Thursday, October 07, 2010  The Palestinian Authority Ministry
of Hate  The Palestinian Authority has a "Ministry of
Information." Its web page is most informative - but not in the
way that it intends.  In English, it provides pretty straight
news, both about what the PA is doing (another $40 million from
the World Bank)  and some things that it thinks the world should
know Israelis are doing in the West Bank. For example, news
about new buildings being built in a Jewish town in the Jordan
Valley, or reporting that Jews went to the Temple Mount at the
end of the Sukkot holiday. Quite partisan but not inflammatory;
all in all very appropriate news for such a ministry.  In
Arabic, however, the facade of acting like a "peace partner" is
ripped right off.  Here we see that government officials are
holding press conferences sponsored by this same ministry saying
as a fact that Israel has a "a planned strategy to uproot the
Palestinian people from their land."  Another story talks about
a proposal, not even close t