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U.S. Jewish Leaders Call to Hold PA Accountable for Terror Attacks
(Times of Israel) After a series of terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations demanded Wednesday that the PA and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, be "held to account." Stephen Greenberg, chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman/CEO, called on the Obama administration, "which provides hundreds of millions of dollars of funding each year to the Palestinian Authority, to demand that Palestinian officials act decisively to curb the violence." "No society would or should have to tolerate such acts against woman, children, and men attacked while driving, visiting malls, attending religious services, or going about their daily lives." Abbas and the PA "must be held to account for their direct and indirect roles in inciting the populace, especially the frequent references to Al-Aqsa being 'under siege' when they know that not to be the case....In fact, Israel restricts Jewish worshipers while allowing far greater freedom to Palestinians to pray at this holy site....Urging Palestinians to rise up to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque leads to the inevitable consequence of confrontation and violence."