Who Are The Palestinians " III "

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Slow enough to kick Arab ass for over 70 years now.

 

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Gee-had carries consequences.

 

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On October 13, major media reported:

Palestinian factions signed a reconciliation deal in Algiers on Thursday, vowing to hold elections by next October in their latest attempt to end a rift that has now lasted more than 15 years.

The deal was signed by a leading figure from the Fatah party of President Mahmud Abbas and by the chief of Islamist movement Hamas, which rules Gaza.

But Abbas himself, president of the Palestinian Authority since 2005, was not present.

"We signed this agreement to get rid of the malignant cancer of division that has entered the Palestinian body," said the head of the Fatah delegation, Azzam al-Ahmed.

"We are optimistic that it will be implemented and will not remain ink on paper."

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said it was "a day of joy in Palestine and Algeria and for those who love the Palestinian cause, but a day of sadness for the Zionist entity (Israel)".

I didn't even bother to discuss it, because we've seen this movie before. Fatah and Hamas have made these sorts of agreements before - in fact, most of them have been supposedly more comprehensive, with the promise of "unity" between the rival factions.

After the agreement, nobody said much about it. But Mahmoud Abbas sent a message of thanks to Algerian President Abdel Majid Taboun for his role in the meaningless gesture.

But Palestinian Sama News held an online poll for its readers, asking "Will the Palestinian reconciliation succeed under the auspices of Algeria?"

As of Sunday afternoon, the results are 93% saying that the agreement is meaningless, and only 4% think it will succeed.



The Palestinians know that the rift between the PA and Hamas is irreconcilable. Only Western media takes these performative "agreements" seriously.

Even Palestinians regard the Algerian "reconciliation" between Hamas and Fatah as a joke

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Tamer al-Kilani, 33, was one of the founders of the Lions' Den terror group, and was responsible for a number of attacks and attempted attacks in recent months.

(full article online)

Senior Nablus terrorist killed in mysterious motorcycle blast

Tamer al-Kilani, 33, was one of the founders of the Lions' Den terror group, and was responsible for a number of attacks and attempted attacks in recent months.

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• Preachers were to tell worshippers in the mosques that:
  • Terrorist murderer Uday Al-Tamimi “chose the loftiest status and gave that which is most precious to him – his life”
  • His life was “something insignificant [he gave] for the sake of Palestine and its holy sites”
  • “This hero died as a Martyr while charging forward and not fleeing”
    
• Preachers were to tell worshippers that terrorists who died while attacking Israel:
  • “wanted to meet Almighty Allah, and Allah wanted to meet them”
  • “Allah chose them to receive Martyrdom”
• “The [PA] Ministry of Religious Affairs emphasized in a press release that the management of religious affairs and the supervision of the Friday sermons and religious lessons at the mosques are within the ministry’s authority and responsibility”

Palestinian preachers in mosques are not free to talk about whatever they want, but are dictated specific talking points for their Friday sermons by the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs, as documented by Palestinian Media Watch. This is one of the ways the PA makes sure its policies, ideologies, and calls to action are spread to the Palestinians.

A fresh example is the PA communicating to the people its endorsement of a murderer, its glorification of him as a “hero,” and its adherence to PA ideology that dying as a “Martyr” for Allah is an ideal.

The PA’s new role model is 22-year-old Palestinian terrorist “Martyr” Uday Al-Tamimi, who shot and murdered 18-year-old Israeli soldier Sgt. Noa Lazar and wounded an Israeli security guard at the Shuafat checkpoint in northern Jerusalem earlier this month. Al-Tamimi managed to escape and 10 days later shot and wounded another Israeli security guard before other guards at the scene shot and killed him in self-defense.

Now the PA Ministry of Religious Affairs has instructed Palestinian preachers to praise murderer Uday Al-Tamimi as a “hero” while glorifying Martyrdom-death for “Palestine” as something to strive for and a reward from Allah, in an obvious attempt to encourage others to follow in the footsteps of this murderer and other similar terrorists:


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PA instructs preachers to praise murderer as hero and glorify Martyrdom-death in Friday's sermons | PMW Analysis

PA instructs preachers to praise murderer as hero and glorify Martyrdom-death in Friday's sermons

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Citing severe financial difficulties, the Palestinian Authority has been paying its employees only part of their salaries for the last year. Giving the employees little certainty, each month the PA announces what percentage of the salaries will be paid. The percentages range from 70% - 80%. The balance is presented as a PA debt to employees that will be paid at some future date.

