Warning to Palestinian
students:
"Beware of
natural death;
do not die, but amidst the hail of
bullets"
- text on "Monument to the Martyrs of Al-Quds
University"
Monument also honors murderer of 2
civilians
"Heroic
Martyr
and Detonator of the third Intifada
Muhannad
Halabi" 
Al-Quds University memorial
warning:
"Beware of natural death; do
not die, but amidst the hail of bullets"
- University agrees to student organization's initiative to create memorial
demanding Martyrdom and honoring murderers:
"Why would
we oppose it?"
- Numerous foreign universities are involved in cooperation projects
with Al-Quds University
Fatah continues to honor as "Martyrs" murderers
Baha Alyan and Muhannad Halabi who in total murdered 5
civilians
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques
Zilberdik
Students at Al-Quds University erected a memorial stone
for the university's "heroic Martyrs," which opens with the warning:
"Beware of natural death; do not die, but
amidst the hail of bullets"
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news
agency, Oct. 19, 2016]
This follows the Palestinian Authority
policy to promote youth's participation in terror attacks, even if this means
being killed. Dying for Allah (
Shahada - Martyrdom) while attacking or
killing Israelis, is routinely presented by the PA as preferable to life. This
message is even presented to youth. For example, the day the PA announced the
results of the recent matriculation exams, the official PA news agency, WAFA,
wrote that high school students who had been killed while participating in
terror attacks, and therefore had not finished high school, had taken "
the path to excellence and greatness and the path
of those who know how to reach the great victory."
The names on the
memorial stone at Al-Quds University included that of murderer Muhannad Halabi,
describing him as the "Heroic Martyr and Detonator of the third Intifada" - a
reference to his killing of two Israeli civilians in October 2015, which
Palestinians see as the launch of the terror wave which followed, and some
termed "the third Intifada."
The monument was put in place by the Al-Quds
branch of The Progressive Student Action Front, the student branch of the terror
organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. After the monument's
mysterious disappearance, the independent Palestinian news agency Wattan asked
if the university agrees to the placement of "a monument of this sort." Dean of
Student Affairs Abd Al-Raouf Abd Al-Sinawi said:
"Why would we oppose
[it]?"
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news
agency, Oct. 19, 2016]
Al-Sinawi was only concerned with the need
for students to obtain permission from the university administration, which had
not been done in connection with the stone demanding Martyrdom and honoring
murderer Halabi.
The text on the memorial stone opens as follows:
"Beware of natural death; do not die, but
amidst the hail of bullets
Monument to the Martyrs of Al-Quds University...
Heroic Martyr / Engineer of the third
Intifada
Diya Al-Talahmeh
Heroic Martyr and Detonator of the third
Intifada
Muhannad Halabi..." (full text
below)
Al-Quds University was also among the Palestinian
universities glorifying murderer Baha Alyan, killer of three civilians on a
Jerusalem bus, with a "
chain of readers" in his honor.
Many foreign universities are
engaged in cooperation projects with Al-Quds
University according to the university's website, including universities in the
following countries: Australia Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France,
Germany, Greece, Israel, Japan, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and
the US.
The words: "Beware of natural death; do not die, but amidst the
hail of bullets," are from a poem written by Ghassan Kanafani, a former leader
of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who
was killed by Israel in 1972.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Movement
likewise continues to honor terrorists who have killed Israelis. Fatah is
currently celebrating two murderers from the terror wave which began in
September 2015, in which dozens of Israelis were killed and hundreds wounded in
Palestinian stabbing, shooting, and car ramming attacks.
On Facebook,
Fatah commemorated their "death as a Martyr" and posted images and praise for
terrorist Baha Alyan, who together with an accomplice shot and stabbed 3
Israelis on a Jerusalem bus on Oct. 13, 2015, and of terrorist Muhannad Halabi,
who stabbed 2 Israelis to death in the old city of Jerusalem on Oct. 3,
2015.
[Official Fatah Facebook page,
Oct. 3, 2016]
Murderer Muhannad Halabi as well as murderer
Baha Alyan have both been honored and glorified numerous times as heroes by the
Palestinian Authority and Fatah, as documented by
Palestinian Media Watch.
The following are
links to PMW reports on some of the statements and activities by the PA and
Fatah, both headed by Abbas, in honor of murderers Alyan and
Halabi:
Honoring
Baha Alyan, killer of 3:Murder of civilians on bus was "self-sacrifice
operation"PA Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education
organize activity honoring murderer of 3PA and Fatah continue to glorify murderer of 3 on
Jerusalem busSummer camps teach Palestinian kids that stabbers are
heroesHonoring Muhannad Halabi, killer of
2:Fatah brought soil from Al-Aqsa to grave of murderer
Halabi PA street named after murderer who stabbed 2 Israeli
civilians to deathFatah official: Murdering Israelis is Palestinian
"right"Fatah Christmas spirit symbolized by murderer of
twoThe following is the article on the memorial stone at
Al-Quds University glorifying murderer Halabi, followed by the posts on Facebook
honoring him and murderer Alyan:
"The [Progressive] Student Action Front (i.e.,
student group of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine) at Al-Quds University inaugurated a monument to the Martyrs of the
university at its campus in Abu Dis two weeks ago for the first anniversary of
the death as a Martyr of Muhannad Halabi (i.e., terrorist, murdered 2), and the
students yesterday [Oct. 18, 2016] were surprised by the disappearance of the
monument, which had been placed next to the faculty of engineering.
