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Palestinian Incitement, Attacks, Glorification
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November 18, 2014 The recent spike in Palestinian terrorist attacks targeting Israelis throughout the country occur amid growing incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism emanating from Palestinian Authority and Fatah officials and institutions. Tuesday's heinous attack on a Jerusalem synagogue was the "direct result" of that campaign, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Within hours, Palestinian social media featured images glorifying the bloody slaughter of Jews while they worshipped.
Most of the violence has centered in Jerusalem, as Palestinians continue to engage in rock throwing, Molotov cocktail attacks, and rioting in the capital and surrounding neighborhoods. The following section outlines major Palestinian terrorist attacks targeting Israelis in recent weeks.
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November 18, 2014: Two Palestinian terrorists stormed a Jerusalem synagogue
armed with a meat cleaver and a gun during morning prayer, killing four Israeli
rabbis and seriously injuring at least eight other worshippers. Three
victims, Moshe Twersky, Aryeh Kupinsky, and Kalman Levine were dual American-Israeli citizens, and
one, Avraham Goldberg, was a British-Israeli national,
according to Israeli police.
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November 10, 2014: The IDF discovered an explosive device north of Jerusalem in the
West Bank, between the Jewish communities of Psagot and Beit El.
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November 10, 2014: Palestinian terrorists stab Israelis in separate incidents, killing a
young woman and a soldier. In the first incident, a Palestinian man stabbed
an Israeli soldier, Almog Shilony, in Tel Aviv who later succumbed to his injuries. Police arrested the
suspect, 18 year-old Nur al-Din Abu Khashiyeh, from Nablus, who was staying in
Israel illegally. Hours later, another Palestinian terrorist attacked
Israelis with a knife, killing a young woman, Dalia Lemkus, after stabbing her in the neck and injuring two others at a bus
stop in the West Bank community of Alon Shvut. Hamas identified the Alon
Shvut attacker as Maher Hamdi al-Ashalmoun from Hebron, who was released
previously as a security prisoner. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist
organization later claimed responsibility for the attack.
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November 10, 2014: An Arab-Israeli mob attacked a car with rocks in the town of Taibe and set it
on fire. An Arab-Israeli, Majdi Baloum, rescued the victim by pulling him out
of his car.
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November 6, 2014: Bullets struck an Israeli
police cruiser driving north of Ramallah. There were no reported injures and
security personnel searched for the shooter.
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November 5, 2014: A Palestinian terrorist
rammed his car into a crowd of Israeli pedestrians in Jerusalem killing a Border Police officer, Jidan Assad, and
injuring 14 other people. A 17-year-old student later died of his injuries.
The terrorist, Ibrahim al-Acri, a Hamas operative, then crashed into another
group of pedestrians and got out of his car and tried to attack more
civilians with a metal bar. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack,
referring to al-Acri as a "martyr" who conducted "a heroic
operation."
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November 5, 2014: A Palestinian driver crashed into a group of IDF soldiers in the West Bank
hours after a separate deadly vehicular attack in Jerusalem. One of the
soldiers was wounded critically.
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October 29, 2014: A Palestinian man shot
American-Israeli Rabbi Yehuda Glick in front of Jerusalem's Menachem Begin
Heritage Center. The suspect was killed the following morning after Israeli
counter-terrorism forces surrounded his house and were fired upon. Israeli
police discovered evidence that the suspected terrorist was involved in the
Glick shooting.
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October 22, 2014: A suspected Hamas member
crashed his car into a crowd of Israelis exiting the light rail station in
Jerusalem, killing a three month-old American-Israeli girl, Chaya
Zissel Braun, a woman from Ecuador, Karen Jemima Mosquera, and injuring
eight others.
Attempts to goad Palestinians into a new intifada quickly evolved from the
more routine mayhem (Molotov cocktails and rock throwing) to a
more aggressive approach recently termed 'car intifada' (quotes and photos).
Art posted on Twitter urges more attacks be carried out. Among the examples:The 'car intifada' recently has been amended to include a 'Knife Intifada,' as first reported by Khaled Abu Toameh. Several car attacks have been followed up by stabbings. It is thought that the stabbing in Alon Shvut was meant to be a car attack but was thwarted by a preventative cement barrier. Some of the Twitter posts have edifying art work.
