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Abbas demands riots and violence using PA euphemism “peaceful popular resistance”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “We will continue to work to strengthen the national unity, end the [Fatah-Hamas] rift, and continue the peaceful popular resistance (i.e., PA euphemism for violence and terror). For God’s sake, I ask of you, do peaceful popular resistance, for God’s sake. Where is it? Where is the peaceful popular resistance that must be done?”

How does Abbas define “peaceful popular resistance”?
In 2015, he explained on TV after 14 Israelis had been murdered in stabbings and car rammings:
PA Chairman’s speech, 2015: “We asked for peaceful popular resistance. That’s what this is. that’s what this is”

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