‘Shocking’: Palestinian President Abbas Met Freed Palestinian Terrorists on Overseas Trip
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Israeli officials are asking why Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — who claims to want to one day make peace with Israel — met in Turkey on Tuesday with 11 former Palestinian prisoners, among them at least two convicted of murdering Israelis.
The 11 were released by Israel in October and deported to Turkey as part of the deal it struck with Hamas to secure the freedom of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for the release of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.
One of the terrorists Abbas met is Amna Muna – nicknamed the “Internet murderer” – convicted of luring an Israeli teenager Ofir Rahum in 2001 to killers in Ramallah. Another is Jihad Ya’amur, a perpetrator of the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Nachshon Wachsman, a dual Israeli and U.S. citizen.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office condemned the meeting. According to Ha’aretz:
In response to Abbas’ meeting, the Prime Minister’s Office released a statement later Wednesday, saying that it was “shocking to see the man who claims to the whole world that he aims for peace with Israel, going as far as Turkey to meet a despicable murderer.”
According to The Jerusalem Post:
Abbas told them that the issue of the prisoners was at the top of PA [Palestinian Authority] leadership’s list of priorities. He said that the issue was being raised in all meetings between PA officials and world leaders.
The PA president, according to a statement released by his office, “praised the prisoners for remaining steadfast in the face of Israeli wardens’ mastery.” He also briefed the released prisoners on the latest developments in the region.
PMO [Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s] spokesman Mark Regev said that “instead of promoting peace and reconciliation, the Palestinian leadership seems to be putting extremist murderers up on a pedestal… This raises serious questions as to their commitment and as to their desire to end the conflict.”
A senior aide to Abbas rejected Israeli criticism of the meeting between Abbas and the former prisoners and accused the Israeli government of searching for excuses to sabotage the peace process.
It’s unclear how Israel criticizing Abbas’ praise of the prisoners would exactly “sabotage the peace process.”
It should be noted, Israel insisted on deportation outside the West Bank and Gaza for those who perpetrated the most severe crimes raising the question of why it was precisely these former prisoners Abbas chose to reward with a presidential meeting.
Watch the warm greeting and photo-op with the released convicts:
This is not the first time a senior Palestinian Authority official has honored convicted terrorists. On Wednesday, Palestinian Media Watch – a non-profit research group that translates the statements Palestinian officials make in the Arabic media – reported that the Palestinian Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs recently praised a convicted murderer as a “role model.”
It reports that the minister, Issa Karake, last month on a visit with the family of terrorist Ahmad Sa’adat stated words of admiration and love he feels for the terrorist:
“To me, he [Ahmad Sa'adat] represents a very great value and he is a leader and a teacher and a school… he represents a human value and a cultural value, and he is a role model for us. When I am in the home of Ahmad Sa’adat I draw strength, I draw new spirit… I love you very much.”
Ahmad Sa’adat is currently serving a 30 year sentence for heading the Marxist-Leninist militant group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Israel did not agree to release him as part of the Shalit swap.
While visiting the Sa’adat family, Minister Karake also took the opportunity to curse Israel, according to Palestinian Media Watch:
“May Allah curse the father of the occupation [Israel], and curse the father of the father of Israel, who came to this land which forced us to pay this price. But the future is ours, and victory is ours, Allah willing.”
Netanyahu’s office called the Abbas-terrorists meeting “shocking.” In light of the numerous instances of prisoner glorification by the most senior Palestinian Authority officials, it’s certainly no surprise.
Watch the Minister of Prisoners’ Affairs on PA TV as translated by Palestinian Media Watch:
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jvrat
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 2:29amwhy note rubbish talk is pushed and plain talk is omitted
Report Post »jvrat
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 2:01amsm33 smacky smack your lips on more foolish ripened horse shi . this angle of talk is what bargains your isolation and creates your end even after you were given a chance to be a contributor to reality
Report Post »jvrat
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 1:14amtimes up -sides are drawn simple task at hand very simple clouded second guesses will lose. no need for Any compromise. WHO is MAKING Americas decisions? this news is very old!!!! Congress continues to be riled with a false sense of comfort being home mostly and tucked in
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:29pmWhy is it shocking ??????????
Report Post »The shocking part is Israel releasing these criminals .
CONNIPTION FITZ
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 3:38pmHAMAS = FATAH = Good Cop/Bad Cop (or games Arabs/Islamists play with infidels)
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 4:22pm…and this shocking because???
