On the anniversary of their first terror attack, Fatah praises Yasser Arafat as the “comrade of the rifle,” while posting an image of him with an assault rifle
Image and text posted on the Facebook page of the Fatah Movement – Hebron Branch
The image shows an altered image of former PLO and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat with an assault rifle added behind him and sandbags piled in a wall in front of him. In the background is a stone wall with a window looking out on the Dome of the Rock, presenting Arafat as being in an army bunker. In the upper right is the Fatah logo that includes a grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel together with the PA areas as “Palestine.”
Text on image: “[Former PLO President and PA Chairman] Yasser [Arafat] and the rifle are comrades, and the witnesses are trenches and alleys”
Posted text: “Yasser and the rifle are comrades, and the witnesses are trenches and alleys
#Fatah56 (refers to the 56th anniversary of “the Launch” of Fatah, counted from its first terror attack against Israel -Ed.)
#The_path_of_the_loyal”
Yasser Arafat – Founder of Fatah and former chairman of the PLO and PA. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s Arafat was behind numerous terror attacks against Israelis. Although he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 together with then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and then Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" after signing the Oslo Accords peace agreement, Arafat launched a 5-year terror campaign - the second Intifada (2000-2005) – in which more than 1,000 Israelis were murdered. Arafat died of an illness in 2004.
Intilaqa - "the Launch" refers to the beginning of Fatah on Jan. 1, 1965, when it carried out its first terror attack against Israel, attempting to blow up Israel's National Water Carrier.