A leading Palestinian Authority said in an interview broadcast earlier this month that he supported violence against Israel, including a nuclear attack.

“I swear that if we had a nuke, we’d have used it this very morning,” said Jibril Rajoub, the deputy secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and the chairman of the PA Olympic Committee, as reported by Israel National News. He made the comments during a television interview with the Lebanese Al-Mayadeen television channel, which was then posted on his personal Facebook page.

Besides the obviously disturbing nature of the statement, it is so typical of the palestinian leadership. Nuking us would kill their own people in the process.

As Gold Meir said, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us

Eviatar Borovsky, 31, was supposed to attend rehearsal for a new improvisation play of the Ar’el theater group for Jewish culture Tuesday morning, but before his friend arrived at the Tapuach junction to pick Borovsky up, the latter was stabbed to death by Salem Zaal, 24, from the village of Shucha near Tulkarem.

Borovsky, resident of the Yitzhar settlement, is survived by a wife and five children. His friend Oshri Meimon, who was supposed to pick him up Tuesday morning, told Ynet that terror victim was “a talented man who would always laugh at everything.”

Assaf Paniel, another friend from the theater group said that “as soon as we heard about the attack we tried to make it to his house in Yitzhar, so we could be with his wife and the family, but the army was blocking the road.”

Though 14 years have passed since Borovsky graduated from the Hispin yeshiva, head of the yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Egozi, remembered Borovsky fondly, noting that “he was a special man, very spiritual, alternative, abstract; a very gentle person.

“We met again later in life when we started an alumni seminary at the yeshiva,” Egozi added. “We started the seminary so as to promote the study of alternative spirituality, in which Eviatar was always interested.”

Here is footage of Eviatar performing in an educational play (from Go Shomron via Yisrael Medad)

Meanwhile, here is how “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah remembers his murderer:

This morning, an Israeli father of five Evyatar Borovsky was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist at the Tapuach Junction, north east of the Israeli city Ariel and south of the Palestinian city Nablus in the West Bank.

Fatah’s Facebook page is celebrating the murder and glorifying the murderer. Pictures of the terrorist and the victim were posted by Fatah’s Facebook administrator and the text calls the murderer: “The hero, the released prisoner, Salam Al-Zaghal.”

The following are the texts and pictures from Fatah’s Facebook page celebrating the murder:

Nevertheless, every now and then, the propaganda backfires.

In this cynical picture thread about IDF “invincibility”, we can see photos of wounded soldiers, funerals of fallen soldiers and photos of IDF personnel ducking and taking cover when a siren that warns of incoming rockets from Gaza goes off.

Then there’s this image:

With a little bit of internet wizardry, I found the truth behind this image:

NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL – AUGUST 2: In this handout photo provided by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), IDF medics treat a wounded Palestinian man shortly after Israel allowed some 150 Fatah fighters to flee from Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip during the night on August 2, 2008 at the Nahal Oz crossing into the Jewish state. In a rare move, Defence Minister Ehud Barak authorized a total of 150 un-armed Palestinians to cross in to Israel for refuge including about a dozen wounded who were taken to hospital for treatment.

A little bit less internet wizardry, would have informed the Hamashole that posted that image, that the photo’s name is “Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_IDF_Soldiers_Treats_Palestinian_Man“, and that ripping images of the Algemeiner is a no-no.

Then again, there’s an open battle between Hamas and Fatah for Terrorist Organization of the Year presidency in the PA, so brandishing one another as “Zionist” is not inconceivable.

On its 48th anniversary, the storied political party grapples with endemic failure and no way forward.

Palestinians take part in a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in Gaza City January 4, 2013.

After nearly a half-century of existence, Fatah has left many loyalists and critics alike pondering its accomplishments. On New Year’s Eve, the Palestinian political party — which has led the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for decades and currently holds the presidency of the Palestianian Authority (PA) — celebrated its 48th anniversary. In Ramallah, a few thousand mostly young men marched across the West Bank city to the Muqata’, the headquarters of the PA president and Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas. The streets were lined with the party’s younger supporters, some elderly veterans clad in military fatigues and several high-ranking members of the group’s leadership who are based in the West Bank.

As the marchers converged upon the headquarters — once a ravaged icon of the second Intifada, today it stands a revamped modern military compound — many started to trickle away. Addressing the enthusiastic group that remained, Abbas, looking every day of his 77 years, spoke of Palestinian leaders of years past. He started with Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian figure unrivaled in his persona, then moved on to Abu Jihad and Abu Eyad — both icons of Palestinian resistance — and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas’s late spiritual leader, whose group Fatah has been at loggerheads with since it wrested control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.

And no mention whatsoever of Fatah’s terrorism – it’s all “resistance”. Well, what can you expect of an Al-Jazeera drop-out.

Dalia Hatuqa is a Ramallah-based writer who previously worked for Al Jazeera in Washington D.C.

h/t @PhillipSmyth

Sneakily and without an official correction notice, CNN added a new sentence to their article:

Palestine Liberation Organization leaders say Fatah was officially founded in 1965 which coincided with its first major attack against Israel.

