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March 22, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3460

Time to Stop Incitement to Murder - Again

(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) David Pollock - This month marks the first anniversary of the Fogel murders, for which two Palestinians were convicted of killing a family of five in the West Bank settlement of Itamar. At the time, PA president Mahmoud Abbas condemned this attack, but within a few days, official PA television broadcast a new song lauding the "heroism" of the killers at Itamar. In the past few months, the PA's record about glorifying violence against civilians has generally taken a turn for the worse. And Abbas himself delivered a highly inflammatory address to a conference on Jerusalem held in Doha last month that falsely accused Israel of planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Worst of all, tributes to terrorists convicted of mass murder have become almost routine in official PA media and ceremonies.

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