PLO, Fatah, and Abbas want “popular resistance,” like first Intifada: “we were masters of the roads, the settlers were like hiding rats”

Director-General of Popular Activity in the PA-controlled Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Abdallah Abu Rahma: “The main topic of the [PLO] Central Council meeting yesterday was popular resistance. All the sessions, meetings, and conferences, whether of the Fatah Movement or of the other factions, and also His Honor President [Abbas calls] in all his speeches to initiate popular resistance… We can’t enjoy peace and security without popular resistance actually spreading. The method of the popular [first] Intifada of 1987 (i.e., Palestinian wave of violence, 1987-1993), is the best proof of this, when we actually were the constant masters of the roads, moving freely, and the settlers were like hiding rats moving under the [Israeli] army’s large security protection. Despite this [protection] they were beaten and faced confrontations. Therefore, I again say that we need to initiate popular resistance.”

Abu Rahma made this statement during a live broadcast from the funeral of three Fatah terrorists who were killed by Israel while planning an imminent shooting attack:

Adham Mabrouka Al-Shishani, Muhammad Al-Dakhil, and Ashraf Mubaslat