Who is “the DNA of all Palestinian nationalists”?

• Top PA/Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises terrorist Barghouti - who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating attacks in which 5 were murdered - as “the DNA of all the Palestinian nationalists”
• Terrorist Barghouti is also part of “equalitarian triangle” with 2 released murderers
   
• At rally, Fatah played speech by Barghouti in which he urged terror and praised several terrorists and terrorist murderers, including  Hamas founders Ahmed Yassin and Al-Rantisi, Abu Jihad who planned attacks in which 125 were murdered and Hamas bomb-maker Yahya Ayyash “the engineer”

At a Fatah rally honoring imprisoned terrorist Marwan Barghouti on the anniversary of his arrest, Fatah played a recording of a speech by Barghouti, in which he urged to continue terror. Bargouti is serving 5 life sentences for planning 3 shooting attacks in which 5 people were murdered.

In the speech, Barghouti highlighted several arch-terrorists and murderers, including Hamas terror organization founder Ahmed Yassin, Hamas co-founder Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rantisi, Fatah co-founder Abu Jihad who planned attacks in which 125 were murdered, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization Secretary-General Abu Ali Mustafa, and Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash.

When broadcasting the speech being played at the event, official PA TV chose to show photos of the terrorists and terrorist murderers: 

Recording of terrorist Marwan Barghouti: “The people of Izz A-Din Al-Qassam (i.e., Muslim terror leader in the British Mandate period) and Abd Al-Qader Al-Husseini (i.e., Arab commander in the 1948 war), the people of [former PLO Chairman and PA President] Yasser Arafat, [Hamas founder] Ahmed Yassin, [Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] Abu Ali Mustafa, [Islamic Jihad founder] Fathi Shaqaqi, Omar Al-Qassem (i.e., terrorist, led murder of 2), and ‘Abu Jihad’ Khalil Al-Wazir (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 125), the people of Martyrs Raed Al-Karmi (i.e., terrorist, responsible for murder of 9) and Thabet Thabet (i.e., co-founder of Fatah terror faction), [Marwan] Zalum (i.e., terrorist, responsible for numerous terror attacks) … [co-founder of Hamas Abd Al-Aziz] Al-Rantisi… and [Yahya] Ayyash (i.e., Hamas bomb maker “the engineer”)… I am speaking to you to renew the covenant [with the homeland] and with the mighty Martyrs and heroic prisoners, and [to renew] the continuation of the path to release and liberation, the path of freedom and esteem, the path of honor and heroism.”

[Official PA TV, May 8, 2023]

Among the speakers at the event honoring terrorist Barghouti was top PA/Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, who praised Barghouti as “the DNA of all the Palestinian nationalists.” Rajoub also placed Barghouti in “an equilateral triangle” with two murderers – Karim and Maher Younes – who kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980: 

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “Marwan [Barghouti] was and will remain a symbol for the Palestinian national action and identity. The symbols of Marwan and Marwan’s school are the DNA of all the Palestinian nationalists… There are two people who together with Marwan are an equilateral triangle. Welcome with me Karim Younes and Maher Younes.”

[Official PA TV, May 8, 2023]

Palestinian Media Watch exposed that released murderer Karim Younes also spoke at the event, praising Barghouti for his efforts in teaching and supervising academic studies for his fellow terrorist inmates in prison.

The following is information on the terrorists mentioned by imprisoned terrorist Barghouti in the speech played by Fatah at the event honoring Barghouti:
 

Marwan Barghouti – Palestinian terrorist and member of the Palestinian Authority parliament who is serving 5 life sentences for orchestrating three shooting attacks in which 5 people were murdered: one attack on the Jerusalem-Maale Adumim road (June 12, 2001) in which Greek Orthodox monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus was murdered by terrorists Ismail Radaida and Yasser Ah'Rabai, another attack at a gas station in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, 2002) in which Yoela Hen was murdered by terrorists led by Mohammed Matla, and one shooting and stabbing attack at the Seafood Market restaurant in Tel Aviv (March 5, 2002) in which Eli Dahan, Yosef Habi, and Police Officer Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat, were murdered by terrorist Ibrahim Hasouna. When arrested by Israel in 2002, Barghouti headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected as a member of the Palestinian Authority parliament. On Dec. 4, 2016, he was elected to Fatah's Central Committee.
 

Sheikh Izz A-Din Al-Qassam was an influential Islamic preacher in British Mandate Palestine during the 1930s. He led a Muslim terror group. The Hamas terror wing is named after him – the Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades.

