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US envoy slams Palestinian threat of violence over Bahrain

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Greenblatt accuses Fatah of threatening intifada after statement by youth group translated by Israeli organization warns it can make ‘ground burn under the feet of the tyrants’

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A Trump administration official condemned a Palestinian group for urging violence to protest the upcoming US-led economic peace conference in Bahrain.

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US special envoy Jason Greenblatt accused the Fatah organization led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of urging a violent uprising in response to the two-day conference, which kicks off in Bahrain Tuesday morning.

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“As the US gov’t works to improve Palestinian lives thru an exciting economic vision for the future, Fatah threatens an intifada, attacks & to ‘make the ground burn under the feet of tyrants.’ How sad for those Palestinians who do not support this ugliness,” Greenblatt tweeted Monday.

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Greenblatt’s comments were based on a statement from the head of the Shabiba Fatah youth movement warning of violence in response to the rejected peace bid, translated by the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch, a partisan organization which seeks to expose controversial content in Palestinian media. [PMW is a non-partisan organization -Ed.]

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As the US gov't works to improve Palestinian lives thru an exciting economic vision for the future, Fatah threatens an intifada, attacks & to “make the ground burn under the feet of tyrants.” How sad for those Palestinians who do not support this ugliness. https://t.co/Wsrzh9cf8C
\n— Jason D. Greenblatt (@jdgreenblatt45) June 24, 2019

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“Shabiba… is prepared for every eventuality, and its members who ignited the first Intifada and the Al-Aqsa Intifada are still capable of making the ground burn under the feet of the tyrants,” the quote read, according to PMW.

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The economic conference, to be held Tuesday and Wednesday in the Gulf Arab state of Bahrain, has been billed by the US as a potential opportunity for the Palestinians to access billions in investment in the event of peace with Israel. However, Palestinian leaders rejected the proposal saying that economic development would come after they achieved an independent state.

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Israeli security officials have warned of the eventuality of violence in the West Bank and Gaza in response to the conference.

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On Monday, hundreds of Palestinians protested against the US economic peace proposal in cities in the West Bank, including Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron.

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In a protest near Hebron in the southern West Bank, protesters sat around a coffin with the words “No to the deal of the century” on it, a derogatory phrase for US President Donald Trump’s proposals.

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Protesters also burned pictures of Trump and the King of Bahrain.

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Protesters in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, carried a giant coffin labeled “Bahrain workshop,” and signs reading “The Deal of the Century is doomed.”

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Dozens of youths in the southern city of Halhul set tires ablaze and slung stones at Israeli soldiers, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

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Major Palestinian factions say new protests in the West Bank and Gaza will be held on Tuesday, calling the demonstrations a “day of escalation on the ground at the points of friction.”

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Agencies contributed to this report

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-slams-palestinian-threat-of-violence-over-bahrain/

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\nEditor of PA daily calls expected Trump peace proposal a ‘Holocaust plan’

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Mahmoud Abu al-Haija says no coincidence that ongoing Middle East conference is being held in Warsaw, because US wants the city again turned ‘into an arena of a holocaust genocide’

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The editor-in-chief of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily, has slammed US President Donald Trump’s soon-to-be-released peace proposal, saying it amounts to a “Holocaust” plan.

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Mahmoud Abu al-Haija made the remark in a recent editorial he wrote about a US-Polish hosted conference on the Middle East in Warsaw that the Palestinians have boycotted.

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“[The US administration] wants…to establish new alliances from the ‘Warsaw’ meeting for the sake of imaginary wars and creating a settlement for the Palestinian issue, by gaining official approval for the Zionist Trump plan as the basis for this settlement, which is nothing other than a ‘Holocaust’ plan for the most just issue in this era,” Abu Haija wrote.

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“Perhaps it is not a coincidence that Warsaw will serve as the site for the convening of this conference [on] the American administration’s corrupt deal… It wishes to turn Warsaw — as the Nazis did — into an arena of a holocaust genocide against a small, oppressed, and tortured people, the Palestinian people,” he added.

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Abu Haija’s piece was published Sunday, a few days before the start of the summit in the Polish capital on Wednesday, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Washington officials, Arab foreign ministers and European diplomats were attending.

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Palestinian Media Watch, an independent Israeli watchdog that monitors official Palestinian outlets, translated and published a report about Abu Haija’s editorial on Wednesday.