Recent Examples of Palestinian Authority/Fatah Incitement to Violence In light of increasing terrorist attacks, Netanyahu has repeatedly accused the PA and Hamas of inciting violence against Israeli citizens. The following section outlines key examples of Palestinian Authority and Fatah sanctioned incitement to violence and glorification of terrorism in recent weeks:
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After the shooting of Rabbi Yehuda Glick,
Abbas sent a condolence letter to the family of terrorist Mutaz Hijazi who
was killed by Israeli authorities in a firefight during a raid for his
capture. In the letter, Abbas called the terrorist a "Shahid," a
martyr who "rose to Heaven while defending our people's rights and holy
places," according to PMW.
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A senior Fatah official claimed responsibility
for the attempted assassination. Adnan Ghaith, director of the Fatah branch
in Jerusalem, admitted that the terrorist was a Fatah operative and was proud
of his actions, according to an exclusive interview to the Quds [News]
Network translated by PMW.
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"The Martyr (Shahid) Mutaz Hijazi, who
carried out the assassination attempt, was a member of Fatah and one of its
activities in [Jerusalem]. Since his release from the occupation prisons in
2012 [until his death], he participated in all the [Fatah] movement's events,
and was active in it," Ghaith said. "We in Fatah are not ashamed to
take responsibility for the heroic act he carried out today, for it was a
natural reaction to the occupation's crimes against Jerusalem and its holy
places."
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Abbas adviser and Fatah Central Committee
member, Sultan Abu Al-Einein, also praised the terrorist on his Facebook
page. "Your bullets were a beacon [on] a path that had become dark, the
light of which will continue to shine for years to come," Sultan wrote
on November 3. Al-Einein also praised the terrorist who killed three-month-old American Israeli Haya Zissel-Brown and
injured eight others following the terrorist attack. Al-Einein, Abbas'
adviser, referred to the terrorist as a "heroic Martyr" on his
official Facebook page, PMW reported.
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Abbas' Fatah movement also praised the
terrorist by posting an obituary on its official Facebook page, also
referring to the killer as a "heroic Martyr" and portraying his
death as "his wedding." The "wedding" reference relates
to the Islamic belief that Martyrs for Allah are married to 72 virgins in the
afterlife. Mahmoud Al-Aloul, a member of Fatah Central Committee, also
re-posted the glorification on his personal Facebook account. Al-Einein's
past glorification of terrorists led five U.S. Congress members to demand that Abbas fire his adviser and condemn this
sentiment, to no avail.
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Fatah's official Facebook page explicitly
encourages Palestinians to conduct similar vehicular attacks on Israelis. On
November 6, Fatah's main page featured a cartoon referring to "the run
over organization" (a play on words for the Arabic word for "run over"
– da'es and the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State terrorist group
based in Iraq and Syria – Da'esh), according to the PMW. The cartoon urges Palestinians to "Hit the gas
at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa." Fatah advocated for the "run over"
term to proliferate into a new popular hashtag (#Da'es) on social media, in
an effort for the phrase to be adopted by social media users and the
terrorist action carried out. Another official Fatah post calls for
Palestinians to "Run over, friend, run over the foreign settler!", referring
to any Israeli citizen.
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Palestinian Authority TV broadcasted a video
of Mahmoud Abbas' calling for Palestinian to prevent Jews from going to the
Temple Mount compound "in any way," according to PMW. The video was shown 19 times in three days, playing
a clip of Abbas' October 17 speech, which implicitly calls for Palestinians
to use violence against Israelis.
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In the same week, a terrorist killed a
three-month old American-Israeli girl and a young Ecuadorian woman while
hundreds of Palestinians participated in violent riots.
Click here to view the PA video clip. By incorporating phrases such as "in any way" and "using all means," the PA is explicitly calling for violence and terrorism.
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The incitement has been so blatant that it
elicited a response from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which called on President Obama,
Secretary of State John Kerry, and other political and religious leaders to
condemn Abbas' incitement against Jews visiting their own holy places.