Let’s Fisk it:

“PLO leaders say” –  That’s another way of saying “we didn’t fact check what we are about to write”.

“Fatah was officialy founded in 1965″  - Which is a proven lie.

“Coincided with it’s first major attack against Israel” – On the one hand, CNN admits there’s a terrorist attack somewhere in there. On the other hand, it’s obfuscated by “coincided”. The retroactive political action, of coinciding Fatah’s anniversary celebrations with its war crimes, is the correct way of things, and not the twisted, deceitful PLO (of which Fatah is the biggest faction) propaganda and history revisionism, which CNN has posted on their website.

The mainstream media has a new-old moderate Arab pet: Fatah. The terrorist group headed by previous moderate Arab pet Mahmoud Abbas. Some even go so far as to play up the contrast between Fatah and Hamas, the former being moderate and pragmatic, while the latter Islamist and extremist.

As we mentioned here yesterday, Fatah is not celebrating 48 years since it’s founding in 1959. It’s celebrating 48 years since it’s first act of terrorism against Israel.

This little fact was omitted by some of your favourite news sites, like CNN, AP and Reuters, who instead chose to publish a lie.

CNN:

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza in a show of support for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party on Friday, the 48th anniversary of the party’s founding.

Reuters

The demonstration marked 48 years since Fatah’s founding as the spearhead of the Palestinians’ fight against Israel.

AP

Overnight, throngs had camped out in a downtown Gaza square to ensure themselves a spot for the anniversary commemoration of Fatah’s 1965 founding, and tens of thousands marched early Friday carrying Fatah banners. When the rally began, people stampeded to the stage to try to shake leaders’ hands.

The BBC has also tidied up the Fatah dirt, and while AFP did state what anniversary they were celebrating, they listed it in the penultimate sentence of the article. Obviously this terrorist act is described with the sanitised term “operation”:

The anniversary commemorates the first operation against Israel claimed by Fatah’s armed wing, then known as Al-Assifa (The Thunderstorm in Arabic), on January 1, 1965.

Once again “professional” journalists fail basic fact checking, that even a simple Wikipedia search would have set straight.

And for those of you who don’t like to use Wikipedia as a source, even the PIWP affirms that fact.

Event #527 First military operation by Fatah in Palestine
Date: Friday, 1 Jan 1965

An attack by the Al ‘Asifa military wing of Fatah on the Israeli national water carrier in Galilee marks the beginning of the Palestinian revolution.

It seems, though, one fact was completely overlooked by the media. In 1965, the “Palestine” Fatah wanted to liberate was not Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, occupied at that time by Jordan and Egypt respectively, but the Palestine “occupied” by Israel.

So what exactly was that Fatah original sin? It was an act of terrorism: trying to sabotage Israel’s national water aqueduct.

Three terrorists infiltrated from Jordan and placed an explosive device on one of the main pipelines of the national water carrier. The device failed to detonate and was discovered by passing border police forces. The terrorists escaped back to Jordan and were spotted by Jordanian soldiers who opened fire on them. In the ensuing fire-fight, two Fatah members were killed and a third escaped into Jordan.

Fatah is celebrating a failed act of terror and fratricide by their own Arab brethren. And remember, hundreds of thousands (then) of Israeli Arabs drank from the same water sources as the Jews of Israel.

And it wasn’t just any attempted act of terror, but a bona fide war crime:

Protocol I, Article 54, of the Geneva convention: “Protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population”

• It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away. or for any other motive.

Not only is the mainstream media covering up Fatah’s current genocidal charter in clouds of “moderation”, they are also whitewashing Fatah’s terrorist background, terror and war crimes.

Let me break it to you gently, Fatah is just as bad an Arab terrorist organization as any. It is based on principles of terrorism, Jihad, genocide and nationalism.

From Fatah’s charter:

Article (5) Liberating Palestine is a national obligation which necessitates the materialistic and human support of the Arab Nation.

Article (8) The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally
to colonialism and international imperialism.

Article (12) Complete liberation of Palestine, and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence.

Article (17) Armed public revolution is the inevitable method to liberating Palestine.

Article (19) Armed struggle is a strategy and not a tactic, and the Palestinian Arab People’s armed revolution is a decisive factor in the liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence, and this struggle will not cease unless the Zionist state is demolished and Palestine is completely liberated.

Article (22) Opposing any political solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist occupation in Palestine, as well as any project intended to liquidate the Palestinian case or impose any international mandate on its people.

Article (26) Avoiding attempts to exploit the Palestinian case in any Arab or international problems and considering the case above all contentions.

As you can see, Fatah is not really about dialogue and peace, and a clear spoiler is their banner, sporting two rifles, a grenade, and the outline of the whole of Israel. Even the name Fatah is a reverse acronym of Palestine liberation movement. And lest we forget the US and others designated terrorist group, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, which rose out of Fatah at the onset of the 2nd Intifada.

And these are our “peace partners”. Nice.

Update: The Guardian doesn’t know 2nd grade math:

Throngs camped out overnight in a downtown Gaza square to ensure themselves a spot for the anniversary commemoration of Fatah’s 1959 founding

The demonstration marked 48 years since Fatah’s founding as the spearhead of the Palestinians’ fight against Israel.

