Bulletin Dec. 2, 2018  Fatah leader: "The rifle will never fall" l "The UN allows the Palestinian people  to use the armed struggle" by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Click to view bulletin "The rifle will never fall," declared Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki on PA TV, using the anniversary of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death to reiterate that Palestinians have a UN-protected "right to use the armed struggle." For years, Palestinian Authority leaders and officials have defended and promoted Palestinian violence by quoting UN resolution 3236, which "recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to regain its rights by all means." The PA claims "all means" includes attacking and killing Israeli civilians, which is why PA leaders claim that Palestinian terrorists are legitimate "freedom fighters" and terrorist prisoners are "prisoners of war." However, the PA has chosen to ignore the continuation of the UN resolution which states that the use of "all means" should be "in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations..." The UN Charter prohibits targeting civilians, even in war. Chapter 1, Article 1, opens by saying that "international disputes" should be resolved "by peaceful means." But regard for Israeli civilian lives is never a concern for PA and Fatah leaders when justifying and rewarding use of violence and terror against Israel to the Palestinian population. On PA TV, Zaki quoted Arafat's famous UN speech in 1974, when Arafat said he was "bearing an olive branch and a revolutionary's gun," and asked the UN "not to let the olive branch fall." Zaki explained that specifically Arafat had focused on the image of the olive branch not falling, because "the rifle will never fall, even today." As Palestinian Media Watch has documented numerous times, Fatah, the ruling party in the PA, never renounced the use of violence. Zaki's stressing "the rifle will never fall" indicates that Fatah does not plan to do so in the future either.  Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: "[UN] Resolution 3236 was passed which allows the Palestinian people to use all types of struggle - including the armed struggle... [Arafat] said to them: ''I've come to you bearing an olive branch in one hand and a revolutionary's gun in the other hand. Do not let the green branch fall from my hand.'' He did not say: ''[Let] the rifle [fall],'' because the rifle will never fall, even today. We don't want to use the struggle, because we know that Israel is waiting for the opportunity to erase us from the land."  [Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Nov. 11, 2018] Strikingly, Zaki further stated that Fatah/the PA "don't want to use the struggle." Not because Palestinian leaders think violence is fundamentally wrong. No. But because Israel is too strong: "Israel is waiting for the opportunity to erase us from the land." Zaki's statement echoes similar ones by Mahmoud Abbas a number of years ago when he declared that the PA wasn't interested in a violent confrontation with Israel - not because Abbas and the PA wanted to renounce violence as a tool, but because the Palestinians were unable to tackle Israel militarily and because the international community was against it: "We do not wish to turn to armed struggle, because our [lack of] capabilities and the international atmosphere do not allow for it." [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 24, 2011] "We are unable to confront Israel militarily, and this point was discussed at the Arab League Summit in March in Sirt (Libya). There I turned to the Arab States and I said: 'If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don't have the ability to do it... The West Bank was completely destroyed and we will not agree that it will be destroyed again." [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 6, 2010] PMW has documented that the Fatah Movement often expresses its veneration for the rifle as in this poster calling on Palestinians to "strap on your weapon": Posted text: "Strap on your weapon over your wound, and tomorrow you will awaken to a morning of freedom #Rage_for_Jerusalem #Rage_for_Al-Aqsa_Mosque #Jerusalem_our_capital #Jerusalem_the_capital_of_Palestine #HandsOffAlQuds" Text on the image repeats the call to "strap on your weapon"  [Official Fatah Facebook page, Dec. 14, 2017] This research was made possible by the support of readers like you. Donate to PMW now. New! Donate online by credit card. (Tax deductible in the US) VISIT PMW VIDEO ARCHIVES Shahada (Death for Allah) promotion Holocaust denial and distortion Success of Shahada promotion Glorifying terrorists and terror Promoting violence & terror Demonization Conspiracy libels Israel's right to exist denied Jewish history rewritten Objective: Israel's destruction p:+972 2 625 4140     e: pmw@palwatch.org f: +972 2 624 2803       w: www.palwatch.org

