(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - The current wave of Palestinian terrorism has entered its fourth week, but PA President Mahmoud Abbas is continuing to talk about a "peaceful, popular uprising" against Israel. Abbas and his top PLO and Fatah leaders have yet to explain what is peaceful and popular about stabbing an 80-year-old lady named Ruti Malka in Rishon Lezion, and a 70-year-old Jewish woman in Jerusalem. Instead of denouncing the terror attacks perpetrated by his people, Abbas continues to attack Israel for shooting the knife-wielding assailants to stop them. In reality, these "innocent" Palestinian men and women were "merely" in the process of trying to stab people to death. At two separate meetings of the PLO and Fatah leaderships in Ramallah this week, Abbas repeated that Israel is "committing war crimes" and working to "alter" the status quo on the Temple Mount. Instead of appealing to his people to refrain from carrying out terrorist attacks, Abbas and the PLO and Fatah leaders "voiced appreciation for the heroic steadfastness" of the Palestinians. Abbas told them that it is their duty to "defend" the Islamic holy sites and assured them that if they are killed by Israeli security forces, they will end up in Paradise. Welcome to the world of the Palestinians, where we lie and believe our own lies. And then want the rest of the world to believe them, too.
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