Reply #41: Gov't aggressively goes after Palestinian incitement [View All]

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As Israel on Sunday was morning the slaughter of the five members of the Fogel family in Itamar, Palestinians from PA President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction named a town square after Dalal al-Mughrabi, the leader of the 1978 bus hijacking in which 37 Israelis were killed.

"We stand here in praise of our martyrs and in loyalty to all of the martyrs of the national movement," Fatah member and Abbas advisor Sabri Seidam said at the unveiling of a plaque showing Mughrabi cradling a rifle against a backdrop map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The square was festooned with Palestinian flags. Around a dozen people attended the ceremony.

The square's inauguration had originally been scheduled to take place a year ago, coinciding with a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, but the PA – under pressure from the US – cancelled that ceremony.

The naming of the square after Mughrabi was one of the examples of continuous incitement that Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the director general of the strategic affairs ministry, brought to the cabinet on Sunday. After months of the government largely confining discussion on Palestinian incitement to internal meetings and private discussions with international leaders, Kuperwasser brought a PowerPoint presentation of the "incitement index" he formulated to the cabinet, and the PMO – in response to the terrorist atrocity in Itamar -- issued a paper documenting recent acts of PA authorized incitement.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=211988