The monument bore the names of the Martyrs of the
university who died recently, and at their head was the female Martyr Hind
Sharathah (activist who died of tear gas inhalation during clashes with Israeli
soldiers -Ed.) who died as a Martyr during clashes near the university, Martyr
Diya Al-Talahmeh (terrorist who blew himself up when throwing a grenade -Ed.)
who died as a Martyr last year [2015], and Martyr Muhannad Halabi (murdered 2
-Ed.)... [Al-Quds University Dean of Student Affairs Abd Al-Raouf Abd] Al-Sinawi
told Wattan that the university administration did not know that this memorial
stone had been placed, and learned of it only after it was removed. He noted
that the connection between the university and the student organizations needs
to be based on coordination, and the student organizations need to submit a
request for every activity or event to the office of the dean of student affairs
in order to update it.
Al-Sinawi emphasized that 'the university did not
forbid its [the monument's] placement, and only learned about the existence of
the small memorial stone, and not a monument as was said, after its removal for
unknown reasons. It is possible that this is a case of external reasons, that it
was lost, or that one of the students put it somewhere else.'
He added: 'We in the [university] administration
do not think that this memorial stone was targeted deliberately, and we have
conducted the investigative proceedings regarding what happened, [but] until now
we have no specific information. What I can say is that we as a
university and as a student body have no intention to damage this memorial
stone' ...
In response to the question as to whether
the university opposed a monument of this sort, Al-Sinawi said: 'Why would we
oppose [it]?,' and he added: 'According to the general framework of
university activity, the student groups must submit a request according to
defined steps to the office of the dean of student affairs about their intention
to organize an activity or any extracurricular event. Otherwise, each student
will place any sort of monument for any sort of entity, and this is
improper...'"
The article includes a picture of the monument,
on which is written:
"Beware of natural death; do not die, but
amidst the hail of bullets
Monument to the Martyrs of Al-Quds
University
Heroic female Martyr and Friend
Hind Sharathah
Heroic Martyr / Engineer of the third
Intifada
Diya Al-Talahmeh
Heroic Martyr and Detonator of the third
Intifada
Muhannad Halabi
Heroic Martyr
Hassan Albo
Heroic Martyr
Iyad Sajadiyeh"
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news
agency, Oct. 19, 2016, emphasis added]
Posted
text on Official Fatah Facebook page:"Today
[Oct. 13, 2016] is the first anniversary of the death as a Martyr (Shahid) of
Baha Alyan (i.e., terrorist, murdered 3) from the occupied capital [of
Jerusalem]. Baha carried out a self-sacrifice operation on a bus of settlers in
the occupied capital city, which brought about his death as a Martyr, and the
deaths of 3 settlers."
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Oct.
13, 2016]
Muhannad Halabi - 19-year-old
Palestinian terrorist who killed 2 Israelis, Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon
Bennett, and injured Bennett's wife, Adele, and their 2-year-old son in a
stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 3, 2015. Following the
attack, he was shot and killed by Israeli security forces. Prior to his attack,
in a post to his private Facebook page, the terrorist referred to recent terror
attacks as part of a "third Intifada," and said that it was a response to
Israel's actions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that the Palestinian people would not
"succumb to humiliation." This is a reference to the PA libel that Israel is
plotting to take over and destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to the PA's portrayal
of Jews praying on the Temple Mount as "an invasion of the Al-Aqsa
Mosque."Hind Sharathah - 23-year-old female
Palestinian activist in the Progressive Student Action Front student body of the
terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Sharathah died on Dec. 2, 2003, of gas inhalation from tear gas grenades used by
Israeli army forces during clashes near Al-Quds
University.Diya Al-Talahmeh - 23-year-old
Islamic Jihad terrorist who blew himself up while trying to throw a hand grenade
at an Israeli army vehicle on Sept. 22, 2015. His body was discovered by Israeli
forces during searches carried out after the
explosion.Hassan Albo - 23-year-old
Palestinian killed during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in
Halhoul, near Hebron, on Nov. 13, 2015. Palestinian sources say he was killed by
Israeli gunfire. The Israeli army is investigating the
incident.Iyad Sajadiyeh - Palestinian killed
in Qalandiya, on March 1, 2016, during confrontations with Israeli
soldiers.
Baha Alyan and
Bilal Ghanem - 22 and 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists who on Oct.
13, 2015, boarded a bus in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood with a gun
and a knife and attacked passengers, killing Israelis Haviv Haim (78) and Alon
Govberg (51), and Richard Lakin (76), and wounding 3 Israelis. Alyan was shot
and killed by an Israeli security guard at the scene and Ghanem, a Hamas
terrorist who served time in Israeli prison in 2013-2014, was wounded. Ghanem is
serving 3 life sentences and an additional 60 years for these
murders.Posted text: "Today, on Oct. 3 of last
year [2015], Martyr (
Shahid) Muhammad Halabi carried out a stabbing and
shooting operation in occupied Jerusalem, in which a male and female settler
were killed (sic., the 2 murdered were both men) and others were wounded, and
#The_rage_of_Jerusalem began to flare up in all of the occupied territories"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Oct.
3, 2016]
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