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| The ] occasioned small <ref></ref> outbreaks of public celebration in some ] communities in and around the ]. | |||
| In response the Palestinian leadership and Muslim groups, including many from the USA, vocally distanced themselves from such behavior and also condemned it.<ref></ref> | |||
| ==World reaction== | |||
| Official reaction was almost universal in condemning the attacks, including from countries considered hostile to the U.S. such as ], ] and ].<ref></ref> In ] for example thousands participated in candlelit vigils, while a minute's silence was held at Tehran's football stadium.<ref></ref> The sole exception was ], which said of the attacks that "The American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against humanity."<ref name=mixed>] ]<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ] would later offer sympathy to the Americans killed in the attacks.<ref></ref> | |||
| ==Reports== | |||
| Reports and images of Palestinians from East Jerusalem and the West Bank taking to the streets in jubilation, chanting ] (God is (the) greatest), passing along sweets, honking car horns, holding up the ] for victory and holding up Palestinian flags were broadcast around the world. In addition, many newspapers, magazines, Web sites and wire services ran photographs of the festivities.<ref></ref><ref name="FOX_Quash"></ref> | |||
| On the day of the attacks, '']'' (British) and '']'' (American) reported that 3,000 celebrants were pouring into the streets of ] and dozens of people were celebrating in the traditional gesture of handing out sweets. ''The Times'' notes that in traditionally Arab East Jerusalem, there was a smaller gathering of about two dozen people.<ref name="Times1"> by ] (), Access date: 1 April 2008.</ref> ''FOX News'' adds that in ] (Lebanon), where about 75,000 Palestinians live, and also in Rashidiyeh camp south of ], revelers fired weapons in the air.<ref></ref> | |||
| ''The Times'' also quoted Nawal Abdel Fatah, a Palestinian woman (age 48) saying she was happy because "America is the head of the snake, America always stands by Israel in its war against us". Her daughter Maysoon (age 22), expressed hopes that the next attack would be against ].<ref name="Times1"/> | |||
| ==Palestinian reactions== | |||
| ] believe to be part of a long Palestinian tradition of celebrating the September 11, 2001 Attacks.<ref></ref> - ''Published by ], ] official daily newspaper, on September 12, 2007.'']] | |||
| The ], which had immediately condemned the September 11th attacks, moved to ] further reports of public celebrations, with Palestinian information minister ] stating that "a few kids" were unrepresentative of the Palestinian people. | |||
| Palestinian police were reportedly trying to prevent demonstrations of joy, with limited success with the Jerusalem Post reporting that Palestinians forcibly confined foreign journalists to a Nablus hotel on September 11 evening, guarded by armed Palestinians while festivities took place in the streets outside.<ref name="worldnetdaily1"> by ], September 14, 2001</ref><ref name="JPost101001">, ] October 10, 2001</ref> Palestinian Authority officials and ] militia members issued threats and warnings to reporters adding that they "would be held responsible if the footage was shown", adding death threats.<ref name="worldnetdaily1"/> Ahmed Abdel Rahman, Arafat's Cabinet secretary, said the Palestinian Authority could not "guarantee the life" of an Associated Press cameraman if footage he filmed of post-9/11 celebrations was broadcast. | |||
| As a result AP decided not to release a tape reportedly showing Palestinian policemen celebrating and shooting into the air, in addition to civilians dancing.<ref name="worldnetdaily1"/> AP and Reuters followed by limiting their coverage to a small number of still pictures and videotapes<ref name="worldnetdaily1"/> with Rahman's statement prompting a formal protest from the AP bureau chief, Dan Perry.<ref name="wha_post"></ref><ref name="FOX_Quash"/> | |||
| The Palestinian media promptly condemned the celebrations that were televised around the world as unrepresentative of mainstream Palestinian public opinion, suggesting that the imagery was being exploited to vilify the Palestinian people. The lead editorial in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (PA official paper), for example, wrote:<blockquote>Those ignorant few who did that do not represent our public opinion. In fact, such ignorant behavior might have happened in other parts of the world, but unfortunately the cameras did not reach them..." <ref>Hafiz Barghouti, “Palestinians and Americans share the same grief,” Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, ] ].</ref></blockquote> | |||
| This opinion was joined by ], who condemned the attacks as an "unconscionable... blow to humanity as a whole."<ref name=mixed /> Ashrawi characterized the attacks as "evil": "We feel your pain, we feel your sorrow, we will do everything we can to help".<ref name=mixed /> | |||
| In the week after the attacks, ] appeared on television, purportedly donating blood in a symbolic gesture, to the victims of the attacks,<ref name="wha_post"/<ref></ref> Arafat's gesture was criticized by The Weekly Standard as staged and insincere.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/655hzspx.asp |title=He Didn't Give at the Office |author=Scott W. Johnson |journal=Weekly Standard |volume=13 |issue=20 |date=2008-02-04 }}</ref> also urging Palestinian schoolchildren in the West Bank and Gaza to take to the streets in demonstrations supporting the US. The move, was seen by the media as a "spin control" attempt the PA when placed in the context of rising reports about foreign correspondents being forbidden from covering Palestinian celebrations.<ref name="worldnetdaily1"/> | |||
| ] leader Sheikh ] asserted that the attacks were "a result of injustice the U.S practices against the weak".<ref name=mixed /> | |||
| ==Authenticity== | |||
| ====Rebroadcast footage==== | |||
| There was an ] that the footage of some Palestinians celebrating the attacks was stock footage of Palestinian reactions to the ]i ], a decade prior to 2001.<ref name="Spiegel">, - {{languageicon|de|German}}</ref> This rumor was proven false shortly afterwards,<ref></ref> and '']'' issued a statement to that effect.<ref name="CNN_real">, ''].</ref> | |||
| ====Germany's Panorama==== | |||
| Annette Krüger Spitta of ]'s (German public broadcasting) TV magazine ''Panorama'' claimed that while the footage was indeed correctly dated, reporters may have partly staged one of the scenes and that viewers should keep some distance from what is spread by journalists on images of conflict. The German weekly '']'' repeated this news report and noted about the mistaken circulation that the footage was from 1991.<ref name="Spiegel"/> | |||
| The ''Panorama'' report from ] ] has Medium Professor Martin Löffelholz explaining that in the images you see jubilant Palestinian children and several adults but it is impossible to know if they are necessarily pleased about the attack reports; and he does not assume this and ignores the way it has been reported. | |||
| Krüger Spitta notes that inspection of the untelecasted complete tape shows the street around the celebration is quiet and a man in a white T-shirt is noticeable for inciting the children and is fetching new people again and again. The woman who is remembered for her cheering (Nowel Abdel Fatah) stated afterwards that she was offered cake if she celebrates on camera, and that she was frightened when she saw the pictures on television and that she never expected it would be noticed to the USA. | |||
| Krüger Spitta expresses that it is impossible to know if these images -- which were wildly sent worldwide under the title: Palestinians celebrate in Jerusalem -- are truth or a production and that, as Professor Löffelholz says, in crises and war situations due caution should be observed when relying upon journalists who sometimes make errors.<ref>, , {{languageicon|de|German}}</ref> | |||
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