With Itamar Marcus and Richard Kemp
Securing America with Frank Gaffney
February 22, 2024
With Itamar Marcus and Richard Kemp
ITAMAR MARCUS, Founder and Director of Palestinian Media Watch
Have Palestinian police been trained by Americans?
Has Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership ever condemned terrorism?
What message is the PA giving to the children of Gaza?
Have some citizens in Gaza stopped supporting Hamas?
RICHARD KEMP, Author, Attack on Red
Recent polls of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria regarding a two-state solution
What does Islam say about a two-state solution?
How does Egypt play into Israel's war against Hamas?
Can Hamas' numbers be trusted when it comes to civilian casualties?
Frank Gaffney: [00:00:16] Welcome to Securing America with me, Frank Gaffney. The program that's kind of owners manual for protecting the country we love against all enemies, foreign and domestic, to the glory of God and His kingdom. A country that we also love. Here at Securing America is the State of Israel. We talk about it a lot because, well, frankly, it's on the front line of the war in which we too are engaged, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. I would say it's the war for Western civilization, the Judeo-Christian, uh, elements thereof especially. And a man who is there on the front lines with his countrymen in the state of Israel, I'm very pleased to say, is a friend as well as a very valued contributor to this program. And we have caught up with him after several weeks of chasing him around the world, uh, notably in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, to talk with him about some very important insights that he and his team at Palestinian Media Watch have been producing that is directly relevant to the fight that Israel is in. Yes, but fighting as well. As I say for us, his name is Itamar Marcus. He is the founder and president of Palestinian Palestinian Media Watch. You can find it at, uh, PALWatch.org. Welcome back, Itamar, it's great to have you with us. Thank you for joining us once again.
Itamar Marcus: [00:01:44] Thank you, Frank, always great to talk with you.
Frank Gaffney: [00:01:46] Thank you. Well, listen, I wanted really to speak to you with some urgency because I think a piece that you have done that really exemplifies your work more generally in terms of trying to capture, in their own words, what the Palestinians are saying, what they are saying about what they're doing. Importantly, uh, it was an essay that you wrote about, um, I think you called it terrorists in uniform. And, uh, I caught up with it about the time that you were speaking to the British Parliament. I think about it. So we'll get to that in a moment. But first, talk a little bit about what you have. Well, really documented not only about what's going on, but what the Palestinians themselves are saying, at least in Arabic about it.
Itamar Marcus: [00:02:41] Yeah. So this is critical. It's critical for understanding what's happened over the last few years in terms of terror. Uh, Judea and Samaria terror. And it's also critical for making decisions about what should happen in the future, who should be ruling Gaza, who should be ruling. Um, and and it's truly, truly a very much an American story as well, because it's about the Palestinian Authority security services, um, which is funded by the United States, uh, tens of millions of dollars a year, uh, and actually trained there have been, uh, Palestinian Security Service people who went over to Jordan and their American army officers. Uh, they called them under, uh, American officer named Dayton. Uh, were training were training, uh, Palestinian police. So they got the latest in American light weaponry, the latest in American skills. They brought them back with them to do to Judea and Samaria. Uh, and what has it turned out? It turned out that they ended up being one of the major backbones of Palestinian Authority terror, uh, killing civilians, attacking civilians, organizing the people who are in policeman. And then we did this report because the United States recently has said that they want the Palestinian Authority and its security services to to rule, to rule Gaza, um, after Israel destroys Hamas. And that can't possibly be because we see that the the police themselves are the ones who are leading terror. Now, as you said, it's not just that they're leading terror. The PA isn't hiding it. Fatah, the party of Mahmoud Abbas, isn't hiding it. Um, terrorists are killed and the Palestinian Authority creates posters. Fatah creates posters of them where they're in uniform, and they're bragging that the person who died as a so-called martyr was captain so-and-so, Lieutenant so-and-so, Sergeant so-and-so. And they show pictures of them in uniform. And then we research and we see that these are some of the leaders, literally the leaders of terror in Judea and Samaria, American funded, American trained killing, killing Israelis, sometimes Americans as well. Uh, and this is what America wants to run.
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