“The racist settler colonialist occupiers have proven their extraordinary capabilities to carry out quality suicide bombing attacks from afar, in other words, without explosives or explosive belts. This is because they are using the Coronavirus as the most modern biological weapon…”
Ibrahim Melhem’s photo ought to be in the dictionary next to the word “projection.”
“Israel prefers profits to saving Israeli lives from Coronavirus – says PA Government spokesman,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, April 5, 2020:
The Palestinian Authority is continuing to tell its people about a nefarious Israeli plot to infect Palestinians with the Coronavirus, which was first exposed by Palestinian Media Watch last week. The libel is being disseminated even by the PA leadership.
PA Government Spokesman Ibrahim Melhem embellished the libel with classic Antisemitism, stating that Israel prefers profits to saving Israeli lives from Coronavirus, and what matters to Israel and Israeli PM Netanyahu is to keep up the production and financial life because it is all about money:
Official PA Government Spokesman Ibrahim Melhem: “Why is the number of infected [with Coronavirus] high among the Israelis? Because they prioritize money. They don’t want to stop the wheels of production, and so they are sacrificing the infected among their people in order to make more money. The heads of the cartels and the wealthy, and with them [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu, do not want to paralyze the financial life because they are doing the math: Money.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, March 29, 2020]
Melhem reiterated that Israelis are spitting at Palestinians and touch their ATMs to infect them with the Coronavirus:
Official PA Government Spokesman Ibrahim Melhem: “The Israeli settlement racism is expressed in the behavior of the settlers, who contaminate the ATM machines and spit at the [Palestinian] citizens and their cars in order to spread the epidemic… The settlers are natural and exclusive agents for the Coronavirus epidemic. They spread it through their touch and their racist and barbaric behavior that they are exhibiting towards the [Palestinian] citizens.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, March 29, 2020]
An op-ed in the official PA daily accused Israel of carrying out “suicide attacks” against Palestinians with “hidden bombs” by sending Corona infected Palestinian laborers back to the PA to spread the disease:
Headline: “Israeli suicide attacks with hidden bombs”
“The racist settler colonialist occupiers have proven their extraordinary capabilities to carry out quality suicide bombing attacks from afar, in other words, without explosives or explosive belts. This is because they are using the Coronavirus as the most modern biological weapon…
It is enough for them that the disease transfer to a Palestinian laborer or citizen who passes between the cities and villages in historical and natural Palestine (i.e., Israel) in order for this Palestinian to become their mobile suicide bomb, whose direct effects are greater than any weapon, even a nuclear bomb.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 2, 2020]…