JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has managed to turn congratulating pregnant women into an issue of supporting terrorism. The PA’s official television and radio stations have broadcast a song numerous times expressing the wish to expectant mothers that their child will grow up to be “a proud martyr for Palestine.”
The song, which was translated by Israeli monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch, also lauds being sentenced to prison and wielding weapons in the name of “Palestine,” as well as promising the return of Jerusalem, which has been “stolen.”
The full lyrics of the song are as follows:
Our Martyrs are convoys and our bones are mountainsWe don’t surrender to the lowlyWe aren’t deterred by imprisonmentPalestine is etched on the heart of the fetusA proud Martyr in his mother’s wombAnd the Arab state will remain ours — Arab, Arab Palestine…We [hold] the rifles to our chests and our eyes are raised to youOur homes are trenches and our souls are the sacrifice for youO Jerusalem, you will not remain stolen
The notion of “fetus to martyr” has been used before by the Palestinian leadership. Palestinian terrorist Yasser Hamdouni, who murdered Israeli citizen Avner Maimon in 2009, collapsed while exercising in an Israeli prison in 2016 and later died, prompting PA District Governor of Ramallah Laila Ghannam to comfort his mother on her Facebook page. READ MORE
