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“Moderate” PA calls jihadist who shot rabbi “hero defending freedom”

Nov 1, 2014 12:36 pm By Robert Spencer

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“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

“PA Calls Assassin Terrorist ‘Hero Defending Freedom,'” by Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva, October 31, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqa on Thursday lionized Mu’taz Hijazi, the Islamic Jihad terrorist who tried to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was later killed in a shootout with police.

“Hijazi was one of the heroes of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement who defended freedom and dignity,” Qaraqa wrote in a statement published by the Palestinian Arab Ma’an News Agency.

Calling Hijazi a defender of “freedom and dignity” is particularly ironic, given the fact that he shot Glick who has championed the effort to gain Jewish prayer rights on the Temple Mount – the holiest site in Judaism – where the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) has banned Jewish prayer and discriminated against Jewish visitors.

The praise comes on the heels of similar lauding by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, which called the terrorist a “heroic martyr” while declaring Friday a “day of rage” in a call for terrorism in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

Qaraqa related how Hijazi was arrested in December 2000 during the Second Intifada for terrorism charges and sentenced to six years in prison.

In 2003 he assaulted a prison guard, leading his sentence to be extended by another two-and-a-half years. And again in 2011, he assaulted two more prison guards, earning him another three year extension.

Despite his total of over 11 years in jail for terrorism charges, after being released Hijazi was employed at the Terasa restaurant in the Begin Heritage Center where he shot Glick on Wednesday, leaving many questioning employment practices and background check systems of Arab employees.

Qaraqa said he visited Hijazi after his release in 2012, where he was told “life in Israeli prison was as merciless as hell.”

The appraisal may strike some as odd given the preferential treatment jailed terrorists receive in Israeli prisons, as revealed by officials. Those perks have included cable TV, more cell space than criminals, and the ability to buy whatever they like from the canteen.

Released terrorists have revealed on PA official TV how they enjoyed a life of ease in Israeli prisons. They have also in the past been allowed to pursue a university degree by taking academic courses.

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  1. Sam says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    The morality in Islam is sick, perverse, evil.

    • john spielman says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 12:55 pm

      the morality of the Obamantion who sits in the Oval Office is also sick, perverse and evil!

    • Huck Folder says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 7:09 pm

      You cannot even use ‘morality’ and ‘islam’ in the same sentence.

  2. Beagle says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    Why Is TerryJones in the Life of Brian holding a photo over his head?

    If only the Jews would quit building apartments Islam would not have a 1,400-year-long enmity for Jews. Islamic supremacism would not exist. Revanchism in the form of once conquered, always conquered would not be Islam’s worldview. And the Islamic cult of martyrdom will fade away if only we can provide enough lucre and jobs to the mujahideen.

    Right, John Kerry?

    • Shane Von Russell says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 4:36 pm

      hahahahahahahhahaha!!!

  3. Vicctor Redlick says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 1:38 pm

    Now that is comforting. What a relief to know that ‘ when ‘ not ‘ if ‘, Obama is busy ‘ shooting hoops ‘ or trying to make a difficult putt for par, at precisely the same time as diverse elements of the world are increasingly imploding and being socially and ethnically eradicated, respectively, that:
    ” Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqa lionized Mu’taz Hijazi, the Islamic Jihad terrorist who tried to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem on Wednesday and was later killed in a shootout with police. ” was in lock-step with Obama’s distorted perspective.
    As you also profoundly pointed out, Obama’s more disreputable, than lamenting speech to Israelis – about who their friends are (Abbas? really?) in achieving the historically elusive peace agreement (What peace agreement?) – was the actual precursor to the identical nonsense uttered by PA shill, Issa Qaraqa, in the quote above.
    The US mid-terms cannot come fast enough. From then on, perhaps an Executive Order will only amount to Obama getting a pizza. And the country, through the two houses of Congress, can start to recover, somehow, in spite of him. To the detriment of the unbridled radically Islamist world, the animals will have lost an increasingly diabolical champion.

