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April 14, 2010
Bulletin April 14, 2010 |
Palestinian Media Watch |
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Fayyad sponsors fencing tournament named after terrorist leader
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is sponsoring a fencing tournament for youth named after the terrorist leader Abu Jihad.
"The Baladna Club will hold the Shahid (Martyr) Abu Jihad Fencing Championship on [Palestinian] Prisoners' Day and under the auspices of the Prime Minister [Fayyad]... in the club's building located in the Shahid (Martyr) Yasser Arafat Center... The girls' groups are [divided according to] age 13 - 20 and boys' groups are from age 16." Honoring terrorists by naming sports facilities, tournaments and summer camps for Palestinian youth after them, is a policy of the Palestinian Authority, and part of its program to turn terrorists who have killed Israelis into heroes and role models for children. Palestinian Media Watch has documented this PA glorification of terrorists. Abu Jihad, honored through Fayyad's sponsorship, was one of the founders of Fatah, and ran its terror activities starting in the mid-1960s. Second in command to Yasser Arafat, he headed the military wing of the PLO and served as deputy military commander of Fatah. Abu Jihad planned many major Fatah terror attacks, including the worst in Israel's history, in which 37 civilians were murdered in a bus hijacking led by Dalal Mughrabi in 1978. The following are recent examples of PM Fayyad and Chairman Abbas honoring terrorists from PMW's website: PM Fayyad honoring terrorists: Chairman Abbas honoring terrorists: |
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