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(Article by Nadav Ha’etzni, Maariv Weekend Supplement,
September 12, 1997, p.21)
WHEN GENERAL GHAZI JABALI, COMMANDER OF
THE PALESTINIAN POLICE, HEARD ABOUT THE
ARREST WARRANT ISSUED AGAINST HIM BY
ISRAEL, HE SAID: "THIS REMINDS ME OF
GOEBBELS’ METHODS".THE COMPARISON IS NOT
SURPRISING IF ONE MONITORS THE OFFICIAL
PUBLICATIONS OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY.
FOR EXAMPLE: "EVERY YEAR, THE JEWS INFLATE
THE NUMBER OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS. HAVING
PROFITED FROM TALK OF THEIR MURDER, THEY
INCREASE THE NUMBERS FROM TIME TO TIME."
ANOTHER QUOTE: "THE JEWS BELONG TO A
COLONIALIST ENTITY, THEY ARE NOTHING BUT
THIEVES." THIS IS NOT THE WAY PEACE IS BUILT.
On Monday, Commander of the Palestinian Police General Ghazi
Jabali reacted with derision to the arrest warrant and extradition
request issued against him by Israel the previous day. He said,
"This reminds me of Goebbels (Hitler’s propaganda minister) who
said ‘tell lies and lies, and in the end they will believe you.’ The
same is true of the Jews. It is a disgrace that they are issuing an
arrest warrant against me. Apparently they have learned Goebbels’
methods."
The extradition request against General Jabali was issued by
Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi in the wake of Jabali’s involvement
with the Palestinian police unit which, according to Israel, was
sent by Jabali to kill Jews. At the end of last week, an arrest
warrant was issued against Jabali by an Ashkelon court.
Against this background, Jabali’s remarks should have provoked a
storm. But anyone who monitors the statements and publications
of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in recent weeks would not have
been surprised. Charging Israel, Zionism and its leadership with
Nazism, as well as denying the Holocaust, have become a daily
routine, meshing with theories of nefarious Israeli plots. This
educational battle is being waged by the official PA radio and
television, as well as the newspapers financed by Yasser Arafat,
which have recently adopted a strident, uninhibited and
undisguised anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist line.
RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN BEN-GURION AND
HITLER
Last Wednesday, for example, just one day before the suicide
bomb attack at the pedestrian mall in Jerusalem, a wide-ranging
article appeared in Al-Hayat Al-Jadeedah, the official mouthpiece
of the Palestinian Authority. The article, authored by Palestinian
writer Nabil Salam, presented a learned historical analysis which
concluded: "Since its establishment, the racist Zionist entity has
been implementing various forms of terrorism on a daily basis
which are a repetition of the Nazi terror. This proves the shared
roots of Nazi and Zionist thought. This also explains the
cooperation between the Jews and the Nazis during World War II,
through which was revealed the forged claims of the Zionists
regarding alleged acts of slaughter perpetrated against the Jews
during the same period."
Prior to these observations, the writer assesses the historical
development of Judaism and Zionism, asserting they have sought
to rule over great financial wealth, and have "influenced the
formulation of racist-terrorist theories such as the Nazi theory."
Citing quotations from the Talmud through David Ben-Gurion, the
author enlightens his readers with the following conclusion:
"There is no difference between Hitler and Ben-Gurion, and if
there was a difference at all, it was one of quantity and not one
of substance. Anyone who investigates the crimes of the Zionists…
discovers explicitly the complementary traits between Zionism,
which is a racist terrorist movement, and the Nazi movement."
THE HOLOCAUST AS A PROFITABLE
INVESTMENT
That which was said in abridged form in Nabil Salam’s text was
said explicitly and more extensively in an interview with
Palestinian writer Ahsan al-Agha during a "cultural program"
broadcast two weeks ago on Palestinian television. Al-Agha’s
interviewer outlined the factual basis for the conversation: "It is
well-known that every year the Jews exaggerate what the Nazis
did to them. They claim there were 6 million killed, but precise
scientific research establishes that there were no more than
400,000."
