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‘Palestinian National and Islamic Forces’ Shuts Down US-Organized Local Dialogue Events

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By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

\n4 Elul 5779 – September 3, 2019

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The US Embassy in Jerusalem was recently forced to cancel two dialogue-promoting events between Americans and Palestinian Authority (PA) Arabs following pressure and threats from the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces (PNIF), which has functioned as an umbrella organization for coordination between the various terrorist groups.

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The Palestinian Media Watch, which monitors incitement in the PA media and educational system, quoted an article late last month in the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that the US Embassy canceled a gathering of alumni of US educational and cultural programs after the PNIF called for a boycott and threatened to organize protests.

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A second meeting between the US Embassy’s commercial attaché and PA business people was canceled with less than 24-hour’s notice last week after the PNIF contacted its management and demanded that the event be canceled.

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US events held in PA territory have previously been attacked or shut down violently, and US Embassy officials have likewise been heckled or assaulted.

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Calling the cancellation of the latest US-sponsored event “another Palestinian victory,” the PNIF said that the planned meeting was the “Americans deliberately, arrogantly, and rudely ignoring our people’s legal frameworks and bodies, and an attempt to bypass them and create direct contact with Palestinian figures and institutions through the embassy.”

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“While the cancellation of these events is significant, the fact that the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces took credit for thwarting the events should raise alarm,” explained PMW’s director Itamar Marcus.

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During the September 2000 – 2005 terror war known as the Second Intifada initiated by the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian National and Islamic Forces functioned as the umbrella organization for coordination between many different terrorist groups, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

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After the two cancellations, the PNIF warned against similar future events and “the consequences of responding to any invitation from the embassy or any American institution that supports the occupation and US policy, which denies our people’s rights and the decisions of international institutions.”

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Maurice Hirsch, head of legal strategies at PMW, noted “The fact that this umbrella organization is once again functioning, and even wielding influence, is disturbing.”

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“A forum which in the past provided a platform for terrorist organizations to meet and coordinate their terror activities, could very easily be used to perform the same function again,” he cautioned. “Furthermore, while the official political line is that Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party is not cooperating with Hamas, this operational platform may actually be reorganizing.”

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The PA has essentially been boycotting the US since President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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TPS has reported about covert meetings between US and PA officials, but all ties between Ramallah and Washington have in essence been frozen.

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https://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-national-and-islamic-forces-shuts-down-us-organized-local-dialogue-events/2019/09/03/

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Jason Greenblatt: ‘Absolutely Detestable’ that PA Children’s Camp Named After Terrorist

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Jason Greenblatt, the US’ Special Representative for International Negotiations, slammed the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its annual exploitation of its summer camps for incitement to terrorism and indoctrination of the campers.

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Every summer, the PA, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror groups conduct summer camps in the PA and in the Gaza Strip for youngsters, mostly for high school students. Thousands of campers enjoy summer activities, which are combined with the indoctrination of radical ideologies and paramilitary training.

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Hamas, which rules Gaza, is the most prominent organization conducting the summer camps, as a continuation of the military training it holds in high schools during the school year.

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The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported this week that the Fatah and the PLO, both of which are headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, again named a summer camp after terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who led the most lethal attack in Israel’s history when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus in 1978 and murdered 37 Israeli civilians, 12 of them children.

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The participants at the “Sisters of Dalal Summer Camp,” which was held in Tulkarem, were female high schools students.

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“It’s absolutely detestable that a children’s summer camp is named after and glorifies a known terrorist who killed 35 people – including 12 children,” Greenblatt stated Tuesday.

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“How can [the] Palestinian leadership say they want peace when they support this and promote the memory of a murderer!?” he demanded.

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The PA has named youth centers, sports tournaments, other venues and town squares after Mughrabi [as reported by PMW - Ed.].

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The PA’s educational system routinely educates its students to hate Israel and Israelis through terror-promoting messages. They use cultural mediums such as school plays, sports events and summer camps for this objective [as reported by PMW – Ed.].

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In line with this policy, the PA has named at least 28 schools after terrorists and at least three schools after Nazi collaborators. The PA Ministry of Education is directly and solely responsible for naming schools [as reported by PMW – Ed.].

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[https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/jason-greenblatt-absolutely-detestable-that-pa-childrens-camp-named-after-terrorist/2019/07/17/]

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