“Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas…” — Barack Obama, March 21, 2013
Avigdor Liberman is right: Abbas’s letter “testifies more than anything else to the fact that Abu Mazen [Abbas] is indeed a partner: a partner for terror, a partner to terrorists, a partner of murderers.”
“Abbas says Glick shooter will go to heaven as martyr,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, November 2, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian man who shot Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick would go to heaven as a martyr.
“With anger, we have received the news of the vicious assassination crime committed by the terrorists of the Israeli occupation army against [your] son Mu’taz Ibrahim Khalil Hijazi, who will go to heaven as a martyr defending the rights of our people and its holy places,” Abbas wrote in a condolence letter sent Saturday to the shooter’s family.
The PA president also expressed his “sincere condolences,” and spoke of Palestinian rights to the land.
Israel Radio’s Gal Berger said an Abbas spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the letter and posted a photo of it on Twitter.
Right-wing Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick was shot by Hijazi outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in central Jerusalem on the night of October 29, according to police.
Israeli security services reported that the suspected attacker was killed the next morning by the police’s special anti-terror unit after he opened fire on officers who came to arrest him at his home in the capital’s Abu Tor neighborhood.
Abbas’s letter was roundly condemned Sunday night by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman.
“While we’re trying to calm tempers, Abu Mazen [Abbas] sends a condolence letter for the death of someone who attempted to commit a despicable murder. It’s time the international community condemn him for such deeds,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
The letter “testifies more than anything else to the fact that Abu Mazen [Abbas] is indeed a partner: a partner for terror, a partner to terrorists, a partner of murderers,” Liberman said in a statement on Facebook….
Hijazi, who worked at the Begin Center, had been arrested in 2000 and served 11 years in prison. He had originally been sentenced to six years for membership in the Islamic Jihad terror group and for participation in violent rioting. Additional time was added to his sentence after he was tried for assaulting a prison guard.
Salah says
“It’s time the international community condemn him for such deeds,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
They won’t. They’re a bunch of politically correct cowards. They’ve sold us out for a few petro dollars.
Do what you have to do to defend Israel. May God be with you.
Don McKellar says
When and if the time comes when our political leaders are forced to view all Islamic leaders through the dark glass of the Islamic texts (which is their ultimate guide on all issues and actions, and cannot be changed), then the situation in the world will dramatically change for the better. The blinders will be removed, the lies will all be exposed, and the leaders of the modern liberal democracies will dramatically gain the upperhand in all discussion and interactions with vastly improved security, safety, and even financial gain.
Champ says
Oh, suuuure he went to heaven. Yeah it makes perfect sense that an evil perp like Hijazi would end up there, right? Wrong!Truth is, apart from Christ, no one gets to heaven …
Question: “Who will go to heaven?”
Answer: http://www.gotquestions.org/who-will-go-to-heaven.html
Excerpt:
When we stand before God one day, we cannot beg entrance to heaven based on our own merit. We have none to offer. Compared to God’s standard of holiness, not one of us is good enough. But Jesus is, and it is by His merit we can enter heaven. First Corinthians 6:9-11 says, “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” The sacrifice of Jesus covers it all.
gravenimage says
Moderate Abbas says shooter of rabbi will go to heaven as martyr
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And note Abbass’ projection, as well—that he calls the police who took out this vile Jihadist when he started to shoot at them an “assassination”, when they had just come to arrest him, and yet lauds the *actual* assassination of a peaceful Rabbi.
And this Jihadist *worked at the Begin Center*—this would be madness enough with any Muslim, but this was not some plausible “moderate”, but a Jihadist who had *served eleven years in prison* for membership in a Jihadist group followed by rioting and *assaulting a guard in prison*—how could *anyone* think that this was someone safe to hire at a specifically Jewish body?
Even in Israel, “political correctness” has reached suicidal levels.
