Friday, July 11. 2008PA Wants 'Festive' Funeral for Murderer of 36/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
There is nothing that Fatah could do that would cause the mainstream media to stop describing it as 'moderate:'
The Palestinian Authority has asked Israel to hand over the remains of Dalal Mughrabi, the Palestinian woman who led the March 11, 1978 coastal road attack in which 36 people were murdered and 71 wounded. Think this is atypical? Click here for overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Wednesday, July 2. 2008Official PA Police Car was Stolen from Israel/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
In innumerable ways, the Palestinian Authority demonstrates that it is an organized criminal and terrorist entity encamped at Israel's side, for which democracies have no defense. It is obvious that many more official PA police cars are stolen and Israel turns a blind eye.
Senior Wanted PA Police Officer Caught with New Stolen Mitsubishi Pajero Maariv correspondents Avi Ashkenazi and Yuval Goren reported in today's edition that Israeli Border Police forces with the assistance of vehicle tracking from Ituran, detained a senior police officer in the PA, a relative of Marwan Barghouti, as he was driving his family to a wedding in an Israeli 2008 Mitsubishi Pajero that had been stolen a week earlier in Caesarea.
Monday, June 16. 2008US Initiatives Cause West Bank Terror to Flourish/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
Who could have imagined that Condaleeza Rice's idea of deploying US-backed Fatah anti-terror forces in Jenin would result in terror flourishing there?
On Sunday, top Israeli defense officials and IDF officers slammed two American-backed initiatives to deploy additional Palestinian forces in the West Bank, saying they are allowing terrorism to flourish. Defense officials say that since 600 PA soldiers trained by U.S. defense contractors in Jordan were allowed to deploy in Jenin last month, there has been an increase in terrorist activity in the city. On Sunday, a 20-kg. bomb detonated next to an IDF force in Jenin without causing any casualties. Terror suspects arrested by PA forces were usually released in a few days or just hours later, one defense official said. Weapons provided by the U.S. to the PA are finding their way to Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Jenin as well as in Nablus, a top officer in the IDF Central Command said. In addition, terrorists have infiltrated the ranks of the PA police and military. The fact that Fatah security forces have been responsible for producing a great deal of the violence has been documented here for years.
Friday, April 25. 2008Fatah Claims Credit for Two Murders Near Netanya/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
And again:
Two Israeli security guards were found shot to death at a factory in a small city east of the Mediterranean coastline city of Netanya Friday morning. Israel Radio reported today that two 'previously unknown groups' claimed credit for the attacks. One of those is a branch of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which recently secured amnesty deals (including another yesterday) with Israel for its members in exchange for a promise of good behavior. Sources said the terrorists planned a mass murder at the factory, located in the city’s Nitzanei Shalom [Buds of Peace] industrial zone. After murdering the two men, however - one of whose guns was found in his car, instead of on his person - the terrorist entered the building only to discover that he was alone, as all the workers were on vacation for the Passover holiday. This last sentence doesn't make sense, because economics are supposed to be the root cause of terror. Here is an interesting point about Israel's controversial security fence from another account: The gunmen had initially intended to infiltrate Israel but returned to the industrial complex after they were unable to penetrate the security barrier, Army Radio reported.
Monday, March 31. 2008PA Anti-Semites Get a Free Pass from the State Department/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
The State Department conspicuously omitted the Palestinian Authority from its March 13 report on anti-Semitism around the world. No mention that the leader of the PA, Mahmoud Abbas, wrote two books of Holocaust-denial (including his doctoral thesis).
Sunday, March 2. 2008Abbas: IDF Attempts to Stop Missile Attacks 'Worse than Holocaust'/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
Fatah has been watching the war crimes of missiles raining down on Israeli civilians from Hamas-controlled Gaza for many months. Now that Israel is striking back at the Hamas they claim to be at war with, moderate Mahmoud Abbas is quick to opine on the belated Israeli incursion:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas labeled Israel's actions to counter the constant firing of rockets into the Gaza Strip "worse than the Holocaust." No mention of the fact that Abbas himself wrote his doctoral thesis and another book denying the Holocaust. Here is PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia echoing Abbas' talking points, calling the Israeli action a "genocide": Palestinians threatened Saturday to call off peace talks with Israel after 35 Gazans, at least half of them civilians, were killed in pitched battles between Israeli troops and rocket squads that escalated sharply.
Friday, February 29. 2008Abbas Praises Terrorism in Arabic/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
Mahmoud Abbas continues to follow the playbook of his mentor of forty years, Yassir Arafat--talk peace in English and 'armed resistance' (synonymous with terror) in Arabic. Only this time, he threw in some bragging about how the PLO trained Hizballah in its leadership of all the other 'resistance' groups. This confirms what IRIS has been saying for years--that the Global Jihad is an allied force:
PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that he does not rule out returning to the path of armed “resistance” against Israel and took pride in the fact that he had been the first to fire on Israel and that his organization had trained Hizbullah.
Friday, February 8. 2008Abbas Regime: Dimona Murderers Were "Holy Martyrs"/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
More evidence that Mahmoud Abbas has always been a fervent advocate of terrorism in Arabic, while spouting platitudes of peace in English. Like his mentor Yassir Arafat, he crosses his fingers when speaking to international reporters:
Newspapers of the Palestinian Authority, controlled by Mahmoud Abbas, say the Dimona murderers were "holy martyrs."
