The five-minute video clip could have been produced by Jennifer Lopez to the music of Pink Floyd. It is professional, dreamy and haunting. It begins with a handsome young schoolboy writing a farewell letter to his parents. In this pop saga the boy goes off on a "mission" in which he dies, and his farewell letter is handed to his father, who tears his hair at the news. Scenes of the boy's last day scroll across the screen as an enchanting male voice puts the words of his letter to a haunting melody. "Do not be sad, my dear, and do not cry over my parting. Oh, my dear father; how sweet is Shahada [martyrdom]. How sweet is Shahada when I embrace you, oh my land."

In the video the boy embraces the ground with his arms stretched out as upon a cross. His death is gentle, innocent, heroic--not at all the brutal dismemberment that awaits suicide bombers. "Mother, my most dear, be joyous over my blood," he sings. "And do not cry for me."

That same line, "Mother, do not cry for me," has appeared in at least three farewell letters from 14- to 17-year-old Palestinians who have carried out suicide bombings since the film clip first aired on Palestinian television in May 2001, says Itamar Marcus, an Israeli researcher who unearthed the music videos. Yasser Arafat's official TV station broadcast the dreamy clip virtually every day for more than a year in a clear effort to incite children to murder/suicide. It aired between cartoons, after school and in the early evening between regularly scheduled programs. Marcus plans to play these clips to a congressional committee later this month and is urging the United States to pressure the Palestinian leader to stop the deadly propaganda.

"For the six years we'd been following PA [Palestinian Authority] TV, we'd seen on average 15 minutes of violent, anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic video clips, interspersed between regular programming throughout the day," Marcus tells INSIGHT in Jerusalem. "Suddenly, in the summer of 2000, it went up to two hours per day, just as [former Israeli prime minister Ehud] Barak was getting ready to give away 98 percent of the territory the PA wanted at Camp David."

In the beginning, the violent trailers mostly were composed of old news footage edited to glamorize suicide bombings and to call people to the streets. But soon, professional filmmakers were called in to take advantage of their special skills.