IPT institute quotes PMW extensively on PA incitement that led to recent terror surge
Palestinian Incitement, Attacks, Glorification
IPT News, Nov. 18, 2014
Recent Examples of Palestinian Authority/Fatah Incitement to Violence
In light of increasing terrorist attacks, Netanyahu has repeatedly accused the PA and Hamas of inciting violence against Israeli citizens. The following section outlines key examples of Palestinian Authority and Fatah sanctioned incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism in recent weeks:
- After the shooting of Rabbi Yehuda Glick, Abbas sent a condolence letter to the family of terrorist Mutaz Hijazi who was killed by Israeli authorities in a firefight during a raid for his capture. In the letter, Abbas called the terrorist a "Shahid," a martyr who "rose to Heaven while defending our people's rights and holy places," according to PMW.
- A senior Fatah official claimed responsibility for the attempted assassination. Adnan Ghaith, director of the Fatah branch in Jerusalem, admitted that the terrorist was a Fatah operative and was proud of his actions, according to an exclusive interview to the Quds [News] Network translated by PMW. "The Martyr (Shahid) Mutaz Hijazi, who carried out the assassination attempt, was a member of Fatah and one of its activities in [Jerusalem]. Since his release from the occupation prisons in 2012 [until his death], he participated in all the [Fatah] movement's events, and was active in it," Ghaith said. "We in Fatah are not ashamed to take responsibility for the heroic act he carried out today, for it was a natural reaction to the occupation's crimes against Jerusalem and its holy places."
- Abbas adviser and Fatah Central Committee member, Sultan Abu Al-Einein, also praised the terrorist on his Facebook page. "Your bullets were a beacon [on] a path that had become dark, the light of which will continue to shine for years to come," Sultan wrote on November 3. Al-Einein also praised the terrorist who killed three-month-old American Israeli Haya Zissel-Brown and injured eight others following the terrorist attack. Al-Einein, Abbas' adviser, referred to the terrorist as a "heroic Martyr" on his official Facebook page, PMW reported.
- Abbas' Fatah movement also praised the terrorist by posting an obituary on its official Facebook page, also referring to the killer as a "heroic Martyr" and portraying his death as "his wedding." The "wedding" reference relates to the Islamic belief that Martyrs for Allah are married to 72 virgins in the afterlife. Mahmoud Al-Aloul, a member of Fatah Central Committee, also re-posted the glorification on his personal Facebook account. Al-Einein's past glorification of terrorists led five U.S. Congress members to demand that Abbas fire his adviser and condemn this sentiment, to no avail.
- Fatah's official Facebook page explicitly encourages Palestinians to conduct similar vehicular attacks on Israelis. On November 6, Fatah's main page featured a cartoon referring to "the run over organization" (a play on words for the Arabic word for "run over" – da'es and the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State terrorist group based in Iraq and Syria –Da'esh), according to the PMW. The cartoon urges Palestinians to "Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa." Fatah advocated for the "run over" term to proliferate into a new popular hashtag (#Da'es) on social media, in an effort for the phrase to be adopted by social media users and the terrorist action carried out. Another official Fatah post calls for Palestinians to "Run over, friend, run over the foreign settler!", referring to any Israeli citizen.
- Palestinian Authority TV broadcasted a video of Mahmoud Abbas' calling for Palestinian to prevent Jews from going to the Temple Mount compound "in any way," according to PMW. The video was shown 19 times in three days, playing a clip of Abbas' October 17 speech, which implicitly calls for Palestinians to use violence against Israelis.
- In the same week, a terrorist killed a three-month old American-Israeli girl and a young Ecuadorian woman while hundreds of Palestinians participated in violent riots. Click here to view the PA video clip. By incorporating phrases such as "in any way" and "using all means," the PA is explicitly calling for violence and terrorism.
- The incitement has been so blatant that it elicited a response from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which called on President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and other political and religious leaders to condemn Abbas' incitement against Jews visiting their own holy places.
- The National Security Forces of the Palestinian Authority posted a cartoon depicting an Israeli soldier about to rape the Al-Aqsa Mosque, portrayed as a female in prison, according to PMW. The cartoon woman is crying in a jail cell as the Israeli soldier is preparing to remove his pants outside the cell. The soldier is depicted as saying: "Come on, sweetheart." The text of the cartoon reads: "Daily cartoon: Al-Aqsa is being raped."
- Two cartoons printed in Abbas' official Palestinian Authority daily, Al-Hayah Al-Jadida, entice Palestinians to strike Israelis with stones, according to PMW. One cartoon depicts a father and son at the entrance to the Dome of the Rock as the father gives his son a slingshot as the text reads: "Purification before Prayer is performed with stones."
- On October 30, Fatah officially declared the next day to be a "Day of Rage," calling on Palestinian "fighters" to engage Israelis in Jerusalem, according an official PA news agency report, WAFA, translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
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