Sunday, February 3. 2008Humiliation: Olmert Asks Abbas to Restore Joseph's Tomb/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
![]() Arguably the most humiliating incident in the Palestinian/Israeli peace accords has been Joseph's Tomb and the yeshiva that was housed on the site. The Oslo Accords placed the site under Israeli control, but Ehud Barak unilaterally withdrew after securing a Palestinian agreement to defend the site and insure freedom of access and Jewish worship. Instead, as the IDF was withdrawing from the site, Palestinian forces opened fire and one Israeli border policemen bled to death as IDF commanders fruitlessly negotiated with Palestinian security for an extended period to permit Israel to return to gather its wounded. Later a Palestinian mob engaged in an orgy of destruction of the site, accompanied by Palestinian security forces. Multiple desecrations of the site ensued, and finally the Palestinian Authority turned the site into a mosque, as is traditional in the Muslim World regarding captured holy sites. Minister Natan Sharansky was aptly quoted at the time, fruitlessly attempting to lobby Israel's Foreign Ministry to simply publish the photos of the atrocity: If we would have razed the gravesite of one of the founders of Islam, billions of Muslims would have taken to the streets. It's inconceivable that the world should not know about this travesty. Years later, Ehud Olmert has today asked the Palestinian Authority to restore the site: Israel will ask the Palestinian Authority to repair Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, it was announced Sunday. Olmert has a different conception of progress than most.
Monday, December 31. 2007Fatah Involvement in Hiking Murder Revealed/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
The Palestinian group most active in terror has been the one Israel and the West are plying with arms and money:
Some of the gunmen who participated in Friday's shooting attack near Hebron belong to Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction, Fatah activists in the West Bank have confirmed. They said the attack was carried out jointly by Fatah and Islamic Jihad. The attack shows that several armed Fatah groups continue to operate in the West Bank despite statements by top PA officials to the effect that most of these groups had been dismantled. Although many members of Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, have in recent months handed over their weapons to the PA security forces in return for jobs and salaries, dozens of Fatah gunmen are still refusing to follow suit. Meanwhile, the insinuations of Haaretz and the Palestinian Authority that the victims were either Jewish terrorists or criminals has been laid to rest now that a victim's father and the third member of the hiking party who escaped unharmed have spoken out: The sole survivor of Friday's terror attack on hikers near Hebron, Naama Ohion, is a first-year law student. She told friends that the hike was to have ended at the springs in Wadi Iskha, where there is a cave hundreds of meters long with numerous levels. According to one theory, the cave served as a hideout for the second-century CE rebel against Rome, Bar Kokhba. Amihai, who served for a year with Hebrew University's Cave Research Unit, knew the cave and wanted to show his friends. Why were the hikers in such a dangerous area of the West Bank? That's where the heart of Jewish history is.
Friday, December 28. 2007Ahmed Qurei's Bodyguard Killed by IDF/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
In what may be the understatement of the year, the Jerusalem Post reports:
Military: Not first instance that an official in the PA security forces is involved in terrorist activity. Had this terrorist not been killed, he likely would have served in President Bush's security detail in his upcoming visit. IDF troops killed one of former PA prime minister Ahmed Qurei's bodyguards, the military said Friday morning. Seven other terrorists were killed yesterday by the IDF without a single civilian casualty.
Monday, December 24. 2007Arafat Created Black September/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
Not that this should come as a surprise, but a longtime Arafat aide admitted that Black September was actually founded by Yassir Arafat. The financier of Black September's Munich massacre, of course, was none other than Mahmoud Abbas.
Friday, December 21. 2007PA Resumes '70 Virgins' TV Show/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
Now that Abbas has collected pledges for over eight billion dollars for his 'moderate' government, Fatah has resumed blatant recruitment of jihad terrorists:
A Palestinian Authority TV mainstay is back on the screen, with the Virgins of Paradise reminding would-be suicide bomber terrorist shahids (martyrs) of the reward that awaits them when they die fighting the Jews. To view the video, click here
Monday, December 3. 2007Kept Secret During Annapolis: PA Police Murdered Ido Zoldan/script type="text/javascript" src="/JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.js"> // include_once ("../JavaScripts/google_iris-blog_top.inc"); ?>
![]() Last week Israel gave Fatah two million bullets, following the recent Israeli transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to Fatah along with the pardon of hundreds of imprisoned and fugitive Fatah terrorists. It doesn't seem to have helped in Israel's War on Terror: Palestinian policemen were behind the shooting attack last week which killed Ido Zoldan, a 29 year-old father of two from the settlement of Shavei Shomron, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) revealed Sunday night. The shooters admitted that the weapons were given to them by Fadi Jama, another member of the Palestinian National Security Force. Given that Israel supplies that group with money, it is not inconceivable that Israeli money was used to buy non-Israeli weapons. The officials said however that the IDF expected the political echelon to rethink its policy of strengthening Abbas while his policemen were involved in terrorism. The IDF thinks too simplistically. Clearly these were rogue, anti-peace policemen who must have wanted to sully Fatah's peaceful reputation, so the sophisticated response should be to shower the PA with more money, weapons and anti-terrorism training. Today, Israel is beginning the release of 429 more Palestinian terrorists, but don't worry. They signed a promise to refrain from attacks in the future. Update: Here's how we know the news was held until after Annapolis: Israeli security officials knew Zoldan was murdered by PA policemen, because two of the three terrorists who shot him to death were arrested the next day in a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation. The information was withheld until after the Annapolis summit, however, and only cleared for publication after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned from signing a joint declaration with PA Chairman, and acknowledged Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Zoldan was shot to death by the three terrorists at approximately 11:30 pm near the PA-controlled Arab village of Funduk, near Kedumim. |