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Palestinian Authority Will Continue Paying
\nTerrorist 'Martyrs' and Their Families
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[Click here to view footage of the interveiw with PMW's director]
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\nCongress recently passed the Taylor Force Act, named after a US citizen who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Israel. The law prevents US aid to the Palestinian Authority if it continues the practice of paying convicted terrorists and their families, a policy sometimes known as "pay to slay."
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\nWhen the Taylor Force Act became law, Congress expected the PA to get the message. [...]
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\nYet PA President Mahmoud Abbas ignored any signs, blatantly refusing to honor the new law even though it could mean millions in lost aid.
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\nRewarding terrorists and their families has been built into the fabric of Palestinian society, as well as its budget, for decades.
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\n"The passing of the Taylor Force Act by Congress and the enactment and the signing by the president is a very, very important message to the Palestinian Authority that when you reward terror, you can no longer receive American aid," Itamar Marcus, director of the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) told CBN News.
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\nPMW first reported on the Palestinian Authority's payment to terrorists in 2011.
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\n"The great tragedy of, I would say of the past 20 years, is that the Palestinian Authority acted like a terror organization, they sent terrorists to kill Israelis, they rewarded them," Marcus said.

[http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2018/april/palestinian-authority-will-continue-paying-terrorist-martyrs-and-their-families]

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The Mideast Peace Process a Deception?

\nby Chris Mitchell

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\nFor decades, diplomats have tried to bring about peace in the Middle East through negotiations.
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\nThe latest attempt to settle the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians ended in Jordan with no real progress.
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\nA newly published book asks if there's really a "peace process" going on at all.
\nOn March 11, 2011, in the Israeli community of Itamar, two Palestinian terrorists murdered five members of the Fogel family -- Ehud, Ruth and three of their children at ages 11, 4 and three months.
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\nYet instead of condemning the violence, last month the official media of the Palestinian Authority aired a program glorifying the murderers.
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\nIt's another example of what Itamar Marcus calls mixed messages by the Palestinians. He documents this phenomenon in the book titled, Deception: Betraying the Peace Process.
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\n"The Palestinian Authority gives two messages," Marcus told CBN News. "There's the English language message to the media, to negotiators, and there's the Arabic language message to their own people. And often there is no resemblance between those two messages, and that's what this book documents."
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\n"This is the internal Palestinian world. This is what they don't want everybody to know. This is what they don't want everybody to hear," he added.
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\nMarcus says one such message came in a recent speech in which the PA's official mufti, or scholar, quoted a passage from the Islamic Hadith. "Which says the hour of resurrection won't come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. It's basically saying that one of the conditions for the redemption of humanity is the killing of Jews by Muslims," Marcus explained.
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\nMarcus says the Palestinian group regularly frames the conflict with Israel as a battle over religion, not land.
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\n"It's part of the great deception. To the world they say it's a territorial war. To their own people they say it's a religious war for Allah," he said.
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\nMarcus says the PA hides this view from Washington and the world. That's because the PA looks to Washington for money. While much of its funding comes from the U.S., Marcus says the PA is seldom held accountable for questionable and potentially violent messages.
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\n"That general budget pays the salary of that mufti, who cited the call for genocide for Jews as a precursor to bringing the hour of redemption. Now why didn't the United States government immediately tell the PA they have to fire this mufti or they're not getting another penny?" he asked.
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\nAnd if there are no consequences or change within the PA, Marcus believes peace will remain elusive.
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\n"If that doesn't happen, there is no peace process, even if they're meeting in Jordan or meeting in any place else, it's not a real peace process. As our book title says, it's just a deception process," he said.
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\n*Originally aired on February 3, 2012.","id":3528,"author":[{"id":169,"name":{"en":"chris mitchell","he":""},"about":"","citeName":{"en":"Mitchell, C.","he":""}}],"tags":[],"description":"\"It's another example of what Itamar Marcus calls mixed messages by the Palestinians. He documents this phenomenon in the book titled, Deception: Betraying the Peace Process. 'The Palestinian Authority gives two messages,' Marcus told CBN News. 'There's the English language message to the media, to...\"","thumbnail":""},{"contentType":"Article","tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1038","1045","1162"],"published":true,"content":"U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden told a Tel Aviv University audience the furor over Israel's announcement for 1600 new apartments in a Jerusalem was behind him.
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\n"I appreciate, by the way, the response given by the Prime Minister, who today is putting in place a process to prevent the recurrence that sort of event, and who clarified that the beginning of actual construction of this particular project would likely take several years," he said. "That is significant, because it gives negotiations the time to resolve this as well as other issues."
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\nThe controversy clouded Biden's visit; embarrassed Israeli Prime Minister and gave the Palestinian leadership a huge public relations boost with the U.S., E.U. and many other nations condemning Israel for its announcement. What it did obscure was a less well known controversy.
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\nIsrael had asked the U.S. to pressure the Palestinian Authority to stop a ceremony honoring Dalal Mughrabi on Thursday. It might seem innocuous but Mughrabi is no ordinary Palestinian. She and other terrorists hijacked a bus in 1978 and killed 37 Israelis, one of the worst terror attacks in Israel’s history. Today would have been her 50th birthday and the P.A. wanted to honor her by naming a square after her in Ramallah.
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\nOne of P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas aides called her a “bridge to our freedom.” Here’s his full quote:
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\n"The Palestinian woman is the mother, the sister, the wife, the companion and partner [of the man] in areas of education, resilience, building and struggle and therefore she knows all the forms of the struggle and its sufferings. Starting with the first woman Martyr (Shahida) Shadia Abu Ghazaleh through the Martyr Dalal Mughrabi and ending with the endless convoy of female and male Martyrs who all went to Paradise as they turned their blood into a bridge over which we pass on the way to our freedom, independence and national liberation from the burden of the occupation." Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 9, 2010.
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\nWe talked with Itamar Marcus, the head of the Palestinian Media Watch who first exposed this celebration. If you would like to read more about this you can see their website here.
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\nOn his website, Marcus documents the glorification of Mughrabi and other martyrs in the official Palestinian media. He says it reflects the kind of values that permeate Palestinian society.
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\nThese values of glorifying terror and terrorists are often out of sight of much of the Western media and not visible at photo ops with Palestinian leaders and visiting dignitaries like Vice President Biden. But this kind of glorification of terrorists in Palestinian society helps indoctrinate one more generation of Palestinians into terror.
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\nMarcus – who has studied this kind of incitement for more than a decade – believes genuine peace will come when Palestinian society goes through a detoxification of values that glorify terror and terrorists.","id":1637,"tags":[],"description":"On his website, [PMW Director Itamar] Marcus documents the glorification of Mughrabi and other martyrs in the official Palestinian media. He says it reflects the kind of values that permeate Palestinian society. These values of glorifying terror and terrorists are often out of sight of much of the...","date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1268265600,"nanoseconds":0},"author":[{"citeName":{"en":"Mitchell, C.","he":""},"about":"","id":169,"name":{"en":"chris mitchell","he":""}}],"imageUrl":"","title":"Glorifying Terror","lang":"en","news":false,"indexId":"index6","authorId":[169],"thumbnail":""}]