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Sweeping Palestinian Hate

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amas-controlled TV continues
to teach kids to kill Jews while
llamas, the U.S.-declared ter-
rorist organization, now has a missile that
can reach Tel Aviv.
So much for the Gaza Strip and the State
of Israel striking a peace deal any time
soon.
TV incitement of Palestinian children to
murder Jews is a seething matter in Gaza,
reports the Jerusalem-based Palestinian
Media Watch.
Consider: The two hosts of a llamas
children's TV program use three different
words for "slaughter" to describe how to
rid Israel of Jews. The bear puppet Nassur
explains that all Jews must be "erased
from our land." The young host, Saraa,
then specifies, "They'll be slaughtered:'
Later in the conversation, Nassur says, "We
want to slaughter them, Saraa, so they will
be expelled from our land" He repeats,
...We'll have to [do it] by slaughter."
Three different Arabic expressions are
used to describe this slaughter of Jews.
Don't dismiss that script. Hamas, whose
charter seeks Israel's destruction, means
business even as it simmers as a military
underdog. Its streets are teeming with
Zionist hatred fostered by Gaza City lead-
ers. And its political aim is unyielding: to
control the biblical Land of Israel, mean-

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ing the State of Israel as well as Judea and
Samaria, which comprise the Fatah-led
West Bank.
Fatah, positioned as a moderate to
llamas, takes a back seat to no one, how-
ever, when it comes to TV promotion of
a culture of terrorism and glorification
of murder where Zionism in general and
Jews in particular are the target.
Such Palestinian hatred is pervasive in
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Zionist Organization of America
points to Palestinian television incitement
"as evidence of the toxic fanaticism that
grips Palestinian society as well as of the
realities ignored by the constant diplo-
matic process designed to produce an
Arab-Israel peace:'
"Instead of a genuine effort by either
or both Fatah and llamas to educate
Palestinians for peace, build vital infra-
structures or work for prosperity," says
ZOA National President Morton Klein, "we
see rather that the central preoccupation
of the two largest Palestinian movements
is killing Jews'
More reason for Israel and the Jewish
world to stand guard: On Nov. 3, Gen.
Amos Yadlin of the Israel Defense Forces
told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee that llamas recently
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miles away, meaning
Tel Aviv is in the line
of fire.
Yadlin, who guides
the IDF military intel-
ligence, said the mis-
sile was test-fired into
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made, may have
been smuggled into
the Gaza Strip, Ynet
reported.
Amid last winter's
Israel-Gaza war,
Hamas unleashed
missiles with a 25-
mile range that struck
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Beersheva. The Jewish
Telegraphic Agency
unless it undergoes a dramatic change in
quoted Gen. Yadlin as saying Hamas
leadership. Fatah seems a likelier candi-
prefers to strengthen its rule in Gaza and
date for renewed peace talks only because
its capacity to smuggle weapons before
its brand of terror is more subtle.
confronting Israel. But let there be no
The sad fact is that the Palestinian
doubt: such confrontation will come once
movement is quick to find another
the other two factors are achieved. There's
no reason to think llamas isn't working to obstacle whenever Israel appears ready to
compromise. Negotiation requires llamas
perfect its newest rocket so it travels even
and Fatah to commit to a durable peace,
further and brings deadlier results.
not the end of the Jewish state. fl
We see no hope for peace with Gaza

WSU Builds Bridges To Israel

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f it's Tuesday, this must be Tel Aviv ...
or Beersheva ... or Jerusalem.
Echoing the travels of the charac-
ters in the 1969 movie that brings Belgium
to mind, a group of Wayne State
University deans and senior fac-
ulty from Detroit spent the last
week of October in Israel visit-
ing six universities, Hadassah
Medical Center and Israeli busi-
ness ventures.
Tuesday really was an
exhausting day, beginning at
the Weizmann Institute near
Tel Aviv, then to Ben-Gurion
University in the Negev and on
to Jerusalem for a quick night's
rest before the next round
of site visits. But all the days
of the trip were exhausting
— with business meetings starting at 8
a.m. or earlier and an agenda lasting well
into the evenings. Yet no one in the group
complained because it became obvious
from day one that the trip would be a

success.
Wayne State President Jay Noren asked
the Jewish Community Relations Council
to organize a trip that would lead to
partnerships with some insti-
tutions of higher learning in
Israel.
Because such efforts can
take years to mature, there
were no expectations of any
immediate results, just the
desire to begin conversations
with potential partners. But
the delegation flew back to
Detroit with an astonishing
number of commitments and
project launches.
Based on Wayne State's aca-
demic and research interests,
Council arranged half-day
visits at the Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology ("Israel's M.I.T."), Bar-
Ilan University, Weizmann, Ben-Gurion
University, Hadassah and Hebrew
University. Wayne State also arranged a

Wayne State officials visit the Weizmann Institute.

visit to Al Quds University in Arab east
Jerusalem, to which it brought a group of
Jewish, Muslim and Christian students
last summer in partnership with Ben-
Gurion University.

Wayne State's delegation included
the deans and/or associate deans of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,

WSU on page 42

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