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Steven Emerson,
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July 18, 2016
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PA
Honors Another Terrorist Amid U.S. Foreign Aid Re-Evaluation
by IPT News • Jul 18, 2016 at
2:43 pm
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Instead of promoting peaceful coexistence, the Palestinian Authority
(PA) has decided to honor yet another Palestinian terrorist who killed
numerous Israeli civilians.
The PA unveiled a statue Sunday of terrorist Ahmad Jabarah Abu Sukkar
who orchestrated a deadly bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 and injured
over 60 Israelis in 1976, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports.
Abu Sukkar was released after serving 28 years of a life sentence as
part of an Israeli goodwill gesture to the PA in 2003.
Senior Palestinian officials – including the director of the PA's
Commission of Prisoners' Affairs, Issa Karake, and the governor of Ramallah
and El-Bireh, Laila Ghannam, – participated in the terrorists'
commemoration.
Karake proclaimed that "this monument is intended to implant in the
minds of sons and daughters that we are continuing to be loyal to the path
of the Martyrs," the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
reported.
"Ahmad Abu Sukkar is a real man, a fighter, and a man who left his
impression on everyone and who was a school for giving, resolve, and courage.
We are proud of him as one of the symbols of the Palestinian national
struggle..." Karake said.
The presence of these senior officials reinforces the fact that the
Palestinian government openly glorifies people for murdering innocent
Israelis, while encouraging future generations of Palestinian youth to
emulate terrorists.
Earlier this month, members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee
agreed to explore options to stifle a PLO program that pays monthly salaries to convicted
terrorists. Palestinian affiliated organizations, including the PLO,
are continuing to exploit a loophole in U.S. foreign aid that enables the
Palestinian government to pay terrorists and their families. Coupled with
systematic indoctrination and glorification of terrorism, generous
financial payments contribute to existing incentives among Palestinian
youth to attack and kill innocent Israelis.
In a speech aired on YouTube
on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas cancel the terrorist commemoration to avoid
promoting violence among Palestinian youth.
"Rather than dedicate a statue to a mass-murderer, I ask that you
consider honoring a champion of co-existence. This will help educate future
generations to love peace over war, compassion over violence," said
Netanyahu.
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