Fatah: "To
be a real Palestinian
you must be a self-sacrificing
fighter"
Fatah honored the founders and heads of terror
organizations responsible for murdering hundreds as part of its 52nd anniversary
celebration:
- Ahmad Yassin, founder of Hamas
- Fathi Shaqaqi, founder Islamic
Jihad
- Abu Ali Mustafa, head of
PFLP
Fatah cited as
role models:
- Terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi who led killing of 37
- Mughrabi is "Bride of
Palestine"
- Arch-terrorist Abu Jihad who orchestrated
the murder of at least 125 people
Itamar Marcus and
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Abbas' Fatah wished
"the real Palestinians" a "good year" in a post on Facebook, parading some of
the movement's role models, among them several "Martyrs," all of whom were
either murderers or heads of murderous terror organizations.
The largest picture
among the role models on Fatah's image above is terrorist murderer Dalal
Mughrabi who led the killing of 37 Israelis in a bus hijacking in 1978.
Additional pictures (left to right) are PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, terrorist
Omar Al-Qassem, Yasser Arafat, Islamic Jihad founder Fathi Shaqaqi, Hamas
founder Ahmed Yassin, and Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Abu Ali Mustafa.
Fatah described what
it means to be "a real Palestinian," and predicted that "a people whose leaders
are Martyrs" - as the leaders singled out in the photos, except Abbas - "will
undoubtedly triumph with Allah's help":
Text on image: "Fatah embraces its people and
praises the Martyrs.
To
be a real Palestinian, you must be a self-sacrificing fighter (Fida'i),
know much and reveal little, search for the security in the heart of the danger,
get used to having no time to cry over endings but rather to always have new
beginnings.
Long life to you and long live the anniversary of the Launch [of
Fatah] (Intilaqa), and may it be a good year.
A
people whose leaders are Martyrs will undoubtedly triumph with Allah's
help..."
[Official Fatah
Facebook page, Dec. 27, 2016]
In another post, Fatah presented the
same terror leaders as "heroic Martyrs" and "swore" it will "continue our
revolution until victory:"
Posted text: "On the 52nd anniversary of the Launch
of the Fatah Movement, we swear to our heroic Martyrs (Shahids)
to continue our revolution until victory
#Fatah_52"
[Official Fatah
Facebook page, Dec. 26, 2016]
As is its policy, Fatah glorified terrorist
Dalal Mughrabi in another post as the "Bride of Palestine." [Official
Fatah Facebook page, Dec. 27,
2016]
Adding to the message
that Fatah is proud of its killers and adheres to the option of "armed struggle"
and violence, Fatah posted a photo of the Chairman of the Information Committee
of the Fatah Mobilization and Organization Commission Munir Al-Jaghoub holding a
drawing of a handshake forming a gun with a Palestinian flag. The gun points at
a flag with a Star of David on it with the text: "The Israeli occupation." Text
on the gun says "The Palestinian reconciliation" - referring to a desired
resolution of the existing rift between Fatah and Hamas. [Official Fatah
Facebook page, Dec. 28, 2016]
The posted statement
by this Fatah official urges Fatah to meet with Hamas "on the basis of the
partnership that unites all of us." According to the drawing, this unifying
basis is violence against Israel.
In addition to these
posts, Fatah has celebrated the 52nd anniversary of its "Launch" by glorifying
numerous of "Martyrs," among them many terrorist murderers: Arch-terrorist Abu
Jihad who orchestrated attacks in which at least 125 Israelis were murdered;
Marwan Barghouti, who is serving 5 life sentences for planning attacks that
killed 5; Karim Younes, who kidnapped and killed an Israeli soldier; Raed
Al-Karmi, who was responsible for attacks that killed 9 Israelis; Abu Ali Iyad,
who was responsible for several terror attacks in 1966; Kamal Adwan, who was
responsible for Fatah's terrorist operations in Israel in the 1960's and 1970's
and was a senior member of Black September. (Longer descriptions of these
terrorists appear below.)
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Text on image: "[Fatah] Central Committee member Martyr
(
Shahid) Commander Khalid Al-Wazir
Information Committee of the [Fatah]
Mobilization and Organization Commission"
[Official Fatah Facebook page,
Dec. 29, 2016]
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The photos show terrorist prisoner Marwan Barghouti
(top) and terrorist prisoner Karim Younes.
Posted
text: "On the 52nd anniversary of the Launch of the Fatah Movement, we
promise our heroic prisoners that we will continue our revolution until victory
and until they are released from imprisonment
#Fatah_52"
[Official Fatah
Facebook page,
Dec. 26,
2016]
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Posted text: "Martyr
(Shahid) Commander Raed Al-Karmi"
Text on image: "Information Committee
of the [Fatah] Mobilization and Organization Commission"
[Official Fatah Facebook page,
Dec. 29,
2016
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Text
on image: "[Fatah] Central Committee member Martyr (Shahid) Commander Kamal
Adwan
Information
Committee of the [Fatah] Mobilization and Organization Commission" [Official
Fatah Facebook page, Dec. 28, 2016]
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Text on image:
"[Fatah] Central Committee member Martyr (Shahid) Commander Abu Ali
Iyad
Information Committee
of the [Fatah] Mobilization and Organization Commission"
[Official Fatah
Facebook page, Dec. 28, 2016]
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Text on image: "[Fatah] Central
Committee member Martyr (Shahid) Commander Kamal Adwan
Information Committee of the [Fatah] Mobilization
and Organization Commission"
[Official Fatah
Facebook page, Dec. 28, 2016]
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On all the images appears the logo of the 52nd
anniversary of "the Launch" (Intilaqa) of Fatah, which features the PA
map of "Palestine" that presents all of Israel as "Palestine" together with the
PA areas, a keffiyeh (Arab headdress), and the Fatah logo with a
grenade, crossed rifles, and the PA map of "Palestine." The logo is the profile
picture and appears on the cover photo of Fatah's official Facebook page.
