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Who Are The Palestinians " III "
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The Palestinian Authority is once again complaining about its alleged financial crisis. As a consequence of the alleged crisis, for months the PA has only paid its employees 70% - 80% of the salaries due to them. As usual, the PA is deflecting any responsibility for its situation and is merely blaming Israel.
This approach was summed up in a statement of PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh following the July 31, 2022 decision of Israel’s Security Cabinet to implement Israel’s Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law that withholds tax money from the PA by the amount the PA pays in salaries to terrorists.
Part I: Israel’s decision was neither “arbitrary” nor “illegal”
In the decision, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved a report of Israel’s Minister of Defense, which stipulated that in 2021 the PA had spent approximately 600 million shekels paying salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and allowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. These payments are often referred to as the PA’s Pay-for-Slay policy. According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, the figure stipulated is now being deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
The decision was neither arbitrary nor illegal. Israel gathers taxes and transfers them to the PA as part of the Oslo peace agreements. These are not PA taxes, as the Palestinians often claim, but rather Israeli taxes waived in favor of the PA. The taxes are not given as a free gift. Rather, the expectation is that in the same manner as Israel collects and transfers the taxes pursuant to the Oslo Accords, the PA will meet its commitments pursuant to the Oslo Accords, inter alia, to combat terror.
But instead of using the money as intended, the PA uses the money to incentivize, promote, and reward terror through the terror salaries. The PA’s refusal to abandon its Pay-for-Slay policy has therefore forced Israel to legislate a law that penalizes the PA for these payments.
According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, at the end of each year Israel’s Minister of Finance submits a report to the Israeli Security Cabinet, in which he details the sums paid by the PA (directly or indirectly through the PLO) to the terrorists. Once the report is approved, the sum set by the Minister of Defense in his report is then “frozen”.
The frozen money is deposited in a special account. The law adds that were the PA to abandon its terror reward payments, it would be entitled to receive some, if not all, of the money withheld.
Part II: Is the PA suffering a financial crisis because of Israel’s decision?
Analysis of PA financial reports, actually shows that in the first half of 2022, the PA’s gross revenue from all taxes – the taxes Israel collects and the taxes the PA collects by itself – was higher than ever. When compared to the same period in previous years, the PA revenue for the first half of 2022 has risen by over 1.3 billion shekels compared to 2017. 900 million shekels of that rise is from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
According to the PA’s financial reports, by the end of June the PA tax revenue was higher than expected and already covered 52% of the PA’s 2022 budget.
While the PA has been taking active measures since the beginning of 2022 to hide its budget performance reports, Palestinian Media Watch managed to get access to the June 2022 report, which is being exposed here, for the first time:
Even if one were to look only at the PA revenue from the Israeli taxes, after the implementation of the Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law the picture does not change substantially. According to the PA financial reports, the PA income from the Israeli taxes during the first six months of 2022 was the highest ever, and greater by over 165 million shekels, even after taking the Israeli deduction into account.
(full article online)
palwatch.org
This approach was summed up in a statement of PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh following the July 31, 2022 decision of Israel’s Security Cabinet to implement Israel’s Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law that withholds tax money from the PA by the amount the PA pays in salaries to terrorists.
For the purpose of analysis, Shtayyeh’s statement should be broken into three parts.“The Israeli government’s decision to deduct a sum of 600 million [Israeli] shekels from the Palestinian tax money is arbitrary and illegal. He noted that this is tantamount to piracy that will add another dimension to our financial crisis, but said that this will not dissuade us from standing by our commitments towards the families of the prisoners and the Martyrs.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 2, 2022]
Part I: Israel’s decision was neither “arbitrary” nor “illegal”
In the decision, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved a report of Israel’s Minister of Defense, which stipulated that in 2021 the PA had spent approximately 600 million shekels paying salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and allowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. These payments are often referred to as the PA’s Pay-for-Slay policy. According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, the figure stipulated is now being deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
The decision was neither arbitrary nor illegal. Israel gathers taxes and transfers them to the PA as part of the Oslo peace agreements. These are not PA taxes, as the Palestinians often claim, but rather Israeli taxes waived in favor of the PA. The taxes are not given as a free gift. Rather, the expectation is that in the same manner as Israel collects and transfers the taxes pursuant to the Oslo Accords, the PA will meet its commitments pursuant to the Oslo Accords, inter alia, to combat terror.
