One celebrated Palestinian was exposed as having manufactured his life history as a dispossessed Palestinian Israeli when he had actually been born and raised in Egypt.  He had visited a relation in Israel.   

Semantic Creep

An important constituent of Palestinian Authority politics is the implanting of the most beneficial terminology into western media , and thus into western minds.   

The use of "Palestine" has been so insidiously introduced that it can be found in Christian books about the life of Jesus.  The word had not even been coined in his time!      Judea was renamed Palestine by the Romans in 70 AD / CE after they had crushed the Jews.   Jesus lived in Judea, Galilee and Samaria.  

Within one year the name of the Temple Mount has been replaced by "a holy hilltop site" and "the Al Aksa Mosque complex"  (Teletext news, British Television March 2002)        see  The Temple

The term "Occupied Territories" is very emotive, and is accepted without question by everybody, including the Israelis.  But who is actually occupying who's territory?   The West Bank was part of the territory allocated to Israel by the United nations but seized by Jordan in the May 16th war of 1948;  an acquisition which was never ratified.  Israel recaptured it in 1967.  Surely the Palestinians are occupying Israeli territory!    (see Land )

The Palestinian "Refugee Camps" are actually towns of stone buildings with all facilities including satellite dishes.  The name, however, conjures up images of displaced persons living in squalor and poverty.  (See pictures of Jenin, in Media Bias)

British television news coverage of the violence in Israel  spoke of "plastic coated steel bullets" being used against demonstrators.   When we use them they are called "rubber bullets".   The facts may have been accurately reported but the bias is clear.

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" 

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" has  been a long standing favorite of the Palestinians and their supporters.  It has been translated into Arabic and published several times, as well as being turned into a series for Television.   "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" purports to the record of a secret meeting of Jewish leaders in which they reveal their plan for world domination.   You will find those on the Internet who believe this to be the case.  (Nazi and Arab, anti-Israel sites).   The Protocols was in fact written at the end of the nineteenth century, by the Tsarist secret police.   The origin of the Protocols was exposed in 1921 but, like all conspiracy theories, it endures remarkably well.

The "Martyrdom" mentality

A whole generation of Palestinians has been raised on revised history and the concept of honour and death for Allah in pursuit of the destruction of Jews and their state, for the wrongs they are supposed to have done and the land they are supposed to have stolen.

To see and hear what is actually being said and preached in Mosques in the Middle East visit the Middle East Media Research Institute website.    MEMRI monitors and translates Arabic Media to make the information available to the English speaking west.              www.memri.org

Visit the Palestinian Media Watch to find out what the Palestinian Authority is saying in Arabic to its own people.      Find out about the cynical indoctrination of children to become "martyrs".     www.pmw.org.il

To understand how the world's media, and the Palestinian people,  received the material for its campaign against Israel , you need to visit  Second Draft.   Their research shows how grievances, such as the death of Mohammed al Dura are created and marketed.         www.seconddraft.org

The use of Palestinian Children

The stories which the Palestinians feed western journalists make much of supposed harm done to children by the IDF.  This strikes an emotional chord with western families and always produces reactions against Israel.   However, the Palestinians are guilty of cynically exploiting children and young people by inciting them to confront the IDF security forces and having cameramen  on hand to record whatever harm comes to them.  Also we are fed with harrowing images of distraught mothers of dead or wounded children.   See Indoctrination to see how the Palestinian children are exploited and sacrificed to further the aims of Arafat and the Palestine Authority.  

Watch the video, "The Anatomy of Child Self-Sacrifice", produced by Jerusalem Vistas to understand how the process works.   Get a copy to show to your church or fellowship or school/college.

One of many cases was the 11 year old lad from Nablus who was promised a large sum to carry a backpack through an IDF roadblock in March 2004.  When a military policeman picked up the backpack he discovered it was a 10Kg bomb stuffed with bolts.   When the boy's dispatchers saw that he was being detained they dialled the mobile 'phone which was supposed to detonate the bomb, but it failed to explode.   Had the bomb properly detonated, the lad would have become a martyr.   Palestinian children are frequently used to test Israeli security systems.   If they are mistaken for terrorist infiltrators and shot in error, they become martyrs and propaganda tools for use against Israel.

See also the report on the death of Mohammed Al Dura, which was blamed on the IDF and used to fan the Intifada which had just started in September 2000.

Palestinian Funerals

Funerals make good news footage and stoke up the fires of hatred.   Unfortunately we in the west did not get to see the film of the Palestinian funeral during which the pallbearers stumbled and dropped the corpse, which then got up and ran away.

The medieval "Blood Libel" is still alive and well.