And these \u201cgood\u201d Palestinians have been cheering on Hamas for its depraved atrocities and urging more of the same. As Nadav Shragai records<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in Israel Hayom, <\/em>Abdel-Rahman abu Arab, a member of the Fatah in Jenin, described the morning of the massacre as a morning of joy, victory, and pride, and blessed the \u201cheroic martyrs in Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah’s Central Committee who had already admitted that \u201cthe goal is the end of Israel,\u201d praised Hamas for the attack and threatened to crush the skulls of all the Jews and Americans in the region. Jamal al-Huwail, a member of the\u00a0Fatah Revolutionary Council in the PA, promised a \u201cbig surprise\u201d in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria (the \u201cWest Bank\u201d) and hoped that the carnage in Israel\u2019s border communities would be replicated there as well.<\/p>\n Palestinian Media Watch has been documenting<\/a><\/strong> more such reactions among the \u201cgood\u201d Palestinians championed by the Biden administration and \u201cliberals\u201d everywhere.\u00a0 Mahmoud Al-Aloul, the deputy to\u00a0Mahmoud Abbas in the PA\u2019s dominant Fatah movement, exulted:<\/p>\n “The blood of the [Hamas] heroes will turn into a curse that will remove this occupier (i.e., Israel).”<\/p>\n A senior Fatah official, Iyad Jarrad declared:<\/p>\n “We stand alongside our brothers in the Gaza Strip, because truly they are a source of pride, heroism, and honour for the Palestinian people.”<\/p>\n While the Hamas pogrom was still taking place Fatah\u2019s terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs\u2019 Brigades, rejoiced that the\u00a0Hamas terrorists, were<\/p>\n “recording spectacular epics of heroism and sacrifice,”<\/p>\n while Fatah member Raafat Alayan lauded<\/p>\n “the heroic operation that the resistance carried out on October 7.”<\/p>\n In Ramallah, Palestinians chanted<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n “If you have a rifle … you should either kill a Jew or give it to Hamas.”<\/p>\n One of Fatah\u2019s student factions, the Student Union Council and Fatah Shabiba Student Movement at Palestine Polytechnic University ,issued the following \u201crequest\u201d about the Jews:<\/p>\n “Allah, count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one of them.”<\/p>\n Palestinian Media Watch reports<\/a><\/strong> elsewhere:<\/p>\n “At the beginning of this war, PMW documented that Fatah\u2019s terror wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs\u2019 Brigades, called to kill Jews and \u201cstrike the sons of apes of pigs<\/a>… slaughter everyone who is Israeli.\u201d A few days ago, the PA instructed all preachers to teach worshippers in the mosques that extermination of Jews is\u00a0an Islamic imperative<\/a>. Abbas\u2019 own adviser on religion has defined the war as a holy war: \u201cJihad<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n One faction of Fatah\u2019s Student Movement\u00a0praised Hamas murderers<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cAllah\u2019s roaring lions\u201d and called for terror in the West Bank. Other factions have urged Palestinians in the disputed territories to\u00a0emulate Hamas\u2019 massacre<\/a>\u00a0and carry out terror attacks against Israelis.<\/p>\n Moreover, anyone who thinks only Hamas is depraved should think again. In Israel Hayom<\/em>, Shragai records some of the Israeli Jews slaughtered by \u201cordinary\u201d Palestinians not from Gaza but from the disputed territories:<\/p>\n “Hallel Yaffa Ariel, a 13.5-year-old girl, was slaughtered in her bed in her home on the outskirts of Kiryat Arba with a knife. Ori Ansbacher, a 19-year-old, was raped and brutally murdered in Jerusalem, and then her body was mutilated. Her killer gloated in his trial that \u201craping and murdering a Jewish woman is the most important thing I have ever done\u201d. The Fogel family from Itamar was murdered in their home shortly before Purim in 2011. Yoav, 10, and Elad, 4, were strangled and stabbed, and Ehud and Ruth, their parents, who tried to save their children, were stabbed repeatedly in their neck, throat, and abdomen. The three-month-old baby, Hadas who was found because she was crying, was also killed by the Nazis (now it is acceptable to call them that).<\/p>\n On one Saturday night, a similar massacre took place in the Salomon family’s home in Halamish. Esther Horgen was killed with a rock that crushed her skull. Shalhevet Pas, who was less than a year old, was executed in her stroller by a sniper. Kim Levengrond Yehezkel was tied up in the Barkan industrial zone and was then shot to death.”<\/p>\n Few of these massacres were even fully reported by western media, let alone provoking appropriate reactions of horror and revulsion. That\u2019s because many of these victims were Israelis living in the disputed territories. For western \u201cliberal\u201d supporters of the Palestinian cause and the \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d, such people are \u201coccupiers\u201d and thus aren\u2019t even to be considered properly human.<\/p>\n Given this brutalised callousness, why should anyone be surprised by the \u201cliberal\u201d west\u2019s current psychopathy moment?<\/p>\n
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Melanie Phillips <\/strong>