Fatah to children: Water the soil "with blood"
Fatah on Facebook:
Fatah actively teaches children that death is needed for what it calls the "revolution." It wrote on its Facebook "Main Page": "There is a seed in the soil; if you water it with blood, it will sprout a revolution." The statement was accompanied by a photo of a man in military uniform holding a rifle and standing next to the Palestinian flag, overlooking a large gathering:
"Teach your children to love the soil.
Teach them that we live in misery.
Teach them that there is a seed in the soil;
if you water it with blood,
it will sprout a revolution."
"My homeland taught me that it is the blood of Martyrs (Shahids)
that draws the borders of the homeland."
The advisory board of the magazine includes PA Deputy Minister of Education Jihad Zakarneh and the Head of the Media Department of the PA Ministry of Education, Abd Al-Hakim Abu Jamous.
PMW has documented that the PA and Fatah have expressed the ideal of children dying for Palestine in the past. At a celebration attended by PA and Fatah officials in 2012, young children sang the following:
At a Fatah celebration in Lebanon that same year, this message was shown as part of a slideshow:
Click to see more examples of PA and Fatah promotion of dying for Allah and Palestine.
"Teach your children... there is a seed in the soil
if you water it with blood,
it will sprout a revolution"
if you water it with blood,
it will sprout a revolution"
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Fatah actively teaches children that death is needed for what it calls the "revolution." It wrote on its Facebook "Main Page": "There is a seed in the soil; if you water it with blood, it will sprout a revolution." The statement was accompanied by a photo of a man in military uniform holding a rifle and standing next to the Palestinian flag, overlooking a large gathering:
"Teach your children to love the soil.Teach them that we live in misery.
Teach them that there is a seed in the soil;
if you water it with blood,
it will sprout a revolution."
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page,"
Jan. 6, 2014, accessed Feb. 5, 2014]
Fatah, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has posted similar statements in the past, promoting murder and Martyrdom: Jan. 6, 2014, accessed Feb. 5, 2014]
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page,"
Aug. 11, 2013, accessed Feb. 5, 2014]
Aug. 11, 2013, accessed Feb. 5, 2014]
"My homeland taught me that it is the blood of Martyrs (Shahids)
that draws the borders of the homeland."
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page," Aug. 26, 2013, accessed Feb. 5, 2014]
Recently, Palestinian Media Watch exposed that the PA-associated educational youth magazine Zayzafuna published a poem glorifying Martyrdom death for Allah (Shahada) in three different issues of the magazine. Part of the poem spoke of watering "the tree of the homeland with your free blood":
"If you have watered the tree of the homeland
with your free blood, with love,
with your free blood, with love,
and have offered the remnants of your bodily parts
as a bridge for those who are yet to come
- Then you're a Palestinian!"
as a bridge for those who are yet to come
- Then you're a Palestinian!"
[Zayzafuna, September 2013, accessed Feb. 2, 2014]
The advisory board of the magazine includes PA Deputy Minister of Education Jihad Zakarneh and the Head of the Media Department of the PA Ministry of Education, Abd Al-Hakim Abu Jamous.
PMW has documented that the PA and Fatah have expressed the ideal of children dying for Palestine in the past. At a celebration attended by PA and Fatah officials in 2012, young children sang the following:
"My pure land,
I shall saturate you with my blood...
redeem you with my life."
I shall saturate you with my blood...
redeem you with my life."
[Official PA TV, Jan. 5, 2012]
At a Fatah celebration in Lebanon that same year, this message was shown as part of a slideshow:
"Our children... were created to be fertilizer
for the land of Palestine and to saturate our pure land with their blood."
for the land of Palestine and to saturate our pure land with their blood."
[Official PA TV, Jan. 24, 2012]
Click to see more examples of PA and Fatah promotion of dying for Allah and Palestine.