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"This is the revolution" - after "heroic operation" to kidnap Israeli soldiers, Fatah "exploited Israeli popular pressure on the government to raise the bar of its demands" and have more terrorists released

Headline: “Karake: Willing to cooperate with Hamas in order to close a [prisoner] exchange deal, if it is true that it has captured Israeli soldiers” “On the eve of Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, the number of Palestinian prisoners in the occupation’s prisons has reached 7,000, including 70 women and...”

Headline: “The Israeli Parliament [Knesset] legitimizes racism.” Op-ed by Izzat Daraghmeh, regular columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. “The fact that the Israeli [Parliament] Knesset yesterday [July 8, 2015], Wednesday, approved, at first reading, the bill sentencing anyone who kidnaps an Israeli...”

On Jan. 28, 2015, Hezbollah bombed Northern Israel, killing two Israeli soldiers. Adli ‎Sadeq, PLO Ambassador to India and regular columnist for the official PA daily Al-Hayat ‎Al-Jadida, wrote the following op-ed in response to the bombing: "Hezbollah’s operation (i.e., shooting of missiles) at..."

“Tareq Barghouti, the PA attorney for prisoners’ and released [prisoners’] affairs, noted that the occupation court in Ofer had created a legal precedent against prisoner Ali Sa’ada from Halhul, who has been imprisoned since 2011 on the charge of the premeditated murder of two settlers, when it...”

Op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the official PA daily and a member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza: “Several days ago, a driver from Jerusalem had a normal accident, the likes of which – and worse – occur [regularly] in Tel Aviv, and can happen a thousand times in Washington, New...”

Excerpt of op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the official PA daily and a member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza Headline: “Israel takes care of its failure through terror!” “The last war (i.e., the 2014 Gaza War) depended on the one-sided version of Israel, and in the end the three...”

Marwan Al-Qawasmi and Amer Abu Aisheh were Hamas terrorists who kidnapped and murdered three Israeli youths on June 12, 2014: Eyal Yifrach,19, Gilad Shaar,16, and Naftali Frenkel,16. The Israeli boys' bodies were found by Israeli security forces near Hebron on June 30, 2014. The two terrorists were...

Marwan Al-Qawasmi and Amer Abu Aisheh were Hamas terrorists who kidnapped and murdered three Israeli youths on June 12, 2014: Eyal Yifrach,19, Gilad Shaar,16, and Naftali Frenkel,16. The Israeli boys' bodies were found by Israeli security forces near Hebron on June 30, 2014. The two terrorists were...

Marwan Al-Qawasmi and Amer Abu Aisheh were Hamas terrorists who kidnapped and murdered three Israeli youths on June 12, 2014: Eyal Yifrach,19, Gilad Shaar,16, and Naftali Frenkel,16. The Israeli boys' bodies were found by Israeli security forces near Hebron on June 30, 2014. The two terrorists were...

Op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the ‎official PA daily and a member of the ‎Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza: ‎“The last war (i.e., 2014 Gaza war) raised ‎difficult questions which have received no ‎brave answers – for example, ‘Why did ‎Hamas refuse the Egyptian [ceasefire] ‎initiative when...”

Op-ed by Dr. Sabri Saidam, Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council and President Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor for communications and information technology: “After failing to achieve his three objectives – destroying Palestinian national unity, destroying the rockets in Gaza and blocking its...”

Op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the official PA daily and a member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza "We are now at the beginning of the third month of the broad Israeli aggression against our people, its unity, its reconciliation and its national project. The occupation (i.e., Israel)..."

Op-ed by Yahya Rabah, columnist for the ‎official PA daily and a member of the ‎Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza ‎ “Israel, which embarked on this war over a ‎month ago – [this war] which culminated ‎in a bloody attack in Gaza ten days ago – ‎had been negotiating with the PLO, and ‎these...”

Op-ed by Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija, editor in ‎chief of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the official PA ‎daily ‎“I am referring to ‎the kidnapping and murder of the three ‎settlers (i.e., three Israeli teens), ‎the planners and perpetrators of which ‎have made no statement explaining the ‎aim [of their actions] or...”

Op-ed by Adli Sadeq, regular columnist for ‎Al-Hayat Al-Jadida ‎ “When anonymous individuals, whom ‎Israel assumed to be Palestinians, ‎kidnapped and murdered the three ‎settlers, there was a great gap between ‎them and their authorities. No such gap ‎can be discerned between the positions of...”

Headline: “The bodies of the three settlers ‎have been found and the ‘murderer’ ‎‎[remains] unknown – Israel’s leaders utter ‎threats and Netanyahu threatens Hamas ‎will ‘pay’ the price”‎ ‎“Israel announced last night [June 30, ‎‎2014] that it had found the bodies of the ‎three settlers who...”

Op-ed by Fathi Al-Bis, regular columnist for the official PA daily "The region around us is burning. The abhorrent sectarianism (i.e., wars in Iraq and Syria) is burning everything... Israel - a product of myth, racism and war - believes that the conflagration in the region gives it a free hand and..."

Op-ed by Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular ‎columnist for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida ‎“From the beginning, it has become clear ‎that the occupation’s aim is not to find the ‎three missing [youths], but to damage the ‎Palestinian people and put an end to its ‎recently achieved reconciliation [between ‎Fatah and...”

The official PA daily published a cartoon showing a soldier with a Star of David on his helmet hurling a bowling ball at three pins – suggesting the three things Israel is allegedly trying to do away with through its operation in search of the three kidnapped students. Text on top of image: “Three...”

Op-ed by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, columnist for official PA daily and advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs “The kidnapping of the three [Israeli] settlers (if the story is indeed true, and not a show [put on by] Netanyahu) [parentheses in source] on Thursday, June 12, in...”

Headline: “Hazem Abu Shanab : ‘Israeli aggression amounts to a re-occupation of the West Bank and a preliminary drawing of borders’” “Senior Fatah official Hazem Abu Shanab said… in a statement to the press, that the kidnapping operations the occupation carries out against the fighters of all...”

Op-ed by Fatah Revolutionary Council member Bakr Abu Bakr, regular columnist for official PA daily “The Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] is now begging for a military operation or any operation that will cover up his faltering policy and his complete inability to purify his failing...”

Op-ed by Hafez Barghouti, regular columnist for official PA daily “The kidnapping or disappearance of the settlers helps the right-wing government, whose members have even demanded the expulsion of villages and to do as they please with the West Bank, in a number of ways. Before the ‘kidnapping,’...”

By Muwaffaq Matar, regular columnist for the official PA daily "This action (i.e., the kidnapping) is - if not a deliberate act on the part of Israel meant to achieve the goal described above (i.e., to weaken the PA) - a free gift to Israel from some group or regional power that shares a common..."