PMW Bulletin
Nov. 20, 2015

Palestinian fatherly pride:
Fatah official proud of 2-year-old son who sings:
"Daddy, buy me a machine gun and a rifle,
so that I will defeat Israel and the Zionists"

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

In the midst of the current wave of Palestinian terror attacks against
Israelis, Fatah official Tawfiq Tirawi expressed his satisfaction with his
2-year-old son on official PA TV. [Official PA TV, Oct. 27, 2015]
The source of the fatherly pride was his son's singing both about "a Martyr
being escorted to his wedding" and his singing a verse that goes, "Daddy,
buy me a machine gun and a rifle, so that I will defeat Israel and the
Zionists."

Fatah Central Committee member Tirawi explained that the messages of these
songs - support for Martyrdom-death and the wish to kill "Zionists" -
express the "sense of belonging to the homeland":

"The Palestinian by nature and education feels a sense of belonging to the
land and the homeland. Listen, my son is two years and ten months old.
Yesterday, he sang to his mother: "Escort the Martyr to his wedding." He
doesn't know the meaning of this song (i.e., the Islamic belief that Martyrs
marry 72 Virgins in Paradise). Today his mother told me that he sang:
"Daddy, buy me a machine gun and a rifle, so that I will defeat Israel and
the Zionists." A boy who is not yet three! A Palestinian grows up with a
feeling of belonging to the land, the homeland, and the people."
[Official PA TV, Oct. 27, 2015]

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Palestinian Media Watch has reported on this Palestinian children's song in
the past, which promotes violence and praises Palestinians/Muslims as
"victorious over America and Israel. In 2006, official PA TV broadcast a
young girl reciting the song at an event, and in 2010, a young boy sang the
song on a Hamas TV children's program:

"Daddy gave me a present, a machine gun and a rifle.
When I am a big boy, I will join the Liberation Army.
The army of [Izz A-Din] Al-Qassam (Hamas),
which has taught us how to defend our homeland.
Our homeland is precious, precious.
We [are] victorious, victorious over America and Israel."
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), Feb. 5, 2010]

The songs about Martyrs' weddings and using the rifle against the "Zionists"
are just two examples of the contents of decades of PA indoctrination of
children. As policy, the PA promotes violence and glorifies terrorists and
the PA has promoted Martyrdom-death as an ideal to strive for.