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PA and Fatah honor Munich Massacre terrorists in anniversary posts

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The Palestinian Authority (PA), and the PLO's largest party, Fatah, on Thursday marked the anniversary of the "deaths as martyrs" of three terrorists who participated in the planning, kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, according to a report released by the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch.
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\nIn a Facebook post, Palestinian Authority President and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas honored Mahmoud Yusuf al-Najjar, Kamal Nasser and Kamal Adwan, who were all senior members of the PLO and Black September in the 1970s.

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The three Black September terrorist were later assassinated by the Israeli Mossad in Beirut in April 1973 due to their involvement in the Munich Massacre.

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Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, also commemorated Najjar, Nasser and Adwan as "leaders" who “redeemed Palestine with their souls” and understood “the value of self-sacrificing activity.”

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Other terrorists involved in the Munich Massacre have also been honored by the PA and Fatah in recent months, including in February, when Fatah saluted them by sharing a video that includes an infamous photo of a terrorist standing masked on the balcony of the Israeli athletes' room in the Munich Olympic Village.

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Similarly, both the PA and Fatah marked the 41st anniversary of the death of Hassan Ali Salameh, Black September’s commander of operations in Europe throughout 1970s. The official PA daily said in his honor that he "...is connected to many quality operations, such as sending explosive packages from Amsterdam to many Mossad agents in Europe," in addition to the Munich Massacre.

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[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pa-and-fatah-honor-munich-massacre-terrorists-in-anniversary-posts-625872]

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PA filler claims martyrdom for Al-Aqsa more important than family

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Fillers shown between televised broadcasts on official Palestinian Authority TV emphasizes to children that martyrdom and the importance of Islamic holy sites like the Al-Aqsa Mosque should outweigh devotion to one's family, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.

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One such broadcast translated by PMW and uploaded to their YouTube channel shows Arabic words pop up and fade away over a background of thunderous and lightning-filled storm clouds.

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"Al-Aqsa is more precious than my children and more precious than my family – Al-Aqsa is my life, Al-Aqsa is my life…," the lyrics read, which are chanted by several people off-screen. The video then cuts to several clips of people praying, clashes with Israeli forces and groups of Jews on the Temple Mount.

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The clip concludes by cutting to a woman saying "The whole world is with Palestine, and wherever you need us, we are with you" before the Arabic words "We are with you, Palestine" pop up on the storm cloud background.

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This is not the first time that the Palestinian Authority has encouraged martyrdom among Palestinian children. According to one PMW report, in November 2019, Fatah released a video in which a child, Ru'a Tamimi, reads a story she wrote in which, when a boy finishes all of the food on his plate, his mother surprises him – with a rifle.

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“We are not meant for happiness my son,” the mother informs the boy as she actively recruits him to embrace armed struggle against the Jews and, if needed, to die for the so-called liberation of Jerusalem.

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A later PMW report discussed Tamimi's comments on PA TV cursing US President Donald Trump.

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Tamimi is part of the Tamimi clan, the same as Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist responsible for the Sbarro Pizza shop bombing in 2001 that killed 15 and injured 130. Tamimi was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange deal.

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[https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/pa-filler-claims-martyrdom-for-al-aqsa-more-important-than-family-625777]

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Israeli watchdog accuses PA of plotting Temple Mount violence

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Tisha Be’Av this year coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Festival of Sacrifice.

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By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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August 15, 2019

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Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has accused the Palestinian Authority of being responsible for Sunday's violent protests on the Temple Mount.

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Four police officers and dozens of others were injured on Sunday after Muslims violently attacked Jewish visitors to the holy site. The Jews wanted to visit the Temple Mount in honor of Tisha Be’Av, the day of mourning when Jews commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temples.

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Tisha Be’Av this year coincided with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.

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The PMW noted that the PA refers to Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount as “invaders” and regularly calls on the international community to prevent the "Judaization" of the holy site.

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However, ahead of Sunday, the PA took specific steps to prevent Jews from going up to the mount. The first: changing Muslim prayer times on the mount to ensure maximum attendance.

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On Sunday, the first three of five daily Muslim prayers were to take place on the Temple Mount at 4:29 a.m., 5:56 a.m. and 12:44 p.m. The leading mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories changed the 5:56 a.m. prayer time to 7:30 a.m.

