Much media attention has been given in recent weeks to a reported "drop" in PA incitement. Unfortunately, while there have been some changes in PA TV, the same hate messages continue to be espoused - just by different speakers.

For example, world attention has brought pressure on the PA to change the content of the Friday sermons, in which religious leaders have repeatedly called for the genocide of Jews. The PA has not eliminated the message, however, but has merely transferred it to another framework.

For years, the PA religious establishment has repeatedly portrayed the killing of Jews as a religious necessity. Today, PA TV chose to rebroadcast this same call to genocide as a historical necessity - this time from a senior PA academic rather than from a religious leader.

Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al-Quds Encyclopedia and a TV lecturer, cited the identical hadith (an Islamic tradition attributed to Muhammad) that the religious leaders have used to demand this genocide. This was part of a lecture focusing on what he described as the war of the Jews against Palestinian trees.

These were his words quoting the hadith:

"Muhammad said in his hadith, 'The Hour [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: O Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'""


The continued teaching that this hadith applies today could well be a dominant factor driving terror against Israeli civilians. By depicting redemption as dependent on Muslims killing Jews, the PA worldview presents this genocide as a religious obligation and historical necessity - not related to a conflict over borders, but as something inherent to Allah's world.



Sheik Ibrahim Mudayris in Friday's sermon, PA TV

"The Prophet said the Resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews, rejoice. Rejoice in Allah's Victory. The Muslims will kill the Jew, and he will hide.

"The Prophet said: 'The Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: O servant of Allah, O Muslim this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'

"Why is there this malice? Because there are none who love the Jews on the face of the earth: not man, not rock, and not tree - everything hates them. They destroy everything! They destroy the trees and destroy the houses. Everything wants vengeance on the Jews, on these pigs on the face of the earth, and the day of our victory, Allah willing, will come."