Barely a day after Yasser Arafat called for ending terrorism against Israeli civilians, the official PA television station broadcast ten minutes of films calling expressly for violence against Israel. Michael Widlanski of The Media Line reports that the clips featured scenes of youths throwing rocks and firebombs and shooting at Israeli forces. The scenes were shown together with martial music and repeated narrative calls such as, "Oh, masses of the occupied land, go forward with the revolution against the enemy." Arafat himself was shown carrying weapons and even in the midst attacking Israeli targets, in footage taken more than two decades ago.



"Arafat has been deliberately offering a mixture of messages," Widlanski notes, "one aimed largely at Western audiences, and one aimed mostly at his own Palestinian constituency."