Official PA Daily glorifies terrorist murderers, supports prisoners
Excerpt of a column by Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, regular columnist for official PA daily and former advisor to former PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on national affairs
Headline: “The prisoners are at the heart of the confrontation”
“I emphasize that the prisoners’ battle is a battle of life, survival, and defending human rights and political and legal rights, but if the Zionist triumvirate government [of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir – Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich] will impose death and Martyrdom on them (refers to Israeli bill to implement the death penalty for terrorists -Ed.), they will be no less than the Martyr heroes, the heroes of Red Tuesday: Ataa Al-Zir, Fuad Hijazi, and Muhammad Jamjoum (i.e., terrorist murderers from the 1929 Arab Riots), who were executed by the British Mandate on June 17, 1930, following the Al-Buraq Rebellion (i.e., the 1929 Arab Riots). They will give back one thousand-fold to the ministers of the fascist government from among the Kahanists and the hilltop brats, to criminal [Israeli Parliament Member Avigdor] Liberman, and to everyone who voted for the death penalty law from the coalition and the opposition.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 6, 2023]
Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul is also a former PLO Central Council member.
Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, and Ataa Al-Zir “committed particularly brutal murders [of Jews] at Safed and Hebron,” according to the report by the British Government to the League of Nations (Dec. 31, 1930), and were executed by hanging by the British in 1930. Jamjoum, Hijazi, and Al-Zir were convicted of attacking British soldiers and murdering Jews during the 1929 Arab Riots, known by Palestinians as the Al-Buraq Rebellion, which was a wave of Arab violence in late August 1929 following a Jewish protest at the Western Wall calling for national rights. In a week, 133 Jews were killed – mostly murdered in their homes by Arabs, including the Hebron Massacre in which 65 Jews were murdered in one day and the Safed Massacre in which 18 Jews were murdered in one day; 116 Arabs were also killed during the confrontations – mostly by British police trying to stop the riots. The British reported the cause of violence in the riots was “the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards the Jews” (1930 Shaw Commission Report).