But instead of using the money as intended, the PA uses the money to incentivize, promote, and reward terror through the terror salaries. The PA’s refusal to abandon its Pay-for-Slay policy has therefore forced Israel to legislate a law that penalizes the PA for these payments.
According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, at the end of each year Israel’s Minister of Finance submits a report to the Israeli Security Cabinet, in which he details the sums paid by the PA (directly or indirectly through the PLO) to the terrorists. Once the report is approved, the sum set by the Minister of Defense in his report is then “frozen”.
The frozen money is deposited in a special account. The law adds that were the PA to abandon its terror reward payments, it would be entitled to receive some, if not all, of the money withheld.
Part II: Is the PA suffering a financial crisis because of Israel’s decision?
Analysis of PA financial reports, actually shows that in the first half of 2022, the PA’s gross revenue from all taxes – the taxes Israel collects and the taxes the PA collects by itself – was higher than ever. When compared to the same period in previous years, the PA revenue for the first half of 2022 has risen by over 1.3 billion shekels compared to 2017. 900 million shekels of that rise is from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
According to the PA’s financial reports, by the end of June the PA tax revenue was higher than expected and already covered 52% of the PA’s 2022 budget.
While the PA has been taking active measures since the beginning of 2022 to hide its budget performance reports, Palestinian Media Watch managed to get access to the June 2022 report, which is being exposed here, for the first time:
Even if one were to look only at the PA revenue from the Israeli taxes, after the implementation of the Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law the picture does not change substantially. According to the PA financial reports, the PA income from the Israeli taxes during the first six months of 2022 was the highest ever, and greater by over 165 million shekels, even after taking the Israeli deduction into account.
(full article online)
Why is the PA not paying its employees their full wages? | PMW Analysis
Are PA Clerks paying its employees their full wages?
palwatch.org
The Palestinian Authority is once again complaining about its alleged financial crisis. As a consequence of the alleged crisis, for months the PA has only paid its employees 70% - 80% of the salaries due to them. As usual, the PA is deflecting any responsibility for its situation and is merely blaming Israel.
This approach was summed up in a statement of PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh following the July 31, 2022 decision of Israel’s Security Cabinet to implement Israel’s Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law that withholds tax money from the PA by the amount the PA pays in salaries to terrorists.
For the purpose of analysis, Shtayyeh’s statement should be broken into three parts.
Part I: Israel’s decision was neither “arbitrary” nor “illegal”
In the decision, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved a report of Israel’s Minister of Defense, which stipulated that in 2021 the PA had spent approximately 600 million shekels paying salaries to terrorist prisoners and released terrorists and allowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. These payments are often referred to as the PA’s Pay-for-Slay policy. According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, the figure stipulated is now being deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
The decision was neither arbitrary nor illegal. Israel gathers taxes and transfers them to the PA as part of the Oslo peace agreements. These are not PA taxes, as the Palestinians often claim, but rather Israeli taxes waived in favor of the PA. The taxes are not given as a free gift. Rather, the expectation is that in the same manner as Israel collects and transfers the taxes pursuant to the Oslo Accords, the PA will meet its commitments pursuant to the Oslo Accords, inter alia, to combat terror.
But instead of using the money as intended, the PA uses the money to incentivize, promote, and reward terror through the terror salaries. The PA’s refusal to abandon its Pay-for-Slay policy has therefore forced Israel to legislate a law that penalizes the PA for these payments.
According to Israel's Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law, at the end of each year Israel’s Minister of Finance submits a report to the Israeli Security Cabinet, in which he details the sums paid by the PA (directly or indirectly through the PLO) to the terrorists. Once the report is approved, the sum set by the Minister of Defense in his report is then “frozen”.
The frozen money is deposited in a special account. The law adds that were the PA to abandon its terror reward payments, it would be entitled to receive some, if not all, of the money withheld.
Part II: Is the PA suffering a financial crisis because of Israel’s decision?
Analysis of PA financial reports, actually shows that in the first half of 2022, the PA’s gross revenue from all taxes – the taxes Israel collects and the taxes the PA collects by itself – was higher than ever. When compared to the same period in previous years, the PA revenue for the first half of 2022 has risen by over 1.3 billion shekels compared to 2017. 900 million shekels of that rise is from the taxes Israel collects and transfers to the PA.
According to the PA’s financial reports, by the end of June the PA tax revenue was higher than expected and already covered 52% of the PA’s 2022 budget.