Report Post »Ari Ben TZion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 5:39pmAbbas meets with a terrorist every single day.
Every single time he looks at himself in the mirror.
Report Post »Zurich
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 3:29pmI don’t see any “intellectual” difference between Smackdown33 and Abbas. He has been trained to spill his hate over Israel. Interesting if not appalling is his indifference to the suffering of the Palestinian People. He is not willing to recognize that Hamas and Hezbollah are killing and torturing Palestinians for political reasons. Smackdown33 doesn’t really care for the lives of innocent Palestinians nor innocent Israelis as long as he can express his hate to Jews. He should stop telling us who was in the region first because if we keep on digging we will find traces of the Neanderthals. The present situation is the issue and not his archaeological concepts. But maybe he is right, it would be easier for Netanyahu to sign peace agreement with Mr. Neanderthal than with Mr. Abbas the Terrorist.
Report Post »Jenasus
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:47pmThe Muslims want to kill Jesus with a sword through his heart.
Report Post »Jenasus
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:42pmThe mideast war is now in America too.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:47pmAmerica brought the Middle East wars to our shores with its foolish unconditional support of a Zionist state.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:59pmUnconditional support? America recognizes Israel as a sovereign state and has trade and diplomatic relations with Israel. When has America fought in Israel’s wars?
Report Post »ThatsJustCrazyTalk
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 3:18pm@Smackdown666
You’re obviously a Paul bot. Your opinions mean NOTHING here. Skip back over to Huffpo, Commie!
Report Post »ofass
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 12:54pmI did not know that America is your “shore” Mr. smackdown33
On my opinion you are either the speech writer of president Ahmadinajad or just a troll
who lives in Gaza….
Either way, don’t take yourself too seriously.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:34pmYeah, ‘shocking’. The next thing you know Jimmy Carter will be sending condolences to Kim Jong jr., and wishing him success…, wait…, what?! He already has.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:30pmAnyone who says Abbas and his henchmen want peace with Israel, or that Abbas is not on the side of the Terrorists, is either brain-dead stupid or the person is a terrorist himself. I’m including all American politicians who seem to love Palestinians – certainly Jimma Carter falls right in with these murderers. He’s either stupid or one of them – you pick it.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:49pmAnyone who says that Israel has ever wanted peace is brain-dead. Israel’s history is one of continuous war.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:18pmImagine a world where “Liberty” had no boundaries? For in Liberty came the greatest inventions that profoundly changed Mankind forever: hand-tools; the useful use of fire; the wheel (big change); imagine where men would be at now if Liberty had never decayed. Well, you’d be visiting other planets just as earth is getting visited.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:22pmYou had better go back and tell that fiction to Galileo.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:23pmBut what do they want of earth men? They don’t want the poison that is in the earth.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:26pmsmackdown33,
Report Post »Oh, what did Galileo do? He got a closer look at the things you already see with the human eye, that’s all, but not the things you could see with the eyes that have eyes.
Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:29pmGalileo, Pluto cemented in the greatness of the “Beast” that’s all.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:31pmAnd you bring a blind man to Jesus, and he presses ointment into his eyes saying (in his mind) he sees trees and what looks like people, and thus he saw. But you are blind and see nothing.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:38pmYou are a falling sort, and I reach for you to pull you up to safety from the raging rivers below, and you do nothing but loosen your grip, because the attraction of the earth is far too great in your heart. So be it! The universe will not miss not one bit of your insolence.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:51pmGalileo surely did not enjoy ‘liberty.’ Better look at the last 8 years of his life.
Report Post »Zurich
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:04pmWhat is so shocking? It is very common that Abbas, who is also a terrorist meets people of his same condition. I think that Abbas is the kind of individual that we could call a „moderate terrorist“ because he is not throwing bombs. He „only“ supports terrorism with money and propaganda . The leftists find him cool and this is why they don’t want to free the suffering Palestinans from his regime of murder and torture. Amnesty International would also never ask any country to arrest Abbas because he uses „only“ classic torture methods with his own people, but never ever waterboarding. By the way, Obama also finds him cool and this is why Abbas was the first „leader“ he called upon taking over Office.
