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Pompeo says U.S. is ‘working to get every nation to recognize Israel,’ hints Sudan could be next
During Wednesday’s State Department press briefing, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo teased that Sudan could be the next country to sign a deal to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel. Pompeo also revealed that the U.S. is moving to lift the state sponsorship of terror designation still imposed against Sudan.
The Trump administration recently brokered similar deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Israel, dubbed “The Abraham Accords.” The two gulf countries signed deals with Israel at the White House last month, signaling a “new era of Middle East Peace.” A delegation from Sudan was reportedly in attendance at the signing ceremony.
“I don’t know the precise timing, but we have begun the process to lift the designation of state sponsorship of terror,” Pompeo said. “It’s the right thing to do. There’s been a lot of work done on this over the course of the first three years of the administration. We believe there’s a firm legal basis for doing that and we think that there will be enormous bipartisan consensus that that’s the right thing to do.”
Pompeo visited the Sudanese capital of Khartoum in August, where he flew on the first-ever direct flight from Israel to Sudan. Khartoum recognizing Israel would be historic, mainly because it was the site of the infamous Khartoum resolution, where the Arab states signed an anti-normalization deal and declared that they wouldn’t negotiate, recognize, or make peace with Israel.
“We also are continuing to work to get every nation to recognize Israel, the rightful Jewish homeland and to acknowledge their basic, fundamental right to exist as a country,” Pompeo told reporters Wednesday. “That certainly includes Sudan and we are working diligently with them to make the case for why that’s in the Sudanese government’s best interest to make that sovereign decision. We hope that they’ll do that, we hope that they’ll do that quickly. We hope every country will do that quickly.”
Muhammad Aliwat, a 13-year old Palestinian boy from the eastern Jerusalem village of Silwan, recently opened fire on an IDF soldier and his father in Jerusalem, before being neutralized by the soldier. He had written a note to his mother stating “God, victory, or martyrdom.” His school was found to use textbooks that contained vicious propaganda inciting violence against Jews and Israel, including in math and science textbooks. An Arabic textbook used in his school had graphic descriptions and images of Palestinians “cut[ting] the throats of enemy soldiers” and “put[ting] on explosive belts.”
Unfortunately, the Palestinian Authority (PA) brainwashes its children to support terrorism. The watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch compiled several recent examples of such indoctrination. Such propaganda undermines any prospect for peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
Incitement to Violence
PA-controlled media incites Palestinian children to commit violence against Israelis. PA TV broadcasted a song performed by a girl in honor of her terrorist father who was in prison: “Daddy gave me a present, a machine gun and a rifle. When I am big, I will join the Liberation Army. The Liberation Army taught us how to defend our homeland. We will achieve victory over America and Israel.” PA TV has also repeatedly shown children singing a poem in school that calls them “[t]o war that will smash the oppression and set the Zionist’s soul on fire.”
On the PA Ministry of Education’s Facebook page, students supported a terrorist that murdered an Israeli soldier by calling the terrorist a “role model” and a “shining star.” The PA Ministry of Education also led a campaign where 40,000 Palestinian children wrote letters to that terrorist in support of him. One of the PA’s schools included in a physics test a question that a student needed to calculate to determine how far a famous terrorist travelled to commit murder.
A Cult of Martyrdom
Palestinian media also incites Palestinian children to give their own lives for martyrdom for the sake of Palestinian nationalism. A narrator on PA TV called children “a sacrifice for Jerusalem and the [Palestinian] cause.” A Palestinian poet commented on PA TV that children are “self-sacrificing fighters.” PA TV celebrated the funeral of a 14-year-old terrorist, added a song in the procession’s coverage that stated “the angels await me, [as do] Martyrdom and redemption.” Regarding that same terrorist, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) posted on its Telegram page that its secretary-general commended the terrorist as a “member and child martyr” and a “source of pride.”
Enabled by Family Members
The Palestinian media’s brainwashing of young Palestinians to commit terror is often facilitated by the family of the terrorists. When speaking of their son, a 19-year-old terrorist that was killed by Israeli forces, his father said that “[h]e never aspired…to prepare himself for the future. He aspired to Martyrdom.” A grandfather of an 18-year-old terrorist that was killed by Israeli security when attempting to infiltrate an Israeli town, stated that “[w]hen a person dies as a Martyr this act is a heroic act.” On PA TV, a mother praised her 16-year-old terrorist son who was killed by the IDF by stating “[m]y son wanted to be a Martyr his whole life and he achieved it, Allah be praised.” The father of a 17-year-old terrorist that was killed by the IDF stated to PA TV that his son “…was among the young people who aspire to liberate Palestine” and that he was not “peace-loving.” Various other immediate family members have gone on the record to Palestinian media to express their support for the martyrdom of their family members. The mother of a terrorist who began terror when he was 11 years old admitted that the Palestinian Authority brainwashed her son, stating following his death from cancer that “To the Fatah Movement I say: You took Nasser from me when he was a child.”
Palestinian media continues to incite violence against Jews and Israelis. Such incitement raises serious questions about the viability of any peace prospects between the Palestinians and Israel. True peace is possible only with the total eradication of this indoctrination.
Follow Steve Postal on Twitter @HebraicMosaic
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