While the PA has been taking active measures since the beginning of 2022 to hide its budget performance reports, Palestinian Media Watch managed to get access to the June 2022 report, which is being exposed here, for the first time:
Even if one were to look only at the PA revenue from the Israeli taxes, after the implementation of the Anti-Pay-for-Slay Law the picture does not change substantially. According to the PA financial reports, the PA income from the Israeli taxes during the first six months of 2022 was the highest ever, and greater by over 165 million shekels, even after taking the Israeli deduction into account.
(full article online)
Why is the PA not paying its employees their full wages? | PMW Analysis
Are PA Clerks paying its employees their full wages?
How much money would they save if they stopped paying terrorists?
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They should be allowed to return. To Saudi Arabia.
That's their problem,
they're the mixed multitude opportunists, who can't offer anything.
so left their countries to take opportunity in the Jewish re-constitution.
And then curse the entire 'Arab world' expecting them to be their wolf nipple.
Normalize, Let Insulters Fend For Themselves - ARAB TIMES - KUWAIT NEWS
WHY are we the ones being insulted by the Palestinians?
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These pompous blowhards are always parroting the same script.
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Fatah Secretary in Jenin Ata Abu Rumeileh: Palestine from the River to the Sea Is Ours and Our Military Wing Has a “Green Light,” the Resistance Has a Free Hand to React to the Israeli Aggression
Fatah secretary in Jenin Ata Abu Rumeileh said in a September 11, 2022 show on Awda TV (Palestinian Authority) that Fata...
Fatah Secretary in Jenin Ata Abu Rumeileh: Palestine from the River to the Sea Is Ours and Our Military Wing Has a “Green Light,” the Resistance Has a Free Hand to React to the Israeli Aggression
There's something in the article about Fatah not hiding its role in islamic terrorist attacks. Clearly, they never have. Fatah typically boasts of its role in attacks aimed at Israel and has a graduated pay scale for the minions on their payroll.
palwatch.org
Fatah no longer hiding its terror role - boasts about its attacks
Itamar Marcus | Sep 19, 2022
PA highlights that it did not condemn last week’s terror attack
Fatah brags: Terrorist murderer is PA Security Forces officer “by day” and member of terror organization “by night”
“When the [Al-Aqsa Martyrs’] Brigades say it, they do it, and when they make a promise, they keep it”
Fatah brags of two terror fronts: PA security services and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
Terror attack “high-quality” “because it was carried out by [Fatah’s] Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and one of the PA Security Forces - PA TV host explains in Fatah video
Terror organizations Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine applaud the murder as “heroic operation”
Fatah no longer hiding its terror role - boasts about its attacks | PMW Analysis
Fatah boasts about Security forces' terror attacks
palwatch.org
Fatah no longer hiding its terror role - boasts about its attacks
Itamar Marcus | Sep 19, 2022
PA highlights that it did not condemn last week’s terror attack
Fatah brags: Terrorist murderer is PA Security Forces officer “by day” and member of terror organization “by night”
“When the [Al-Aqsa Martyrs’] Brigades say it, they do it, and when they make a promise, they keep it”
Fatah brags of two terror fronts: PA security services and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
Terror attack “high-quality” “because it was carried out by [Fatah’s] Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and one of the PA Security Forces - PA TV host explains in Fatah video
Terror organizations Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine applaud the murder as “heroic operation”
Isn’t there a new crop of eager, indoctrinated islamo-yutes fresh out of the Hamas summer gee-had training camp?
Use ‘‘em or lose ‘em.
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“In this sensitive period, journalists would be remiss to ignore the combustible internal Palestinian factors, combined with perilous Iranian meddling, which spell the potential for a rough period of Palestinian violence targeting Israelis," said Andrea Levin, CAMERA’s executive director.”
Use ‘‘em or lose ‘em.
Media watchdog calls for coverage of anticipated surge in Palestinian terrorism
“In this sensitive period, journalists would be remiss to ignore the combustible internal Palestinian factors, combined with perilous Iranian meddling, which spell the potential for a rough period of Palestinian violence targeting Israelis," said Andrea Levin, CAMERA’s executive director.
www.jns.org
“In this sensitive period, journalists would be remiss to ignore the combustible internal Palestinian factors, combined with perilous Iranian meddling, which spell the potential for a rough period of Palestinian violence targeting Israelis," said Andrea Levin, CAMERA’s executive director.”
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Suddenly, after weeks of his Fatah party taking responsibility and bragging about terror attacks, Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority arrested Hamas terrorist Mosab Shtayyeh in Nablus.
