Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to take part in a rally in the French capital Sunday against terrorism and in solidarity with the victims of the recent Paris attacks, as well as to stress the peaceful nature of the Islamic faith.for anyone who follows Abbas' statements, this is meaningless. His definition of "terrorism" is quite different from that of any normal human being.
His participation comes a day after he called French President Francois Hollande to express his outrage and condemnation of the attacks, which left 16 civilians dead.
Abbas told Hollande Saturday that the Palestinian people and leadership would remain supportive of France against "this terrorism which has no religion," official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Abbas expressed his condemnation and strong opposition to any "terror attack" that hurts innocent citizens, regardless of whether the victims are Christians, Jews, Muslims, or followers of any other religion or creed.
"Human life is sacred and God has created us all," he reportedly said.
Last week his top aide Saeb Erekat called Jews building houses "terrorism" and equated it to ISIS beheading civilians.
Abbas himself has justified the history of Palestinian Arab terror in his latest UN speech.
Abbas has gone out of his way to meet a child killer.
In the past 18 months Abbas has publicly embraced people who murdered Israeli civilians, some in the most heinous ways.
In September he praised a terrorist who targeted children at a circus.
Abbas has praised the mastermind behind the Munich Olympics massacre and was involved in its funding.
His Fatah platform claims that terrorism against Israelis is legal under international law.
To have this supporter of terror pretend to march in solidarity against terror is an insult to the victims and an insult to France.
Meanwhile, his Fatah party is so concerned that some Palestinians might praise the attacks on Jews in Paris that their European spokesperson went out of his way to warn people not to express "understanding" of the Paris attacks on Palestinian TV.
The reason? Because they don't want to make the climate of Europe more uncomfortable for Muslims and Arabs.
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(h/t Yoel)
UPDATE: see Palestinian Media Watch.
Just last week, five terrorists, who in total recently killed 10 Israelis, were included on a list of "Martyrs of 2014" who "ascended" to Heaven, published in the bi-weekly Al-Asima distributed with the official Palestinian Authority daily.
The terrorists on the list, who were called "Shahids" (Martyrs) and thereby achieve the highest status possible in Islam, included the synagogue murderers who recently killed 5, three terrorists who killed 5 by running them over with cars and an excavator and the terrorist who attempted to assassinate Rabbi Yehuda Glick. See descriptions of their attacks below.
Another article described the terrorists as having died while "carrying out Martyrdom-seeking (Istish'had) operations."