Currently, there are a number of essential questions not being asked of nations that will recognize a planned Palestinian State.

Journalists should pose these questions to the foreign ministers of the UK, France, Norway, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

• Will the planned Palestinian state abolish the Palestinian Charter, which mandates the destruction of Israel?
• Will the planned Palestinian state revoke the law that guarantees salaries to anyone who murders a Jew?
• Will the planned Palestinian state remove texts that glorify those who murder kill Jews?
• Will the planned Palestinian state eliminate educational materials that glorify the murder of Jews?
• In the maps of the planned Palestinian state, will the State of Israel appear alongside it?
• Will the planned Palestinian state cancel the slogan of the “Right of Return through armed struggle”?
• Will the planned Palestinian state indeed abide by the Palestine State Constitution based on Koranic Sharia Law?

CONTEXT

In 2003, the Vatican Ambassador to the Holy Land, Archbishop Msgr. Pietro Sambi, known as the Papal Nuncio, warned a US Congressional delegation that the new Palestinian State constitution, funded by USAID, provided no juridical status whatsoever for any religion other than Islam in the emerging Palestinian Arab entity.

I covered that briefing at the time for the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon and for FrontPage Magazine.

At that briefing, the Papal Nuncio expressed his concern to visiting US lawmakers that the PA had adopted Sharia Islamic law, based on the model of the Sharia from Koranic edicts as practiced in Iran or in Saudi Arabia.

Article (5) of the official Palestinian State Constitution reads as follows: Arabic and Islam are the official Palestinian language and religion. Christianity and all other monotheistic religions shall be equally revered and respected.

In other words, as Archbishop Sambi noted, other religions such as Christianity, not to mention Judaism, were denied any juridical status under the Palestinian State Constitution.

The status of Islam as the official religion of any future Palestinian Arab entity is also expressed in Article (7) of the official Palestinian State Constitution, which states that:

The principles of Islamic Sharia are a major source for legislation. Civil and religious matters of the followers of monotheistic religions shall be organized in accordance with their religious teachings and denominations within the framework of law, while preserving the unity and independence of the Palestinian people.

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Islamic nations which have adopted the Sharia law have mandated the absolute supremacy of Muslims over non-Muslims as matter of law.

What worried the Archbishop was that Christian churches and all Christian schools would be placed under the arbitrary authority of Islamic Fundamental Law, which allows nothing more than tolerance of other religions, at best.

USAID financed the creation of the PA State Constitution, which meant the imposition of the Islamic Law throughout the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.

A research study released by the Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs entitled, The Beleagured Christians, noted that in Egypt, Muslim – but not Christian – schools receive state funding. “It is nearly impossible to restore or build new churches. … Christians are frequently ostracized or insulted in public, and laws prohibit Muslim conversions to Christianity.”

In other words, USAID fostered an Islamic totalitarian state of Palestine, devoid of religious freedom and human rights.

Yet that is the Palestinian State that nations of the world clamor to recognize.

The Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA), initially established by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), acts as the official Palestinian state-run news service.

WAFA has persistently fostered a media system that encourages and legitimizes violence and incitement against Israel. To illustrate the actions of WAFA, the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) examined every publication of WAFA classified as “Latest news” on its English-language website during July 2025.

Each item was examined for language, content, and context. The study found that 99.9% of WAFA’s English-language coverage related to Israel was explicitly negative, spreading false and dangerous narratives. Of the 622 articles published that month, only 12 were neutral, and the majority of these did not concern Israel, instead focusing on weather conditions. None of these 12 non-Israel-related articles covered Palestinian achievements, industry, successes, coexistence efforts, or peace initiatives.

WAFA’s incessant campaign of demonization, dehumanization, and delegitimization of Israel exposes the sobering reality, not merely of bias, but of how mass media has been weaponized to poison public sentiment regarding Israel. By distorting facts and excluding context from their content, WAFA entrenches a baseless narrative rooted in falsehood. The recurring use of inflammatory words, such as “genocide,” “massacre,” and “war crimes,” is intentional and strategic incitement.