This caused Palestinian fans of terror to protest in Nablus and Jenin, and Hamas condemned the arrest.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority also confiscated a cache of weapons in Hebron, plus "the arrest of a number of outlaws and instigators of sedition and security chaos in the Hebron Governorate."
So what's going on? Why is the PA suddenly acting how it is supposed to when it has been openly supportive of terror recently?
The reason is that Mahmoud Abbas is in New York this week to give a speech at the UN. He has been under pressure from the US and Israel to flex his muscles against terror, and he doesn't want to look bad when he gives his annual anti-Israel speech to the world.
Next week, we'll find out if this is a real change or just optics. My bet is the latter.
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This caused Palestinian fans of terror to protest in Nablus and Jenin, and Hamas condemned the arrest.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority also confiscated a cache of weapons in Hebron, plus "the arrest of a number of outlaws and instigators of sedition and security chaos in the Hebron Governorate."
So what's going on? Why is the PA suddenly acting how it is supposed to when it has been openly supportive of terror recently?
The reason is that Mahmoud Abbas is in New York this week to give a speech at the UN. He has been under pressure from the US and Israel to flex his muscles against terror, and he doesn't want to look bad when he gives his annual anti-Israel speech to the world.
Next week, we'll find out if this is a real change or just optics. My bet is the latter.
Abbas pretends to fight terror, this week at least
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I believe that Israel's tactic of being proactive with measures that address Islamic terrorist attacks has reaped rewards.
He is also scheduled to meet a slew of world leaders, including new British Prime Minister Liz Truss, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jordan’s King Abdullah and others. In addition, he will meet with the leaders of Jewish organizations
Lapid should warn UN that Israel will fight terror wave aggressively - analysis
Prime Minister Yair Lapid arrived in New York on Tuesday to take part in the UN General Assembly meeting, which he is expected to address on ThursdayHe is also scheduled to meet a slew of world leaders, including new British Prime Minister Liz Truss, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jordan’s King Abdullah and others. In addition, he will meet with the leaders of Jewish organizations
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Throwing out terrorist cards like rice at a wedding.There's something in the article about Fatah not hiding its role in islamic terrorist attacks. Clearly, they never have. Fatah typically boasts of its role in attacks aimed at Israel and has a graduated pay scale for the minions on their payroll.
Fatah no longer hiding its terror role - boasts about its attacks | PMW Analysis
Fatah boasts about Security forces' terror attacks
Fatah no longer hiding its terror role - boasts about its attacks
Itamar Marcus | Sep 19, 2022
PA highlights that it did not condemn last week’s terror attack
Fatah brags: Terrorist murderer is PA Security Forces officer “by day” and member of terror organization “by night”
“When the [Al-Aqsa Martyrs’] Brigades say it, they do it, and when they make a promise, they keep it”
Fatah brags of two terror fronts: PA security services and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
Terror attack “high-quality” “because it was carried out by [Fatah’s] Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and one of the PA Security Forces - PA TV host explains in Fatah video
Terror organizations Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine applaud the murder as “heroic operation”
Throwing out terrorist cards like rice at a wedding.
Throwing out hurt feelings like a bridesmaid who didn't catch the bouquet.
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Yesterday, I reported that the Palestinian Authority arrested Mosab Shtayyeh, a commander in the Hamss Al-Qassam Brigades, in Nablus.
Coming after Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has been taking responsibility for terror attacks itself, including attacks by its own security services, this move was simply an attempt to claim that the PA really opposes terror - so Mahmoud Abbas can make that claim ahead of (or within) his annual anti-Israel speech at the UN.
The arrest was also reportedly after intense pressure from the US and Israel for the PA to adhere to its own signed agreements to fight terrorism, not to contribute to it.
In my post, I predicted that by next week, we'll see that this was simply political theatre.
It seems that we don't have to wait for next week.
After massine riots in Nablus and Jenin, in which Palestinian security forces killed one protester, the PA caved to the terrorist supporters who wanted Shtayyeh released. At dawn today, after all-night negotiations with the rioters, reports say that the PA will release Shtayyeh "within a few days."
Conveniently, this will be after Abbas' speech to the UN and after he leaves the US.
The PA is not serious about fighting terror. On the contrary, it supports terror. And it always has.
elderofziyon.blogspot.com
Coming after Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has been taking responsibility for terror attacks itself, including attacks by its own security services, this move was simply an attempt to claim that the PA really opposes terror - so Mahmoud Abbas can make that claim ahead of (or within) his annual anti-Israel speech at the UN.
