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Farmington Hills In the plaza between 13 & 14 Mile, between Gap & tj maxx 6/29 2001 32 abbi Seth Mandell told a rally last week outside the Israeli Embassy here that his 13-year-old son, who vas stoned and mutilated by Palestinians barely 500 meters from his home in the West Bank com- munity of Tekoa, "was not killed because of land, he was killed DOUGLAS M. because of hate." He's right; after BLOOMFIELD Palestinian leader Special Yasser Arafat Commentary rejected Israel's offer last summer to turn over 97 percent of the occu- pied territory — which effectively means evacuating most settlements — the settlements themselves ceased to be a valid issue. The issue now is the Palestinian Authority's sanction for unrelenting hatred, coupled with calls to violence. Arafat denies any "parr in, or responsibility for" the violence, but his fingerprints and voice are everywhere. When he finally feared massive Israeli retaliation and losing all ties to Washington, Arafat was able to turn off most of the violence with just a few words. "It's easy to stop the terror," Rabbi Mandell said. "The hard parr is stop- ping the incitement, the hatred." It shouldn't be. Incitement is the one thing Arafat has the most influence over. He domi- nates the Palestinian media with an iron fist. Just ask the journalists, who his security forces have warned, inter- rogated, beaten and jailed for offend- ing the boss. Last week, Arafat told a group of Israeli reporters, "The time has come to make peace, not to incite." But he continues to send a different message to his own people. Open Sundays 10am to 5pm Open July 4th 10am to 5pm Monday —Thursday 10am to 9pm, Fridays 10am to 5pm Closed Saturdays For sales & service call 248- 855 0303 - Media Manipulation Israeli and German media report Arafat sent a letter praising the suicide bomber who killed 21 young Israelis at a Tel Aviv disco earlier this month, and his security forces politely Douglas M. Bloomfield, a former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is a writer an analyst in Washington. warned" the two men who planned the attack not to do it again. The Palestinian media — controlled by Arafat's authoritarian regime — persists in falsely accusing Israel of genocidal" war that includes air drops of poisoned candies, selling explosive paints, spraying poison gas over Arab towns and distributing drugs to youths. The PA school system — where textbooks that glorify terrorists as martyrs and after-school activities include skits with children dressed as suicide bombers — spreads poison that can take generations to eradicate. Arafat recently accused Sharon of having plans to tear down the mosques on the Temple Mount and erect a new synagogue as a prelude to a third Temple. At last October's Arab Summit, he claimed Israel is trying to "Judaize holy Jerusalem." He has personally led a campaign to deny Jewish claims to Jerusalem, starting with insistence that there never was a Jewish Temple and the Western Wall is Islamic property, a bald attempt to delegitimize the very principle of a Jewish state in Israel. For too many years, too many Israelis did not take Palestinian incite- ment seriously. Those who did were usually dismissed as right wingers sim- ply looking for excuses to discredit the peace process. " What To Do? Today, even the doves concede they failed to appreciate the impact of the continuing incitement. Yossi Beilin, an author of the Oslo accords and leader of the peace camp, admits that he ignored "the gravity of Palestinian incitement. I was too liberal on that subject." PA Minister Nabil Shaath, in Washington last week, insisted that "the Israelis are worse," when it comes to incitement, "especially in the last month." He particularly singled out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef. Shaath is right about the hateful old rabbi spewing venom, but he fails to appre- ciate that Yosef is an equal opportuni- ty bigot who hates most Jews as much as he does Arabs. Besides, he's not running the government (at least not officially and not at the moment). Shaath also says Sharon is the prob- lem because he called Arafat a liar and a murderer. Again, he has a point, but HATRED on page 34