As psychologist Albert Bandura explains in his article Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication (2001),¹ “repeated exposure to messages that demonize or dehumanize a particular individual, type of individual, group or thing, can lead to a moral disengagement in which violence becomes legitimate.”¹ He adds that audience’s responses are intensified by content that “morally justifies injurious conduct, blames and dehumanizes victims, displaces or diffuses personal responsibility, and sanitizes destructive consequences”.¹ WAFA’s content demonstrates this framework, functioning as a vessel to desecrate Israel’s international moral standing by absolving Hamas of any blame for the conditions in Gaza.

This media strategy goes deeper than an effort to sway public opinion gently; it aims to dominate the narrative by flooding the media with nonstop false information disguised as truth. In Christopher Till’s “Propaganda through ‘reflexive control’ and the mediated construction of reality,”² he explains, “the goal is not necessarily to convince, but to dominate the information space and drown out competing narratives.” The result of this type of content is a violent culture in which society’s grasp of reality is warped by propaganda to the extent that “actions that might otherwise be unthinkable become normalized.”

The Incitement Architecture

WAFA’s headlines like “Palestinian girl martyred by Israeli army gunfire in northern Gaza” (July 9, 2025) and “Israel continues genocide, forcibly displaces Gazans” (July 10, 2025) rely on the continual use of martyrdom ideology, twisted moral framing, and the rejection of any military context. In place of a story balanced with context and perspective, these articles are presented entirely around emotionally provocative storylines, framing Israel as the vicious murderer of children.

These strategies emulate the storytelling techniques used by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and even international organizations like UNRWA. Much like UNRWA drastically overstates refugee numbers and inserts anti-Israel narratives into school textbooks, WAFA functions as a direct mouthpiece for the PA’s smear campaign, supplying an already radicalized society with a daily dose of anti-Israel content directed not only at the Palestinian society but also at international audiences.

WAFA’s international editions in English and French are especially concerning. They are not intended for domestic Palestinian viewing, but for the Western world, specifically lawmakers, journalists, and human-rights activists who are already positioned to view Israel through the lens of “settler-colonialism,” “apartheid,” and “genocide,” agenda-driven buzzwords used in the media.

Manufacturing the Genocide Narrative

Each week, WAFA publishes an article with an updated “death toll,” with no reliable evidence for their statistics. Published by WAFA on July 24, 2025, the headline, “Gaza death toll surges to 58,895 amid ongoing Israeli genocide,” not only references unconfirmed death tolls from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, but also repeats the blood libel of “Israeli genocide,” as though it were a universally accepted fact. They do not include an attribution to this claim, sources, or a balanced counter-argument. There is no mention of the October 7, 2023, massacre, nor the thousands of rockets fired at Israeli civilians since that day. Rather, the reader is encouraged to conclude that Israel is arbitrarily murdering tens of thousands of civilians in a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing.

The omission of nuance is not an editorial error; rather, it is deliberate. This communication style intends to oversimplify a war against a genocidal terror force into a storyline of oppressive aggressor versus powerless victim. While Israel responds to a deadly massacre with military operations against terror infrastructure, WAFA’s reports erase the existence of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and their embedded rocket launchers, tunnels, and command centers within civilian areas.

What WAFA Doesn’t Say

Although WAFA operates as an official Palestinian news agency, they do not platform any coverage that reflects the full spectrum of Palestinian society. Nowhere on its site is there reporting on Palestinian innovation, cultural achievements, or peace efforts. There is no discussion of Palestinian entrepreneurs, civil society efforts, or any initiative aimed at coexistence with Israel. WAFA never criticizes the PA, and never mentions the rampant corruption of the Palestinian leadership. WAFA’s negligence of these stories is not by chance. The refusal to feature articles about Palestinian success or aspirations for peace reflects WAFA’s goal to ensure that its readers are only exposed to an uninterrupted flow of injustice, victimhood, and rage.

July 2025 as a Microcosm of PA Messaging

The current study focused on July 2025, but an extended analysis of Palestinian leadership messaging through WAFA tells the same story: constant brainwashing.