While the PA employees bear the brunt of the alleged PA financial crisis, according to a new report in the Israeli Haaretz newspaper, the Israeli authorities have given the PA permission to buy helicopters to transport senior PA officials.

“Israel intends to permit the [Palestinian] Authority to purchase helicopters for the flights of senior officials, for the first time since 2001”
[Israeli Haaretz newspaper, Oct. 20, 2022]

In a seemingly unconnected announcement, a Palestinian internet site announced the imminent arrival of a new Lamborghini Huracán to an exhibition hall in Bethlehem.

[mashrqnews.com, October 23, 2022]

According to the report, the car will cost 2.5 million shekels (approximately $700,000), including a sizable sum in taxes.

So what connects these seemingly unconnected subjects?

The answer is simple: The PA’s terror-rewarding “Pay-for-Slay” policy.

The PA attributes its financial difficulties to two factors, a drastic drop in international aid and the implementation of Israel’s Anti “Pay-for-Slay” Law. As PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh recently complained:

“At his office in Ramallah yesterday [Aug. 23, 2022, PA] Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh received Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Alexander Teman… The prime minister again emphasized that the crisis and severe financial situation that the [PA] government is undergoing is due to the decrease in international aid for Palestine and the continuation of the unfair Israeli deductions of our money...”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 24, 2022]

The PA Ministry of Finance made similar claims:

“The PA is currently facing a financial crossroads, with the deepening of the financial crisis after a number of months in which it has not succeeded in paying the salaries of its [public] employees in full or in fulfilling its commitments to the private sector…The PA’s financial situation is becoming worse and worse; foreign aid dropped from $1.3 billion in 2013 to just $313 million at the end of 2021… This is while the Israeli government has doubled the scope of the tax money robbery from 50 million[Israeli] shekels ($15 million) [all parentheses in source] a month to 100 million shekels ($33 million) starting from July and until December 2021.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 4, 2022]

The PA’s terror-rewarding “Pay-for-Slay” policy has two parts. One part covers the monthly salaries and other benefits that the PA pays and provides to imprisoned and released terrorists. The second part covers the monthly allowances and other benefits the PA pays to wounded terrorists and to the families of dead terrorists. Palestinian Media Watch was the first to uncover and expose the PA terror payments in 2011.

Since the policy clearly promotes, rewards, and incentivizes terror, it is certainly one of the PA policies that are most detrimental to achieving peace. While the full cost of the policy is not clear, PMW estimates that in 2021 alone it cost the PA no less than 841 million shekels ($270.75 million).

As PMW brought the evidence of the PA terror rewards to the PA’s donor countries around the world, international aid to the PA started to decline, as noted by the PA Ministry of Finance above. The Netherlands and Australia cut off all funding to the PA within weeks of their MPs hearing PMW presentations. The largest reduction in aid to the PA was from the United States, which passed the Taylor Force Act (TFA) in 2018.

Taylor Force was a graduate of the West Point US Military Academy and a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While walking down the seaside promenade in Jaffa during his stay in Israel with his MBA college class, Taylor was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist who mistook him for a Jew. Enacted at the behest of Taylor’s parents, friends, and other invested parties, TFA conditions the bulk of US aid to the PA on the complete abolition of the “Pay-for-Slay” policy.

In parallel, Israel’s parliament also passed an Anti “Pay-for-Slay” Law. Pursuant to the Israeli-Palestinian Oslo Peace Accords, Israel collects and transfers to the PA billions of dollars a year in taxes. These taxes account for 65%-70% of the PA’s non-aid income. The PA uses the taxes it receives from Israel and the aid from donor countries to fund its terror reward policy.


(full article online )

What connects PMW, the PA, helicopters, Lamborghinis, and terrorists? | PMW Analysis

What connects PMW, the PA, helicopters, Lamborghinis, and terrorists?

palwatch.org

 

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From Ramallah News:

Today, Tuesday, the European Union expressed its regret over the death of six Palestinian martyrs as a result of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the governorates of Nablus, Ramallah and Al-Bireh, in the West Bank.

In response to a question by Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) at a press conference in Brussels, European Union Spokesman for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano affirmed that the European Union "is closely following developments in the occupied territories and the West Bank."

He said that "the disturbances, provocations and violence will continue until a solution and a vision for solving the problems is produced," expressing "regret for the loss of lives, especially the innocent."

Stano actually said, "We also regret loss of life - unnecessary loss of life - especially if it's innocent civilians."

This doesn't sound like it fits the dead terrorists.

He also strongly condemned terrorist attacks, and gave the usual support for a two-state "solution," which would not be a solution in any sense at any time soon.

