Song demanding violence and Jihad on Palestinian TV cultural show

"Palestinian" Islamic TV broadcasts song calling for Jihad against Israel:
"Draw your sword, let it not return"

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

Official Palestinian Authority television has broadcast a song calling for Jihad and violence against Israel. The PA TV program on culture included an interview with singer Amar Hasan, and the playing of his song: "The oppressors [Israelis] have gone too far. Therefore Jihad is our right... draw your sword." The words call for violence against Israel in the name of both Arab pride and Islam.

The song was written in the 1940s, and became popular after Israel's independence in 1948. The words calling for violence were included in many violence and terror-promotion clips that were broadcast on PA TV during the terror war (2000 - 2005).

PA TV is controlled by the office of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.