The guest, Mr. al-Agha, who is a teacher in Gaza, replied: "I think
we are talking about an investment. They (the Jews) have profited
materially, spiritually, politically and economically from the talk
about the Nazi killings. This investment is favorable to them and
they view it as a profitable activity so they inflate the number of
victims all the time. In another ten years, I do not know what
number they will reach, Last year, for the first time, a statistic
appeared according to which 1 ½ million children were killed by
the Nazis. This number was not previously known… If this number
was indeed correct, then someone would certainly have
remembered it… In my opinion, it is an investment, and as you
know, when it comes to economics and investments, the Jews have
been very experienced ever since the days of the Merchant of
Venice."
The head of the Palestinian Broadcasting Authority is Nabil Amar,
a former PLO ambassador in Moscow. Amar serves as an adviser
to Yasser Arafat and is a member of the Higher Committee in the
talks with Israel. He is also the publisher and chief editor of the
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, whose employees receive their
salaries directly from the PA budget. It is therefore not surprising
that in tandem with the official radio and television, Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda conveys the line dictated from above. And the line is
unmistakable.
For example: three days before the suicide bombing on the
Jerusalem pedestrian mall, the newspaper published two instructive
articles. The first was an interview with an "Islamic author" by the
name of Safi Naz Kassam who offered a number of diagnoses
regarding Judaism and Zionism: "There is no people or land
named Israel," she said. "Israel is our patriarch Yaaqoub, peace be
upon him, and the children of Israel are the sons of Yaaqoub… We
are the children of Israel…. These people are the children of the
Zionist entity, they are the children of the colonialist entity, they
are nothing more than thieves. They came and took land which
does not belong to them. Therefore, the normalization of relations
with them is impossible…. even if Palestine remains occupied for
hundreds of years."
And with regard to Zionism, the author states: "These Zionists are
not fit to establish a nation or to have their own language or even
their own religion. They are nothing more than a hodgepodge.
To complete the reader’s education, the same issue of Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda surveys "research" carried out by Ahmed al-Awadeh
under the headline: "The History of the Conflict Between Muslims
and Jews." The research claims that the Jews live by the Talmud
and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The conflict between
Muslims and Jews is an eternal conflict, similar to the conflict
between mankind - the Muslims, and Satan - the Jews, and how
unfortunate the Palestinians are that they have to serve as the
Muslims’ avant garde in the eternal battle of the Muslims and all
the nations against the "nation of Jews."
THE ATTACKERS - RABIN’S ASSASSINS
These anti-Semitic publications, accompanied by breathtaking
"factual diagnoses" regarding the character and soul of Jews and
Zionists, appear daily in the Palestinian media. They are intended
to provide broad popular education to the readers, which serves as
the infrastructure for the charges against Israel and its leaders
floated by the PA.
In the wake of the most recent suicide bombing in Jerusalem, the
allegations became more pointed and turned into an explicit
theory regarding a wide-ranging Zionist plot. Last Friday, the day
after the bombing, the official PA news agency published the
Palestinian leadership’s decisions. It was a gripping document in
which a number of instructive items were raised. "All the facts we
have, which were supplied by the Israelis," says the statement,
"show that behind these operations stand foreign elements who
were aided and assisted by extremist Israeli elements, those who
also murdered Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin."
But that is not all. The Israeli government, according to the
official Palestinian statement, is aware of this and is attempting to
hide the details from the public, as well as the collaboration which
the killers received from within the Israeli establishment.
And so the circle is closed and the modus operandi of the
government of the Zionist-Jewish entity is revealed, one which is
not at all surprising in light of the basic characteristics of
Zionism, as they are known to the Palestinians from previous
official publications of the Palestinian Authority.
Provided by the Government Press Office
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