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Source: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/israel/palestinian-terrorism-madness/
A Method Behind Palestinian Madness
(Commentary) Jonathan S. Tobin - Daily Palestinian assaults on Israeli civilians with guns, firebombs, knives and lethal rocks have become so commonplace that they get very little international press coverage. But the support the terrorists are getting from the Palestinian Authority makes it clear that there is a method behind this madness. The PA actually condemned Israeli authorities because police shot the Palestinian terrorists after they accomplished their grisly deeds. A PA spokesman called on the international community to intervene to protest "the killing of two young men in occupied Jerusalem," a reference to the slain terrorists. The PA statement did not contain even a perfunctory condemnation of the attacks on Israelis. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas has stoked the fires of hatred among his people by repeating lies about Israel seeking to prevent Muslims from worshipping at their mosques in Jerusalem. Just as important, the PA official media that Abbas controls has maintained a steady drumbeat of anti-Jewish incitement in which terrorists are lauded as heroes. What Abbas really wants is to distract the world from its current focus on the mass slaughter of Arabs by fellow Muslims in Syria - a conflict that proves that pressuring Israel is not the key to Middle East peace - and orchestrate a new wave of condemnations of the Jewish state. The deafening silence about attacks on Jews in the streets of Jerusalem reinforces the Palestinian belief that they can get more international support by escalating the conflict and refusing Israeli offers of statehood than by making peace.