Report Post »Shocking is the fact that this is the World we live in.
smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:21pmTrue. Nothing in Israel, formerly Palestine, should be shocking when it comes to terrorism. After all, it was the Jews who brought modern terrorism to Palestine. There was the Irgun before there was a Hamas. There was a Stern Gang before there was a Hezbollah. And, there was the Haganah before there was an al Qaeda.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:37pmSMACKDOWN, there was always Israel before Palestine. The Romans called it Palestine when if was a country of Israelites, Jews if you prefer. there were never Palestinian Arabs. That was a manufactured name. You might want to get your facts right. Furthermore, it will always be Israel. God ordained it and He shall protect it even if the US of A should turn its back on Israel.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:55pmcarbonyes, Hebrew was also an invented name, ‘crossing over.’ Before Abraham came from what is now Iraq, and took what he called his promised land, that land was inhabited by non-Hebrews. It is a provably false claim to say that the land was Israel, and that Israel had always existed.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:06pmHe never said “always existed” he say “always existed before Palestine”. Big difference Smack. Israel existed over 2500 years ago, Palestine, at best, hits 2000.
Report Post »ofass
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:03pmLook and understand at last:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16b2LVxoMjA&context=C3b51d4bADOEgsToPDskIKGElXIsmxIt8Aaw9XHp7z
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:00pmIsrael released these murderers. Plenty of blame to go around. This didn’t happen in America. For these reasons, I don’t care to hear war-mongerers blather about things they know nothing of.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:33pmYou are the warmongerer of whom you speak.
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:41pmSMACKDOWN, you speak as a fool.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:51pmSorry Blaze, this is not shocking!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:45pmThe “shocking” stuff is rarely shocking to the informed amongst us.
Report Post »Jennifer_D
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 8:28pmThis isn’t shocking news at all! The Blaze even did a story previously about terrorists from the first group released being gave fancy vacations and cell phones when they were released. When will we realize that these people are never going to genuinely work to have peace with Israel? If they wanted peace they‘d elect leaders who didn’t blatantly support terrorists.
Some people believe that these terrorists shouldn’t have been released. The first batch were terrorists who had been convicted of crimes and the second batch were unsuccessful in their attempts. Time to focus on stopping terrorism instead of bashing Israel.
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:42pmAbbas and G.Soros are paying for this election, they will not run out of money. There is no problem.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:36pmDeception. Lies. Twisted truth.Media manipulation. Shocking ? Just the new “reality.” From the Middle East to our White House. It’s the New World order: Hate and Disorder : All wrapped in a pretty package of deception and tied with a big red bow of Lies.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:35pmIt‘s interesting isn’t it? I mean the way Muslims have the “dim-light” they call Allah, when in fact there is only One Lord, and people see the one Lord in a different light. Case in point when the bright and shining star comes down many people see it as worm-wood, while other people see it as the bright and shining star that it really is. It’s a sad, sad thing.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:38pmAnd that is an example of how the light is divided.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:45pmAnd actually I don’t mean it is secluded to just Muslims but many people of many origins. That’s why there are particular alliances between certain groups.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:48pmI’m saddened.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:50pmThat’s why in Islam they have the Crescent moon and dim star, and know not why they wash their feet.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:57pmFar too many people have a hard heart only allowing in “Worm-wood“ and not ”Gopher-wood”, and because their heart is hard the light appears dim to them, but when you have a soft heart the light absorbs and appears more bright.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:00pmBut nonetheless, there is more profit for the Dragon in keeping people with a hard heart, and for the most part it is deliberate.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:20pmWhy? — Obviously, Party Time! There is no one… Peace Loving… nor Neutral… in the Middle East!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:17pmShocking? Why would anyone be shocked that a terrorist “president” of a terrorist people met with one of his own terrorists?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:26pmWho terrorizes who?
If you were a Palestinian and a bunch of Jews from Europe and America came and took your home and land, you would call those thieves terrorists. If these same people then took your family and threw them into ghettos, you would call them terrorists. As these people walled in those ghettos and set up checkpoints, you would call them terrorists… at some point, people like you must get a grip on reality and stop with the propaganda fiction.
Report Post »jerkie93
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:33pmSmackdown what you forget to realize is that the UN put them there. This was an agreement made by several countries.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:37pm@SMACKDOWN33 Stop speading lies. Its sad to watch. The jews didn’t take or steal the land. It was given to them after WWII. You know this.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:54pmIf it is your house and you are forced out, it doesn’t matter why. If it is your house and it is bulldozed down, it doesn’t matter who gave who what. If it is your land and someone else is living on it by force, it doesn’t matter. If it is your family and they are placed into ghettos, you don’t care who gave what… It is also interesting that Israel listens to the U.N. when it speaks of its origins, but totally ignores the same U.N. as it violates human rights.
