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Steven Emerson,
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April 17, 2015
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President Abbas Honors Fatah Terrorists in Official Ceremony
by IPT News • Apr 17, 2015 at
2:05 pm
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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas awarded medals to the
first male and female jailed Fatah members and the group's first
"martyred" terrorist, the Middle East Media Research Institute
(MEMRI) reports.
The awards came in advance of today's "Palestinian Prisoners
Day."
Fatima Bernawi was the first woman in Fatah jailed for terrorist
activity, an article posted Thursday on Fatah's Egyptian website said.
According to the MEMRI translation: "Bernawi was arrested in
October 1967 after she placed a bomb in the Zion Cinema in Jerusalem. She
was sentenced to life in prison, but was released after ten years… Bernawi
was one of the first Palestinian women to adopt [the means of] armed
self-sacrifice operations after the start of the modern Palestinian
revolution, which was launched by Fatah on January 1, 1965."
Abbas also issued a medal honoring Ahmad Moussa Salama, who was killed
while conducting Fatah's first terrorist attack on Israel's National Water
Carrier – the day Fatah considers the start of "the modern Palestinian
revolution" in 1965.
That attack took place two years before Israel assumed control of the
West Bank and Gaza following the Six Day War. So if it was intended as a
blow against Israeli "occupation," it shows that the PLO/Fatah
considered all of Israel "occupied territory" that needed to be
"liberated." While the PA insists it has abandoned its goal of
destroying the Jewish state, honoring terrorists who worked toward that
goal calls that commitment into question.
And it comes two month after a New York jury found the PA liable for $218 million in damages for attacks which
killed and wounded Americans during the second Intifada. U.S.
anti-terrorism law automatically tripled that award to $655 million. Among
the exhibits admitted into evidence were PA financial records showing that
it continues to pay employees jailed by Israel on terror charges and
continues to provide money for families of terrorists killed carrying out
attacks against Israelis.
One 2002 report sent to the PA's General Intelligence
Service chief praised a West Bank terror squad for its "high quality
successful attacks." The squad's "men are very close to us (i.e.
to the General Intelligence) and maintain with us continuous coordination
and contacts," the report said.
Longtime PLO Chairman and founding PA President Yasser Arafat's
handwritten consent appears on PA documents detailing the payments to the
terrorists and their families that later were seized by Israeli military
forces.
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