PA daily columnist hints that “the Israeli right wing” was involved in the terror attacks in France
On Jan. 7, 2015, Muslim terrorists Cherif and Said Kouachi carried out a shooting attack at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 12 people were killed in the attack, which was a response to cartoons the magazine published about Islam's Prophet Muhammad. On Jan. 8, in a connected attack, Muslim terrorist Amely Coulibaly shot and killed a policewoman in Paris and on Jan. 9, he shot and killed 4 Jewish shoppers at a Paris kosher supermarket.
While Abbas officially condemned the terror attacks in France, PMW has documented different PA reactions to the attacks. Some have condemned them while at the same time condemning Charlie Hebdo for mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Others have compared the terror attacks in France to Israeli "terrorism" against Palestinians, and some have even claimed that Israel was behind the attacks.
Op-ed by Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular columnist for the official PA daily:
“The Israeli right wing, which dominates Israel, was quick to declare programs for the expansion of the existing settlements, with the aim of populating [the settlements with] Jewish immigrants from France, as if the perpetrators of the two attacks in Paris and the Israeli settlement establishment had matching interests, just as the Jewish Agency’s interests matched the interests of those who carried out the attacks against the Jewish communities in Morocco, Egypt and Iraq, in order to force them to immigrate to Palestine before and after 1948 - and it has been proven that these squads were Jewish, and had links to armed Zionist organizations…”
While Abbas officially condemned the terror attacks in France, PMW has documented different PA reactions to the attacks. Some have condemned them while at the same time condemning Charlie Hebdo for mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Others have compared the terror attacks in France to Israeli "terrorism" against Palestinians, and some have even claimed that Israel was behind the attacks.
Op-ed by Hafez Al-Barghouti, regular columnist for the official PA daily:
“The Israeli right wing, which dominates Israel, was quick to declare programs for the expansion of the existing settlements, with the aim of populating [the settlements with] Jewish immigrants from France, as if the perpetrators of the two attacks in Paris and the Israeli settlement establishment had matching interests, just as the Jewish Agency’s interests matched the interests of those who carried out the attacks against the Jewish communities in Morocco, Egypt and Iraq, in order to force them to immigrate to Palestine before and after 1948 - and it has been proven that these squads were Jewish, and had links to armed Zionist organizations…”