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.

Ahmed Yassin - Founder and former head of the terror organization Hamas. The Hamas movement is responsible for numerous terror attacks and the murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians. Yassin was killed by Israel in 2004.

Abu Ali Mustafa - Secretary-General of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP, which rejected the Oslo Accords (1993), has planned and carried out numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians since its founding in 1967 and throughout the Palestinian terror campaign between 2000-2005 (the Intifada).

Fathi Shaqaqi - Founder of the terror organization Islamic Jihad, which has carried out more than 1,000 terror attacks, murdering and wounding hundreds of Israeli civilians. Shaqaqi was killed in 1995 in an operation attributed to Israel but for which Israel never took responsibility.

Omar Al-Qassem - Terrorist who led a terror squad that crossed the Jordan River into Israel to carry out a terror attack in 1968. Caught by Israeli soldiers, the squad murdered 2 soldiers. Al-Qassem was sentenced to 2 life sentences, and died in his prison cell 21 years later.

Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) - was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s - 1980’s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the Coastal Road attack that (until Oct. 7, 2023) was the most lethal in Israeli history - the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Raed Al-Karmi – Palestinian terrorist and senior Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) member responsible for the murder of 9 Israelis in several attacks: Etgar Zeituni and Motti Dayan on Jan. 23, 2001; Zvi Shelef on May 31, 2001; Danny Yehuda on June 18, 2001; Elie Na’aman on July 4, 2001; Dov Roseman on Aug. 26, 2001; soldier Yaniv Levy on Aug. 28, 2001; Israeli army officer Erez Merhavi on Sept. 6, 2001; and Hananya Ben Avraham on Oct. 5, 2001. Al-Karmi was killed by the Israeli army on Jan. 14, 2002.

Thabet Thabet - one of the founders of the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) in Tulkarem. Thabet was responsible for many shooting attacks against Israelis at the start of the 2000-2005 PA terror campaign (the second Intifada). Thabet was killed by the Israeli army on Dec. 31, 2000.

Marwan Zalum - Palestinian terrorist and commander of the Hebron branch of the Tanzim (Fatah terror faction). He was responsible for a number of terror attacks in the Hebron region, including sending the terrorist who in a shooting attack murdered the infant Shalhevet Pass in her stroller on March 26, 2001. Zalum also provided the explosive device used in a suicide attack at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open market on April 12, 2002, in which 6 Israelis were murdered and 80 wounded. He organized the planting of a bomb in southern Hebron, which murdered Israeli soldier Shai Cohen on July 9, 2001, and initiated a shooting attack at the entrance to Kiryat Arba on July 12, 2001, in which 1 person was murdered. Zalum was killed by the Israeli army on April 22, 2002.

Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rantisi - co-founder of Hamas was responsible for kidnappings and many murderous terror attacks against Israel. Al-Rantisi was killed by missiles fired at his car from an Israeli Air Force helicopter, on April 17, 2004..

Yahya Ayyash - The first Hamas bomb-maker and leader of Hamas' Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades in the West Bank, he is considered the initiator of Palestinian suicide bombings and nicknamed "the engineer." He built the bombs used in many terror attacks, including the Mehola Junction bombing (2 murdered, 9 injured, April 16, 1993), the Afula bus bombing (8 murdered, 55 injured, April 6, 1994), the Hadera central station bombing (6 murdered, 30 injured, April 13, 1994), the Tel Aviv bus 5 bombing (22 murdered, 47 injured, Oct. 19, 1994), the Ramat Gan bus bombing (6 murdered, 33 wounded, July 24, 1995), the Ramat Eshkol bus bombing (5 murdered, over 100 injured, Aug. 21, 1995), and the Bet Lid bombing (22 murdered, 66 injured, Jan. 22, 1995). He was killed by Israeli security forces on Jan. 5, 1996.

Karim and Maher Younes - Israeli Arab terrorists and cousins who kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980. They were originally sentenced to life in prison, but Israeli President Shimon Peres reduced their sentences to 40 years in 2012. In May 2017 Karim Younes was appointed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to the Fatah Central Committee. Karim Younes was released from prison on Jan. 5, 2023, and Maher Younes was released two weeks later on Jan. 19, 2023.

Jibril Rajoub also serves as Head of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association, Chairman of the Palestine Olympic Committee, and Chairman of the Palestinian Scout Association (PSA).