Days after the recent appeal by US President Bush to Yasser Arafat to speak out against the ongoing violence against Israel, Palestinian Authority newspapers have gone on the rhetorical offensive against the United States. So reports Dr. Itamar Marcus\' Palestinian Media Watch. PMW has released a copy of a caricature published by the official PA daily, Al-Hayat al-Jadida this past Sunday entitled \"Teacher and Students.\" In the cartoon, US President Bush and Secretary of State Powell are portrayed as students of Prime Minister Sharon, who is conducting a class on how to murder Arab children.
PMW also notes that an article appearing two days earlier blames the US for last week\'s Israeli attack on Arab military targets in retaliation for the murders of 10 month-old Shalhevet Pass, 15 year-old Eliran Rosenberg and 14 year-old Naftali Lantzkoren. The article describes anti-American demonstrations, including flag burnings and public calls for attacks on U.S. interests by a Palestinian official. The text of the article is follows:
\"Following the Israeli attack there is a noticeable sense of rage in the Palestinian street and condemnation of American assistance to the Zionist military machine. More and more voices are calling for revenge against the occupation and attacks on American interests in the Arab world. Enraged masked men in Alminara Square burned a model of an Israeli bus, flags of the occupier [Israel] and American flags.
\"Sakhar Habash, a member of the Central Commission the Fatah Movement [Arafat loyalists], spoke on behalf of the national and Islamic forces. Habash said that the Black House, meaning the White House, bears responsibility for the killing, destruction and siege directed against our people. Habash said that in response to the recent American veto at the United Nations [of a proposal to send an armed observer force to Judea, Samaria and Gaza] as well as the attempt to justify Israeli crimes, American interests in the Arab homeland should be threatened...\"
PMW also notes that an article appearing two days earlier blames the US for last week\'s Israeli attack on Arab military targets in retaliation for the murders of 10 month-old Shalhevet Pass, 15 year-old Eliran Rosenberg and 14 year-old Naftali Lantzkoren. The article describes anti-American demonstrations, including flag burnings and public calls for attacks on U.S. interests by a Palestinian official. The text of the article is follows:
\"Following the Israeli attack there is a noticeable sense of rage in the Palestinian street and condemnation of American assistance to the Zionist military machine. More and more voices are calling for revenge against the occupation and attacks on American interests in the Arab world. Enraged masked men in Alminara Square burned a model of an Israeli bus, flags of the occupier [Israel] and American flags.
\"Sakhar Habash, a member of the Central Commission the Fatah Movement [Arafat loyalists], spoke on behalf of the national and Islamic forces. Habash said that the Black House, meaning the White House, bears responsibility for the killing, destruction and siege directed against our people. Habash said that in response to the recent American veto at the United Nations [of a proposal to send an armed observer force to Judea, Samaria and Gaza] as well as the attempt to justify Israeli crimes, American interests in the Arab homeland should be threatened...\"