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Dec. 15 and 18, 2016]
The following are longer descriptions of the
terrorists glorified by Fatah:
Abu Ali Iyad was appointed head of
Fatah military operations in 1966 and was responsible for several terror
attacks. The attacks included a bombing in the town of Beit Yosef in northern
Israel on April 25, 1966 (injuring 3 people), and placing bombs in the town of
Margaliot in northern Israel on July 19, 1966. He was killed in 1971 in Jordan
by the Jordanian army when it forced Fatah members out of the
country.
Abu Ali
Mustafa - Secretary-General of the terror organization Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP, which rejected the Oslo
Accords (1993), has planned and carried out numerous terror attacks against
Israeli civilians since its founding in 1967 and throughout the Palestinian
terror campaign between 2000-2005 (the Intifada).
Abu Jihad
(Khalil Al-Wazir) was a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat.
He headed the PLO terror organization's military wing and also planned many
deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960's - 1980's. These attacks, which killed
a total of 125 Israelis, included the most lethal in Israeli history - the
hijacking of a bus and killing of 37 civilians, 12 of them
children.
Ahmed
Yassin - Founder and former head of the terrorist organization Hamas.
The Hamas movement is responsible for numerous terror attacks and the deaths of
hundreds of Israeli civilians.
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in
Israel's history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and
other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, killing 37
civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
Fathi Shaqaqi - Founder of the terrorist organization
Islamic Jihad, which has carried out more than 1,000 terror attacks, killing and
wounding hundreds of Israeli civilians. He was killed by Israel in Malta in
1995.
Kamal Adwan was responsible for Fatah's terrorist
operations in Israel in the 1960's and 1970's and was a senior member of Black
September. He was killed by Israeli forces in April 1973.
Karim Younes - an Israeli Arab serving a 40-year
sentence for kidnapping and killing Israeli soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980
together with his cousin Maher Younes. Originally sentenced to life in prison,
but Israeli President Shimon Peres reduced his sentence in
2012.
Marwan
Barghouti - Palestinian terrorist who is serving 5 life sentences for
orchestrating three shooting attacks that killed 5 people: one attack in
Jerusalem (June 12, 2001) in which Greek monk Tsibouktsakis Germanus was
murdered by terrorist Ismail Radaida and another unidentified terrorist, another
attack at a gas station in Givat Zeev near Jerusalem (Jan. 15, 2002) in which
Yoela Hen, 45, was murdered by terrorists led by Mohammed Matla, and one
shooting and stabbing attack at the Sea Food Market restaurant in Tel Aviv
(March 5, 2002) in which Eli Dahan, 53, Yosef Habi, 52, and Police Officer
Sergeant-Major Salim Barakat, 33, were murdered by terrorist Ibrahim Hasouna.
When arrested by Israel in 2002, Barghouti headed the Tanzim (Fatah terror
faction). After he was convicted and imprisoned, he was re-elected member of the
Palestinian Authority parliament. On Dec. 4, 2016, he was elected
to Fatah's Central Committee.
Omar
Al-Qassem - Led a terror squad that crossed the Jordan River into
Israel to carry out a terror attack in 1968. Caught by Israeli soldiers, the
squad killed two soldiers. Al-Qassem was given two life sentences, and died in
his prison cell 21 years later.
Raed
Al-Karmi - was a senior Tanzim (Fatah terror faction) operative and
responsible for the murder of 9 Israelis in several attacks: Etgar Zeituni and
Motti Dayan on Jan. 23, 2001; Zvi Shelef on May 31, 2001; Danny Yehuda on June
18, 2001; Elie Na'aman on July 4, 2001; Dov Roseman on Aug. 26, 2001; Hananya
Ben Avraham on Oct. 5, 2001; soldier Yaniv Levy on Aug. 28, 2001 and Israeli
army officer Erez Merhavi on Sept. 6, 2001. Al-Karmi was killed by the Israeli
army on Jan. 14, 2002.
Statement by Chairman
of the Information Committee of the Fatah Mobilization and Organization
Commission and picture posted on the official Fatah Facebook page:
The picture shows
Chairman of the Information Committee of the Fatah Mobilization and Organization
Commission Munir Al-Jaghoub holding a drawing. The drawing depicts a handshake
that forms a gun on which is written "The Palestinian reconciliation" -
referring to a desired resolution of the existing rift between Fatah and Hamas -
and on top of the gun is a Palestinian flag. The gun is pointed at a flag with a
Star of David on it with the text: "The Israeli occupation."
Posted text: "The national responsibility and the
supreme interests of our people require us in the Fatah Movement to meet with
the Hamas movement on the basis of the partnership that unites all of us. Their
participation in a preparatory meeting of the [Palestinian] National Council
(i.e., the legislative body of the PLO) constitutes a first and important step
on the path to ending the rift [between Fatah and Hamas] and returning the unity
and cohesion to the homeland.
Munir Al-Jaghoub
Chairman of the Information Committee of the Fatah Mobilization and
Organization Commission"
[Official Fatah Facebook page, Dec. 28,
2016]
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