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“The purpose of the change was to ensure that as many Muslims as possible would be present as the Jews would want to begin to ascend the Temple Mount,” PMW explained.

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The next day, after the clashes, the prayer time went back to normal.

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On August 11, in an interview broadcast on PA TV, a Palestinian official told the broadcaster that, “Of course, Muslims are using different means to prevent the break-ins into the blessed Al-Aksa Mosque.”

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When asked if the prayer had been changed specifically to prevent Jewish visitors, the official responded, “Exactly. Prayers are being held out of time to protect [the mosque] and assert that this place is for Muslims.”

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Furthermore, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Mohammed Hussein, former grand mufti of Jerusalem Ekrima Sabri and senior Waqf official Abdel Azeem Sahlab announced that “all mosques in Jerusalem will be closed and that blessed Eid al-Adha prayers will take place in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
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On August 9, PA TV ran an official statement by Palestinian religious leaders stating that, “It is necessary to close all the mosques of the city of Jerusalem on Sunday in order to mobilize as many people as possible to pray in the blessed Al-Aksa Mosque and its plazas.”
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\nUltimately, Jews were allowed on the Temple Mount in small groups. According to the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, some 150,000 people visited the Western Wall between Friday night and sundown on Sunday, with several thousand ascending the Temple Mount.

\nhttps://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-watchdog-accuses-PA-of-plotting-Temple-Mount-violence-598687

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Israel ‘Outdid Hitler,’ Jordanian Former Minister Says On Palestinian TV

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Former Jordanian Education Minister Ibrahim Badran and Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub claimed the Jewish State is following in the footsteps of Nazi ideology.
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\nFormer Jordanian education minister Ibrahim Badran said Hitler killed many people in one time period, but Israel kills many slowly with Western support.

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Badran made the comments in a July 7 interview with the official Palestinian Authority television channel, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported on Thursday.

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Badran called Israel a “racist state” which rejects the other in a “Nazi, Hitlerian manner.” The Jewish State, he said, “is a barbaric, racist state that has outdone what Hitler did.”

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Hitler, the former educator claimed, killed many people in a single period of time, Israel “is murdering the others slowly… with Western support,” he claimed.

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Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub recently made a similar claim, saying that the Jewish State is following in the footsteps of Nazi ideology.

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Keeping up with the idea that the country was built to offer the Jewish people a homeland after the crime of the Holocaust, in which six million of the Jewish nation were murdered in Europe by the Nazis and those who aided them, Rajoub said on July 8 that “Auschwitz is here in every city in Palestine.”
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\nRajoub spoke in an interview for Sawt Al-Arab in Kuwait.

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[https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-outdid-HitlerJordanian-former-Minister-says-on-PL-television-596814]

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Palestinians hang Trump in effigy in protests against Bahrain summit - Report

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There was also a poster in the picture that said, "Despicable Trump, your talk is like your urine. Shut up," the report discovered.

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Palestinians who are part of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Movement published pictures on Facebook of their protest in Bethlehem against the Bahrain summit and the "Deal of the Century" on Tuesday, which included strong anti-Trump and anti-Israel sentiments, Palestinian Media Watch reported.

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PMW is an Israeli watchdog organization that monitors the Palestinian Authority for incitements.

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In their report, they uncovered photos of US President Donald Trump being hung in effigy and later burned. These anti-Trump acts of protest were a few of the dozens of pictures of what seemingly was a standard march with protesters and signs.

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The text on the effigy's shirt said, "The Deal of the Century" and "The Bahrain Conference" in Arabic, according to Palestinian Media Watch.

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There was also a poster in the picture that said, "Despicable Trump, your talk is like your urine. Shut up," the report discovered.

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[https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Palestinian-hang-Trump-in-effigy-in-protests-against-Bahrain-summit-report-593860]

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Advisor to PA President Abbas on Islam claims Israel has “the culture of the devil.”

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Islamic law judge and advisor on religious and Islamic Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash used social media on June 2 to warn Muslims against an alleged “Israeli plot against the Al-Aqsa Mosque," Palestinian Media Watch reported.
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\n“If the Muslims don’t act now… the entire world will pay dearly,” he went on to say.

