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To: KLP who wrote (5623)	7/10/2003 7:08:33 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 15991

Palestinian TV Urges Young Men to Become Martyrs By Julie Stahl CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief July 09, 2003 Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - While much of the intifadah (uprising) violence has disappeared from Palestinian television in the last few days, a video spot beckoning young men to become martyrs with the promise of virgins in paradise is still being shown, an expert here said. A U.S.-sponsored peace plan demands that the Palestinians end the incitement, which Washington and Israel believe has fueled anti-Israel hatred and perpetuated Palestinian violence. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met with Palestinian Authority Information Minister Nabil Amr earlier this week to discuss the establishment of a committee that would monitor incitement in the PA media and in school textbooks. In a statement, Shalom said that in the last few days there had been "a measure of positive change in the degree of anti-Israeli incitement and hatred." Shalom credited the change to "the direct result of the decision by the new Palestinian leadership to change the behavior of the past." But Yigal Carmon of the Middle East Media Research Institute said it's too soon to determine if the incitement is really gone. "It's too early to make a fair judgment," Carmon said. "Generally speaking, they deal with neutral things more. You don't see clips of the intifadah." For almost three years, Palestinians have been fed a steady diet of video clips and montages of Palestinians getting killed by Israelis or other violent subject matter. These clips are gone, said Carmon, but another video, which he calls just as troubling, is still being shown. In it, a Palestinian youth sees his girlfriend get killed by Israeli soldiers and then decides to seek revenge. He is enticed to become a martyr by pictures of beautiful women with long flowing hair dressed in white gowns frolicking and dancing in pools of water in a garden - the Islamic dream of paradise. Palestinians consider those who die in confrontations with Israeli troops or those who carry out terror attacks to be martyrs. Suicide bombers particularly are promised that 72 virgins await them in paradise. The video clip is simple. But in a society where it is taboo for young men to be close to the opposite sex, this is very enticing, said Carmon "This is a video clip in which a youth can see with his own eyes [what] the 72...virgins promised to a shaheed [martyr] look like," he said. "This is incitement to the suicide bomber." Palestinian Authority Information Minister Nabil Amr was quoted earlier this week as saying that the Americans would help to define incitement and its manifestations. He said he would try to convince Palestinian broadcasters to remove incitement from their programs and that the PA would review its school textbooks to see that the incitement is removed. cnsnews.com\ForeignBureaus\archive\200307\FOR20030709d.html

To: KLP who wrote (5623)	7/11/2003 12:20:51 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15991

Hey KLP, there is a saying: THE BUCK STOPS HERE. You don't have the US President saying that his CIA gave him wrong info. Today we have the CIA say that they did not support the intelligence report that the WH received about Weapons of Mass Destruction. So there is some lying going on here. Would you have a President lying about sleeping with someone or would you have a President lying and sending Americans to their death? Which one is preferable. This President like the earlier one is a liar. The difference is that this President's lies costs American lives while the earlier President's lies not only did not cost American lives but it also did not cause any American lives. Something to think about.