Palestinian media claims EU expressed regret over 6 terrorists killed. It didn't.

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Mahmoud Abbas, the ruthless dictator who already controls the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Palestinian government, is now going after....the unions.

On Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority president issued a presidential decree to dissolve the Doctors' Syndicate and to replace it with another union headed by his own pick, Shawki Sabha.

The Doctors Syndicate stated that Abbas's decision wants to replace the current elected council for the group with handpicked cronies.

Abbas consistently goes after any organization that does not toe his line. And he's been doing this for over 15 years.

Palestinian human rights groups Al Haq and the Independent commission for Human Rights denounced the decision. But outside of those, the media and major human rights organizations let Abbas do whatever he wants.

Dictator Abbas attempts to replace doctors' union with his own people

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Official Fatah Facebook page:

• “Shaded by the [Palestinian] Authority the West Bank is burning and is not calming down”
• “More than 7,200 acts of resistance (i.e., terror incidents) since the start of 2022 in the West Bank”
• Fatah committed 76 shooting attacks in one month!
• “Acts that include shooting at Israeli targets, confrontations and repelling invasions, infiltrations and carrying out high-quality operations, locally produced explosives and Molotov cocktails, [throwing] rocks”
• “[Hamas] is targeting the PA, but Hamas is not participating in the resistance that is burning under the rule of the PA in the West Bank”

Official PA daily editorial also bragged about Fatah’s role in terror, criticizing Hamas for doing nothing:

• “The resistance today exists throughout the occupied Palestinian West Bank, but Hamas is not here… The Martyrs today [who are dying] during the struggle… most of them are members of the Fatah Movement and some of them are from the Al-Quds Brigades (i.e., Islamic Jihad’s military wing)”

In a video posted by Fatah’s Commission of Information and Culture showing numerous violent confrontations and shooting attacks by Palestinian terrorists, PA Chairman Abbas’ movement prides itself on leading the terror against Israel.

No less than 7,200 terror attacks – “acts of resistance” in Palestinian terminology – is the number of terror attacks launched by Fatah against Israel "Shaded by the PA" since the beginning of the year. Fatah furthermore takes pride in the types of attacks:

• “Shooting at Israeli targets”
• “Confrontations and repelling invasions”
• “Infiltrations”
• “Carrying out high-quality operations”
• “Locally produced explosives and Molotov cocktails”
• “[Throwing] rocks”

Promoting itself as the prime instigator of “the resistance that is burning under the rule of the PA in the West Bank,” Fatah criticizes terror organization Hamas for doing nothing. “Not [even] a faint voice or anything new has been heard from Hamas,” the movement complains:

Text on screen: “The number is 7,200
Shaded by the [Palestinian] Authority
the West Bank is burning and is not calming down
and not [even] a faint voice or anything new has been heard from Hamas
More than 7,200 acts of resistance (i.e., terror incidents) since the start of 2022 in the West Bank
Acts that include shooting at Israeli targets, confrontations and repelling invasions, infiltrations and carrying out high-quality operations, locally produced explosives and Molotov cocktails, [throwing] rocks at the occupation forces, demonstrations and confronting the settlers.
April [2022]
is the month in which there were the most acts of resistance, when 1,510 acts of resistance were recorded, 76 of which were acts of shooting
The number 1,111 quoted by a Hamas commander [was] the number of rockets he would fire at Israel in the first volley
In practice, after Al-Sinwar’s announcement, the Islamic Jihad Movement was abandoned [by Hamas] to fight a battle in the Gaza Strip alone
[Hamas] is targeting the PA, but Hamas is not participating in the resistance that is burning under the rule of the PA in the West Bank
Hamas is not allowing acts of resistance to be carried out by individuals or multiple participants in Gaza, and is stopping those who try.”
[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Oct. 2, 2022]

(full article online)

Fatah boasts 7,200 terror attacks against Israel “shaded by the PA” in 2022 alone and criticizes Hamas for not attacking | PMW Analysis

Fatah boasts 7,200 terror attacks against Israel in 2022 alone and criticizes Hamas for not attacking

palwatch.org

 

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Cowardly ‘Lions’: Terrified Terrorists Surrender to PA Amid IDF Raids | United with Israel

IDF raids send at least four Lion’s Den terrorists scampering to the Palestinian Authority for protection against Israeli reprisals.

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In the morning of Oct. 25, 2022, Israeli Security Forces carried out an anti-terror mission against the “Lion’s Den” terror cell. The cell had carried out a number of terror attacks. The goal of the mission was to neutralize one of its senior members Wadi’ Al-Houh and disrupt the cell’s terror activities. During the mission, Al-Houh and other members of the cell were killed. The apartment they were killed in, also served as a bomb making laboratory.