While explicit calls for violence are rarely found on WAFA, the messaging that it does convey – dehumanization of Jews, delegitimization of Israel, and Palestinian victimhood – creates an unyielding environment of hatred and incitement.

In practice, WAFA’s constant brainwashing prepares the ground for direct calls for terror and violence. While a call for violence in a regularly law-abiding society is mostly ignored and vilified, a call for violence and terror against a specific group of people that is predicated on a constant diet of hatred of that people and their country, as Till explained, normalizes “actions that might otherwise be unthinkable.”

The main goal of the Palestinian leadership through WAFA is to present constant indoctrination, laying the groundwork for direct calls for violence.

While detractors may claim that WAFA’s influence over the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people is limited, the point misses the main focus of the study conducted by the JCFA, which did not seek to quantify WAFA’s influence over the Palestinian people or international audiences. Instead, the goal of the study was to examine positive messaging by the PA and its leadership. And the conclusion is crystal clear: In 99% of its publications, the PA decided to present a message of demonization, delegitimization, and the dehumanization of Israelis and Jews, alongside a message of perpetual victimization, absent of any, let alone substantial and necessary, context.

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Notes

Duplicitous deception is usually carried out in secret, undercover and with the intention of evading detection.

In direct contrast, the current campaign of duplicity and vilification against Israel is being stage-managed in a cynically transparent manner. Its aims and intentions are crystal clear except to those who are genetically programmed to believe every political pronouncement is true.

The most practised practitioners of peddling deceptive disinformation are, of course, politicians who have refined their ability to deceive and confuse to the highest possible level.

The leaders of the UK, France and Canada, together with other countries, have at least made their intentions perfectly clear. They declared their intention to recognise a fictitious “Palestine” regardless of any impediment that may loom. Their declarations about Hamas and a democratic state are merely recitations of rhetoric that they do not really believe.

They are totally transparent in their hypocrisy.

On the other hand, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia are perfect examples of how duplicity and deception can be employed to try to hide real intentions.

There has never been any secret about Albanese and Wong’s aim of rewarding Islamic terror. It has been part and parcel of their agenda from day one. It is only the timing that was in doubt.

I predicted right after the results of the Australian elections were announced that, given the massive majority gained by the Labour Party, it would now be full speed ahead with implementing a long-awaited anti-Israel policy.

So it has transpired with a zealousness that can only be described as messianic and mind-boggling.

The hymns of praise arising from the expected quarters have resulted in demonstrations of hate and incitement never before witnessed in Australia’s history.

Even worse has been the blatant bluster and bluff emanating from the PM and Foreign Minister.

On the one hand, they made it plain that recognising “Palestine” was a matter of when, not if.

On the other hand ,they dodged, weaved and evaded every time they were challenged to detail exactly what criteria needed to be fulfilled in order for this seal of approval to be granted.

As painful as extracting teeth, it gradually became evident that recognising Palestine would require a series of demands to be met.

These included the unconditional release of all hostages, the defeat of Hamas, removing Hamas from any governance and democratic reforms of a Palestinian Authority that has not held any sort of free and fair elections in 20 years. In addition, vague noises about stopping pay for slay grants to terrorists and their families were made. Finally, a declaration that this new fake state would embrace tolerance, eliminate hate education and accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish People would be expected.

Anyone with a brain in their head could see that these expectations were merely camouflage and designed to confuse and befuddle those naïve enough to believe such tripe.

At its basic level, it was clear that these supposed conditions for statehood were never going to be achieved. The only reason that the Australian Government kept repeating this mantra of lies was to placate critics and sow confusion.

It has now exploded into full view and exposed the fraud it was always going to be.

Following a love embrace between Abbas and Albanese, the full extent of this confidence trick is now clearly visible.

Like Neville Chamberlain before him, Albanese has fallen for the promises and guarantees of a serial fraudster. Worthless declarations of pledges that have no chance of ever being implemented have been accepted at face value. It has taken only one conversation with Abbas for Albanese to become convinced that previous conditional requirements no longer apply and can conveniently be swept under the carpet.