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This is not the first time he said such things. In a sermon he gave at Moscow Cathedral Mosque he called on Muslims around the world to defend Jerusalem, saying it is the embodiment “of the struggle between good and evil.”
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\nIn his view, Jews are “evil” and “enemies of Muslims.”
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\nThe Moscow Cathedral Mosque was re-opened in 2015 after the original mosque, which was built in 1904, was torn down and rebuilt. PA President Mahmoud Abbas attended the festive opening.

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Read the full article here: https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/PA-Advisor-on-Islam-warns-world-will-pay-unless-Muslims-save-Al-Aqsa-592718

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Fatah called for protesters to gather at the Damascus Gate on Sunday afternoon to interrupt the March of the Flags that is traditionally held on Jerusalem Day, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Sunday.

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The Israeli research institute stated that a post was published on the Fatah's Facebook page, inviting their followers "to arrive... at the Damascus gate at 5 p.m. in order to accentuate the Arab and Islamic character of Jerusalem before the herds of settlers who want to defile the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as the streets and alleys of Jerusalem."

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Palestinian Media Watch said that they had alerted the Israeli police about the post circulating on social media.

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The organization cited three specific instances in which Palestinian action led Israel to change their policy with regards to Temple Mount.

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According to the report, the Fatah post mentioned "when the [Palestinian] public in Jerusalem succeeded in thwarting the Zionist plans to impose a partition of time [for prayers on the Temple Mount] and an invasion during the Jewish holidays in September 2015, the cancellation of the decision to place metal detectors at the gates of Al-Aqsa, and the forcible opening of a prayer compound at the Golden Gate after a Zionist closure that had lasted 16 years."

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Earlier on Sunday morning, riots broke out on the Temple Mount following the report that Jews would be allowed to enter their holiest site for Jerusalem Day, according to the Police Spokesperson's Unit.

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As the police attempted to enter the place, Arab worshipers began throwing stones, chairs and other objects at the forces. The forces responded with riot dispersal means.

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Jews are generally forbidden to enter the compound during the last days of the month of Ramadan. The police, however, allowed the entrance of Jews, especially for Jerusalem Day.

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Is Abbas Fighting The War On Terror Or Promoting Terror?
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\nPMW exposed that when Abbas spoke with Israeli students he talked about the shared desire for peace, but previously, when [his deputy] spoke to Palestinians he praised the murderer of two Israeli students as a “heroic brother.”
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\nPalestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas last week addressed a group of visiting Harvard students. In his remarks he told the students that he believes in “peace and security for everyone” and has joined the “war on terror in all its forms, variations and sources.”
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\nAbbas spoke in Arabic and his remarks were simultaneously translated into English for his overseas guests.
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\nBut in a report disseminated Tuesday, Palestinian Media Watch said that Abbas’ remarks to the Harvard students contradicted remarks made the day before by his deputy, Mahmoud Al-Aloul. A day before, Al-Aloul praised the terrorist Omar Abu Laila, who last month murdered a 19-year-old soldier and a 47-year-old father of 12.
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\n“We are extremely proud [of] this Omar Abu Laila [who]….. represents all young Palestinians,” Al-Aloul wrote on the official Fatah Facebook page.
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\n“This is a well-rehearsed modus operandi in the Palestinian Authority,” said Nan Jacques Zilberdik, a senior analyst at PMW.
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\nShe said that in 2014, PMW exposed that when Abbas spoke with Israeli students he talked about the shared desire for peace, but previously, when he spoke to Palestinians he praised the murderer of two Israeli students as a “heroic brother.”

[https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Is-Abbas-fighting-the-war-on-terror-or-promoting-terror-585599]

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The Fatah official Facebook page is publishing posts glorifying and praising Omar Abu Laila, who killed two Israelis on Sunday.

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Laila was killed by IDF troops Tuesday night during his arrest. Two days prior, he murdered an IDF soldier and Israeli civilian in a shooting attack at the Ariel junction.

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In various posts, Fatah terms Laila “the perfect person," in addition to his being a "heroic Martyr" deserving of a "military salute."

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The Fatah Facebook page has more than 170,000 followers.

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Several of the Facebook posts were translated by Palestinian Media Watch and disseminated to the press.

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In one, an image of Laila has the following words transposed on to it, “"Heroic Martyr Omar Abu Laila.” Then, the post reads, “The Martyr (Shahid) represents the moment of transcending these blind instincts, as he stands firm before death and transcends the conditioned reflexes - then the perfect person is realized within him, to whom we give a military salute."

