Norwegian news agency Verdinytt interviewer: āMr. Itamar Marcus, you are director of Palestinian Media Watch, and today you are releasing a new report that you say tells us that the Oslo Accords were a failure.ā
PMW Director Itamar Marcus: āIām not saying that the Oslo Accords were a failure, Iām saying that they were a fraud. From Israelās perspective the Oslo Accords were a failure, but from the Palestinian perspective the Oslo Accords were a great success, because it allowed them to move a terror organization that was based in Tunisia right inside the heartland of Israel, which has enabled them to commit terror. So, the interesting thing here is that there were two Oslo Accords that were signed: Israel signed the Oslo Accords hoping for peace, the Palestinian Authority, or the PLO actually, signed the Oslo Accords hoping to gain a foothold inside of the land of Israel, what they call āPalestine,ā so that they could continue their terror war against Israel from the inside. So, from the Israeli perspective it was a failure, from the Palestinian perspective it was a great success.ā
Interviewer: āBut how would you document the claim that you could call it a fraud?ā
Itamar Marcus: āThis report, āTeaching Terror to Tots,ā is really all the proof that you need. This is Fatahās educational magazine for ages 6ā15. We studied all the magazines going back 8 years, and what we found is that every fundamental that was promised [by the PLO] in the Oslo Accords is contradicted by this report. This report says [that Fatah teaches] that the Jewish people have no right to a state in Israel, that they are all foreigners, they [the Jews] werenāt here, not them, not their grandfathers, not their ancestors, they have no history in the land, therefore they have no right to exist in any borders, and therefore when Israel is destroyed that will be justice, and that will be inevitable. All of these [statements] are messages that repeat over and over again through the 8 years of education that weāve been watching, and thatās why the Oslo Accords were a fraud, because they [the PA] tell the world itās a process leading to peace, [but] they tell their children itās a process leading to Israelās destruction.ā
Interviewer: āSo this magazine that you studied, which is called
Waed, itās published by the Lion Cubs and Flowers, a childrenās movement within the Fatah party, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority-ā
Itamar Marcus: āItās not āwithin.ā This is the childrenās movement, the childrenās youth movement of the Fatah party. Itās run by senior people within Fatah. Itās not a small fringe thing. These magazines are given out in the school system. We have pictures of principals having big events where they hand out this magazine. Itās not fringe, this is mainstream Palestinian Authority and their ruling party, which of course is Fatah.ā
Interviewer: āCan you give us an example?ā
Itamar Marcus: āWhat theyāll teach for example is that āOur people are a 5,000-year-old Palestinian peopleā ā of course itās a lie, there never were a Palestinian people until very recently ā but they say āWe have a 5,000-year-old Palestinian people, and we were invaded by the Pharaohs, by the Hyksos, by the Persians, by the Romans, by the Greeks, and by the Hebrews.ā āWe defeated all of those occupiers, and just as we defeated those occupiers, we will defeat the current Zionist occupier and he will leave too.ā What they say is: In the end all of the Jews will leave āPalestine.ā Thatās the message, that all the Jews will leave āPalestine.ā So thereās no hesitation here, thereās no trying to pretend. They tell it like they really believe, like their ideology is. Thatās why I say it in a sense proves that the Oslo Accords were a fraud from the beginning. You canāt tell the international community āWe accept Israelā while youāre teaching a whole generation of Palestinian children that āIsrael has no right to exist, we have the right to use armed struggle,ā - meaning kill even civilians - āin order to achieve our goal, and eventually we will destroy them, and they will not exist.ā Thatās the [PA/Fatah] message, and like I said, the Oslo [Accords] were a fraud. I believe more what they tell their children than I believe what theyāre telling the president of the United States, or the prime minister of Israel, or the prime minister of Norway. Because the international community has not known about this magazine, it is a pristine example of their ideology. They didnāt hide anything, because they didnāt know people were looking. The schoolbooks they try to fix and make them look better because they know the worldās looking. Their media on TV, as bad as it is, they tryā¦ Here they thought nobody was looking. Anyway, we found it, PMW found it, Palestinian Media Watch, and now the world is going to know about it.ā
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Norwegian news agency Verdinytt interviewer: āMr. Itamar Marcus, you are director of Palestinian Media Watch, and today you are releasing a new report that you say tells us that the Oslo Accords were a failure.ā PMW Director Itamar Marcus: āIām not saying that the Oslo Accords were a failure...
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First, an English-language Jan. 2 subheading and tweet had wrongly referred to Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel, using the common journalistic practice of referring to a nationās capital city as shorthand for the countryās government. The inaccurate wording in both was āTel Aviv has not yet commented on the incident.ā
Following CAMERAās contact with Deutsche Welle, along with many on Twitter calling out the media outlet for the error, editors commendably changed the subheadline to refer to Jerusalem as opposed to Tel Aviv. In addition, the German news agency commendably tweeted: āAs many of you rightly pointed out in the comments, Tel Aviv is pretty unlikely to comment on the incident as it is not the capital city of Israel.ā
There is no archeological dispute about the fact that the Jewish temples were located on the Temple Mount. As The New York Times was compelled to acknowledge in a 2015 correction:
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