She has been involved in hacking Israeli websites since 2002. Al-Aanida stresses that she is “not one of the bad hackers,” as the term may suggest. “I cannot forget the spring of 2002, when Israel conducted Operation Defensive Shield against all Palestinian cities. That, to me, was the beginning, and many of my beliefs have changed since then.”
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/palestinian-hackers-web-struggle
Refugees
Hamas pleads for an end to the killing and detention of Palestinian refugees in Iraq
MEMO 3 Feb — Hamas has denounced the treatment Palestinian refugees in Iraq and pleaded for an end to the “killing, torture, displacement and arrests in Baghdad”. The Islamic Resistance Movement said that it holds the Iraqi authorities responsible for protecting Palestinian refugees in the country and exposing the groups behind the crimes. In a press release, the Hamas Refugees’ Department said that it has been following the status of Palestinian refugees in Iraq closely, especially their treatment since the US-led invasion in 2003. “Palestinian refugees have been subjected to all kinds of torture and brutality,” a spokesman said. “They have even been forced to write false confessions, so as to mobilise public opinion against themselves.”
http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/3350-hamas-pleads-for-an-end-to-the-killing-and-detention-of-palestinian-refugees-in-iraq
Political / Diplomatic news
Quartet ‘proposes initiatives for Palestine entry to talks’
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — PLO official Wasel Abu Yousef said Thursday that the diplomatic Quartet has proposed a series of measures to ease Israeli restrictions on Palestinians in order to restart stalled peace talks, according to news reports. The plan asks Israel to increase Palestinians’ work permits for Israel, ease movement restrictions in the West Bank, allow Gaza to export to the West Bank and allow Palestinian police into Area B, currently under Israeli security control, according to a report in Israeli news site Ynet. A second phase would allow the PA to develop gas reserves off the Gaza coast, release Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, allow international projects in Area C which is under Israeli administrative control and reduce Israeli army activity in Area A — under PA jurisdiction under the Oslo Accords but subject to regular Israeli army raids.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457573
UN chief says time running out for peace deal
HERZLIYA, Israel 2 Feb – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that time is running out for a Mideast peace deal and urged Israel to make goodwill gestures, including easing its blockade of Gaza, to help lure the Palestinians back to negotiations. Ban attended a security conference in Israel just hours after visiting Gaza,
http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Abbas and Meshaal to meet in Qatar to address Palestinian reconciliation measures
Ramallah (AFP) 4 Feb — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will meet on Sunday in Qatar, Fatah party spokesman Azzam al-Ahmed told AFP on Friday. Abbas and Meshaal “will discuss forming a government and political questions after the failure of talks” with Israel, Ahmed said. A meeting bringing together all Palestinian leaders in Cairo originally set for Feb. 2 had been delayed indefinitely, Ahmed added. Sunday’s talks will address “reconciliation measures” as well as the planned Cairo meeting, the spokesman said without providing further details.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/04/192414.html
PLO apologizes to UN chief
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 2 Feb — The PLO leadership apologized Thursday for the “strange” welcome UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon received upon arriving in the Gaza Strip. Dozens of people threw shoes and stones at the UN chief’s convoy as it entered Gaza, a Ma‘an reporter said. No one was injured … It called on Palestinians to stop such behavior “contrary to the Palestinian tradition of hospitality.” In Gaza, Ban played down the incident at a news conference. “I thank the people of Gaza for the warm welcome,” he said, provoking laughter among local journalists. “I met many people who were waiting for me at the entrance.” Many of those who protested as the UN convoy passed were family members of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457447
Other news
Report: NY police spied on Palestinians
NEW YORK (AP) 2 Feb — The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of Palestinians to assess the presence of “Hamas members and sympathizers,” a police document shows. The document, published Thursday by The Associated Press, calls for canvassing the Palestinian community in search of “terrorists” linked to Hamas and groups affiliated with the Iranian government. “The Palestinian community, although not Shi‘a, should also be assessed due to presence of Hamas members and sympathizers and the group’s relationship with the Iranian government,” the document said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457473
Rights group: Gaza court upholds death sentence