Gentleman and ladies, the historical facts are not on your side.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:18pmActually Smack, Jews had been living there for quite some time before WWII. The Jews came, purchased land through perfectly legal means, and settled it. Sometimes they settled unowned land. They had plenty of money from European sponsors; they didn’t have to steal anything. The Arabs living there, though, didn’t like this because some of them used to get paid to work the fields that the Jewish immigrants bought, putting them out of work. This lead to riots to which the British responded by passing the discriminatory White Papers that inhibited Jewish immigration and settlement. All the land settled before 1948 had been legally bought or had been previously unowned. After the war of 1948, which the Arabs started, Israel did takeover some land that had been abandoned in order to allow for the absorption of refugees from both Europe and the surrounding Arab nations. It is also noteworthy that more Jews were forced to leave their homes in Arab nations than there were Palestinian Arabs who fled from Israel.
Report Post »Since that time, Israel has only violated property rights in self-defense while trying to stamp out terrorists. Today though, Palestinians are advocating for Israelis to be driven off land they own so the Palestinians can have a state, something Israel as a state doesn’t do.
smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:31pmtzion, you are versed well in propaganda. You describe the British ‘White Papers’ as discriminatory, and neglect the discriminatory Balfour Declaration that those same White Papers was trying to correct.
Here, this will shed some light on your discriminatory propaganda. Remember, it is written by a Jewish, Israeli, historian.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:34pmhttp://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:56pmSMACKDOWN, once again you speak as a fool and one who lacks both wisdom and knowledge. Israel was returned to its homeland of nearly 4000 years in 1948. It has been Israels since given to her by God when Moses led them there but was not permitted to go in, so Joshua and Caleb led them in to possess the land, which they did. There were no Palestinians Arabs then, nor were there such in the time of the Roman Empire. Nor were there during the Ottoman Empire until well into the 20th century when the Muslim countries kicked their own kind out of their respective country of residence, and they were not deemed Palestinians then.
Report Post »You seem to have a very bitter heart, maybe mixed with some hatred. It will stop your heart if you are not careful. Just to clue you, an enemy of Israel is an enemy of God. Trust me, you do not want to be an enemy of God.
tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:56pm@Smack
The White Papers restricted the liberties of a group of people based on their beliefs and ethnicity. The Balfour Declaration granted recognition to a minority that had rarely, if ever, been treated with equal liberties in for almost 2000 years of European history. Whose liberties were being threatened by the Balfour Declaration. Nowhere in that statement was there a call to persecute the Arabs already inhabiting the land. Your comparison is inaccurate. A more accurate comparison would be to compare the White Papers’ discrimination to the Hamas charter calling for the destruction of Israel.
One more thing: just because Irgun bombed the King David Hotel doesn’t give Palestinians the right to blow up buses, hospitals, and restaurants.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:27pmHey Smack, you like sources that disprove propaganda right? Try this one out. I would also advise everyone else to watch it. It’s long but very informative.
Report Post »http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/relentless
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:14pmShocking??? You mean unsurprising, right?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:19pmMy attempt at humor. One doesn’t have to be an Einstein to note the pro-Jewish propaganda.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:27pm@SMACKDOWN33 So where the propaganda that you see? What lies are being reported? Could you call them out please?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:31pmOr the Pro -Terrorist Lefties that love them
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:40pmGuess Smack pulled the Israel Card for his daily Blaze Trolling assignment …
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 1:47pm@smack
Report Post »reporting Palestinian propaganda for what it truly is is propaganda for Jews?
smackdown33
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:11pm‘Shocking’: Another poor me I’m a Jewish victim article. Wow, how very similar this is to yellow journalism or propaganda.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:31pmIt’s propaganda when you report and spread lies. What is you definition of propaganda? When stories you don‘t like about people you don’t like?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:37pmAlways nice to hear from Planet Bruce….
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:09pm“Shocking” … yea right.
Report Post »Thors Hammer
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:08pmNo surprises. A slimy terrorist-loving puke only shows what we already knew about him. He despises Israel and USA. Why does he get anything from us but the back of our hand?
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:03pmObama’s people…………
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