In a shameless somersault, the Australian Government has now determined that recognition of “Palestine” can proceed even if Hamas remains intact and none of the other demands are implemented.

This exposes the whole exercise as one of the biggest confidence tricks of the century. It reveals the true face of those who tried to conceal their real intentions from public scrutiny.

It also casts into serious doubt the sincerity and desire of the Australian Government to confront Jew hate in all its manifest evil.

Communal spokespersons from various groups have not helped.

While deploring the collapse of any moral backbone and bewailing the mistimed move, their fervent embrace of an eventual “Palestine” is completely at odds with reality. It gives legitimacy to the idea of statehood, which has been continually rejected by all Arab leaders ever since 1947.

Foreign Minister Wong outrageously claimed that Australia was the first country in 1947 to vote at the UN in favour of a Palestinian nation. This is a blatant distortion of historical facts. The plan voted on concerned the partition of British Mandated Palestine into a Jewish and ARAB state. The fake Palestinians that were invented after 1967 did not exist at the time. Wong conveniently and no doubt deliberately omitted to mention that all Arab representatives vehemently rejected the idea of an Arab state. They preferred the complete annihilation of Jewish sovereignty and proceeded to implement their plan as soon as Israel’s declaration of independence was proclaimed.

From that time onwards until the Arafat era, successive attempts at eliminating Israel and its citizens occurred. It was only after the Soviets convinced the PLO and other such groups that terrorism and diplomatic warfare were better options that the myth of Palestinian indigenous claims surfaced. Following the 1967 debacle, revisionist historical distortions became “holy writ”, and the brainwashing of the international community commenced.

If Penny Wong and Anthony Albanese were honest, they would have acknowledged these facts. Unfortunately, like all those who have succumbed to mass amnesia and moral degeneracy, truth is buried. Instead, an Orwellian commitment to “big brother” speak is the order of the day.

Given these realities, it is pitiful that communal representatives merely articulate mealy-mouthed criticism while at the same time stating their ultimate approval for the eventual creation of a terror entity in the heart of the Jewish homeland. Ignoring the legal status of the San Remo Agreement and its guarantees of Jewish settlement, while at the same time falling for the myth of “illegally occupied Palestinian territories”, gives a pass to revisionist history.

If anyone believes that supporting the establishment of “Palestine” will make Jew haters disappear, they are in for a huge disappointment. If anything, this mass appeasement of terror will galvanise and energise the mobs to further bouts of frenzy. The call “from the river to the sea” has become the national anthem of the Greens, the university students and graduates, academic elites, extreme left and legions of others. The very notion of resurrected Jewish sovereignty is anathema, which is why they will never rest until Israel and Jews are cleansed from the land.

These facts are so transparent.

Those ideologically warped, genetically programmed and politically poisoned will take the democracies’ surrender to jihadist terror as a green light to carry on until another final solution is implemented.

The current feeble responses to Judeophobia in Australia are an omen for future failures.

Mass marches across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, acts of vandalism and arson, combined with electoral demographics, all point to a fraught future.

Where Australia leads, New Zealand is sure to follow.

Albanese has visited NZ and cuddled up to its Prime Minister, who dutifully affirms that recognising “Palestine” is only a matter of when, not if. The fact that a hard-left political leader can convince a so-called conservative opposite number to fall into line and reward terror is not unexpected.

Political practicalities and transparent duplicity know no borders.

With apologies to the author of “Mary had a little lamb”, I offer my own poetic observations on this sordid situation.

Albanese has a little lamb

His face and head do glow

Everywhere that Albanese does stray

Luxon is sure to go

He follows him like a trusting sheep

Regurgitating dubious claims for all to hear

The lies and fables would make you weep

When the terror groups issue a resounding cheer

What makes the mobs love Albanese so

Frustrated democrats do cry

Why, Albanese, Wong and CO

Really love to appease, is the reply

The Israeli left-wing newspaper, Haaretz, continues to dedicate its pages to its claims of “mass starvation” in the Gaza Strip. Recently, a so-called “famine researcher” named Alex de Waal was recruited to bolster the claim. And indeed, with a somber expression and deep moral anguish, he was compelled to accuse Israel of the grave crime of mass starvation of more than two million Gazans.