  4. manuel-rafael says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    FROM A DISTANCE IT LOOKS AS IF THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND IN 1914 SARAJEVO SERBIA, IS BEING FOLLOWED FOR ITS METHODOLOGY AND THE STRATEGIC SUCCESS OF WAR BY REVOLUTION // REVOLUTION BY WAR THE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS TERRORISM OF THAT INEVITABLE PHASE WERE UNARMED INSURGENCY BECOMES ARMED INSURRECTION.
    THE GAZA WAR OF ROCKET JIHAD AFTER “INTIFADA KERRY’S INTIFADA THREAT, WAS THE SIGNAL TO PROCEED TO ARMED INSURRECTION AND SOCIAL TERROR IS SIMPLY A MATTER OF TERRORIST POLICY.
    ACTS OF WAR AS A RULE DO NOT AND CANNOT WIN THE REVOLUTION OF WAR BUT DOES ESTABLISH THAT STATE OF CONSTANT FEAR OF TERRORIST ATTACKS WITHOUT PREDICTABILITY.
    THIS STRATEGIC STATE OF SOCIAL TERROR IS NOT TO DEFEAT THE MILITARY OF GOVERNMENT BUT ONLY AIMED AT BREAKING THE RESILIENCE OF THE PEOPLE’S DETERMINATION OF SELF PRESERVATION, MORALLY RELIGIOUSLY AND CULTURALLY SOCIAL ISSUES ARE INTERJECTED; SOCIAL-MINUTIA IRRELEVANT HUMAN CONDITIONS THAT PROJECT FUTILITY; NEGATING SUCCESSFUL INTERDICTION WHILE IT DISTRACTS AND DIVERTS ASSETS DIMINISHING THE POLITICAL WILL TO ENGAGE THE ENEMY WITHOUT SOME ABYSMALLY IDIOTIC POLITICALLY CORRECT POLICY OF SOCIAL MILITARY AND POLITICAL SUBMISSION; THE NEGOTIATION OF A GRADUALLY ASCENDING UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER TO THE WARFARE OF A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE TERROR POLICY, THE NATURE OF TERROR AND TERRORISM IS THE ILLUSION OF THE “LONE WOLF” JUSTIFICATION FOR UNCONTROLLABLE UNPREDICTABLE ACTS OF WELL THOUGHT OUT OPERATIONS OF UNPREDICTABLE PREDICTABILITY, IT IS THE LONE WOLF THAT IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE EXPONENT OF WAR BY REVOLUTION, TERROR OR THE SELECTIVE ASSASSINATIONS OF OF ARMED INSURRECTION; THE PRECURSOR TO TOTAL WAR BY REVOLUTION THE NEXT PHASE BEING IMPLEMENTED WHILST THE ATTENTION FOCUSES ON THE “CELEBRITY” ASPECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF WHAT ID THE LONE WOLF FROM EMBRYO TO TERRORIST CRIMINAL, THE SCHIZOPHRENIA OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ANALYSIS, THE NEXT PHASE CAME AT THE POINT WHEN JOHN KERRY THREATENED ANOTHER INTIFADA, POGROMS AND IMMINENT GENOCIDE.
    THE SIGNS OF DISEASED POLITICAL POLICY THE UNITED STATES AS KHEDIVE TO THE ISLAMIC STATES OF ISIS //IL AND JIHADI GENOCIDE HAS GONE TOO FAR TO CALLED “LINKED TO; TIED TO” BUT THE ILLUSION OF DECEIT AND BETRAYAL IS DIRECTLY PART OF THE HAMAS //FATAH AL’W.T.F. FITS THE NARRATIVE.

    • RonaldB says

      Nov 1, 2014 at 4:26 pm

      When you learn to write your communications in a normal, readable fashion, I”ll be more than happy to read them. Try not using all caps for a start.

      • Salah says

        Nov 2, 2014 at 1:33 am

        Agree.

  5. mortimer says

    Nov 1, 2014 at 5:12 pm

    Hardly ‘defending freedom’ !

