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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed that plans to present two female Palestinian terrorists with a medal of honor have been withdrawn.Abbas informed Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik of the decision in a telephone call from Moscow late Wednesday.
The Al Kuds Mark of Honor, the PLO's highest medal, was meant be awarded in a ceremony in Ramallah Thursday to two female terrorists who helped kill Israelis. The terrorists' families were slated to receive the honors in their stead.
Abbas informed Itzik that the awards for the two terrorists, as well as for other Palestinians imprisoned in Israel, had been revoked.
Itzik said that the plan had caused outrage among the Israeli public and MKs, adding that it certainly would not have been not conducive to peace negotiations.
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You're right of course. It doesn't make anything better. The barely-concealed hypocrisy and double-speak of both Abbas and the PA are out there on display for anyone who cares to read.
I am a parent of one of the children murdered in Sbarro Jerusalem massacre. This is why I pay more than the usual interest in what’s said about the killer. So I feel the need to react when I see a news report (the Jerusalem Post report that is the sole source for this reporting about the award) saying “The two were Ahlam Tamimi, a Hamas affiliate serving a life sentence for driving the suicide bomber who exploded himself in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, killing at least half a dozen people…”
Fifteen people were murdered at Sbarro that day. Technically that's “at least half a dozen” but most would see it as an odd way to express the toll. A sixteenth victim, a young mother, has been lying unconscious from that day until now. My daughter Malka Chana Roth , 15, was among those killed. 130 people were maimed and injured. That’s my first point.
The second is that, notwithstanding the Jerusalem Post’s report describing the murderous young woman as the driver, she wasn’t.
Calling her the driver gives the impression of someone relatively marginal to this barbaric slaughter. In fact, as the court that tried and convicted her found, this young woman personally engineered the massacre, procured the explosives, and accompanied the walking bomb-person from Samaria, via the Ramallah-area checkpoint crossing, into Jerusalem and right up to Sbarro. After the explosion, she coolly made her way back to Ramallah where she personally presented the evening news on PA television, including a report on the deaths she had herself caused to happen.
There’s more background at http://www.kerenmalki.org/Sbarro_Massacre.htm
- Arnold
First, I am sorry to hear about your daughter.
Second, thank you for the information.
As an American, the Jerusalem Post is practically our only source for these kinds of stories. So, we have to accept what they tell us.
It sounds like you are saying they are trying to "soften" the actions of the terrorists. Unfortunately, we seem to have the same problem over here with our media.
Of course, our media doesn't even report stuff like this. Unless people are dying, it gets ignored. And when people do die (either side), no context is given.
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