HILLARY'S RIGHT; OPRAH'S WRONG

Incitement in Palestinian textbooks is tantamount to child abuse, Sen. Hillary Clinton said. Addressing the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference on Tuesday, a day before thousands of delegates were to spend a day lobbying members of Congress, the New York Democrat singled out incitement in her speech. “When it comes to children, whoever those children are, shielding them from hate and violence should be the number one priority of their families and their governments and the entire global community to prevent this hatred from festering,” Clinton said. “Using children as pawns in a political process is tantamount to child abuse, and we must say it has to end now.” Clinton welcomed the removal of a link on a Palestinian Authority Web site to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a notorious anti-Semitic tract, but asked, “What was it doing there in the first place?”

Meanwhile, Oprah Winfrey's popular print magazine - 'O' - has an ongoing feature named 'Rescuing the World's Girls.' O's June 2005 edition focuses on the plight of an 18-year-old Palestinian who was tried, convicted and is currently serving time in an Israeli jail for conspiring to perform a suicide bombing. The author, David France, asks the question: 'What would make a girl take such a radical and grisly step?' France quotes an author and university professor who asserts that:

religion is not the cause [of Palestinian suicide terror]... these are people who define their situation as hopeless. They feel that they have no way to respond against what they see as Israeli military aggression.

Incredibly, the 'O' article completely ignores a main factor behind Islamist terror ― the incitement to violence that spews forth from Palestinian media and mosques like imam Ibrahim Mudayris'. He gave the following sermon on national Palestinian TV on May 13 (posted her last week):

With the establishment of the State of Israel, the entire Muslim nation was lost because Israel is a cancer that spread in the body of the Islamic nation; because the Jews are a virus similar to AIDS, from which the entire world is suffering... The day will come and we shall rule America, Britain, we shall rule the entire world, except the Jews. The Jews will not live under our rule agreeably and permanently, since they have been treacherous in nature throughout history... Listen to your Beloved [Muhammad], who tells you about the most dire end awaiting the Jews. The stones and trees will want Muslims to finish off every Jew.

The Palestinian girl featured in 'O', Yusra Abdu, was likely bombarded by such "religious" messages her entire life.

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