Mar 17, 2009

Report: British support of Palestinians funds hate textbooks

March 17, 2009

Here is how British taxpayer money is being spent: According to a study due out tomorrow, 100 million pounds of British taxpayer money has been spent promoting terrorism and encouraging young Palestinians to hate the West and to become suicide bombers.

The report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance alleges that British money given to the Palestinian Authority has been used to print textbooks that teach children “death is not bitter in the mouth of the believers" and that the Iraqi insurgency is a "brave resistance" against Britain and the U.S.

Palestinian TV shows and newspapers also call for terrorism and urge Palestinians to pick up weapons. For example, one TV presenter on the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation called Ayat al-Akhras, 18, the youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber, is a hero.

The Daily Mail quotes Timothy Kirkhope, leader of the Conservative delegation in the European Parliament, who said that no more aid money should be sent to the Palestinian territories unless monitored: "Money has been misspent in the area before and used to buy weapons. This time they may not be using it on bullets and guns, but they are using it to turn the minds of young people towards militancy.”

The report mocks claims that textbooks encouraging terrorism stopped being used in classrooms after the Annapolis conference of November 2007, in which both Palestinians and Israelis pledged to reach a peaceful two-state solution.

The following are examples from media or textbooks:
"Palestine is our dream. Brothers, Oh Fatah's loyal masses the land is thirsty [for martyr blood] […] Jaffa, Haifa and Acre are calling. Ramallah.. Nablus and Gaza: "When will we meet and break the chains? To Jerusalem march millions of Martyrs" - Ahmed Dughmus, 8 January 2008

“It doesn't mean that we don't want the 1948 borders [all of Israel], but in our current political program, we [PA] say we want a state on the 1967 borders […] We [Palestinians] were created on this land in order to liberate it, to live on it, to continue as people of Ribat [Religious war]. We are on the land of Ribat and must remain [on it] until Resurrection.” - Najat Abu Bakr, Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, 26 February 2008

“There are diseases like smallpox, that can be eradicated, but the disease that was inflicted on the Palestinian people and the Arab nation in general, that's the Jewish disease, the Zionist disease, which is a cancerous disease, that started with occupying and taking over lands in 1904 […] Those (Jews), from 1904 to 1947, reached 605,000. That’s the cancer that spreads over the lands.” - Adnan Ayash, History Professor, 5 June 2008