PA broadcasts continue to call for martyrdom
June 4, 2001

Yesterday morning, Palestinian television (PATV) broadcast this song, with no particular visual background:

"I arise to your call, my mother...
Who caused tears to be shed from your eyes?
You shall not be humiliated, my mother..
Slow, slow O Zion - how is my mother's tear humiliated!
Even if all the world joins against me, you have an open account with me.
Even if you are the tyrant, and the whole world remains silent, and you have decided that I must die, my answer is the rock.
I swear I shall not forget, how with your feet you trampled Al-Aqsa!
I shall show you yet what Al-Aqsa means! The injustice has gone beyond all limits!
The atonement for this shall be the cannon!
If there shall be "a talk" between the boy and the man, I will always oppose this disgrace!
O my people, this is my pledge, this atonement shall my response."

Also broadcast yesterday morning on Palestinian television was the song "Do Not Be Saddened, My Dear," with no particular visual background. The song was first broadcast last month on PATV as the words for a video clip. In the clip, a boy entrusts his friends with a letter to be given to his family, the lyrics are the letter's content.

Do not be saddened, my dear, and do not cry over my leaving,
O my dear father, for my country, the shahada (martyrdom)
Do not be saddened, my dear, and do not cry over my leaving,
O my dear father, for my country, I shall sacrifice myself!
To the Lord we have promised in Eden that we have embarked on Jihad (holy war)
And that we shall notify my friends!
With determination and desire I long to approach,
How sweet is the shahada (martyrdom) when I embrace you, O my country!
In the Intifada we achieved the sovereignty through the blood of the people.
Victory is my challenge!
My beloved, O my mother, dearest to me most, be glad over my blood and do not cry for me.
Tell my brother, O mother, that for beloved Jerusalem are our souls are sacrificed!
We are not warmongers, but we excel at war.
We want peace and rights, and for Jerusalem there is self-sacrifice.
Our stolen right, There is no other way but that it be, someday, restored.

Source: Palestinian Media Watch