Ettinger - The Palestinian Authority exposed

Yoram Ettinger
Israel Hayom
23 December '11

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1069

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Dec. 20, 2011 public embrace of Amna Muna – a ruthless Palestinian terrorist – exposes his authentic ideology. Notwithstanding Abbas's moderate demeanor, the televised session with Amna Muna, who was joined by other Palestinian terrorists, was consistent with Abbas's own K-12 hate-education system, which heralds terrorism, in general, and suicide bombing, in particular. It is compatible with the monthly allowances paid by Abbas’s administration to families of suicide bombers and imprisoned terrorists; with his naming of streets, squares and sport tournaments after terrorists; with his 50-year long track record as Arafat’s top confidant and deputy; with his Holocaust denial Ph.D. thesis at Moscow University; with his involvement in the 1972 Munich Massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians; with his active support of Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait; with his betrayal of Syria’s Hafiz Assad, Jordan’s King Hussein, Lebanon’s government and Kuwait’s Sheikh Sabah; with his stewardship of PLO-Communist bloc ties and his KGB training.

While Western policy-makers and public opinion molders assume that Abbas has renounced terrorism and violence, the “Good Cop” accords enhance the legitimacy of Amna Muna, whom fellow female terrorists named “the Ramallah Satan” for her sadistic virulence, biting and pouring boiling wax and oil on the faces of those who dared challenge her.

Abbas is true to his roots. In the 1950s, in Egypt, he was a key operative of the Muslim Brotherhood, which fervently believes in a divinely-ordained Islamic domination of the globe, religiously and territorially. Abbas refers to terrorists and suicide bombers – who intentionally and systematically murder, maim and intimidate civilians - as “freedom fighters.”



In fact, Abbas’s engagement with terrorism is in line with Islamic history, and has been since the murder of Muhammad’s successors: Umar ibn al-Khattab was stabbed to death at a mosque in Medina in 644 A.D.; Uthman ibn Affan was assassinated in 656 A.D.; Ali ibn Abi Talib was slain in 661 A.D. outside a mosque in Kufa. Most contemporary Muslim regimes rise to power through violence and terrorism, rule through state-sponsored terrorism and lose power to elements, which are more adept with tools of violence. In 1829, John Quincy Adams, the 6th president of the U.S., wrote: “The precept of the Koran is perpetual war against all who deny that Muhammad is the prophet of God.”

While most Muslims are not terrorists, most contemporary terrorists are Muslims, haunting Muslim societies, and increasingly exporting Islamic terrorism all over the globe: the U.S., India, Britain, Russia, Australia, Holland, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Israel, Thailand, Columbia, Spain, France, etc.

The Abbas/Arafat regime, which has dominated the Palestinian Authority since its establishment in 1993, has indoctrinated an entire generation with terrorist-driven hate-education and incitement via PA-controlled schools, mosques and media. For instance, the Palestinian Authority curriculum and incitement machine include the following excerpts from the Quran: “Jews and disbelievers [defined as Christians in 5/73] are the most vehement in hatred for the Muslims (Quran 5/82);” Jews are damned (Quran 5/64); "Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends. They are but friends and protectors to each other (Quran 5/51);” Jews are children of monkeys and pigs (Quran 5/60); Jews are murderers of prophets (Quran 2/91); Jews falsified the Holy Scriptures (Quran 1/7); Jews must pay head tax while humiliated (Quran 9/29); Killing Jews is a prerequisite for Latter Days (Hadith-tradition).

The Abbas education system has entrenched the idolization of martyrdom/suicide bombing and terrorism. Thus, a significant segment of the population believes that paradise is awaiting Shahids, who are killed while conducting Jihad (“Holy War”) against Jews; that Shahids will be rewarded, in sickness, poverty, humiliation and predicament-free Paradise, by 72 beautiful dark-eyed virgins, by the potency of 100 males, by jewel-platted beds, by commutation of all sins, by ushering 70 friends and relatives to paradise, by becoming celebrities among their peers and by benefitting from eternal youth.

Former U.S. First Lady Laura Bush, in a 2002 interview with the El Paso Times, boldly expressed the typical Western attitude toward Palestinian mothers: "Can I empathize with a mother who sends her child out to kill herself and others? No!"

Terror-driven education and the disregard and abuse of human rights – brainwashing people to terrorism and suicide bombing - have been the root cause of Islamic terrorism since the 7th century. It has been at the core of 14 centuries of raging intra-Islamic conflicts, and the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Neither the focus on Road Maps, Quartet Initiative, U.N. resolutions, sweeping Israeli concessions (e.g. importing the PLO from terrorists camps in Yemen to the gates of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv), nor U.S. pressure for further concessions have resulted in peace. They have diverted attention away from the heart of the matter: state-sponsored, terror-oriented education. They have fueled the fire of terrorism, which was dramatically lower before Oslo.

The pursuit of durable peace on one hand and hate-education on the other hand constitutes an oxymoron, which has haunted all peace initiatives since Oslo. The pursuit of durable peace – and not a delusional, ceremonial peace process – mandates the uprooting of hate education and incitement as a prerequisite to any negotiation.

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