Videos on Palestinian TV fake Israeli soldiers shooting kids and elders
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook September 10, 2004
Adapted and reprinted from Palestinian Media Watch
The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to use music videos as a tool to promote hatred and violence among Palestinian children. In recent months, according to Palestinian Media Watch, PA TV has increased the frequency of hate broadcasting aimed at children.
One example of this escalation is the repeated broadcast this month of a 30-second music video depicting Israeli soldiers as cold-blooded murderers.
In this fictitious scene, children are seen playing soccer while actors portraying Israeli soldiers wearing yarmulkes (skullcaps) watch them from the side. One of the soldiers approaches the children and, after attempting to steal his ball, hits the child. The other children turn against the soldier and chase him away. He then grabs his automatic rifle, after which another scene is spliced in, showing a solider taking aim and firing.
Another example of what PMW calls a "hate video" recorded by the media monitoring organization on PA TV during the first six months of 2003 shows, in sequence, a girl on a swing who turns into a burning inferno, children playing soccer when the ball explodes in their faces, soldiers throwing an old man to the ground and then shooting him in the head, a blind infant carried by his mother, then murdered by Israeli soldiers. They are showing falling to the ground together, the soldiers boot crushing the child's flower.
Palestinian Media Watch depicts in a documentary entitled "Ask for Death" (7 minute version | 25 minute version) screened late last year at a Senate hearing last year, the diversity of televised propaganda used indoctrinate children into a culture of violence and suicidal martyrdom, in recent years.
Short musical film-clips for children teaching them to see violence and Shahada -- Death for Allah -- as ideal values that are expected of them, have been broadcast daily on PATV, often for several hours a day. One propaganda film-clip of a "Farewell Letter", designed to offset a young person's natural fear of death, portrays Shahada as both heroic and tranquil. The film's hero, a nice looking schoolboy, leaves a farewell letter explaining his choice to achieve Shahada, describing the death he is seeking as pleasurable: "How sweet is Shahada." It was broadcast repeatedly in 2001-02, sometimes three times a day.
The following selections from the boy's "letter" are sung accompanying scenes of the boy calmly heading toward his death:
Do not be sad, my dear,
And do not cry over my parting,
Oh my dear father,
For my country, Shahada...
How sweet is Shahada
When I embrace you, Oh my land!...
My beloved, my mother,
My most dear,
Be joyous over my blood
And do not cry for me.
The words "How sweet is Shahada when I embrace you, oh my land!" are sung as the child-actor is seen in the above picture falling dead and "embracing" the land.
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