Teachers, like arch-terrorists, are "exalted examples of sacrifice and bravery"
Official PA TV Live broadcast the main event marking World Teachers' Day in Bethlehem. Several PA officials attended the event: PA Minister of Education Ali Zaidan (Abu Zuhri), Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi, Advisor to PA Chairman Abbas on NGOs and Member of Fatah Central Committee Sultan Abu Al-Einein, District Governor of Bethlehem Abd Al-Fattah Hamayel and Director of the Bethlehem Education Administration Nisreen Yasser Amr.
Secretary-General of Palestinian Teachers' Union in the Homeland and Diaspora Ahmad Sahwil: "Dear teachers, and education community, you are the ones who gave and daily give the most exalted examples of sacrifice and bravery. How could it be otherwise? For you are the ones who planted the values of manhood and sacrifice among the youth... You, teachers of Palestine, are the ones who deserve only pride. How could it be otherwise? For you are the brothers of Salah Khalaf, the Martyr teacher; brothers of Khalil Al-Wazir, the Martyr teacher; and also brothers of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Martyr teacher. These great leaders - you are their brothers and you follow their path."
Notes: Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) - Founder of Fatah and head of the terrorist organization Black September. Attacks he planned included the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972) and the murder of two American diplomats in Sudan (March 1, 1973).
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 planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks killing 125 Israelis. This included the most lethal in Israeli history, the hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin - Founder and former head of the terrorist organization Hamas. The Hamas movement is responsible for numerous terror attacks and the deaths of hundreds of Israeli civilians.