Lt. Col. (Res) Maurice Hirsch
JNS, Apr. 11, 2022
“… reconfirming the fact that the P.A.’s problem with Israel is not territorial, but rather stems from the very presence of Jews in Israel and the very existence of the State of Israel, regular Al-Hayat Al-Jadida columnist Omar Hilma al-Ghould launched a venomous attack against “Khazar Zionist Judaism” writing on April 3 that it was “most despicable expression of racism” even from “before the establishment” of Israel”:
Make no mistake: The current terror wave in Israel, in which as of the time of writing four terrorists have murdered 14 people, was initiated and is being fueled by the Palestinian Authority and P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.
The P.A. and Fatah are using all their usual methods: implicit and direct calls for violence; demonization of Israel and Israelis; invoking the false claim that Israel/Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque; attacking Israeli politicians for walking in Jerusalem; and repeating sundry other libels.
As Palestinian Media Watch has already exposed, in the run-up to the Muslim month of Ramadan, the P.A. intensified its false rhetoric that Israel was seeking to escalate violence and destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Those calls were then used as a means to incite hatred and spark terror attacks.
IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch is the director of Legal Strategies for Palestinian Media Watch. He served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps. In his last position, he served as director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.
This article was first published by Palestinian Media Watch.
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