The Palestinian Authority last week renamed a public square in the West Bank city of Nablus after arch-terrorist Khaled Nazzal, who planned a multi-day terror spree that killed dozens of people in the northern Israeli town of Ma’a lot in 1974. The attack culminated with the armed takeover of a school and the deaths of 26 people, 22 of them children.
The Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch reported that Jenin Deputy Mahmoud Abu Mwais told attendees at the dedication ceremony that “our leadership and our people will continue on the path of the martyrs,” a not so subtle reference to terrorists.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter in response to excoriate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Last week, the Palestinian Authority named a public square after Khaled Nazzal, a Palestinian terrorist chief who planned the 1974 Ma’alot massacre in which Palestinian terrorists murdered 22 school children and 4 adults. Naming yet another public square for a mass murderer teaches Palestinian youngsters to murder Israelis. That’s the very opposite of peace,” he wrote.
“Not surprisingly, President Abbas' Fatah movement claimed responsibility for Friday's lethal stabbing of an Israeli policewoman, decorating one of the killers' houses with flags,” he continued, referring to the death of border policewoman Hadas Malka during a terror attack in Jerusalem last week. “President Abbas: stop poisoning the minds of Palestinian youth. Educate for peace, not terror.”
Both the Netherlands and Norway recently broke off support for a Palestinian community center named in honor of Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist who took in a 1978 massacre of 38Israelis known as the Coastal Road Massacre.
The Palestinian Authority recently denied American claims that it had agreed to stop offering financial support to incarcerated terrorists, with one senior official explaining that “almost every other household among the Palestinian people is the family of a prisoner or martyr. Anybody who thinks he can execute a decision like that is badly wrong.”
