A cleric who hosts a show on the Palestinian Authority’s official television station has said that the United States and Israel are seeking to undermine the morals and values of the Arab world by spreading pornography and sex.

Sheikh Imad Hamatu, a professor of Quranic Studies at the University of Palestine in the Gaza Strip, also claimed that before the invasion of Iraq, former U.S. President George W. Bush said, “We will enter Iraq and bring in pornography and we will teach them the American civilization and culture.”

Palestinian Media Watch uncovered and translated the broadcast on Monday.

This is not the first time Hamatu has made such claims. He told viewers in a June broadcast, again on official Palestinian television, that Israel launched a “sex craze in order to crush all types of spirit among the Arabs and the Muslims,” including by airing ads for penis enlargement products. He also claimed that the U.S. is using drugs to control minds in the Middle East. “There is a unit in the CIA, called the Unit for Controlling the Global Mood,” he claimed. “They look at the map and decide what [drug] is suitable for Gaza, Jordan, or Syria.”

Hamatu declared in a November broadcast that Jews are “the slayers of the prophets, the slayers of the innocent, and the slayers of the righteous.”

“Historically speaking, it has not been proven that the Jews have any rights here,” Hamatu said. “We have been here for thousands of years, whereas they came for brief periods to a few places in Palestine. … Today, they are trying to fabricate a myth, a history, [claiming] that they belong here.”

“The bloody course they follow is rooted in their false Torah,” he added, before alleging that Jews are attempting to “eradicate the Islamic signs” from Jerusalem through the “Judaization” of the city.

“This is a very serious matter – the Judaization of the people,” said Hamatu. “Then they began to Judaize the culture, by flooding the media – as was written in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: that the Westerner, the Arab, the American, and the Australian should hear only what the Jews want him to hear. They made a concentrated effort to this effect.” The Protocols is an anti-Semitic forgery originally published in the early 20th century that purports to describe a Jewish plan for world domination.

[Photo: Palestinian Media Watch]