Recent reports in the Palestinian Authority-controlled press have vilified the U.S., President Bush and other Western leaders, calling the president and his secretary of defense “bloodthirsty beasts.”
Palestinian Media Watch compiled examples of the most extreme comments in recent Palestinian news coverage.
In an article that appeared in the PA daily Al-Ayyam, Shiite religious leaders in Iraq were condemned for not encouraging their people to become “martyrs” by launching terror attacks against American forces. The writer also slams the Shiites for trying “to achieve historic benefit from the presence of these forces … even if this involves participation in the Ruling Council, which is appointed by the American governor,” Palestinian Media Watch reported.
Another article reports on a speech given to the Brazilian Parliament by Basam Abu Sharif, a representative of the Palestinian National Council. Calling for a Brazilian boycott of the U.S., Sharif referred to the “triangle of terror and evil … Bush, Sharon and Blair” and their policies as “organized terror … and war crimes.”
In a story printed in the daily Al Hayat Al Jadida, a member of the PA Legislative Council says Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “are human beings whose ambitions have turned them into bloodthirsty beasts.”
The official also claimed: “The American soldiers [in Iraq] are collapsing emotionally, because they are fighting a cruel war, that in their opinion has no justification and which appear to have no end. And this, while their enemy believes in their battle …”
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