The October 23, 1998 Wye River memorandum requires the Palestinian
Authority (PA) to:
"take all measures necessary in order to prevent acts of
terrorism, crime and hostilities directed against the Israeli side and to prevent
incitement."
Nevertheless, senior PA officials and the official PA media continue to
incite violence against Israel, as the following examples from the past three
weeks illustrate:
"We carried out the longest intifada in history. They [the Israelis] should know
that we can start it again if they try to prevent us from exercising our rights.
The state will be established with Jerusalem as its capital whether they like it or
not. If they don't like it they can drink from the waters of the Dead
Sea. We, the Fatah and the PLO, are ready to fight a new battle of
Karameh every single day if anyone tries to stop us from exercising our rights,
particularly that of proclaiming an independent state."
--- PA Chairman Yasser Arafat in a speech to 3,000 Fatah members in
Ramallah marking 31 years since Israeli forces clashed with Jordanian soldiers
defending the Palestinian terrorist base in Karameh, Jordan
(Agence France Presse, March 19, 1999; Jordan Times, March 20,
1999)
"The battle for Jerusalem is near. It requires determination and it carries a
heavy responsibility for it is the key to war and peace."
--- PA Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Faisal Husseini at a conference of
the Fatah Youth Organization in Al-Bireh
(official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, March 14, 1999)
"Netanyahu continues with his racist policy and his boasting of his imaginary
power, which will be removed just as the dictatorial and colonialist Crusader
power was removed in the past. We think that the Jewish danger threatens the
Palestinian and Arab lands just as the American danger threatens the Arab and
Islamic nation."
--- article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, March 8,
1999
"We are right to believe that the rifle is a means of life and not death."
--- Othman Abu Gharbiya, adviser to Chairman Arafat and head of the
PA's National Guidance Directorate, at a ceremony in Gaza
(official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, March 1, 1999)
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