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\nPalestinian Leaders Dig in on Payments to Terrorists
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\nPalestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and Qadri Abu Bakr, who directs the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, recently issued a defiant assurance that they won’t end payments to terrorists and their families, despite international pressure.
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\nBakr “emphasized that the leadership … will continue to support the resolve of the prisoners and their families and will not succumb to the Israeli and American pressures calling to stop the Martyrs’ (Shahids) and prisoners’ salaries (rawatib) and allowances (mukhassasat),” reports the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,as translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
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\nBakr’s sentiment mirrors Abbas’. “By Allah, even if we have only a penny left it will only be spent on the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners, and only afterwards will it be spent on the rest of the people,” Abbas said on official PA TV in July, adding that “martyrs and prisoners” are “stars in the sky,” and these terrorists “have priority in everything.”
\n[https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/10/03/palestinian-leaders-dig-in-on-payments-to-terrorists/]

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Ban Ki-Moon criticizes Abbas for incitement
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\nHeadline: UN Chief Criticizes Abbas’s Incitement Against Jews in Jerusalem
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\nby Steven Emerson

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\nUnited Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told PA President Mahmoud Abbas that he worried Abbas’s recent incitement would lead to more confrontations in Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported, citing Israel Radio.
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\nAbbas blatantly incited violence last week, and praised Palestinian fighters for attacking Jews in Jerusalem; he also called on Palestinians to prevent Jews from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque with “everything in our power.”
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\n“The Al-Aqsa [Mosque] is ours… and they have no right to defile it with their filthy feet. We will not allow them to, and we will do everything in our power to protect Jerusalem. … We bless every drop of blood that has been spilled for Jerusalem, which is clean and pure blood, blood spilled for Allah, Allah willing. Every martyr (Shahid) will reach Paradise, and everyone wounded will be rewarded by Allah,” Abbas said in a speech translated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), segments of which were aired on official PA TV and posted on Abbas’s website.
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\nIn response to Abbas’ statements, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that the recent increase in Palestinian violence was “of course joined by the choir, by the Palestinian Authority, with incitement and even anti-Semitic expressions regarding the prohibition for Jews with their ‘filthy feet’ to visit the Temple Mount and other over-the-top expressions.”
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[http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/09/24/un-chief-criticizes-abbass-incitement-against-jews-in-jerusalem/]

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On Death and Palestinian Culture

\nby Steven Emerson

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\nPresidential candidate Mitt Romney is taking criticism for remarks about culture in explaining Israel’s economic success compared to Palestinians’ during a speech in Jerusalem Monday.
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\n“Culture makes all the difference,” Romney said.
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\nWhile Romney denied on Tuesday that his reference was a criticism about Palestinian culture, Palestinian leaders immediately slammed the comment. Palestinian Authority spokesman called it “a racist statement” that ignores the effect occupation has on the Palestinian economy...
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\nPolitical pundits are free to debate the wisdom of Romney’s statement as a candidate for president, but abundant examples exist to show that Palestinian culture has embraced a celebration of violence and death in its educational and civic programs.
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\nPA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is credited for working to reverse this tide, building a growing economy on the West Bank and countering the Islamists’ violent and extreme agenda. But the PA continues to undermine this effort by glorifying suicide bombers and naming schools, camps and sporting events after terrorists. For example, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) listed more than a dozen West Bank institutions in 2010 that are named for Dalal Mughrabi, who led a team that hijacked a bus packed with tourists in 1978, killing 37 people – 12 of them children – as the terrorists shot passengers and lobbed grenades at passing cars in what is known as the Coastal Road Massacre, one of the worst terrorist attacks in Israel’s history.
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\nAnother PMW report in December showed how a youth magazine underwritten by the Palestinian Authority offset a generally positive message by publishing a student’s praise for Adolph Hitler for killing Jews. Another article hailed a “mighty Jihad fighter [who] died as a Martyr and Jerusalem is proud of its heroes… Victory, victory, victory…” ...
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\nThis is not to say all Palestinians agree with the message, or that it is the sole cause of Palestinian economic problems. But it is a theme consistently set by elected leaders of both Hamas in Gaza and of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
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\nIn response to Romney’s statement, Palestinians blamed Israeli occupation. But after Hamas took over Gaza after Israel’s unilateral withdrawal, the group opted to rain thousands of rockets on civilian communities in Israel, drawing both retaliation and an embargo aimed at keeping Hamas from importing materials to make more weapons.
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\nA United Nations report found that the embargo is legal and rooted in “a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza stopping weapons from being smuggled.”
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\nAnd despite actions by the West in shutting down the airing of programs such as these, the incitement and spreading of conspiracy theories continue.
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\nLeaders in both territories gave heroes’ welcomes to terrorists freed last fall in an exchange with Israel. More than 1,000 terrorists, many with blood on their hands, were set free in exchange for Hamas’ release of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who had been kidnapped five years earlier.
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\nThrongs of cheering people turned out to welcome the prisoners amid celebratory gunfire and Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh greeted many of them personally.
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\nHamas deputy chief Mousa Abu Marzook hinted darkly that more kidnappings would follow. “The rest of the prisoners must be released because if they are not released in a normal way they will be released in other ways.”
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\nThere is more to Palestinian culture than this. But the celebration of death and violence is far from isolated...
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\nPalestinian leaders need to find the courage to admit that glorification of violence is rampant in their society and do more to root it out. It’s the right thing to do, and it may help build their economy.
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