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — A military court in Gaza on Thursday upheld a death sentence issued last year to a man convicted of treason, a Palestinian rights group said. The High Military Court confirmed the sentence of death by hanging against a 27-year-old from al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, identified only as W.K.J., the Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457557
PA security forces ‘arrest state journalist’
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 3 Feb — Palestinian Authority security services arrested a journalist for the government’s official news agency in Ramallah on Tuesday after he criticized PLO officials, a media rights group said. Rami Samara, a journalist for the PA’s Wafa news agency, was released after a few hours, the Palestinian media rights group MADA said. His arrest followed a critical commentary he posted on Facebook about the most recent meeting of the PLO executive committee and the recent talks held in Amman with Israeli negotiators.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457628
Jerusalem celebrates women in Palestinian art / Rasha Hilwi
Acre (Al-Akhbar) 3 Feb — Themes of land, motherhood, nostalgia, and self-reflection permeate the works of ten Palestinian artists currently exhibiting at Contemplations. The Palestinian ART Court – Alhoash’s fourth collection exhibit, Contemplations, is dedicated to women in Palestinian art.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/jerusalem-celebrates-women-palestinian-art
Palestinian territories experience severe cold spell
MEMO 2 Feb — EXCLUSIVE PICTURES A cold air current has descended over Gaza and other parts of Palestine for more than two weeks now accompanied by rainy downpours. The extreme cold weather has resulted in occasional power cuts which have forced Palestinians to resort to using electricity generators and an increased consumption of fuel. It has also led to the death of domestic birds, including chickens, on numerous farms resulting in a hike in prices and the diminished purchasing power of the average Palestinian … Meanwhile the General Administration of Soil and Irrigation at the Ministry confirmed that since the beginning of the season, there had been no dry spells and that, “The rainy season this year reassures of large quantities of water to replenish the underground water reservoir estimated to be more than twenty million cubic metres.”
http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/3348-palestinian-territories-experience-severe-cold-spell
UN chief expects Israel at Mideast nuclear conference
AFP 2 Feb — Ban Ki-moon advises PM Netanyahu that Israel should send delegate to upcoming international symposium which will focus on creating nuclear-free Middle East
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4184458,00.html
Opinion / Analysis
VIDEO — Donor Opium: The impact of international aid to Palestine
YouTube 20 Dec 2011, uploaded to ISM site 3 Feb 2012 — For twenty years now the international donor community has financially supported Palestinian institution-building, infrastructure development, the economy, public employees’ salaries, health and education, social welfare, the police, electricity production, private credit guarantees, and the bigger part of the civil society organizations with regards to democracy promotion, human rights, tolerance, women rights etc. Peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state have been the declared goals of all the support. But actual results are the fragmentation and pacification of the Palestinian people. This documentary film, directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar, and funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, features Palestinian criticism of this externally funded “development”.
http://palsolidarity.org/2012/02/donor-opium-the-impact-of-international-aid-to-palestine/
A foul smell is rising from Hebron and it’s here to stay / Yossi Sarid
3 Feb — Everything has to be rethought, dear parents, and it’s a good thing we have an education minister who is ensuring reeducation, and a good thing he is drawing conclusions from the results of the Likud primary and announcing the expansion of the Hebron tours to encompass all schools … All these years we were taught that it’s not right to listen to just one opinion. But in Hebron, the other opinion isn’t allowed in; it’s barred by the police. In Hebron, the “verdict of history,” as our teacher Adina calls it, is being handed down in the presence of one side only..
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/a-foul-smell-is-rising-from-hebron-and-it-s-here-to-stay-1.410724
Opinion: America’s pastime game: Bashing Palestinians / Daoud Kuttab
2 Feb — Apologists for Israel’s continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended that Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, repeatedly put forward to justify military rule, is that Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews. Politicians in the US, especially during election campaigns, find that bashing Palestinians has no downside and, moreover, yields a vote (and donation) jackpot. Palestinian textbooks are scrutinized for any hostile reference to Israel — or praise of Palestinian nationalism — and every frame broadcast on Palestinian television stations is analyzed by experts to see if it contains any incitement to violence.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457390
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