Such a serious accusation, coming from an impartial and independent “expert,” indeed sounds like a real problem for Israel. However, even a quick and superficial examination of de Waal’s history of claims casts a heavy shadow over the credibility of his accusation, as he is a known Israel-hater and a serial accuser of Israel for “starving Gaza” throughout the war.

As early as Jan. 2024, just two months after the beginning of the IDF’s operation in the Gaza Strip, de Waal published his first warning about Israel’s horrific crime of starvation. He reiterated his warning in Feb. 2024. And repeated it in early March 2024.

It should be noted that in early March, a COGAT report was published, proving that the amount of food entering Gaza was 80% higher than the amount entering before the war, thus refuting de Waal’s claim. De Waal was not impressed and in April, 2024, he provided another warning. And another in June 2024.

During the same month, his claims were refuted by the Famine Review Committee (FRC), whose experts concluded that “the available evidence does not indicate that Famine is currently occurring.”

A month later, in July 2024, de Waal’s claims of famine in Gaza were debunked again, this time by a group of Israeli researchers.

De Waal decided to take a short time off, but in Jan. 2025 he reiterated the starvation accusation, this time in Haaretz. A month later, in Feb. 2025, de Waal published another report. And another in May 2025. And then came the latest warning in July 2025.

Was Gaza truly suffering from Israeli-caused starvation throughout the war? Clearly not. Numerous reports, including those from the United Nations itself, have refuted this allegation. So, what could be the reason for de Waal’s obsession with Israel? Could it be that he is simply an Israel hater?

A hint of his fundamentally hostile stance toward Israel was given by de Waal in June 2020, three years before the war. At that time, in an entirely different context regarding Israel’s activities in Africa, he accused Israel of apartheid, racism against Ethiopian immigrants, criminally blocking borders against millions of African infiltrators, cynically leveraging the Israeli lobby in Washington to support negative forces in Africa and even backing terrorism in Africa.

In other words, even without connection to the false claim of Israel “starving” the residents of the Gaza Strip, de Waal is an antisemitic, Israel hater. The question of why Haaretz specifically relies on him to substantiate its false accusation of Israel causing starvation leads us to the next issue: the images of the emaciated child, Muhammad al-Matouq.

In late July, a prominent front-page image in both Haaretz and The New York Times featured the child in his mother’s arms, serving as a stark visual symbol for the starvation claim. (The two newspapers have a distribution partnership in Israel.) Before him, an emaciated Gazan boy named Osama al-Rakab had been presented as a poster child for alleged famine in both international mainstream media and on social media networks.

It soon became clear the extent of Hamas’s infinite and ugly cynicism. Both sickly children—whose families admitted they suffer from genetic diseases, cerebral palsy, oxygen deficiency and cystic fibrosis, with their extreme thinness being a symptom of their hidden underlying conditions and who, just a month earlier, had been transferred by Israel for medical treatment in Italy—were unwillingly turned into symbols of Hamas’s false starvation campaign.

The conclusion is clear: the scarcity of authentic evidence for Israel’s alleged deliberate “starvation” of the residents of the Gaza Strip forces Haaretz to rely on dubious sources. For this reason, Haaretz takes care to present what it describes as Israel’s “war crimes” as “reports” received from “sources” and “authorities” in Gaza, meaning that they originated from Hamas terrorists and the Hamas authorities.

If there truly was “starvation,” the newspaper would have interviewed impartial experts and published images of healthy children suffering from malnutrition due to the IDF’s actions, rather than an Israel hater who has been claiming starvation for 20 consecutive months and emaciated children suffering from underlying medical conditions.

Haaretz is waging a campaign against Israel. There isn’t even a single ounce of real journalism in this propaganda campaign, nor are there any red lines.