PA op-ed praises “Martyr” Archbishop who smuggled weapons to terrorists
Excerpt of an op-ed by Yahya Rabah, regular columnist for the official PA daily
Headline: “Torches on the Path… the fifth volume”
“The most beautiful and meaningful gift… I received [it several] weeks ago from my dear friend [PA Security Force] Maj. Gen. Arabi Muhammad Kalloub, who is standing firm in the Gaza Strip… and it is the fifth volume of the national encyclopedia Torches on the Path, which includes [information about] 150 Martyrs (Shahids) sown in the Palestinian memory…
… Arabi Kalloub [shined] the spotlights on several role models from among the Martyrs whom we have mentioned, and their Martyrdom-death (Shahada) was filled with great meanings, like Martyr Archbishop Hilarion Capucci (i.e., weapons smuggler, died aged 94, 40 years after Israel released him from prison; see note below –Ed.) who was born in Syrian Aleppo in 1922 and became the Greek Catholic [Arch]bishop of Jerusalem in 1965. He was a friend of known Fatah leader Abu Jihad (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125), and Israel imprisoned him and sentenced him to 12 years in prison in 1974, of which he served 4 years; he died in Rome in 2017.”