A new poll conducted
by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research showed that two-thirds of Palestinians support the
stabbing attacks, and that a growing majority supports an
armed intifada and rejects the two state solution.
This is precisely why the Israeli public on the left and right is skeptical of any agreement with the present Palestinian leadership
Furthermore, if presidential elections were
held today in the West Bank, Hamas would win against President Mahmoud Abbas.
False allegations and
incitement to violence have been spread on social media by both Hamas and the
Palestinian Authority. On Sunday, President Barack Obama said, “Palestinian leaders
have to condemn the ongoing attacks [against Israelis] and stop incitement.”
However, on Tuesday (Dec 15th) Abbas called the terror attacks against Israelis a “justified popular uprising.”
Abbas has failed to condemn the
terror attacks against Israelis and has continued to make
inflammatory remarks, while reiterating false accusations that
Israel is performing “field
executions against defenseless Palestinian civilians, including children.”
In
October, he accused Israel of actions aimed “at altering or eliminating the
Palestinian Christian and Muslim presence in and the identity of the Holy
City.”
Abbas has also appeared to glorify the violence, declaring, “We welcome
every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem…With the help of Allah, every shaheed
(martyr) will be in heaven, and every wounded will get his reward.”
On Tuesday
Hamas boasted that the
perpetrator of Monday’s (Dec 14th) vehicular attack on a crowded bus station was a member
of the organization. The head of the terror group, Khaled Mashaal, called on
Palestinians to embrace jihad and praised Palestinian
stabbers as “the most exalted and the noblest of people.”
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