Op-ed glorifies terrorist attacks and terrorists as “heroic”; Israel is “a hypothetical state whose fate is to disappear”
Excerpt of op-ed by Yahya Rabah, a columnist for the official PA daily and member of the Fatah Leadership Committee in Gaza
Headline: "The will to strike roots against the plot to uproot"
"We – as a Palestinian people, Palestinian cause, and legal Palestinian leadership – have no role in the crisis of the arbitrary and shameful downfall from which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fleeing… We have no role other than to adhere to our basic principles and our legal rights, which have been granted to us by international law since [UN] Resolution 181 in 1947 (never implemented because Arab leaders and governments rejected it; see note below –Ed.) and [UN] Resolution 194 (see note below –Ed.) on the refugees’ right to return to their land, cities, villages, and lives in the Galilee (i.e., in northern Israel), the Triangle (i.e., a concentration of Israeli-Arab towns and villages in northern Israel), the Negev (i.e., in southern Israel), the mixed cities, and the rest of the land of Palestine that was occupied by Zionist Israel (i.e., all of Israel), which made a pact with Jewish Christianity (i.e. Christians that support Israel) against the background of the ominous Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration), and with the rest of the evil throughout the world…
The war that we are waging in Palestine against Netanyahu and his ally [US President Donald] Trump is a war of intense confrontation and comprehensive obsession, and it is the war of rootedness in the soil of our homeland against the obvious crime and open sin, which is the crime of uprooting. Uprooting through killing on the ground and destroying the homes of the heroes (i.e., demolition of the houses of terrorists) from among our people who carry out heroic operations (i.e., terror attacks) against the herds of settlers; against the cowardly members of the Jewish terrorist organizations; against the rabbis who incite, invade, and continue to commit irregular and satanic acts; and against the Israeli occupation army that relies on the myth of a moral army. An additional aspect of the aspects of this war is the attempt to legislate a law in the Israeli Parliament… that will allow the expulsion of heroes’ families from the land of their homeland (sic., it would allow the transfer of terrorists’ families to a different part of the West Bank, not out of it; see note below), such as the families of Ashraf Na’alwa (i.e., terrorist, murdered 2) and Saleh Barghouti (i.e., terrorist, murdered 1) and hundreds of additional families, as a punishment for them having raised among themselves these heroes, who are a result of the Palestinian time, the Palestinian right, the Palestinian justice, and the Palestinian peace.
Israel is in an imaginary race against time, and the US is continuing its foolish support and its cursed cloaking of this crazy race. However, a people stands before them whose roots are deep in the soil of its homeland, and whose head is raised to the clouds of the heavens. This people is the obsession that pursues the Israeli aggression, and as long as this obsession pursues Israel, and as long as Palestine creates its heroes, all of Israel and the American support that it receives in the form of money, weapons, and a political pact will not succeed in turning this same hypothetical state and state of gangs, terror organizations, and settler land thieves into a real state, and it will continue to be a hypothetical state whose fate is to disappear until the Palestinian people receives it in the framework of receiving all of the rights and basic principles.”
The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted in favor of a bill to expel the families of West Bank terrorists from their property on Dec. 16, 2018. The bill would allow the Israeli army's General Officer Commanding (GOC) Central Command to expel a terrorist's family to a different area of the West Bank within a week from the date the terrorist committed an attack.