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In this mailing: Uzay Bulut: Turkey's Reign of Terror: The Persecution of Minority Alevis Raymond Ibrahim: "Burnt Beyond Recognition": Extremist Persecution of Christians, August 2018 Turkey's Reign of Terror: The Persecution of Minority Alevis by Uzay Bulut  •  December 2, 2018 at 5:00 am          The Alevi-owned broadcaster, TV10, for example,was closed down in September 2016, two months after the failed coup attempt against Erdogan, for allegedly "threatening national security and belonging to a terror organization." A TV10 cameraman, Kemal Demir, was taken into police custody on November 25, 2017 and arrested on December 2. Veli Büyükşahin, TV10's chairman of the board, and Veli Haydar Güleç, a TV10 producer, were arrested on January 10. All are still in prison. "TV10 did not belong to a major business. While it was trying to carry out its activities with its few employees and very limited resources, it was closed down by executive order. Moreover, its properties were seized [by the government] and then sold by the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (SDIF)... The indictments against them contain no criminal element and judges have turned down the indictments twice. Yet, these people have been detained for 10 months and there is still uncertainty as to when they will be tried in a court and when a result will be obtained from the hearings." — Kemal Peköz, MP from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in a speech before parliament November 1. Many Alevis in Turkey have protested that their houses of worship, know as cem houses, are not officially recognized by the government. Yet even these protests are quashed. Pictured: The Kartal Cemevi Alevi cem house in Istanbul, Turkey. (Image source: Cemyildiz/Wikimedia Commons) In Turkey, several methods are employed to eliminate religious minorities, not only by physical violence. Instead, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan tries to erase minority faiths by preventing their ability to function by denying them the freedom to establish and safely operate their own institutions and places of worship. The Alevis, for instance, a historically persecuted religious minority in Turkey, are all-too-familiar with this form of oppression. The Alevi-owned broadcaster, TV10, for example, was closed down in September 2016, two months after the failed coup attempt against Erdoğan, for allegedly "threatening national security and belonging to a terror organization." A TV10 cameraman, Kemal Demir, was taken into police custody on November 25, 2017 and arrested on December 2. Veli Büyükşahin, TV10's chairman of the board, and Veli Haydar Güleç, a TV10 producer, were arrested on January 10. All are still in prison. Continue Reading Article "Burnt Beyond Recognition": Extremist Persecution of Christians, August 2018 by Raymond Ibrahim  •  December 2, 2018 at 4:00 am          "The non-implementation of the law has brought us a gang of hardliners who have become above the law." — Human rights activist, World Watch Monitor, Egypt. A group of Muslims thrashed Vishal Masih, an 18-year-old Christian, after he repeatedly defeated a Muslim teen at arm-wrestling." — Persecution, International Christian Concern, Pakistan. "We cannot watch our children joining infidels' church," explained a local sheikh. — Morning Star News, Uganda. Comoros: Sunni Islam was formally declared "the religion of the state." "An ultra-conservative group of radical scholars ... are pushing the country to a more extreme view of Islamic law (sharia) in the country and are against Christians." — World Watch Monitor, August 3, 2018. Turkey's government has kept the Christian Orthodox theological school (Halki Seminary) shut for 47 years, while the Orthodox Church waits to be allowed to reopen it. Recently, Turkish authorities declared that a major Islamic Education Center will be built right next to the closed Christian building. (Darwinek/Wikimedia Commons) Christians Burned Alive and Churches Torched Ethiopia: Approximately 15 Christian priests were killed—at least four burned alive—and 19 churches torched during Muslim uprisings in the east, where most of the nation's Muslim population, consisting of 33% of the population, is centered. "Similar tensions are bubbling under the surface in other parts of Oromia," which is approximately 50% Muslim, said a local source. "We have even heard of places where Muslims had asked Christians to vacate the area. And though this call is veiled as ethnic rivalry by some media and observers, it is at its very core a religious matter." Continue Reading Article