20 injured in Gaza City during Fatah rally

Twenty people were injured in Gaza City on Friday as hundreds of thousands gathered to celebrate Fatah’s 48th anniversary, a medical official said.

Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that 20 people were taken to hospital for treatment after getting crushed among the crowds in al-Saraya square. Several other people suffered electric shocks while trying to attach Fatah flags to electricity poles, al-Qidra added.

They never learn, do they?

This has “Mossad Shin-Bet plot” written all over it. First, most of Gaza’s electricity comes from Israel, so there’s a good chance that the electricity is a Zionist agent. Secondly, if Israel was already destroyed, this rally wouldn’t take place in the first place!

Meanwhile, SkyNews Arabia is reporting that one of those injured in the stampede has died:

It was reported from Gaza of an unfortunate incident that killed a young Palestinian man by the stampede on the Saraya Square. A Girl that was injured is in serious condition.

Update: Confirmed, we have a winner, Ibrahim Mohamed Tayeh 23 years old of Sheikh Radwan. the reports say he fell while standing on an electric pole. In the Reuters photo above you can see a young man do the action described, though I don’t know if he’s Tayeh,

We have already shown that Israel’s supposed peace partner, which is headed by the West’s darling Mahmoud Abbas, has all of Israel’s outline on their logo, so this celebration in Gaza today just confirms what we already know.

• Child abuse – check.
• Military fatigues on toddler – check.
• Arab nationalism – check.
• Ironic use of peace sign – check.
• Israel’s destruction – check.
• Peace partner? – umm……

Nope. (h/t Jonathan Schanzer)

Note the “Abbas 194″ on the mock rocket, a reference to the recent UNGA vote.

But let’s have a look at the recently released logo for the 48th anniversary of our “peace partner” Fatah.

Sure, it’s more subtle. There’s no rocket aimed at Israel, and the dove breaking free of its chains might seem to indicate a desire for peace. But take note of the Kaffiyeh in the shape of the entire State of Israel, as well as the letters in the shapes of keys, representing the palestinian “right of return” to Israel proper.

Yes, it’s more subtle, but then again, Fatah – with their suits and doublespeak – are more subtle. Which does not make them any less dangerous.

By the way, the clue is even before you see the logo. Why is Fatah celebrating its 48th anniversary if the so-called occupation is only 45 years old?

Update: Here’s another indication our “peace partners” are anything but.

She’s back in the news, this time mourning her brother relative.

Via the JPost:

Palestinian activist Abir Kopty of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee reported Monday that a Palestinian died in a Ramallah hospital two days after he was shot by an IDF soldier.

The incident took place in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh during clashes at protests against Operation Pillar of Defence.

In a video released Monday, around a dozen youths can be seen throwing rocks at IDF soldiers from a hillside in the village, while the soldiers fire tear gas and what sounds like rubber bullets.

At one point, Rushdi Tamimi, 31, is seen sitting on the hillside, then shots are heard and he falls to his side. The video then cuts to footage shot by a cameraman running to help Tamimi, who is seen crouched with blood on his head. The soldiers tell the protesters to back away from the man, but after a few minutes they relent and allow the protesters to allow him to be taken to a hospital.

Kopty said that Tamimi was shot once in the lower back and the bullet lodged in his stomach. Although he was admitted to a hospital by Saturday evening, he died of his wounds, she said.

The IDF Spokesman’s Office told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that “on Saturday there was an illegal violent protest where some 80 Palestinians threw rocks at IDF forces who used crowd dispersal methods against them.”

While the exact circumstances of his death are not yet clear, what seems to be clear is he was no boy scout.

On the Tamimi Press Facebook page, he is described as a “Palestinian national liberation movement martyr” and his photo is featured with the Fatah emblem, rifles and all.

There’s also this post, auto translated as follows:

Urgent: the martyrdom of the young Rushdie Mahmoud al-Tamimi of his wounds in the village of Nabi Saleh
Tamimi Press: trumpet Popular Resistance Movement Palestinian uprising in the village of Nabi Saleh hero martyr Rushdie Mahmoud Hassan al-Tamimi, 28, who died of his Bjarha that injured two days agofollowing a confrontation broke out in the village of Nabi Saleh in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip was shot live in thigh and abdomen and was taken to the Palestine medical complex inRamallah and suffered internal bleeding before they rise to God as a martyr
Martyr al-Tamimi from the village of Nabi Saleh and works in a Palestinian police and invite you to participate in his funeral on Tuesday
I am God and to Him we return

His work in the palestinian police is confirmed by Maan News.

While it is not clear he was a terrorist, at the very least he was a member of the palestinian police, which makes it highly unlikely he was at the protests merely yelling out curses and picking daisies.

Update:

A Palestinian policeman bids farewell to 28-year-old Palestinian Rushdi Tamimi, a fellow officer, who died at a Ramallah hospital two days after Israeli forces shot him during a Gaza solidarity protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, 19 November. (Issam Rimawi / APA images)