PMW Bulletin
July 8, 2012
PA TV: Suicide bombers who killed 19 civilians on buses are "more honored
than all of us"

Suicide bombers are a "candle that lights the tunnel of liberty"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=7025

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org

During a Palestinian Authority TV News broadcast earlier this month from a
burial ceremony for suicide terrorists whose bodies were handed over to the
PA, the PA TV reporter described the funeral of Ali Ja'ara who murdered 11
and Muhammad Za'ul who murdered 8, as follows:

"This is Palestine, which embraces its Martyr sons, who are more honored
than all of us, and which sends a message to the whole world that its
Martyrs are not numbers, but rather a candle that lights the tunnel of
liberty for the Palestinian people on the way to independence."

[PA TV (Fatah), June 1, 2012]

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http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=458&fld_id=458&doc_id=7034

Ja'ara carried out a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem in January 2004,
killing 11 people.
Za'ul carried out a suicide bombing on a bus in Jerusalem in February 2004,
killing 8 people.

Palestinian Media Watch has reported on the PA's official terminology guide,
which instructs Palestinians never to use the term "suicide bomber" but the
words "Martyrdom Seeker."

PMW has also documented that PA TV recently honored suicide bombers and
other terrorists.

PMW has reported on this PA policy to glorify terrorists as heroes and role
models.
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=448