The official Palestinian Authority television station has, yet again, broadcast religious incitement calling for the destruction of America and Israel. The imam, Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris, speaking live from the Sheikh Ijlin mosque in Gaza last Friday, called: "O Allah, support us against our enemies. O Allah, destroy our enemies. O Allah, destroy America and Israel. O Allah, shake the land under their feet."
On the same day, official PA Radio broadcast another live sermon from the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, in which Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the PA-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, denounced the "criminal United States" and "rancorous Britain." He added, "We appeal to Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Malaysians, Indonesians, and others to stand as one rank, stop the aggression, and cleanse their territories of US military occupation.... O Allah, make the plots of the aggressors backfire on them. O Allah, annihilate them to the last man. O Allah, protect al-Aqsa Mosque from every evil. O Allah, protect Iraq and its people."
These calls, made on the eve of the American-led war against Saddam Hussein, are yet another blatant violation of the conditions that President Bush established - to "end incitement to violence in official media" - in his June 24, 2002 speech, according to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA, commented: "Why does the Bush administration continue to support the creation of a Palestinian Arab state and continue giving the Palestinian Arabs $150-million in taxpayers' money each year, when they use those funds to incite against America and Israel, in violation of President Bush's own demand that they stop their incitement?"
On the same day, official PA Radio broadcast another live sermon from the al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount, in which Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the PA-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, denounced the "criminal United States" and "rancorous Britain." He added, "We appeal to Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Indians, Pakistanis, Malaysians, Indonesians, and others to stand as one rank, stop the aggression, and cleanse their territories of US military occupation.... O Allah, make the plots of the aggressors backfire on them. O Allah, annihilate them to the last man. O Allah, protect al-Aqsa Mosque from every evil. O Allah, protect Iraq and its people."
These calls, made on the eve of the American-led war against Saddam Hussein, are yet another blatant violation of the conditions that President Bush established - to "end incitement to violence in official media" - in his June 24, 2002 speech, according to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA). Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA, commented: "Why does the Bush administration continue to support the creation of a Palestinian Arab state and continue giving the Palestinian Arabs $150-million in taxpayers' money each year, when they use those funds to incite against America and Israel, in violation of President Bush's own demand that they stop their incitement?"