Palestine Media Watch takes on Denmark’s Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen support for the Fatah terrorist organization the backbone for both the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) – See Also HERE. Here is an excerpt from Wikipedia on Jensen:
Kristian Jensen (born
May 21, 1971) is a Danish politician who has been Minister
for Foreign Affairs of Denmark and Deputy
Prime Minister since 2015. He is a spokesperson for the Liberal party Venstre. He was the Minister
for Taxation from 2004 to 2010 and has been a member of
parliament (Folketinget)
since March 11, 1998.[1]During his time as Tax
Minister, Kristian Jensen was a keen proponent of a "tax freeze."
Jensen was the Venstre's spokesman
on information technology and sports from 1998 to 2001 and became its spokesman
on finance policy, as well as Vice-Chairman of the Financial Affairs Committee,
in 2001.[1]
At the liberal party's congress on
17 May 2009, Kristian Jensen was elected as vice president of the liberal
party, without any other candidates running for the post.
If Venstre lost the 2015 election,
then Kristian Jensen was considered very likely to be the next leader of the
political party. Unlike the current leader of Venstre, who is rated as very
untrustworthy in polls,[2] there are no
controversies associated with Kristian Jensen. In the event, Venstre was able
to form a minority government, with Jensen becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs
on 28 June 2015. (last modified on 13 February 2016, at 09:25.)
JRH 3/30/16
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PMW open letter to
the Danish Foreign Minister:
Fatah promotes terror
Sent by Palestine
Media Watch
Sent: Mar 29, 2016 10:17:43
PMW SPECIAL REPORT
Bulletin
March 29, 2016
By Itamar Marcus and
Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Open letter to the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs:
Fatah promotes terror
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) calls on Danish
Minister for Foreign Affairs to reassess Denmark's relationship to Fatah
due to Fatah's ongoing terror support
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Responding
to Palestinian Media Watch documentation, Danish Minister for Foreign
Affairs Kristian Jensen admitted he "opposes" a Fatah
official's terror glorification. However, the minister continues to view Fatah
as "moderate" because the official, he believes, did not speak "on
behalf of Fatah, the PLO, the Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian
government." [Danish Ministry of Forein (sic) Affairs, Jan. 22,
2016]
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This PMW
report corrects the Danish minister's mistake. It documents that numerous
senior Fatah leaders, Abbas' advisors, Mahmoud Abbas himself, the Fatah Central
Committee headed by Mahmoud Abbas, and official Fatah media are all actively
supporting and glorifying the current terror. Neither Fatah, nor any of its
leaders, have condemned even one murder of an Israeli during the last 5 months
of terror. To the contrary, they have glorified the terror and the terrorists.
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PMW
welcomes the statement by the Danish Minister for Foreign
Affairs indicating that were Fatah, its leaders and the PA glorifying
terror, Denmark would "reassess" its categorization of Fatah as
"moderate."
The following is an excerpt from the report that Palestinian
Media Watch
sent to the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs on
March 20, 2016
Click here to read the full report as a PDF
PART 1
1. Letter from Palestinian Media Watch
to Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Kristian Jensen
Dear Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Kristian Jensen,
This letter and report is in response to your recent answer
to Question S507 asked by MP Søren Espersen in Danish Parliament regarding
statements published by PMW made by Abbas Zaki, a member of the
Palestinian Fatah Central Committee, in which he glorified terror against
Israelis, stating that "Allah loves our young people with rocks and
knives." You described Zaki's words as "a sad example of inflammatory
rhetoric" that you "oppose," adding, however, that you would not
reassess whether Fatah remains a "moderate" partner for Denmark
because Zaki is:
"A Fatah member residing in
Lebanon, who is not considered to have spoken on behalf of Fatah, the PLO, the
Palestinian Authority or the Palestinian government... The statement does not
give the government any reason to reconsider the assessment of Fatah and the
movement's leader, President Abbas." [Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Jan. 22, 2016, the question and answer appear at the end of the report]
However, this report shows that your refusal to
"reconsider the assessment" of Fatah as "moderate" is based
on wrong information. Not only does Zaki reside in the PA, but more
importantly, Fatah has not been a moderating voice during this current terror
campaign. On the contrary, Fatah and its senior leadership are actively
promoting terror against Israelis, including the unequivocal glorification of
those who have killed and injured Israelis in terror attacks.
Accordingly, PMW welcomes your statement implying that
Denmark would "reassess" and take action if senior Fatah officials,
the PLO, or the PA were shown to engage in hate speech, encourage terror
attacks, and glorify terrorists. This document shows that a reassessement
by the Danish government is warranted.
