Two Faces of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in a statement for publication, appropriately condemned the Jewish school attack by an Arab Muslim jihadist in France:
It is time for these criminals to stop marketing their terrorist acts in the name of Palestine and to stop pretending to stand up for the rights of Palestinian children who only ask for a decent life…
This terrorist crime is condemned in the strongest terms by the Palestinian people and their children … No Palestinian child can accept a crime that targets innocent people.
(Agence France Presse — English – March 21, 2012 Wednesday)
But to his own people, Fayyad praised terrorists who kill innocent people:
“Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad opened his weekly radio address on March 24, 2011 by sending greetings to the Palestinian mother in honor of Mothers’ Day,” Palestinian Media Watch reports. Fayyad’s greetings included:
I make special mention of all the women prisoners who are mothers: Iman Ghazawi, who has been imprisoned for ten years; Qahira Al-Sa’adi; Irena Sarahneh; Latifa Abu Dhiraa; Ibtisam Al-Issawi; Muntaha Al-Tawil; and Kifah Qatash.
PMW explains that “Qahira Al-Sa’adi drove a suicide bomber to an attack in Jerusalem in 2002, in which 3 were killed. Irena Sarahneh drove a suicide bomber to an attack in the Israeli city Rishon LeZion in 2002, in which 2 were killed and dozens injured. Iman Ghazawi placed a bomb at the central bus station in Tel Aviv in 2001, which was discovered before it exploded. Latifa Abu Dhiraa smuggled a bomb into Israel for a suicide terror attack in 2003 that was uncovered before it was implemented.”
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