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[https://www.timesofisrael.com/editor-of-pa-daily-calls-expected-trump-peace-proposal-a-holocaust-plan/]

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\nAbbas said to block ‘settler’ supermarket mogul
\nfrom peace meeting

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\nBusiness forum holds talks with Palestinian leader, reportedly after excluding Rami Levy, who has opened multiple stores in the West Bank
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\nBreaking the Impasse, a forum of Israeli and Palestinian business and community leaders that is pushing for a renewal of the peace process, met with Abbas last Thursday after agreeing to leave Levy out, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Sunday.
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\nLevy owns a nationwide supermarket chain, including six stores in the West Bank that employ and serve both Israelis and Palestinians.
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\nAbbas and the PA consider Levy a “settler.” The Palestinian leader was adhering to the PA’s official hard-line stance against Levy, who has irked the Palestinian leadership since his first branch opened in the West Bank over a decade ago.
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\nThe Palestinian Authority’s official television channel broadcast last month an image that equated shopping at a new mall in East Jerusalem, built by Levy, with treason.
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\n“Do not be the occupation’s partner in the Judaization of the city,” the ad said, according to Palestinian Media Watch, an organization that monitors the Palestinian press. “Economic normalization is treason.”\n

[https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-said-to-block-settler-supermarket-mogul-from-peace-meeting/]

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\nBanner at Palestinians’ Al-Quds University
\npraises terrorist ‘heroes’

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\nPoster at event for new students glorifies founders of terror groups, including ex-heads of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Black September
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\nBy Times of Israel Staff

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\nNew students at a Palestinian university were greeted earlier this week by a banner praising Palestinian figures responsible for organizing terror attacks against Israelis as “heroes.”
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\nThe banner, which was hung at a reception for new students at the Dura branch of Al-Quds [Open] University, featured photos of the founders of a number of terror groups, such as Hamas’s Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Fathi Shiqaqi, and Abu Ali Mustafa of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch said.
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\nIt also had pictures of former Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and his deputy Abu Jihad, also known as Khalid al-Wazir, who was responsible for organizing attacks that according to PA daily Al-Ayyam killed at least 125 Israelis.
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\nIn addition, the banner had a picture of Salah Khalaf, the founder of Black September, which was responsible for murdering 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, among other attacks.
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\nAmong the speakers at the event was Fatah official Jamal Muhaisen, who has questioned Israel’s right to exist and praised terror attacks against Israelis, according to Palestinian Media Watch, which reported on the event at the university.\n

[https://www.timesofisrael.com/banner-at-al-quds-university-praises-terrorist-heroes/]

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\nUN chief pulls support for Palestinian women’s center named after terrorist

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\nSecretary-General Guterres says agency no longer affiliated with West Bank facility over its ‘glorification of terrorism’
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\nThe United Nations on Sunday said that it had withdrawn support for a Palestinian women’s center named for a notorious terrorist, saying the move was “offensive” and glorified terrorism.
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\n“The United Nations disassociated itself from the Center once it learned the offensive name chosen for it and will take measures to ensure that such incidents do not take place in the future,” said a statement from Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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\nThe center was named after Dalal Mughrabi, who took part in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre. Mughrabi and several other Fatah terrorists landed on a beach near Tel Aviv, hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Road and killed 38 civilians, 13 of them children, and wounded over 70.
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\n“The glorification of terrorism, or the perpetrators of heinous terrorist acts, is unacceptable under any circumstances,” the UN statement said. “The UN has repeatedly called for an end to incitement to violence and hatred as they present one of the obstacles to peace.”
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\n“The United Nations support to this community ended last year and it has asked for the logo of UN Women to be removed immediately. Furthermore, the inauguration of the Center took place after the UN’s association with it,” the statement said.
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\nThe UN move came two days after Norway’s foreign minister condemned the PA for naming the center after Mughrabi, demanding the country’s name be removed from the building and that the funds Norway donated for its construction be returned.
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\n“The glorification of terrorist attacks is completely unacceptable, and I deplore this decision in the strongest possible terms. Norway will not allow itself to be associated with institutions that take the names of terrorists in this way. We will not accept the use of Norwegian aid funding for such purposes,” Borge Brende said in a statement on Friday.
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\nNorway’s rebuke of the PA came after the Norwegian branch of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem brought the matter to the country’s attention last week, the organization said in a statement, while thanking Brende for his “swift and clear” response.
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\nPalestinian Media Watch, which first brought attention to the naming of the women’s center, recently quoted a local village leader saying that “the center will focus especially on the history of the struggle of Martyr Dalal Mughrabi and on presenting it to the youth groups, and…constitutes the beginning of the launch of enrichment activities regarding the history of the Palestinian struggle.”
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\nIn addition to the women’s center in Burqa, the PA has named a number of events and facilities in honor of Mughrabi and the other terrorists who died during the massacre in a firefight with Israeli security forces, with the ruling Fatah party repeatedly hailing them as “martyrs.”\n

[http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-chief-pulls-support-for-palestinian-womens-center-named-after-terrorist/]

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\nTimes of Israel reports on Abbas
\nconfirming PMW’s findings
\nabout PA salaries to terrorists
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\nHeadline: Abbas confirms PA still paying terrorists’ salaries — report
\nSub-headline: Same funds still being channeled to Palestinian prisoners, watchdog says, despite assurances to foreign donors that PA no longer involved\n

