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The Fatah movement, which rules the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, has called for violence in response to next week’s US-sponsored economic workshop in Bahrain.

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The conference is intended to be the first stage in the Trump administration’s long-gestating Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Representatives of several Arab states are set to take part, along with an Israeli business delegation. The Palestinian Authority is refusing to attend.

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Fatah’s call for violence appeared in an Arabic-language Facebook post, translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).

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“The program of activities against the Bahrain Conference and the deal of the century. On Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, June 24, 25, and 26, 2019. An escalation of the confrontations with the Israeli occupation in all districts of the homeland as a sign of opposition to the deal of the century and the workshop in Manama,” the post said.

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Fatah also held a conference titled, “The Holocaust of the Century in Bahrain… Its Signs, Consequences, and Ways to Deal With It.” At the conference, the Bahrain summit was called “a holocaust for the basic Arab principles and the Palestinians’ rights” and “the Holocaust of the century,” a reference to Trump’s reference to Israeli-Palestinian peace as the “deal of the century.”

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In an article published last week by the official Palestinian Authority newspaper, Fatah Revolutionary Council Secretary Majed Al-Fatiani said his group was “committed to leading the struggle to stop the great plot that is being woven against our people.”

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He added that the Palestinians would use “all means” — a phrase that is often a euphemism for terrorism — against the Bahrain meeting, and called on “the Fatah members and the vital forces on the Palestinian lands to [dedicate] the 24th, 25th, and 26th [of June] to Palestine and Jerusalem, in order to express their rejection of the Bahrain Conference.”

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https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/06/19/pa-ruling-fatah-calls-for-violence-to-protest-us-led-bahrain-summit-on-palestinian-economy/

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\nPalestinian Religious Affairs Minister Complains Over Israeli Forces
\nEntering Mosque in Search of Ori Ansbacher’s Killer
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\nThe Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Religious Affairs Youssef Ideiss condemned Israeli forces on Sunday for entering a mosque over the weekend while in pursuit of the murderer of an Israeli teenager.
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\nAccording to local watchdog Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the PA’s official daily Al-Hayat al-Jadida reported Ideiss as decrying the incident as a “cowardly attack against a religious and sacred place of worship, without any consideration for its sanctity and its religious and spiritual value.” Ideiss further claimed that the event “constitutes part of a series of daily attacks against our Islamic and Christian holy sites, and particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the pearl of Palestine, by the occupation forces and unbridled settlers and under political cover of the right-wing occupation government.”
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\nThe undercover Israeli security personnel had reportedly entered the Jamal Abdel Nasser Mosque, the largest mosque in Al-Bireh, in the central West Bank. The mosque is named after the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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\nPalestinian media reports said that security camera footage was confiscated from the mosque and a 30-year-old employee was arrested. The seized data led to the arrest of the murderer shortly afterwards in a nearby building, PMW said.
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\nThe killer, Arafat Irfayia, later admitted to the murder of Ori Ansbacher, 19, whose body was found in a forested area near Jerusalem on Thursday. Signs of extreme violence were reportedly found on the body, though details have been withheld. It was not officially revealed until Sunday that she was also raped. On Sunday, Irfayia reenacted the crime for police.
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\nMinister Ideiss did not mention Ansbacher’s murder in his remarks about the mosque. In addition, Al-Hayat al-Jadida falsely claimed the victim was a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.
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\n“A young person was arrested who is suspected in the murder of a female soldier in the occupation army,” the daily stated.
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\n[https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/10/palestinian-religious-affairs-minister-complains-over-israeli-forces-entering-mosque-in-search-of-ori-ansbachers-killer/]

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\nPalestinian President Abbas’s Fatah Party
\nMocks ‘Fearful’ Israelis Running From Hamas Rocket Attacks
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party reacted with glee to last week’s massive rocket barrage on Israel’s south.
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\nAccording to monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch, the official Fatah Facebook page posted a photo of Israeli medics on the scene of the rocket strikes and wrote, “Going down to the shelters, their hearts filled with fear.”
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\nAnother image claimed Israelis were evacuating the southern town of Ashkelon, with text claiming, “The Palestinian resistance is turning the occupied settlement of Ashkelon into a ghost town as a result of the repeated missile attacks.”
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\n“Ashkelon is a ghost town,” the post added. “Emigration from Palestine under the resistance’s missiles.”
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\nAshkelon is not a settlement and was not evacuated during the rocket attacks.
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\nA cartoon was also published showing a woman and her child fleeing Ashkelon. Hebrew text superimposed over the image said, “The army is using the city [of Ashkelon] in the cruel operations against us, and therefore we will respond to this. It is preferable to move as far away from the city as possible.”

[https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/18/palestinian-president-abbass-fatah-party-mocks-fearful-israelis-running-from-hamas-rocket-attacks/]

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\nOfficial PA TV Reporter Claims
\nIsrael Stole Falafel, Hummus From Palestinians

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\nOfficial Palestinian Authority television recently accused Israel of stealing falafel, hummus, and other “Palestinian foods” as part of a conspiracy against “Palestinian heritage.”
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\nThe claim was made by a reporter for the PA television channel’s show Palestine This Morning on October 3, 2018 as part of a report on a local food festival, translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
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\n“We are talking about a brutal attack against the Palestinian heritage in general, including Palestinian foods,” the reporter claimed over images of a cook preparing various dishes.
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\n“There has been theft of the Palestinian falafel, the Palestinian hummus, and some popular foods by the occupation,” she added.
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\n“Holding [food] festivals like these is essential in order to preserve the heritage and also the Palestinian foods,” the reporter said.
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\nFalafel and hummus are, in fact, generic Middle Eastern foods and are eaten by many peoples across the region and beyond. They have also become popular as delicacies in Western countries.
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\nPMW noted that the incident is by no means the first time such accusations against Israel have been made. Mohammad Shtayyeh, a central committee member of the Fatah party, once claimed Israel “fabricated the falafel.” A member of the PA Parliament has also made a similar accusation, saying the Jewish state “falsified the falafel ball.” In 2011, Palestinian columnist Muwaffaq Matar charged that Israel had “stolen our clothing, our keffiyeh, our falafel, and our hummus.”\n

[https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/10/21/official-pa-tv-reporter-claims-israel-stole-falafel-hummus-from-palestinians/]
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Benjamin Kerstein