AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI; 1751 Second Ave., New York, NY 10128; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org; 212-828-2424; Sept. 3, 2009; Contact: Helen Freedman
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
President Obama will be “educating” American schoolchildren, Tuesday, September 8. We trust the lessons will have to do with democracy, tolerance, and world-wide human rights.
How can he ignore what the Palestinian Authority is teaching Arab children in regard to the non-existence of Israel and PA rights to the entire land?
And in the face of this, he will sit with PM Netanyahu and PA leader Mahmoud Abbas when the UN convenes in New York at the end of September and insist on a building freeze on Jewish homes while he forbids the demolition of illegal Arab homes.
For those who had any doubts about where Obama’s sympathies lie in regard to Israel, there should now be no doubt. He is flagrantly siding with the Arabs.
White House telephone lines should be flooded with protests about this anti-Israel bias. The President’s number is: 202-456-1414; 1111. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s #:202-456-6798. Please take the time to make these calls.
From Arutz-Sheva – September 3, 2009
2. PA Anti-Israel Incitement Ignores American Demands
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Palestinian Authority continues to ignore American demands that it halt anti-Israel propaganda and incitement, and instead it continues to teach children that all of Israel belongs to Arabs. Palestinian Media Watch translated a PA television children’s program aired this past Saturday and Sunday, in which children “passed quizzes by answering questions, such as "what is the PA’s largest port?"
The Obama administration has repeatedly stated that the PA must halt incitement against Israel as it seeks to create a new Arab state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, including eastern Jerusalem. The U.S.,as well as the European Union stresses the principle of "two states for two peoples," but the PA educational system teaches a new generation of Arabs that all of Israel belongs to the PA.
In the latest of dozens of documented violations of the American and Israeli demands, which are part of the U.S. Roadmap plan for a PA state, the television host asked the children, "Where is Palestine's most important port, in Haifa, Jaffa or Acre?"
The child answers "Jaffa" and receives a round of applause for the “correct” answer.
In another quiz, the host asks, “There's a Palestinian city whose walls are very high and strong, where Napoleon, whom we all know, stopped his battle, because he was unable [to breac the solid walls. “Which city is it, Jaffa, Acre or Tiberias?"
More applause breaks out when the child answers "Acre.”
In the PA school system, textbooks still teach that "Palestine has a long coast facing the Mediterranean Sea and a short coast on the Gulf of Aqaba. The Tiberias Lake [Sea of Galilee is in Palestine."
Previously reported children’s television program included quizzes for children who answered that Tiberias is the "Palestinian city” named after the Roman ruler and that Nazareth is the “Palestinian city [that is called the flower of the Galilee.”
Dozens of U.S. Congressmen learned about the incitement, which has been documented for years, during a visit to Israel last month, and said they would press the Obama administration to insist that the PA stops the practice.
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