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The National Security Forces of the
Palestinian Authority posted a cartoon depicting an Israeli soldier about to
rape the Al-Aqsa Mosque, portrayed as a female in prison, according to PMW. The cartoon woman is crying in a jail cell as the
Israeli soldier is preparing to remove his pants outside the cell. The
soldier is depicted as saying: "Come on, sweetheart." The text of
the cartoon reads: "Daily cartoon: Al-Aqsa is being raped."
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Two cartoons printed in Abbas' official
Palestinian Authority daily, Al-Hayah Al-Jadida, entice Palestinians
to strike Israelis with stones, according to PMW. One cartoon depicts a father and son at the entrance
to the Dome of the Rock as the father gives his son a slingshot as the text
reads: "Purification before Prayer is performed with stones."
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On October 30, Fatah officially declared the
next day to be a "Day of Rage," calling on Palestinian
"fighters" to engage Israelis in Jerusalem, according an official
PA news agency report, WAFA, translated by Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian and Israeli Arab Incitement
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Palestinian social media routinely features graphic and violent tweets calling on Palestinians to run
over and kidnap Jews.
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Palestinian social media users directly refer
to a "Car-Intifada" in Arabic as a trending topic and the "run
over" (Da'es in Arabic described above) hashtag is increasingly
popular and widespread.
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Palestinian singers released a song encouraging hit and run terrorist attacks, explicitly
glorifying the murder of the American-Israeli baby on November 6. "Run
over the two month old baby – that is how we get them," and "For
Al-Aqsa we will run over settlers" are two of the shocking lyrics in the
song written by Anas Garadat and Abu Khayad that is gaining traction in
Palestinian social media.
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The head of the Islamic Movement in Israel,
Sheik Raed Salah, called for Jerusalem to be "the capital of the global
Caliphate" during a Friday sermon, according to a Middle East Media
Research Institute (MEMRI) report.
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"Inshallah, Jerusalem will soon
become the capital of the global Caliphate. The Caliphate will spread justice
throughout the land, after it was filled with injustice by America, the
Zionist enterprise…," Salah said during his speech in Nazareth.
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A new Israeli Arab movement, Kifah
("struggle") held its founding conference on November 1. It calls
for a Pan-Arab Palestinian organization that supports "resistance"
calls for the descendants of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel, and
advocates for the "homeland's liberation," according to MEMRI.
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A gruesome poster depicting a dead Israeli and a bloody
knife featuring the text "Jerusalem is thirsty, and this thirst will be
quenched with blood", is circulating on Palestinian social media.
Hamas
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After terrorists carried out a massacre in a
Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the attack on Facebook, referring to it as a
natural reaction to the "occupation" and called for more similar
attacks against Israelis. Another Hamas spokesman, Mushir al-Masri, posted a
photo of the terrorists, calling them heroes and the terrorist attack a
"heroic action."
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The Hamas affiliated Shehab News Agency
published this graphic photo encouraging similar terrorist attacks against
Jews.
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In calling for further attacks, Al-Masri
posted a graphic cartoon depicting the brutal terrorist attack in the
synagogue showing Jews piled up after being stabbed by Palestinians while
other Jews flee in panic.
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After claiming responsibility for the November
5 car attack, Hamas called for more terrorist attacks against Israelis.
"We call on the people of Jerusalem and the West Bank and all of the
Palestinians to carry out more of these activities with full force in order
to defend al-Aksa," according to a Hamas' statement released November 5.
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PalInfo, considered an unofficial site for
Hamas,[1] published an assassination 'hit
list' on Twitter naming several Israeli cabinet members, including their
photos and details.
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Following the murder of the three-month old
American-Israeli girl on October 22, an official Hamas statement refers to the infant as a
"female settler," and urges Palestinians to escalate the
confrontations' against Israel in various locations, according to an Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) translation.
In light of Israel's response to the attacks and mounting tension over the
Temple Mount, the Palestinian Authority has called on the United Nations to
"adopt a position to call on the Israeli government to stop all these
activities and policies of provocation and incitement."As the recent spike in Palestinian terrorist attacks shows - Tuesday's slaughter being just the latest example - the lethal impact from provocation and incitement is being felt most heavily among Israeli civilians. |
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