And not doubt many—both in Israel and in the US and the rest of the world—will continue to regard Abbas, who seeks the destruction of Israel just as Hamas does, as a “moderate”. More madness…
Tradewinds says
There is no heaven in Islam. Heaven is a Christian concept. Muslims go to paradise where they get 72 virgins, rivers of wine, and pearly boys. See: Koran. All a fiction by warlord Muhammad of course.
mortimer says
Muslim males are rewarded for murder by eternal sex with slaves.
pumbar says
All sounds a bit tiring.
wildjew says
I’ve been reading Sam Harris’ book “The End of Faith.” I find quite a few flaws in Harris’ argument on Christian and Jewish faith but on Islam he is on the mark. He wrote the following in chapter four:
Let us imagine that peace one day comes to the Middle East. What will Muslims say of the suicide bombings that they so widely endorsed? Will they say, “We were driven mad by the Israeli occupation”? Will they say, “We were a generation of sociopaths”? How will they account for the celebrations that followed these “sacred explosions”? A young man, born into relative privilege , packs his clothing with explosives and ball bearings and unmakes himself along with a score of children in a discotheque, and his mother is promptly congratulated by hundreds of her neighbors.
What will the Palestinians think about such behavior once peace has been established? If they are still devout Muslims here is what they must think: “Our boys are in paradise, and they have prepared the way for us to follow. Hell has been prepared for the infidels.” It seems to me to be an almost axiomatic truth of human nature that no peace, should it ever be established, will survive beliefs of this sort for very long.
“The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason” (p. 127)
somehistory says
It was said, and attributed to a former president, that one *can fool all of the people some of the time (he was wrong on that score), some of the people all of the time (maybe true), but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.*
However correct the entire statement, there is another: One can not fool the True God any of the time. He is the One, He alone according to His Son (Matt. 20:23), who knows who will be going to heaven.
We are not left in the dark, however. We are given guides for who will be admitted to heaven and who will be sent to the *lake of fire (Revelation 20).*
“Murderers…liars….will not inherit the Kingdom (Revelation 21-22; Galatians 5:21).”
So this *partner* of murderers, this man who glorifies the murder of innocent people, and lies about the circumstances, is so very wrong.
And *most of the people* can’t possibly, not honestly, believe him.
Judi says
And this was the “moderate” who succeeded Yasser Arafat!
Mirren10 says
Don’t forget, also, that this evil and repulsive pig, through Fatah, lauded the murderer of little 3 month old Chaya.
I really have no words to convey my hatred and loathing of these scum.
Jen says
What a piece of human garbage. Toss him in the rubbish bin where he belongs.
deja vu says
Even the word ‘martyr’ has been corrupted by Islam.
From Merriam-Webster:
1 : a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion. 2 : a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle.
Islam: A Muslim who blows himself to bits deliberately with the aim of killing and maiming as many non-Muslims as possible. This is the only certain way to join the Islamic eternal sex-orgy called Paradise.
As someone once quipped, ‘God sent His Son to die for you. Allah asks you to send your son to die for him.’
Jen says
That’s another word to add to the list. I have to laugh to myself sometimes about the inappropriate use of words by Muslims. The word, even though used inappropriately still has an impact because people are thinking of the ‘concept’ in their own heads, in relation to the *actual* meaning of the word- not the Muslim meaning of the word.
Other misused/abused words: “Oppression” – “Slander” – “[Islamo]Phobia” – “Grievance” now “Martyr”
Any others?
somehistory says
Have you added *freedom* and *innocent*?
somehistory says
Oh, and one of my unfavorites: Paradise. Theirs is not the *Garden of Eden* for sure. They really should coin their own words or use some more appropriate for what they are speaking about.
For innocent: anyone who disagrees with a muslim is fair game for killing and muslims not calling it murder.
gravenimage says
I’d have to add “Peace” and “Justice” as two of the other major words used differently by Muslims than by civilized people.
VictorMc says
I just love your daft headline.
Has nobody told you “There is no such thing as a moderate Muslim” never has been nor ever will be, it’s against all their tenets both written and spoken.
cesar bento says
Sometimes Abbas looked better than other terrorists. But after such a stupid oppinion, he is muslim believer of Devil….
ApolloSpeaks says
WHAT OBAMA IS REALLY TELLING ISRAEL
If I’m to have a legacy not worse than Jimmy Carter’s you need to see Abbas as a 21st century Anwar Sadat and make peace with him.
http://www.apollospeaks.com
Pastor Right says
Let me say this, the Moderate Abbas has it all wrong, it’s not the martyr that went to heaven it was the Rabbi. The Bible/10 Commandments says “YOU Shall not kill”. And that came before the Quran.