Responding to the killing of the terrorists and the exposure of the bomb making factory, Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul admitted that the PA Security Forces were fighting together with terrorists – the Tanzim - against Israel (in his words, “the occupation”). He added that Israel soldiers were wounded " as a result of the brave position of the Palestinian Security Forces" and that all Palestinians are “one unit” including the PA security forces and Fatah’s terror faction:

Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul: “A confrontation took place between Israeli special forces and the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces (i.e., Israeli raid on terror cell). There are a number of wounded on our side from among the Palestinian Security [Forces] members who fought with the occupation. There are also wounded from among the occupation soldiers as a result of the brave position of the Palestinian Security Forces in this affair. We speak about all the Palestinians. All the Palestinians are one unit. The Security Forces members, the Tanzim (i.e., Fatah terror faction), the public, and everyone – one unit in dealing with this occupation.”
[Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, Oct. 25, 2022]

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed many recent admissions that the PA Security Forces are taking an active role in terror and that Fatah, the party of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has returned to terror.

Al-Aloul’s statement is of considerable significance for at least two reasons.

Firstly, Al-Aloul is the deputy head of Fatah. He was appointed by Abbas himself, who created the new position specifically for Al-Aloul. Accordingly, this is the first statement of someone in such a senior Fatah position, admitting that the PA Security Forces are fighting against Israeli soldiers while simultaneously protecting wanted, armed terrorists held up in a bomb making laboratory.

Secondly, when Al-Aloul says that the PA Security Forces and Fatah’s terror faction The Tanzim “are one unit” he is essentially admitting that there is no separation between the US and EU trained and funded PA Security Forces, who are meant to be combatting terror and arresting terrorists, and the Palestinian terrorists themselves.


(full article online)

Abbas deputy admits that the Palestinian Authority security forces are working together with terrorists | PMW Analysis

PA security forces are working together with terrorists

palwatch.org

 

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In the morning of Oct. 25, 2022, Israeli Security Forces carried out an anti-terror mission against the “Lion’s Den” terror cell. The cell had carried out a number of terror attacks. The goal of the mission was to neutralize one of its senior members Wadi’ Al-Houh and disrupt the cell’s terror activities. During the mission, Al-Houh and other members of the cell were killed. The apartment they were killed in, also served as a bomb making laboratory.

Responding to the killing of the terrorists and the exposure of the bomb making factory, Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul admitted that the PA Security Forces were fighting together with terrorists – the Tanzim - against Israel (in his words, “the occupation”). He added that Israel soldiers were wounded " as a result of the brave position of the Palestinian Security Forces" and that all Palestinians are “one unit” including the PA security forces and Fatah’s terror faction:

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed many recent admissions that the PA Security Forces are taking an active role in terror and that Fatah, the party of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has returned to terror.

Al-Aloul’s statement is of considerable significance for at least two reasons.

Firstly, Al-Aloul is the deputy head of Fatah. He was appointed by Abbas himself, who created the new position specifically for Al-Aloul. Accordingly, this is the first statement of someone in such a senior Fatah position, admitting that the PA Security Forces are fighting against Israeli soldiers while simultaneously protecting wanted, armed terrorists held up in a bomb making laboratory.

Secondly, when Al-Aloul says that the PA Security Forces and Fatah’s terror faction The Tanzim “are one unit” he is essentially admitting that there is no separation between the US and EU trained and funded PA Security Forces, who are meant to be combatting terror and arresting terrorists, and the Palestinian terrorists themselves.


(full article online)

Abbas deputy admits that the Palestinian Authority security forces are working together with terrorists | PMW Analysis

PA security forces are working together with terrorists

palwatch.org

It had to happen eventually.

 

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib​

 

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The Cowardly Lions are are learning that the Islamic gee-had isn't all falafel and virgins.

Lions' Den members turn themselves in to Palestinian security forces

Four operatives of the "Lions' Den" terrorist organization, including Mahmoud al-Bana, a top commander within the group, turned themselves over to Palestinian security forces in Nablus on Wednesday night.




Members of the Palestinian armed factions hold a press conference over the tension in East Jerusalem, in in Gaza City, on October 14, 2022© (photo credit: ATTIA MUHAMMED

 

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Poems by Post TV | Episode 9 | Dana Dajani​

 

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Behavior training operations.

 

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Dr Haidar Eid on anti colonial struggle​

 

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