Post by Paddy by Grace on May 21, 2009 22:31:45 GMT -7
Palestinian radio: Tel Aviv club a 'military target'
Claims bombed disco served as 'secret meeting place' for Israeli army
Hours after a suicide attack outside a Tel Aviv disco that killed five and injured over 50, official Palestinian media claimed the nightclub was really a secret meeting place for the "occupation army" and civilians were not targeted, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The suicide bomber Friday detonated his explosives amongst patrons waiting outside the seaside nightclub Stage in a packed promenade popular with young Israelis. The attack immediately killed four, with a fifth dying from serious injuries Monday.
Like most suicide bombings in the Jewish state, the Tel Aviv attack specifically targeted Israeli civilians.
But Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, claimed in Arabic hours after the attack the area bombed "may have looked like a nightclub, but it was not innocent. Rather, it was a high-level Israeli military target," according to a translation provided to WND by Dr. Michael Wadlanski, professor of communications at Hebrew University.
The Palestinian station told its listeners information received from a "very senior Israeli officer" indicated "an elite unit of the occupation army" was meeting in the nightclub and was the target of the "martyr" operation.
Two days later, Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, an official newspaper directed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party, ran a front-page picture of the suicide bomber, identified as Abdullah Badran, 21, a university student from near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, with a caption calling him a "martyr."
Sharon and other Israeli leaders last month credited Abbas for helping to lower official incitement in the Palestinian media against Israel. But Wadlanski, who regularly monitors the Palestinian media, said Abbas is still using newspapers, television and radio to incite violence against Israel.
"After the latest wave of Palestinian terror attack, it is fair to ask some tough questions of Mahmoud Abbas, the reputedly 'moderate' successor to Yasser Arafat," said Wadlanski.
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky in January compiled a report, "Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven," in which he blasted the PA for disseminating what he said was Nazi-like propaganda.
"As in Nazi Germany, there is an entire 'culture of hatred' in Palestinian society today, from textbooks to crossword puzzles, from day camps to TV music videos," Sharansky said. "Calling for the murder of Jews, as Jews, is the end result."
Report co-author Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, said Palestinian television has consistently promoted the message that "the Jews are an evil force and [evil] is inherent to the Jews, and therefore they have to be killed."
Earlier in January, PA television blamed the Jews for causing the tsunami in southeast Asia, and preached the destruction of Israel and the U.S.
"The Muslim remembers how the Jews corrupted the land. ... They invest in the East Asian countries, which were destroyed [by the tsunami] because of the Jewish and American corruption and destruction," said Palestinian preacher Sheik Ibrahim Madiras Friday during his weekly sermon broadcast on PA television.
A week before that, Palestinian television featured a senior PA academic, Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia, saying the killing of Jews is mandated by the prophet Muhammad.
Khater, quoting what he said was Islamic tradition, told viewers, "Muhammad said in his Hadith: 'The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'"
( Oh of course, America's C.I.A. has been meeting at McDonald's for years, wonder why we never thought of using a Disco. Please give me a large break.)
Claims bombed disco served as 'secret meeting place' for Israeli army
Hours after a suicide attack outside a Tel Aviv disco that killed five and injured over 50, official Palestinian media claimed the nightclub was really a secret meeting place for the "occupation army" and civilians were not targeted, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The suicide bomber Friday detonated his explosives amongst patrons waiting outside the seaside nightclub Stage in a packed promenade popular with young Israelis. The attack immediately killed four, with a fifth dying from serious injuries Monday.
Like most suicide bombings in the Jewish state, the Tel Aviv attack specifically targeted Israeli civilians.
But Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, claimed in Arabic hours after the attack the area bombed "may have looked like a nightclub, but it was not innocent. Rather, it was a high-level Israeli military target," according to a translation provided to WND by Dr. Michael Wadlanski, professor of communications at Hebrew University.
The Palestinian station told its listeners information received from a "very senior Israeli officer" indicated "an elite unit of the occupation army" was meeting in the nightclub and was the target of the "martyr" operation.
Two days later, Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, an official newspaper directed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party, ran a front-page picture of the suicide bomber, identified as Abdullah Badran, 21, a university student from near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, with a caption calling him a "martyr."
Sharon and other Israeli leaders last month credited Abbas for helping to lower official incitement in the Palestinian media against Israel. But Wadlanski, who regularly monitors the Palestinian media, said Abbas is still using newspapers, television and radio to incite violence against Israel.
"After the latest wave of Palestinian terror attack, it is fair to ask some tough questions of Mahmoud Abbas, the reputedly 'moderate' successor to Yasser Arafat," said Wadlanski.
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky in January compiled a report, "Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven," in which he blasted the PA for disseminating what he said was Nazi-like propaganda.
"As in Nazi Germany, there is an entire 'culture of hatred' in Palestinian society today, from textbooks to crossword puzzles, from day camps to TV music videos," Sharansky said. "Calling for the murder of Jews, as Jews, is the end result."
Report co-author Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, said Palestinian television has consistently promoted the message that "the Jews are an evil force and [evil] is inherent to the Jews, and therefore they have to be killed."
Earlier in January, PA television blamed the Jews for causing the tsunami in southeast Asia, and preached the destruction of Israel and the U.S.
"The Muslim remembers how the Jews corrupted the land. ... They invest in the East Asian countries, which were destroyed [by the tsunami] because of the Jewish and American corruption and destruction," said Palestinian preacher Sheik Ibrahim Madiras Friday during his weekly sermon broadcast on PA television.
A week before that, Palestinian television featured a senior PA academic, Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia, saying the killing of Jews is mandated by the prophet Muhammad.
Khater, quoting what he said was Islamic tradition, told viewers, "Muhammad said in his Hadith: 'The Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews, [until a Jew will hide behind a rock or tree] and the rock and the tree will say: Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'"
( Oh of course, America's C.I.A. has been meeting at McDonald's for years, wonder why we never thought of using a Disco. Please give me a large break.)