Die anywhere you like, but don’t die here
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestinian Media Watch
PA TV program on Jaffa (Tel Aviv):
“It is time for you [Israelis] to be gone. Live wherever you like, but don’t live among us. It is time for you to be gone. Die wherever you like, but don’t die among us. We have the past here. We have the present, the present and the future. So leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds. Everything. And leave the memories.”
[PA TV, December 20, 2005]
These words of hate are the parting moments of yet another program on Palestinian Authority television calling for the destruction of Israel.
The words, calling for the expulsion of every last Israeli from Israel, are spoken while the screen is showing Jaffa-Tel Aviv, Israelis and Israeli flags. Official PA TV has aired this twice in recent months.
To view this clip online, click here.
The program about Jaffa opens with a revision of history, by casting the ancient Canaanites as Arabs. By doing this, the more than 3,000 years of Jewish history in the area are pre-dated by a fabricated Arab history. (The Arab Conquest actually took place in the seventh century of the Common Era.)
Jaffa, a part of Tel Aviv, is defined as a Palestinian city, and all of Israel’s coastal cities, Acre, Haifa, Caesarea, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Jaffa, are said to be situated in what is “known today as Palestine.” According to this PA program, Israel is already non-existent.
The final words of this television program are those of Israeli-Arab poet, Mahmoud Darwish, calling for the expulsion of every Israeli: “Die wherever you like, but don’t die among us.”
View this clip online here.
The following is the transcript of the clip:
“The Arab Canaanites established ports on the coast of the Land of Canaan, known today as Palestine. The ports were Acre, Haifa, … Caesarea, … Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gaza and Jaffa…
“Palestine was attacked by invaders, but its Arab Canaanite features withstood attempts to change them… [Jaffa] remained Arab in name, because the indigenous remain, while the foreign vanish…
“The doors and windows of the houses … are watching and expecting the return [of the refugees]…
“It is time for you [Israelis] to be gone. Live wherever you like, but don’t live among us. It is time for you to be gone. Die wherever you like, but don’t die among us. We have the past here. We have the present, the present and the future… So leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds. Everything. And leave the memories.”
[PA TV, December 20, 2005]
