Top PA official Rajoub praises terrorist murderers as “national leaders,” “my brothers and colleagues in prison”
We will "lead according to heritage" from arch-terrorists
and “heroic prisoners” - “the fuel of this system”
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub is one of the people regularly mentioned as possible successor to 85-year-old PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas sometime in the not-too-distant future. On a regular basis Rajoub praises terrorist murderers as heroes, and recently praised specific arch-terrorists and murderers - responsible for dozens of killings – stating that the currently imprisoned terrorists are “heroic” and “the fuel of this system”:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “[The coming PA elections] will be [held in Jerusalem] against the will of Netanyahu and this criminal occupation… We want to win, to rule, and to lead through our good traits, our values, and the heritage that were left to us by Yasser Arafat, Khalil Al-Wazir [- Abu Jihad], (i. e., responsible for the murders of 125) [Salah Khalaf-] Abu Iyad (i. e., planned the Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes), Faisal Al-Husseini, and all the great ones, and that were imposed on us by our heroic prisoners, to whom I send a blessing of peace and say to them: ‘You are the fuel of this system.’”
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Feb. 14, 2021]
In another interview, Rajoub specifically glorified as his “brother leader” terrorist Marwan Barghouti who orchestrated attacks in which 5 Israelis were murdered. Rajoub also bestowed this honor to murderer Karim Younes. Both of these terrorists Rajoub praised and “blessed” as “national leaders”:
Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “I send blessings to my brothers and colleagues in prison, and foremost among them the two national leaders, my colleagues in the [Fatah] Central Committee, brother leader Marwan Barghouti and brother leader Karim Younes (i.e., terrorist murderers) and to all members of the [Fatah] Movement in the homeland, the diaspora, and in the fortresses of imprisonment.”
[Official PA TV, Feb. 9, 2021]
Palestinian Media Watch has reported extensively on Jibril Rajoub and his glorification of terrorists, incitement to murder, and opposition to “normalization” with Israel.