The New York Times reports that our peace partners over at Fatah have bragged about killing “11,000 Israelis” in an effort to appeal to palestinians in elections.
I am using this photo with Abbas in it because it still cracks me up
In an effort to appeal to Palestinians ahead of hotly contested elections, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas listed one of its main achievements as having “killed 11,000 Israelis.”
The party, Fatah, made the incendiary claim on Tuesday in an Arabic-language post on one of its official Facebook pages.
“For the argumentative … the ignorant … And for those who do not know history,” begins the Facebook post, “The Fatah movement killed 11,000 Israelis.”
Fatah also claimed to have “offered 170,000 martyrs,” and hundreds of its followers, it said, were in “Israeli occupation jails.” By Thursday the post had been shared 30 times and liked 163 times.
The post garnered additional attention after it was translated into English by Palestinian Media Watch, an organization that monitors anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements in the Arab news media. The website noted that it was the second time Fatah had made the inaccurate claim. The first was in August 2014.
Israelis and Palestinians have long accused each other of incitement to violence. But in Israeli eyes, Palestinian leaders starting with Yasir Arafat, the father of Palestinian nationalism who helped found Fatah in 1959, have had a habit of saying one thing in Arabic and another in English.
In the early 2000s, at the height of the second Palestinian uprising, Mr. Arafat led crowds in the West Bank city of Ramallah in a chant of “To Jerusalem, we are going, martyrs in the millions!” days after writing an Op-Ed article in The New York Times about the Palestinian vision of peace.
Mr. Abbas, who succeeded Mr. Arafat, has repeatedly said he supports nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation. But Fatah has historically championed armed resistance as a central tenet of its doctrine for the liberation of the Palestinian people.
Fatah is now a large and unwieldy movement, and its activists often make statements that do not reflect Mr. Abbas’s position.
“President Abbas’s party boasts about committing mass murder and yet it is called ‘moderate’ by many,” said David Keyes, a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. “Imagine if Palestinian leaders spent their time praising coexistence instead of terror.”
Husam Zomlot, the strategic affairs adviser to Mr. Abbas, first questioned whether the Facebook page was official, and then said it was probably the work of some “hot-blooded youths.”
He may have a point about it being the work of “hot blooded youth.” I have been able to locate many recent examples of such a hot-blooded Fatah youngster praising terrorists and terrorism.
Hot-blooded youth: “We won’t allow Jews with their “filthy feet” to “defile our Al-Aqsa Mosque” “We bless every drop of blood… that has been spilled for Allah”
Hot-blooded youth: Terrorist murderers are “heroes”
Hot-blooded youth praises terrorist killers of hundreds at Gaza ceremony
Fatah anniversary video shows hot-blooded youth glorifying mass murderers, in 2013
https://youtu.be/r9d0VsrpasA
Hot-blooded youth decorates terror leader Abu Jihad with Star of Honor
Hot-blooded youth applauds girl chanting on death as a Martyr
You have to watch out for those hot-blooded youth. They can really cause trouble if left to their own devices.
Come to think of it, their cold-blooded ones are also to be weary of.
A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
A law school graduate, David Lange transitioned from work in the oil and hi-tech industries into fulltime Israel advocacy. He is a respected commentator and Middle East analyst who has often been cited by the mainstream media
