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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
PMW:: Abbas' Fatah to Hezbollah: "We resist same enemy"

PMW Bulletin
Jan. 28, 2015
Abbas' Fatah to Hezbollah: "We are in the same trench, and are resisting the
same enemy"
Fatah salutes commander of terror organization Hezbollah as "hero" and
"Martyr"
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=13830
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
p:+972 2 625 4140 e: pmw@palwatch.org
f: +972 2 624 2803 w: www.palwatch.org

Earlier this month, Hezbollah commander Jihad Mughniyeh was killed in an
Israeli airstrike. Jihad Mughniyeh was commander of the terror organization
in the Syrian Golan Heights and son of Imad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezbollah
member assassinated in 2008. According to Western intelligence sources,
Jihad Mughniyeh was planning and preparing terror attacks against Israel,
including firing of rockets and explosive devices meant to target Israelis.

"We are resisting the same enemy," said Rifat Shanaah, the director of
Fatah's Lebanon branch who headed the "high-ranking delegation," which
Abbas' Fatah party immediately sent off to convey condolences upon the death
of Mughniyeh. The delegation "laid three wreaths on the grave of Martyr
Jihad Mughniyeh... on behalf of the embassy of the State of Palestine, the
PLO and Fatah." Speaking "in the name of the Palestinian National Liberation
Movement - Fatah; in the name of the PLO and the resisting Palestinian
people," Shanaah said:

"We hereby express our heartfelt condolences to [our] brothers in the
Hezbollah leadership and to the families of the Martyrs. We are in the same
trench, and are resisting the same enemy."
[Ma'an (independent Palestinian news agency) Jan. 21, 2015]

He further emphasized Fatah's, PLO's and the Palestinian people's "adherence
to the principle of struggle and Jihad between us and our brothers in
Hezbollah":

"Cowardly acts such as these (i.e., the Israeli airstrike)... merely
strengthen our adherence and determination to resist this enemy... We will
adhere even more to our goals and Palestinian national principles... and
that of struggle and Jihad between us and our brothers in Hezbollah and all
the forces acting to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem."
[Ma'an (independent Palestinian news agency) Jan. 21, 2015]

Abbas' Fatah party was also quick to greet Mughniyeh as a "hero" and a
"Martyr," posting the following text on its Facebook page:

"Rest in peace, a hero's rest, and give greetings to your father from the
free men. Martyr (Shahid) Jihad Mughniyeh."
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page",
Jan. 18, 2015]

Abbas' advisor and Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein also
sent terror organization Hezbollah "our best wishes for its Martyrs":
"We convey to Hezbollah our best wishes for its Martyrs, and are certain
that its reaction is inevitable, and that it will not pass over this crime
in silence."
[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee member
Sultan Abu Al-Einein, Jan. 20, 2015]

Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that Al-Einein glorified the murder of
five people in a Jerusalem synagogue in November, blessing their "quality
weapons."
He has also previously glorified terrorist killers like Dalal Mughrabi and
blessed "the breast that nursed" a terrorist who stabbed a man to death.

Several Western countries, among them the US, Canada, France, and the
Netherlands, have, like Israel, designated Hezbollah a terrorist
organization. Others, among them the EU, Australia, New Zealand and the UK
have only listed the organization's military wing as such.

The following are longer excerpts of some of the items quoted above:

Headline: "Palestine offers its condolences to Hezbollah"
"Following the assassination of a group of Hezbollah activists in Quneitra
by Israeli occupation forces, the ambassador of the State of Palestine in
Lebanon, Ashraf Dabbour, expressed his condolences on Tuesday at the Al-Imam
Al-Mujtaba compound. He was accompanied by the commander of the [PA]
National Security [Forces] in Lebanon, Major-General Subhi Abu Arab and his
deputy Major-General Munir Al-Maqdah.
In addition, a high-ranking delegation sent by the Fatah leadership headed
by the director of [Fatah's Lebanon] branch, Rifat Shanaah, [which included]
the branch members and Fatah Secretary-General in Beirut Samir Abu Afash...
expressed their condolences at the Al-Imam Al-Mujtaba compound.
The Fatah delegation laid three wreaths on the grave of Martyr (

Shahid) Jihad Mughniyeh (son of Martyr Imad Mughniyeh) [parenthesis in
source] on behalf of the embassy of the State of Palestine, the PLO and
Fatah... As they were laying the wreaths, Rifat Shanaah said: 'In the name
of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement - Fatah; in the name of the
PLO and the resisting Palestinian people, we
hereby express our heartfelt condolences to [our] brothers in the Hezbollah
leadership and to the families of the Martyrs. We are in the same trench,
and are resisting the same enemy.'

He said: 'We emphasize that cowardly acts such as these and those
[committed] against our young men and our people in Palestine, Lebanon or
anywhere else merely strengthen our adherence and determination to resist
this enemy, who robs our people. We will adhere even more to our goals and
Palestinian national principles and to the unity of our position and that of
struggle and Jihad between us and our brothers in Hezbollah and all the
forces acting to liberate Palestine and Jerusalem. We say to the families of
the Martyrs (Shahids) that their sons, their Martyrs, are the Martyrs of the
Palestinian people.'
Hezbollah's deputy commissioner on the Palestinian issue, Sheikh Atallah
Hammud, said: 'In the Martyrs' garden, by the tomb of Martyr Imad Mughniyeh,
his son Martyr Jihad Mughniyeh and all the [other] Martyrs, we give thanks
to our brothers in the PLO and Fatah for their participation. We emphasize
that the Martyrs who fell at Quneitra fell on the path to Palestine, and for
Palestine. We emphasize... that we will continue to stride down the path and
that our goal is Palestine and will remain Palestine. Blessings to all the
Martyrs who protected the honor of this nation.'"
[Ma'an (independent Palestinian news agency) Jan. 21, 2015]

Imad Mughniyeh - senior member of Hezbollah who was linked to major
international terror attacks, including but not limited to: the 1983 bombing
of the US embassy in Beirut (63 killed), the 1983 bombing of the US army
barracks in Beirut (241 killed), the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 (1
killed), the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires (29
killed), and the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudia Arabia (19 Americans
killed). He was also linked to the Karine-A affair, a failed attempt to
smuggle 50 tons of illegal weapons to the Palestinian Authority in 2002, and
to numerous attacks along the Israel-Lebanon border. He was killed in a car
bombing in 2008.

Jihad Mughniyeh - Commander of Hezbollah in the Syrian Golan Heights and son
of Imad Mughniyeh. Information about Mughniyeh is scarce, but according to
Western intelligence sources quoted in the international media, he was
planning and preparing terror attacks against Israel in the Golan Heights,
including rocket fire and explosive devices meant to target Israeli soldiers
and civilians. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on January 18, 2015.

Text posted by Abbas' advisor and Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu
Al-Einein on his official Facebook page:

"While Hezbollah escorts this group of Martyrs (Shahids) [to Paradise], it
is fully aware that Israel is afraid and waiting [for its reaction]...
We convey to Hezbollah our best wishes for its Martyrs, and are certain that
its reaction is inevitable, and that it will not pass over this crime in
silence... And if we go back and quickly analyze the words of
Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah, [we will see] that he has
many options at his disposal, and Israel understands that all these options
are now on the table.
This brings us to the inescapable conclusion that Israel, which opened a
door without knowing what would come through it, gambled with the lives and
security of millions of settlers and soldiers when it assassinated members
and commanders of Hezbollah. Moreover, this shows that Israel is unaware of
what the price would be of this gamble, which the prime minister of Tel Aviv
(i.e., Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) believed would tip the
votes in his favor ...
No one in the entire world would want to be in Israel's prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's shoes right now, after his face was wallowed in the
dust of Paris, the Hague and New York, and after it will wallow [in the
dust] under the weight of Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Hebron, Jenin, Gaza,
Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jaffa, Rahat and the Negev.
In conclusion, if he has even a drop of dignity left, and if he wishes to
keep it, he must make the decision himself to leave politics, after having
heightened Israel's isolation, dragged it to the International Criminal
Court, and inflamed its northern front - for he will surely be dismissed,
and ultimately imprisoned in Israel or by the international community, which
has had enough of him."
[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein,
Jan. 20, 2015]

Posted text: "Martyr (Shahid) Jihad Mughniyeh"
[Facebook, "Fatah - The Main Page", Jan. 18, 2015]
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