Palestinian President Abbas After Terror Surge: Our People Attack Because They Have Lost Hope
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday blamed the recent spate of terror attacks against Israelis on “martyrs” who had “lost hope.”

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday blamed the recent spate of terror attacks against Israelis on “martyrs” who had “lost hope.”

TEL AVIV – Following five terror attacks in two days in Jerusalem and the West Bank, the IDF deployed an extra infantry battalion to the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday evening in preparation for a continued surge of violence.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement praised the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics as a “heroic operation” that demonstrated the “courage and power” of Palestinians.

TEL AVIV – A Member of Parliament from the British Labour Party has called on the Home Secretary to bar a senior Palestinian officials and election contender from entry into the UK for inciting to terrorism.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has nominated the convicted murderer of six Israelis in a 1980 terror attack to run for election in Hebron’s municipal council, hailing the terrorist as a “hero” who carried out a “courageous operation.”

TEL AVIV – The son of an American-Israeli murdered by Palestinian terrorists last year rejected a statement from an international organization for scouting claiming that a Palestinian scouts group responsible for naming a course after the murderer had no connection to the global scouts body.

TEL AVIV – A German lawmaker has launched an inquiry into whether the country’s federal government is unwittingly funding Palestinian terrorism.

TEL AVIV – IDF troops and the Shin Bet security agency shut down a Palestinian radio station and arrested five employees Wednesday morning for “broadcasting inciting programs,” the army said.

TEL AVIV – Israel supplies Palestinians with guns and other weapons in order to encourage violence and create internal chaos, a new Palestinian libel claims. “The Israelis have never ceased their efforts to infiltrate Palestinian society and destroy it. There are

TEL AVIV – Israel is preparing for a scenario in which hundreds of terrorists armed with high trajectory fire as well as anti-tank missiles attack from Sinai, the outgoing commander of the IDF’s Sagi Brigade said this week. Col Yehuda

TEL AVIV – The Israeli army on Wednesday cleared troops in four cases of allegations of killing Palestinian civilians during the 2014 war with Hamas in Gaza.

JERUSALEM – A clue in the Sunday crossword puzzle in official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reinforced the false notion that all of Israel as “occupied territory.”

TEL AVIV – Palestinians are a “thorn in the throat of Zionism” who have given Israel “a taste of grief,” according to a new pop song broadcast on official Palestinian Authority television.

TEL AVIV – The indictment of a Hamas operative from Jerusalem accused of funneling funds to the Gaza-based terror group through a foreign agent in Turkey has exposed many aspects of Hamas’ financial finagling, Israeli authorities said on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian was arrested on terror-related charges only three days after being released from a 14-year prison sentence for attempting to poison Israeli diners at a café in the capital, Jerusalem police announced Friday.

TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman unveiled a new “carrot and stick” plan on Wednesday to punish Palestinians who support terrorism, while bestowing privileges on those who don’t.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian children performed in a play depicting “Zionist jailers” executing “heroic prisoners” as part of a closing ceremony for summer camps organized by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian prisoner authority said Monday that Israel has agreed to hand over for burial the bodies of Palestinian terrorists killed while carrying out recent attacks on Israelis.

Hillary Clinton suggested the passage of universal background checks–like those passed by the Orlando gunman, the San Bernardino attackers, the Aurora movie theater gunman, and both Fort Hood attackers–would be a way to unite Americans against terror.

TEL AVIV – Hamas illegally siphoned off tens of millions of dollars of aid money from the U.S. and Europe to build terror tunnels and fund weapons purchases, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.

TEL AVIV – U.S. police chiefs are currently in Israel for advanced training in counterterrorism by the Israel Police.

TEL AVIV – Israel orchestrated Muslim infighting between Sunnis and Shiites in order to blow up both groups, or so claims a new cartoon published by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party.

TEL AVIV – In the latest act of farce in the Palestinian Authority’s theater of the absurd, the PA’s chief peace negotiator slammed Israel over the death of a Hamas terrorist responsible for murdering a prominent rabbi at the beginning of the month.

TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas has uploaded a promotional video for a military training summer camp that promises to make “strong and powerful heroes” out of Palestinian teenagers willing to wage “Jihad for the sake of Allah.”

JERUSALEM – Ignoring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request not to honor terrorists, the Palestinian Authority erected a monument on Sunday in honor of the mastermind behind the 1976 “refrigerator bombing” in Jerusalem, with Palestinian officials expressing their hope that it will inspire young minds to continue following the path of “legendary martyrs.”

TEL AVIV – Following the release of high school seniors’ final exam results by the Palestinian Authority this week, official Palestinian press clamored to praise those “martyrs” who did not graduate because they were tied up carrying out terror attacks against Israelis but who will nonetheless merit “Paradise.”

TEL AVIV – A Canadian teacher is being investigated after speaking at a rally urging Palestinians to fight back against Israel and praising terrorists, CBC News reported.

JERUSALEM – America is responsible for any bombs that kill Muslims in Muslim countries, a Palestinian preacher claimed in his sermon on Friday at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.

TEL AVIV — The family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli teenager asleep in her bed will receive $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for “martyrs,” prompting Israel to deduct the funds from its tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority.

TEL AVIV – A Belgian Jewish newspaper is demanding that European leaders condemn Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for spreading the libel that rabbis in Israel urged Jews to poison Palestinian water, JTA reported.

TEL AVIV – A cartoon on a Fatah-owned Palestinian TV station recently aired in honor of Ramadan features Jews fighting alongside the devil against Muslims and the prophet Muhammad.

JERUSALEM – Early Islamic teachings show that all Jews are liars, a Palestinian university professor and television host recently said on official PA TV.

TEL AVIV – The families of teenage Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons were invited to Jerusalem over the weekend for a special Iftar dinner, the traditional break-fast meal for the Muslim festival of Ramadan, Ynet news reported.

JERUSALEM – Officials from both the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah party held rallies to celebrate the release of a terrorist involved in one of Israel’s most heinous murders – that of Israeli teenager Ofir Rahum, who was killed in 2001 after being lured to the West Bank by a female terrorist he met and fell in love with online.

TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet Saturday night to weigh a series of responses last week’s terrorist attacks which killed two and wounded five.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to condemn the ongoing wave of Palestinian terrorism, including the murder of a 13-year-old Israeli girl on Thursday and a father of 10 on Friday, and is also eschewing phone calls from world leaders demanding that he denounce the attacks.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement declared a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli-American girl while she was sleeping in her bed to be a “martyr.”

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian stabbed and killed a 13-year-old Jewish Israeli girl in her West Bank home on Thursday morning, prompting the IDF to close off the terrorist’s village and arrest his father. 17-year-old Muhammad Nasser Tarayrah scaled a security fence

JERUSALEM – Senior advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sultan Abu Al-Einein called on Palestinians to behead Israelis they encounter in an article published Monday.

JERUSALEM – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement published a cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a Nazi with a swastika tattooed on his arm.