\nBy Times of Israel staff, May 7, 2016

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\nPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas seemingly confirmed this week that the PA continues to pay the salaries of terrorists incarcerated by Israel, despite previously claiming that it had stopped doing so.
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\nNorwegian daily Dagen reported that Foreign Minister Borge Brende, meeting with Abbas in Ramallah, demanded that the PA stop using its funds — which include donations by foreign countries — to support convicted terrorists and their families.
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\nAbbas, rather than deny the claim, only assured the visiting diplomat that Norwegian money was not being used for such purposes.
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\nBrende said he told Abbas the payments were “unacceptable and should be abolished.” He stressed that Norway’s funds were intended only to support “building and institutional development.”
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\nFacing mounting pressure from the international community, the PA announced in 2014 that it would cease paying terrorists’ salaries through the Prisoners’ Affairs Ministry. The ministry was closed, and the PA announced that all stipends to those who committed crimes against Israel would thenceforth be relegated to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which does not receive international support.
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\nHowever, while this seems to have appeased foreign donors, Palestinian Media Watch reports that the change was purely cosmetic. Citing numerous reports in the Palestinian media over the past two years, the watchdog concludes that the PA Finance Ministry continues to fund, oversee and maintain control over the payments to terrorists.
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[http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-confirms-pa-still-paying-terrorists-salaries-report/]

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Times of Israel reports on PMW exposure

of Fatah's glorification of two suicide bombers
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\nHeadline: Fatah glorifies female terrorists on Facebook page
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\nPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party is glorifying female terrorists even as Abbas himself told Israeli TV last week that he “extends his hand in peace.”
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\nIn Facebook posts this week, Fatah praised two female suicide bombers who in total killed 8 and wounded over 100 Israelis in 2002.
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\nThe party’s Facebook page published pictures of the two terrorists and referred to one as a “hero” and the other as a “bride of Palestine,” according to the NGO Palestinian Media Watch.
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\nBoth posts ended with the praise: “Glory and eternity to our righteous Martyrs.”

[http://www.timesofisrael.com/fatah-glorifies-female-terrorists-on-facebook-page/]

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Times of Israel reports
\non PMW’s exposure of a PA school
\nhonoring a murderer with a basketball game named after her
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\n Times of Israel Staff, March 31, 2016

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\nHeadline: Fatah holds girls’ basketball cup in terrorist’s honor
\nA Palestinian Authority school honored a female terrorist responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in Israel’s history, naming a girls’ basketball tournament after Dalal Mughrabi, who took part in the Coastal Road Massacre.
\nIn 1978, Mughrabi and several other Fatah terrorists landed on a beach near Tel Aviv, hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway and eventually killed 38 civilians, 13 of them children, and wounded over 70.
\nOver the years the terrorists, who died in a firefight with Israeli security forces, have been hailed as heroes by Fatah.
\nPalestinian Media Watch reported Wednesday that a Ramallah-area school for girls, Al-Awael, this month held the “Dalal Mughrabi Cup” in honor of the killer.
\nAccording to the report the cup was also co-organized by the Al-Razi Cultural and Social Association, a Palestinian NGO that works with the Anna Lindh Foundation to promote “intercultural dialogue” and “build trust and improve mutual understanding.”
\n

[http://www.timesofisrael.com/fatah-holds-girls-basketball-cup-in-terrorists-honor/]

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","title":"Times of Israel reports on PMW’s exposure of a Palestinian Authority school honoring a murderer with a basketball game named after her","news":false,"date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1459382400,"nanoseconds":0},"lang":"en","id":9976,"indexId":"index49","contentType":"Article","tagIds":["190","193","254","1035","1036","1039","1045","1564"],"thumbnail":"/STORAGE/ARTICLES/impacting_media/The_Times_of_Israel.jpg"},{"description":"\"According to Palestinian Media Watch, squads such as the Martyr Abu Jihad team (named after a Fatah founder responsible for the deaths of 125 Israelis) ... are set to take part in official matches to be played throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.\"","content":"

Times of Israel reports on PA youth soccer tournament
\nnamed after terrorists, published by PMW
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\nHeadline: Palestinians name soccer teams after terrorists
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\nSub-Headline: Month after FIFA row, squads honoring killers of numerous Israeli civilians to compete in Ramadan youth tournament
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\nWeeks after Palestinians sought to boot Israel from world soccer, claiming Israel places unreasonable limitations on the movements of their players, Palestinian participants in a youth soccer tournament are set to play for teams named after
\nterrorists who have killed numerous Israeli civilians.
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\nAccording to Palestinian Media Watch, squads such as the Martyr Abu Jihad team (named after a Fatah founder responsible for the deaths of 125 Israelis) and the Martyr Khaled Nazzal team (dubbed after the former secretary of the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which orchestrated the Ma’alot massacre in May 1974 in which 22 schoolchildren and 5 adults were killed) are set to take part in official matches to be played throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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\nOther teams are named after Abu Ali Mustafa, the late secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Mu’taz Hijazi, an Islamic Jihad member who attempted last year to assassinate Yehudah Glick, a prominent activist working for the Jewish right to visit and pray on the Temple Mount.
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\nThe soccer tournament is to be held in the West Bank town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, the PMW watchdog reported.
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\nThe Israeli and Palestinian soccer associations were last month involved in a confrontation after the latter tried to have Israel suspended from the International Federation of Soccer. The Palestinian delegation to FIFA dropped the motion at the last moment amid pressure from dozens of international delegates.
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[http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-soccer-teams-named-after-terrorists/]

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Times Of Israel Staff