The arrest was also reportedly after intense pressure from the US and Israel for the PA to adhere to its own signed agreements to fight terrorism, not to contribute to it.
In my post, I predicted that by next week, we'll see that this was simply political theatre.
It seems that we don't have to wait for next week.
After massine riots in Nablus and Jenin, in which Palestinian security forces killed one protester, the PA caved to the terrorist supporters who wanted Shtayyeh released. At dawn today, after all-night negotiations with the rioters, reports say that the PA will release Shtayyeh "within a few days."
Conveniently, this will be after Abbas' speech to the UN and after he leaves the US.
The PA is not serious about fighting terror. On the contrary, it supports terror. And it always has.
Abbas set to release Hamas terrorist - AFTER his UN speech
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Yesterday, a Palestinian man stalked and murdered an 84 year old Jewish grandmother in Holon. She was identified as Shulamit Rachel Ovadia.
Israeli security services suspect that it was a terror attack, since nothing was taken from her.
The suspect, Mousa Sarsour from Qalqilya, was found this morning after apparently committing suicide, hanging himself in an abandoned Tel Aviv building. He had a valid work permit in Israel.
When attacks like these happen, the reactions (and non-reactions) from the anti-Israel crowd reveal a great deal.
Palestinian terror groups are happy - but they pointedly do not mention the age of the victim. Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades describes the victim as "a Zionist usurper killed in a commando operation." Palestine Today, associated with Islamic Jihad, called her a "female settler."
More mainstream Palestinian newspapers understand that murdering an elderly lady is not something to be proud of. So they are instead quoting the suspect's family, saying that he suffers psychological problems - but he couldn't have murdered her anyway.
Jewish anti-Zionists who claim to care about human rights become deathly silent when the victim is an elderly Jewish woman. The anger that they show when Israeli forced kill a teen throwing Molotov cocktails evaporates when the Jewish victim did nothing to provoke the attack. Their righteous indignation, ready to ignite on a moment's notice at the death of a Palestinian, is simply nonexistent. I can find nothing in the social media accounts of the anti-Israel activists I follow.
To them, Palestinians are pure good and Zionist Jews are pure evil, and they are so invested in pushing that narrative that they will never say a negative word about a terror attack, no matter how heinous. They will go to rallies to support Rasmea Odeh but do not want you to know the name Shulamit Rachel Ovadia.
One Israeli leftist - Dror Etkes, who heads the Kerem Navot NGO - tries to redirect the conversation to make this about Israeli racism:
To Etkes, the characterization of a murderer of an 84 year old woman as a terrorist is just evidence of Israeli racism. (He also uses the propaganda method of "sure, the attack is horrifying, but look at how terrible the reaction is!")
His theory might make sense if there were random murders of unrelated Palestinians by Palestinian psychopaths. In general, there are very few reports of anything like that.
Mousa Sarsour went out of his way to kill a Jewish woman in Israel, and even if he did have psychological problems, the reason for choosing a Jew has everything to do with Palestinian antisemitism that is called "nationalism." It has everything to do with the social and monetary benefits in Palestinian society of murdering Jews.
Most terrorists, including suicide bombers, are not entirely sane. To claim (without evidence) that this was just a psychopath is simply another way to justify terror.
elderofziyon.blogspot.com
Israeli security services suspect that it was a terror attack, since nothing was taken from her.
The suspect, Mousa Sarsour from Qalqilya, was found this morning after apparently committing suicide, hanging himself in an abandoned Tel Aviv building. He had a valid work permit in Israel.
When attacks like these happen, the reactions (and non-reactions) from the anti-Israel crowd reveal a great deal.
Palestinian terror groups are happy - but they pointedly do not mention the age of the victim. Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades describes the victim as "a Zionist usurper killed in a commando operation." Palestine Today, associated with Islamic Jihad, called her a "female settler."
More mainstream Palestinian newspapers understand that murdering an elderly lady is not something to be proud of. So they are instead quoting the suspect's family, saying that he suffers psychological problems - but he couldn't have murdered her anyway.
Jewish anti-Zionists who claim to care about human rights become deathly silent when the victim is an elderly Jewish woman. The anger that they show when Israeli forced kill a teen throwing Molotov cocktails evaporates when the Jewish victim did nothing to provoke the attack. Their righteous indignation, ready to ignite on a moment's notice at the death of a Palestinian, is simply nonexistent. I can find nothing in the social media accounts of the anti-Israel activists I follow.
