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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?ID=272265&R=R1
Glorifying Terror
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Delegitimizing terrorism is a prerequisite for coexistence - a symbolic prelude to actually fighting terrorism, the barest minimum we rightfully expect of peace partners. Israel delivered 91 corpses of Arab terrorists to the Palestinian Authority last week as part of a "confidence-building" measure. The PA held a "national rally" in Ramallah's Mukata presidential compound to pay tribute to the "martyred heroes," another example of the PA's lurid adulation of those who set out to inflict as many casualties on Jews as they could. The eerie propaganda spectacle mounted by the PA over the killers' corpses raises many troubling questions. Why is Israel always the one obliged to make "goodwill gestures?" Why does Abbas need to be bribed to negotiate? Most of all, why does the PA celebrate and glorify those whose crimes constitute the absolute antithesis to peace?