Mahmoud Abbas's official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has honored the terrorist who gunned down eight high school students at point blank range with the status of shahid, or holy Islamic martyr.
The official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida prominently placed a picture of the point-blank child killer on the front page, with the caption, "The Shahid Alaa Abu Dheim." In a page one article on the massacre at the Mercaz yeshiva, his crime was again defined as an act of martyrdom (shahada).
Will it cost them?
Besides its effect in inciting and encouraging terror, the honoring of terrorists by the PA has significant financial ramifications. Last week the US Administration sent a request to Congress to allocate $150 million to the Palestinian Authority. However, in response to earlier reports on the widespread PA practice of honoring terror, Congress made it illegal for the US to give money to entities that "advocate" terror...
So Abbas on the one hand condemed the attack which killed eight Israeli students, done so apparently for international consumption, yet on the other hand honors the killer in the official PA newspaper with the highest Shahid Status. (martyrdom)
Samo, eh?
wtf - Big problem here. How can conditions be fostered for peace when Palestinian society gets the message from it's so called moderate leader that the cold blooded killer of students in Israel meets the criteria for it's highest honors. A highest honor which praises pre meditated terror n' murder. That's wack. That culture needs to change.
Well, Abbas needs to do these things for the Palestinian street, to ward off Hamas, to keep their street cred, or some bullshit, we've been told forever. Well, it would be nice to hear an outright condemnation of this brutal murder of students by Abbas, made specifically to his people, the Palestinian people. For as much as Hamas incites it's followers with propaganda of this sort Abbas needs to take the other tack.
Grow a spine man.
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Abbas has honored the killer with Shahid Status. What's Shahid Status you ask?
"Shahada [Islamic Martyrdom] is an honor, only those who Allah desires, attain the privilege" (Sheikh Yusuf Abu Sneina, Al Aqsa Mosque, Friday Sermon, PA Radio, Dec. 28, 2001).
"When the Shahid meets his Maker, all his sins are forgiven from the first gush of blood, and he is exempted from the torments of the grave. He sees his place in Paradise. He is shielded from the Great Shock and marries 72 dark eyed [maidens]. He is a heavenly advocate for 70 members of his family. On his head is placed a crown of honor, one stone of which is worth more than all there is in this world" (Dr. Isma'il al-Raduan, Friday Sermon, PA TV, Aug 17, 2001).
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/...
According to Abbas and the PA, this killer's in paradise.
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