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That post was published on March 20, 2019.

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“PMW is surprised and disappointed that Facebook knowingly allows itself to continue to be an important platform for support of Palestinian terror,” said the watchdog in a statement.

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In February, PMW sent Facebook a 45-page report documenting how Fatah’s 2018 posts glorified mass murderers and other terrorists who were responsible for hundreds of murders, which include not only Israelis but Americans and others.

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“By allowing itself to be used to honor and glorify terrorist murderers in real time, Facebook serves as a platform for encouraging more terrorists and literally endangering lives, even if Facebook removes the terror supporting posts at a later date,” PMW said.

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[https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Fatah-glorifies-Ariel-terrorist-Heroic-martyr-report-584133]

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In an attack featured in an op-ed rejecting the unpublished US Middle East peace initiative, a columnist compared Greenblatt’s appearance and conduct to someone suffering from Down Syndrome.

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A regular columnist for the official Palestinian Authority paper called US Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt "a mongoloid," Palestinian Media Watch reported on Sunday.
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\n“Anyone who follows the prattle of Jason Greenblatt, President [Donald] Trump's envoy in the matter of the deal of the century, sees that his condition is very similar to Down Syndrome,” Omar Hilmi Al-Ghoul, who was once the adviser to former PA prime minister Salam Fayyad, wrote in the official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.

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In an attack featured in an op-ed rejecting the unpublished US Middle East peace initiative, Al-Ghoul stated that Down Syndrome “strikes all the components of the American administration. Anyone who examines the general genes of the components of the Trump administration sees that it is a politically crippled creature.”
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\nUS Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman slammed the publication, saying, "I am disgusted —not for Jason (he’s got broad shoulders) — but by this utter disregard for the value of every human life."

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Kalman Samuels, the chair of Shalva, the Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, said that referring to Greenblatt or any other human being as a mongoloid and retarded, and detailing those so-called characteristics is "not only outrageous, but delegitimizes the most basic human rights." Those archaic hurtful terms have been out of use for decades in the civilized world.

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"It has oft been said that the litmus test of a society is how it treats its weakest links, and this is clear testament," Samuels continued. "Shalva, the organization that I have the privilege to head, cares for hundreds of persons with Downs from infancy to maturity, from all ethnic and religious backgrounds, with the dignity and love that every human being deserves and quite frankly they are awesome.”

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[https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinian-official-daily-paper-calls-Greenblatt-a-mongoloid-report-582329]

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See additional coverage in i24 News, Ha'aretz, Israel Hayom, and in The Times of Israel

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“It is essential … to preserve the heritage and also the Palestinian foods” from the "occupation."

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A Palestinian reporter is complaining that Israel stole humus and falafel from her people.
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Speaking on official Palestinian Authority TV, in a video translated by Palestinian Media Watch, a reporter claims Israel has launched a “brutal attack on Palestinian heritage, including Palestinian foods.”
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The report claims the “theft” includes not only falafel and humus but other popular foods.
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“It is essential … to preserve the heritage and also the Palestinian foods” from the "occupation," she says.

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\nPalestinian University Awards Terrorist
\nWith Honorary Certificate

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\nPalestinians held a rally of solidarity earlier this month for Maher Younes, who kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980.
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\nA Palestinian university in Jericho has awarded one of the terrorists who murdered and kidnapped an Israeli soldier an honorary certificate.
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\nAccording to Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinians held a rally of solidarity earlier this month for Maher Younes, who kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980. At the event, marking the 36 years anniversary of his incarceration, Al-Istiqlal University in Jericho – the Palestinian Academy for Security Sciences – awarded him with an honorary certificate.
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\n"The board of governors of Al-Istiqlal University has decided to present prisoner Maher Younes with an honorary certificate in military science as a sign of appreciation for his role and sacrifice,” PMW translated from the Arabic and reported.
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\nAround the same time, Maher Younes’ aunt – the mother of Karim Younes who committed the attack alongside his cousin – was interviewed on Palestinian TV. She told reporters that she believes her son “did noting wrong” and that he makes her “proud.”

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\nMaher and Karim Younes are serving a 40-year prison sentence.

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[https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinian-university-awards-terrorist-with-honorary-certificate-WATCH-579264]

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