    Defending supremacism, yes. Defending intolerance, yes. Defending discrimination, yes.

    But ‘Muslim logic’ is actually psychological PROJECTION that turns logic on its head. They project all the intolerant, weird, savage and barbaric thoughts taught by Islam onto ‘others’ and then exonerate Muslims who do the thing they criticize.

    The would-be assassin was a terrorist pure and simple.

  6. pumbar says

    Nov 2, 2014 at 12:02 am

    “palestinian dwarf woman believes that you get a better phone signal by attaching your phone to your head”.

    No wonder they cover their faces. That photo could curdle milk.

  7. Shy Guy says

    Nov 2, 2014 at 1:29 am

    At the end of the day, Netanyahu really is chickensh*t. No apologies from me.

    • Kathy Brown, Esq. says

      Nov 3, 2014 at 8:31 pm

      Gee Shy. You’re really uninformed.

      Didja know: Bebe was a soldier? Special Forces, no less. His brother Jonni (sp.?) was killed in the hostage rescue many years back.

      So if he’s ‘chicken _ _ _t? You’re a red-bottomed baboon.

      • Shy Guy says

        Nov 3, 2014 at 11:08 pm

        Fool that you are, I served in the IDF. So do our children, with another going in this year. I’ve known Netanyahu was a soldier since he was a soldier.

        You’re another sucker for a smooth talking pol, and Netanyahu is tops at the job.

        It was not me that proclaimed support for the 2 State Solution. It was Netanyahu.

        Thanks for actually relating to the link I provided. Your response was truly intellectually stimulating. Pardon my sarcasm.

        BTW, here’s more chickensh*t from your hero, served fresh daily here in Israel, my home.

        • Mirren10 says

          Nov 5, 2014 at 10:45 am

          Shalom, Shy Guy.

          I am **very** sorry to see Mr Netanyahu apparently caving into pressure, like this.

          I wouldn’t presume to question your opinion of him, seeing as you are Israeli, and I am not, and I don’t see his day to day performance.

          However, I’ll say this; as an outsider, and taking the fact that, all in all, politicians are politicians, he leaves a better odour than many. You should try having to watch the shenanigans and sheer meretricious bs of camoron, may, hague et al.

          What did you think of Mr Netanyahu’s speech at the UN ? *I* thought it was brave, compared to how most politicos weasel around.

          In any case, Am Yisrael Chai !

        • Shy Guy says

          Nov 5, 2014 at 11:51 am

          This is nothing new. Netanyahu is all talk. He wowed America in his speeches before Congress and the UN, etc. But already back in 1998, he tossed away Hevron to Arafat in the Wye Accords, which has since become a Hamas stronghold. He joined Sharon and his band to destroy Gush Katif and expel its residents. He’s advocated for the 2-state solution, meaning the official establishment of a terrorist state on Israel’s borders. And he failed intentionally to destroy Gaza, leaving Israel in waiting for its rearming and the next “operation” we’ll have to organize against it. All his talk about Iran was just that. And he has allowed terror to reign in the streets of Jerusalem these past month. Today’s episode is just another notch on Netanyahu’s wall of shame.

  8. Elisheva14 says

    Nov 2, 2014 at 8:21 am

    Obama is so anti-Israel that it is blatantly obvious. Most Israelis are well aware of his bias. They say he is a Muslim and do not like him at all. They are just waiting for him to leave office. They see how Obama appeases Abbas who openly incites violence against Israel and is in a unity government with Hamas. Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood and is very hostile to Israel. The Israeli government knows this and is still courteous because they have many friends in the US. Things will probably get worse for Israel under Obama. The biggest issue is the threat of Iran getting nuclear weapons. Obama is helping Iran to achieve that end. The question is why so many American Jews are “blind” and don’t view Obama as anti-Israel, instead they side with him against Bibi Natanyahu.
    http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/10/majority-of-israeli-jews-believe-obama.html
    http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/even-israels-best-friends-understand-that-it-is-disconnecting-from-reality/382156/?single_page=true

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