It's Not Just In Textbooks: Palestinian Authority Television Tells Kids That All Of Israel Is Palestine

I do not demand of Hamas nor any other to recognize Israel. But from the government that works with Israelis in day to day life, yes.
Abbas

Among those that Abbas does not require to recognize Israel are--the Arabs of the West Bank.

Palestinian Media Watch has a segment of a children's program--shown on PA television--where children are taught that all of Israel is occupied territory:

A children's program on official Palestinian Authority television presents Northern Israel to Palestinian children as "occupied territories" and "1948 lands."

A recent episode of The Best Home on PA TV takes a group of children on a trip to Tiberias and the Galilee in Northern Israel. During a break, the kids are told that they are on "occupied land" and "1948 land," the PA's way to describe all of Israel as "occupied" since its founding in 1948. The children are never told they are in Israel, and when referring to places in Israel, the PA TV host says "How beautiful our land is."

In the Golan Heights, the children are told by the Israeli-Arab guide that they are "at the exact border between Palestine and Syria," again portraying a world in which Israel doesn't exist and is replaced by "Palestine."

As Palestinian Media Watch has reported, teaching children that all of Israel is "Palestine," "1948 lands" and "occupied territories" is an essential component of the PA's education to deny Israel's legitimacy and existence. PA-controlled media and Palestinian academics likewise routinely refer to all of Israel, including such Israeli cities as Jaffa and Haifa, as Palestinian cities, or as "occupied."

Here is the video:



Here is the transcript:

"We're on a trip in the 1948 lands. On our right is Baqa Al-Gharbiya (village in Israel) , the land [home] of many friends of our program. We're on our way [to see] many beautiful areas so that you can get to know them and see how beautiful our land is, and how many beautiful places it has -- beautiful villages and cities. We're in the north of the occupied lands, the 1948 lands (Israel), on the Lebanese border."

Tour guide: "We're now at the Golan Heights border (inside Israel). We are at the exact border between Palestine and Syria."
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 22, 2010]

Considering the fact that Obama does not even bother to enforce the requirement that Abbas stop the incitement of hatred against Israel, no one is going to insist that Abbas even pay lip service to the idea that Israel exists, let alone as a Jewish state.

Here are more examples from Palestine Media Watch of the PA's denial of Israel's right to exist.

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