To them, Palestinians are pure good and Zionist Jews are pure evil, and they are so invested in pushing that narrative that they will never say a negative word about a terror attack, no matter how heinous. They will go to rallies to support Rasmea Odeh but do not want you to know the name Shulamit Rachel Ovadia.
One Israeli leftist - Dror Etkes, who heads the Kerem Navot NGO - tries to redirect the conversation to make this about Israeli racism:
The man murdered an 84-year-old woman and then committed suicide. Horrifying and shocking by any measure. The man was not investigated and from what has been published so far, it is not known what his motive is. What's more, it is very uncharacteristic for someone with a nationalistic motive to commit suicide after a murder. But the fact that he was Palestinian and she is Israeli, is also enough for the newspaper Haaretz to call him a "terrorist"
And maybe he was "just" a psychopath?
So that's it, a Palestinian cannot be a psychopath, because if he kills an Israeli, that means he is by definition a "terrorist". I don't know what was the motive behind this horrible act. It seems that even the police and the network do not know. But I do know that there are Palestinians who are "just" psychopaths. By the way, there are also such Jews.
To Etkes, the characterization of a murderer of an 84 year old woman as a terrorist is just evidence of Israeli racism. (He also uses the propaganda method of "sure, the attack is horrifying, but look at how terrible the reaction is!")
His theory might make sense if there were random murders of unrelated Palestinians by Palestinian psychopaths. In general, there are very few reports of anything like that.
Mousa Sarsour went out of his way to kill a Jewish woman in Israel, and even if he did have psychological problems, the reason for choosing a Jew has everything to do with Palestinian antisemitism that is called "nationalism." It has everything to do with the social and monetary benefits in Palestinian society of murdering Jews.
Most terrorists, including suicide bombers, are not entirely sane. To claim (without evidence) that this was just a psychopath is simply another way to justify terror.
The reactions - and non-reactions - to the murder of an 84 year old Jewish woman
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Ramallah Newsreports:
How successful has Abbas been so far in arranging these meetings?
Here is a list of everyone he met with so far, as of Wednesday night:
Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress
The Prime Minister of Spain
The Secretary General of the UN
The head of the ICRC
The king of Jordan
The Foreign Minister of Norway
The President of Nigeria
The Foreign Minister of Algeria
A group of Palestinian Americans
This is not exactly an All Star team of world leaders. And it also isn't exactly "around the clock."
(UPDATE: On Thursday, Wafa reported that Abbas met with some other leaders during a reception at the American Museum of Natural History. They included Libyan President Mohamed Al-Manfi, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, and Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abella. It is difficult to know whether his "meeting" with Truss was a handshake.)
The world still pays lip service to supporting the Palestinian cause, but the reality is that their intransigence, support for terror and division has turned most nations off.
The main advantage for the Palestinians is modern antisemitism, as we see in human rights groups and the "progressive" crowd. That isn't petering out at all - it continues to grow.
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Member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Osama al-Qawasmi, announced the agenda of President Mahmoud Abbas, while he was in New York, to participate in the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly.
The goal of President Abbas's meetings before his expected speech is to expose Israel's crimes, to inform the international community in the latest developments, and to present the Palestinian vision for the solution and the steps that the Palestinian leadership will take.
He pointed out that the Palestinian leadership held a series of round-the-clock meetings with heads of state, foreign ministers, and international institutions to put them in a picture of the situation and the political impasse it has reached.
How successful has Abbas been so far in arranging these meetings?
Here is a list of everyone he met with so far, as of Wednesday night:
Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Congress
The Prime Minister of Spain
The Secretary General of the UN
The head of the ICRC
The king of Jordan
The Foreign Minister of Norway
The President of Nigeria
The Foreign Minister of Algeria
A group of Palestinian Americans
This is not exactly an All Star team of world leaders. And it also isn't exactly "around the clock."
(UPDATE: On Thursday, Wafa reported that Abbas met with some other leaders during a reception at the American Museum of Natural History. They included Libyan President Mohamed Al-Manfi, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss, and Prime Minister of Malta Robert Abella. It is difficult to know whether his "meeting" with Truss was a handshake.)
The world still pays lip service to supporting the Palestinian cause, but the reality is that their intransigence, support for terror and division has turned most nations off.
The main advantage for the Palestinians is modern antisemitism, as we see in human rights groups and the "progressive" crowd. That isn't petering out at all - it continues to grow.
Here are the world leaders Abbas has met so far in New York (update)
Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.
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Rashida Tlaib getting humiliated and lashing out like a petulant teenager.
Well, she is an ignorant whiney twat.
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