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As Mitt Romney heads to Israel this week, he would do himself and us a real favor were he to take along Deception: Betraying the Peace Process, the book published by the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch. Deception, co-authored by PMW’s Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, is a collection of their regular reports. So Governor Romney can just dip in and out and still be abreast of the plot.These are in-house translations of the everyday fare transmitted to Palestinians and Israeli Arabs by the PA-controlled media — TV, radio, and newspapers. It is an understatement to call these reports scary. After reading them, one might be excused for asking, “What peace process?”

The book is divided into three main categories. First is non-recognition of Israel, which includes denying Israel’s history and erasing it from all maps. Second is incitement of hatred — the demonization of Israel, indeed of all Jews. And the third category is the promotion of violation of Jews and the glorification of terror against Jews. An additional fourth section is devoted to a look at a PA-funded youth magazine, Zayzafuna. Featured among the exhortations for children to keep clean and study hard are poems submitted by the kids themselves. A typical example, this one from a high-school student:

Oh flower of the valleys, oh my Jerusalem

Oh mother of Arabness and of the Arabs,

I belong to you since my birth

And to your soil after my death…

If only I were a sword and a gun to liberate you, oh Palestine.

The authors admit that the book is “sometimes repetitive.” However, “the volume and repetition are part of the PA message itself.” Thus, certain names and themes are repeated over and over until their memories are secure — or as we would say, ad nauseam.

This week, as we petition the Olympics committee for one miserable minute to mark the 40^th anniversary of the Munich massacre, compare the sentiments in the PA daily al-Hayat Al-Jadida in August 2010:

On Wednesday I felt sad to the point of choking, because my friend Amin Al-Hindi, a national leader with a full resumé, returned to Gaza to be buried….Amin Al-Hindi, gentle as a morning breeze, was strong inside and as unyielding as granite rock. Perhaps this quality–the power raging beneath the calm surface–is what turned him into one of the prominent members of Fatah in Germany, and led him in the direction of the difficult tasks which require quiet people of this sort, who don’t like tumult and who make full use of all the wisdom, imagination and planning [ability]that Allah has given them for the purpose of completing their difficult tasks….Everyone knows that Amin Al-Hindi was one of the stars who sparkled at one of the stormiest points on the international level–the operation that was carried out at the Olympics sports stadium in Munich, Germany, in 1972. That was just one of many shining stations.

Al-Hindi was honored at a red-carpet military funeral, with the highest PA leadership from Abbas on down present to lay wreaths and pay homage.

This groveling admiration for the Munich murderers is featured several times in the book. Again, repetition is the tool, and Palestinians’ brains are the clay. And speaking of repetition, on July 17, the weekly bulletin from PMW read:

Fatah summer camp named after female terrorist Mughrabi, who led killing of 37 in bus hijacking.

“Mughrabi”…”Mughrabi.” Hmm. Don’t I know that name? Quick look at Appendix 2 of Deception:

Dalal Mughrabi–commanded the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in 1978, when she led a group of terrorists who hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Parenthetically, this nightmare, known as “The Coastal Road Massacre,” involved some eleven killers, led by Mughrabi, who landed on a beach near Tel Aviv in rubber dinghies. One of the first casualties was the young American photographer Gail Rubin, who was murdered on the beach by Mughrabi herself. Ultimately, a taxi was hijacked and then a bus. Thirty-seven Israeli civilians, twelve of them children, were slaughtered.

PMW sums up a few of the other times the PA has glorified Mughrabi:

Summer camps and tournaments have been named after her, as have teams and groups in camps[.] … Music videos honoring her and her terror attack have been broadcast on official PA TV. PA leaders and institutions often present her as a role model for Palestinians and particularly for Palestinian youth[.]

In 2009, [Mahmoud Abbas] provided funding for a computer center named after her. In 2010, he sponsored a “birthday party” on what would have been Mughrabi’s 50th birthday. Also in 2010, the PA announced its intention to name a square in Ramallah after Mughrabi.

At that point, the international community sat up and took notice. Particularly on pro-Israel websites, the utter fiendishness of this demonic burlesque made waves. But, to no one’s surprise:

Fahta went ahead and named the square after Mughrabi. Abbas’s advisor Sabri Saidam defended their right to name a square after her, saying that, “every one of us has tried in his own way to express his pride in this Shahida [martyr][.]

Coincidentally, just yesterday morning, the eagerly awaited weekly PMW bulletin from beyond has arrived in my e-mail box. This one, not advised for the pregnant or faint of heart, is a humdinger. Save it for Halloween.

Israel is monster that eats Palestinian children, in Palestinian art on PA TV. The painting shows an ogre impaling children on his bayonet and eating them one by one. On the lower right, dead children are piled up to be eaten and two baby ogres are also shown eating children. The three monsters wear skull caps with a Star of David. The scene is taking place in the ogre’s underground lair under cactuses that are growing on the surface. A Star of David is also painted on the lock of the lair.

Head over to the website to see other ghoulish PA cartoons demonizing Israelis and depicting them as animals or of sub-human nature.

Governor Romney, can we persuade you to tuck Deception into your briefcase? Then, when the first Israeli intones the farcical phrase “peace process,” you’ll know how to respond. One suggestion: “Lech La-azazel!”