A Palestinian 'gift' for Passover - Official Palestinian promotion of
terrorism

8 Apr 2011
MFA website
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Palestinian_incitement/Palestinian_gift_for_Passover_8-Apr-2011.htm

The Palestinian Authority has just honored the terrorist mastermind
responsible for the 'Passover Massacre' which claimed the lives of 30
innocent Israeli citizens attending the traditional Passover meal at
Netanya's Park Hotel on March 27, 2002.

http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/EC842963-F1FC-46E0-AAF7-3C8BDB14C5D8/0/reutersparkhotel.jpg
Emergency workers were greeted with the sight of 22 people already dead
in the Passover bombing. (Photo: Reuters)

The Palestinian Authority has just honored the terrorist mastermind
responsible for the 'Passover Massacre', a terrorist atrocity which claimed
the lives of 30 innocent Israeli citizens attending the 'Seder', the
traditional Passover meal, at Netanya's Park Hotel on March 27, 2002. The
Seder, symbolizing the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in
Egypt, is the most family oriented of Jewish holidays, somewhat akin to
Thanksgiving in terms of sentimental importance.

The Palestinian Authority has chosen a bizarre and troubling way to mark the
upcoming Jewish festival of Passover. Despite an often voiced Palestinian
commitment to end the glorification of terrorists and incitement to
violence, on March 28 Issa Karake, the Palestinian Authority Minister of
Prisoners' Affairs, visited the family of Hamas suicide-bomb mastermind
Abbas Al-Sayed, awarding them with an official, festive plaque, in
celebration of the anniversary of the massacre.

http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/D1A2E2B6-B37F-4988-A36C-14585B7EAC42/0/ALHAYAT.jpg
The PA daily al-Hayat reports on Palestinian Minister Karake's award of
honor to Hamas
terrorist Abbas al-Sayed (28 March 2011).

This honor is not the only example of official Palestinian glorification of
violence. In recent weeks, the Palestinian leadership named a youth soccer
competition in Ramallah after Wafa Idris, the first female suicide bomber.
Similarly, they named a square in El Bireh, as well as two schools and a
summer camp, in honor of Dalal Mughrabi, commander of the March 11, 1978
massacre of 38 bus passengers on Israel's coastal road.

The Passover massacre
On March 27, 2002, thirty, mostly elderly, people were killed and dozens
maimed and injured when a suicide bomber dispatched by Al-Sayed walked into
the Park Hotel on the Netanya seafront in the middle of a Passover Seder, a
religious ceremony celebrating the Israelites’ freedom from bondage in
ancient Egypt.

The suicide bomber, Abdel-Basset Odeh, from a Hamas terror cell in Tulkarm,
detonated a large device packed with explosives and shards of metal. The
blast killed 22 people outright. Eight more succumbed to their wounds after
terrible suffering, despite the desperate efforts of doctors who fought to
save their lives. Evidence revealed that Al-Sayed was involved in planning
the Park Hotel bombing down to the minutest details, from checking the
bomber's explosives belt to helping him write his will and making a video of
him reading it.