Fatah officials threaten terror: “resistance in all its forms, with all means”
“We’ll continue the resistance in all its forms, with all means, and with all our power to defend our Palestinian people”
“It may be that the forms of the resistance will change and be replaced… We aspire to true popular resistance, but if Israel continues this confrontation, it is liable to open the gates of confrontation”
“Our rifles are clean and pure against the enemy” says PLO member, praising arch-terrorists
Following Israel’s September raid on a Hamas terror cell in the West Bank, which resulted in 5 terrorists being killed and dozens arrested, a Fatah official threatened that Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement will return to terror, using “resistance in all its forms”:
Fatah Jenin Branch Secretary Ata Abu Rmeileh: “We’ll continue the resistance in all its forms, with all means, and with all our power to defend our Palestinian people and continue this resistance to realize the dream of the Martyrs and take revenge for the pure blood that flows every morning throughout our Palestinian areas.”
[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Sept. 30, 2021]
Terms such as "all means,” "all means of resistance," “all forms,” are used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror against Israeli civilians such as stabbings and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.
A much stronger and completely straightforward terror threat was made by a member of the terror organization PFLP, which is a member of the PLO. Praising arch-terrorists and murderers, PFLP Political Bureau member Maryam Abu Daqqa stated that “our rifles” are directed against “the enemy”:
PFLP Political Bureau member Maryam Abu Daqqa: “Our compass is clear, our rifle is clear, in one direction. The enemy is one, the homeland is one, the people is one, our path and our rifles are clean and pure against the enemy… [Former PFLP Sec.-Gen.] Abu Ali [Mustafa] is the Martyrs, the prisoners, and the loyalty. We’ve always said: Whoever follows us, whoever follows our path, what do they see? Either Martyrdom-death or blessing. Our path is known, O Abu Ali, loyalty is our custom…”
Newsreader: “How is it possible to restore [this unity] and restore its spark, as Martyr commander Abu Ali Mustafa aspired to do?” …
Maryam Abu Daqqa: “[Through] loyalty to the Moon of the Martyrs [PFLP leader] Martyr Abu Ali, to [Fatah leader] Martyr Yasser Arafat, to [Hamas leader] Ahmed Yassin, to [Islamic Jihad leader Fathi] Shaqaqi, to Haidar Abd Al-Shafi, [Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader Marwan] Barghouti, and all the Martyrs.”
[Official PA TV News, Aug. 27, 2021]
Fatah's Fayez Abu Aita also voiced threats before the raid against Hamas’ terror cell. The deputy secretary of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council warned that “the forms of the resistance will change and be replaced”:
Fatah Revolutionary Council Deputy Secretary Fayez Abu Aita: “It may be that the forms of the resistance will change and be replaced. We are not responsible for them in the end. Today we aspire to true popular resistance, but if Israel continues this confrontation, it is liable to open the gates of confrontation with this occupation. Therefore, Israel is responsible for every development connected to opening the gates of confrontation in the area or expanding it.”
[Official PA TV, Sept. 24, 2021]
Abu Aita explained that Palestinians “aspire to true popular resistance” –implying non-violent means. However, this is not only ironic but also untrue, as Palestinian Media Watch has documented that whereas “popular resistance” in Palestinian terminology at times is used to refer to peaceful protest, it is also used to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." At the time Abbas said this, 14 Israelis had already been murdered.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “No one called for this uprising (i.e., Oct. - Nov. 2015 terror campaign) and no one asked for it. It stemmed from the hearts of the young who have seen everything with their own eyes. They have seen the oppression, the settlements and they have seen the attacks by the herds of settlers, and therefore they have done what they have done (i.e., 14 killed by stabbings and shootings). We said to everyone that we want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is. That’s what this is. However, the aggression of firing bullets has come from the Israelis.”
[Official PA TV, Nov. 16, 2015]
What Abbas called “peaceful popular uprising” had at the time he made this statement already included:
- 65 stabbings
- 8 shootings
- 8 car rammings
Total killed: 14
Total wounded: 167
[Between Oct. 1 - Nov. 13, 2015,
Source: "Wave of terror October-November 2015," http://mfa.gov.il]
September 2021 raids on Hamas terror cell
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
The terrorists glorified by PFLP Political Bureau member Maryam Abu Daqqa: