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ZOA Urges Abbas: Heed Pope's Advice To Become Angel of Peace

Mr. Abbas: Take These 18 Concrete Steps To Transform Yourself From Lifelong
Promoter Of Anti-Israel Hatred and Terrorism to Angel of Peace

NEW YORK, May 20, 2015 --The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) urges
Mahmoud Abbas a/k/a Abu Mazen to heed Pope Francis' advice to become an
angel of peace. Abbas obtained his PhD in Holocaust denial, financed the
brutal massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, co-founded the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terror group, and has continued to
promote terror in his position as illegitimate President of the Fatah-Hamas
Palestinian Authority terrorist Unity government. (Abbas' elected term of
office expired five years ago.) On Saturday, May 16, Pope Francis gave Mr.
Abbas a medallion representing the angel of peace "destroying the bad spirit
of war," and according to some (albeit conflicting) reports, the Pope urged
Abbas: "May you be an angel of peace."

ZOA National President Morton Klein noted:

"Mahmoud Abbas' lifelong, continuing instigation of terror against Israelis,
Jews and Christians would need to dramatically change in order for Abbas to
become an 'angel of peace,' but I join the Pope in urging Abbas to do so."

ZOA is listing below a few of the many concrete steps that Abbas would need
to take to make the colossal transformation from promoter of terrorism to
man of peace:

1. End the Fatah unity deal with the Hamas and remove all Hamas officials
from the Palestinian Authority (PA) government. (Hamas is a U.S. State
Department designated terrorist organization, whose charter calls for the
destruction of Israel and the murder of every Jew.)

2. Remove the PFLP (another U.S. State Department designated terrorist
organization) from the Palestinian Authority government.

3. Stop rewarding Arab murderers of Jews, and the murderers' families, with
lifetime pension payments.

4. Stop honoring and calling vicious Arab Palestinian terrorists who
murdered innocent Jewish civilians "martyrs" and "heroic brothers."

5. Rescind the PA's highest award, the "Star of Honor" recently given by
Abbas to PLO terrorist Khalid Al-Wazir a/k/a Abu Jihad, who planned numerous
terrorist attacks in which at least 125 Israelis were murdered, including
the 1975 terrorist assault on Tel Aviv's Savoy Hotel, and the 1978 coastal
road massacre in which Fatah terrorists hijacked an Israeli civilian bus and
slaughtered 37 passengers, including a dozen children. (Abbas should also
rescind the numerous honors he bestowed upon this barbarous massacre's
leader, Dalal Al-Mughrabi, and upon other perpetrators of heinous terrorist
acts.)

6. Recognize Israel as the Jewish State.

7. Stop deliberately hiring previously convicted terrorists as members of
the PA "security" forces.

8. Stop inciting Palestinian Arabs to murder innocent Jews (including
babies) by ploughing their vehicles into Jewish civilians; such incitement
has included statements and even PLO/Fatah cartoons urging Arabs to "step on
the gas" and commit car intifada.

9. Repeal the PA law that makes selling land to Jews punishable by death.

10. Stop naming schools, streets, sports teams, sports tournaments,
children's camps and public squares after Jew killers - and change the names
of these institutions to names that promote peaceful co-existence.

11. Stop publicly urging Palestinian Arabs to "prevent Jews from entering
the Temple Mount (the holiest Jewish site) 'by all means necessary,' an
unambiguous call for violence."

12. Rescind Abbas's racist anti-Semitic statements (and the similar
statements by other Fatah/PA officials including Saeb Ereqat, Ahmed Qurei
and Maen Arekat) that no Jews will be allowed to step foot into a
"Palestinian State." Abbas stated: "We have frankly said, and always will
say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its
capital, we won't agree to the presence of one Israeli in it ... when a
Palestinian state is established, it would have no Israeli presence in it"
(Khaled Abu Toameh, 'Abbas vows: No room for Israelis in Palestinian state,'
Jerusalem Post, December 25, 2010).

13. Stop the continuing harassment of and violence against Christians,
which has caused thousands of Christians to flee from PA-controlled areas.

14. Stop using school curricula and textbooks that teach Arab Palestinian
children to hate and murder Jews and Americans, and to destroy Israel. For
instance, these textbooks and schools promote false anti-Semitic conspiracy
theories (the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"), promote terrorism and
martyrdom, falsify history by claiming that Jews never lived in Israel,
literally wipe Israel off every map and substitute "Palestine," for it, and
falsely claim that Jews attacked Arab holy sites. Instead, teach accurate
history and peaceful co-existence.

15. Renounce Abbas's tracts and repeated statements denying the Holocaust,
falsely claiming that Zionist Jews worked with Nazis to murder several
hundred thousand Jews, to create sympathy for the establishment of a Jewish
State. These outrageous assertions were the basis of Abbas's doctoral
thesis from the "People's Friendship University of Russia," and Abbas's
book, and were reiterated in Abbas's recent public statements.

16. End economic warfare against Jews and Israel - the boycott, divestment
sanctions (BDS) movement. Abbas and the PA leadership instigated BDS, in
violation of the PA's written agreements (in the Oslo accords) in which they
pledged to economically cooperate with Israel. BDS harms peaceful
co-existence, and has caused hundreds of Arabs to lose well-paid jobs in
Jewish-owned businesses.

17. Comply with PA's written obligation (in the Oslo accords) to arrest
terrorists, outlaw terrorist groups, extradite terrorists to Israel,
confiscate terrorists' weapons, and end continuing incitement against Jews
and Israel in schools, speeches and media.

18. Change the Fatah charter which repeatedly calls for Israel's
destruction and "armed struggle" (meaning terrorism) against Jews and
Israel, and eliminate the official emblem that Abbas commissioned and
adopted for his Fatah party (the PA's ruling party - with Hamas), which
depicts all of Israel as "Palestine" covered by a keffiyeh (Palestinian
scarf), and places in the center of the map a picture of the terrorist
Yasser Arafat and a Kalashnikov rifle. Instead of continuing to use an
official emblem that represents violently wiping Israel off the map,
substitute an emblem representing peaceful co-existence - an emblem that
would befit a recipient of a peace medal.

This article was published by ZOA and may be found here.
http://zoa.org/2015/05/10284732-mr-abbas-take-these-18-concrete-steps-needed-to-transform-yourself-into-an-angel-of-peace/?utm_source=ZOA%3A+Abbas+needs+to+take18+steps&utm_campaign=Elections&utm_medium=email
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About the ZOA

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is the oldest and one of the
largest pro-Israel organizations in the United States. With offices around
the country and in Israel, the ZOA educates the public, elected officials,
the media, and college/high school students about the truth of the ongoing
Arab war against Israel. The ZOA works to strengthen U.S.- Israel relations
through educational activities, public affairs programs and our work on
Capitol Hill, and to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias in the media,
in textbooks, in schools and on college campuses. Under the leadership of
such presidents as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abba Hillel
Silver, and current President Morton A. Klein, the ZOA has been - and
continues to be - on the front lines of Jewish activism. www.zoa.org. For
more information contact Mort Klein 212-481-1500.