PA TV Resumes Encouraging Children to Become Martyrs

After a three-year hiatus, official PA television - which is under the authority of Mahmoud Abbas - has begun rebroadcasting a video shown hundreds of times between 2000 and 2004 depicting the child Muhammad al-Dura, who was killed in a crossfire, beckoning child viewers to "follow me" to heaven.

This is disappointing, given that Abbas told author Elie Wiesel just two weeks ago in Petra that he would work to stamp out "instigation" in school curricula as well as in the media and literature.

Yet through PA TV the Palestinian cult of martyrdom is being perpetuated rather than dismantled.