2. Documentation of Fatah actively promoting terror -
in brief
The following are brief examples of Fatah actively promoting terror (additional and detailed documentation appears later in the report):
Jibril Rajoub, Deputy-Secretary of the Fatah Central
Committee promotes terror
Jibril Rajoub is Deputy-Secretary of the Fatah Central
Committee. He is also Head of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs,
Chairman of the Palestinian Football Association, and Chairman of the
Palestinian Olympic Committee. Several times, Rajoub has endorsed and praised
the terror attacks against Israelis and lauded the terrorists carrying them
out:
Jibril Rajoub: "These
are individual acts of bravery, and I am proud of them. I
congratulate everyone who carried them out. I say to you, we are proud of
you... Whoever confronts, fights, dies as a Martyr, is arrested or injured -
his identity is known. What I mean is that the fighter, the prisoner, or the
Martyr, they are assets to the entire Palestinian people... The
international community does not agree to a bus exploding in Tel Aviv. But the
international community does not ask what happens to a settler or soldier in
the occupied territories at the wrong time and in the wrong place. No one
asks about him! Therefore, we want to fight in such a way that the world and
the international community will remain by our side." [Official PA TV,
Oct. 17, 2015]
Jibril Rajoub: "Yesterday
in Hebron, they escorted 17 Martyrs to burial. This is of course a
source of pride for all of us. I say that whoever carried out individual
acts of heroism, we in the Fatah movement bless and encourage them. We consider
them heroes and a crown on the head of every Palestinian. At this point,
when there is weakening and frustration, there is a group of people, beginning
with our brother Muhannad Halabi (i.e., terrorist who murdered 2) and ending
with the last Martyr... There is a competition between individuals. This is one
of the issues we need to address - are we for or against it? I say that
we in the [Fatah] Central Committee have discussed this matter, and we are in
favor." [Official PA TV, Jan. 2, 2016]
Fatah Central Committee promotes and endorses terror
Very significantly, in the above statement about attacks
carried out by individuals, Rajoub expressed the Fatah Central Committee's support
for the terror when he stated that "we in the [Fatah] Central Committee
have discussed this matter, and we are in favor."
It must be stressed that the Fatah Central Committee is Fatah's governing body and headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
It must be stressed that the Fatah Central Committee is Fatah's governing body and headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
Official Fatah TV promotes murder
Official Fatah TV broadcast a music video calling for murder
of Israelis: "Besiege them in all their neighborhoods, Drown them in a sea
of blood, Kill them as you wish"
Fatah's official Facebook page and Twitter account
promote terror
Fatah's official Facebook page and Twitter account have been
a central part of this terror campaign, glorifying the terror almost daily.
From the outset, Fatah has been glorifying murder using numerous posts,
including the following examples which visually express Fatah's explicit
promotion of stabbing murders:
Fatah has also glorified several murderers on its Facebook
page, among them Muhannad Halabi who stabbed 2 to death in the Old City of
Jerusalem, Nashat Melhem who shot and killed 3 in Tel Aviv, and Bashar Masalha
who killed 1 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa:
Fatah brought soil from the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the grave of
terrorist Muhannad Halabi, who murdered two in the Old City of Jerusalem
"so that the dead body of Martyr Muhannad Halabi can hug the soil for
which he died a Martyr." [Fatah Twitter account, Oct. 8, 2015]
Fatah glorified Tel Aviv murderer of 3:
"Congratulations and may Allah receive you in Heaven"
Abbas' Fatah movement posted an uncensored version of the
picture of dead terrorist Nashat Melhem lying in a pool of blood. It also
praised the killer of 3 as a "Martyr" and congratulated him on its official
Facebook page. Nashat Melhem was a 29-year-old Israeli Arab terrorist who
carried out a shooting attack, killing 3 Israelis and wounding 8 others in Tel
Aviv on Jan. 1, 2016:
Text: "Nashat Melhem died as a Martyr (Shahid)
after an armed confrontation in the courtyard of a mosque in Umm Al-Fahm on
blessed Friday, congratulations and may Allah receive you in Heaven" [Official
Fatah Facebook page, Jan. 8, 2016]
Fatah honored murderer who killed 1 and injured 11 in an
attack in Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Fatah's official Facebook page posted a drawing of a knife
held over the PA map of "Palestine" that includes all of Israel and
the PA areas, with the name of the murderer written on it.
Official Fatah anniversary celebrations in Bethlehem
promote terror
Another example of Fatah showing itself as a terror
promoting organization was seen in January this year, when Fatah held a march
in Bethlehem to mark its 51st anniversary. To celebrate, Fatah had children
parade in the streets of Bethlehem wearing suicide belts and carrying knives, guns
and RPGs, alongside Fatah flags. [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
Jan. 8, 2016]
(All photos are from
Ma'an, independent Palestinian news agency, Jan. 7, 2016)
Fatah Central Committee members promote and glorify
terror
As was shown above, in the words of Deputy-Secretary of the
Fatah Central Committee Jibril Rajoub, the Fatah Central Committee is "in
favor" of "attacks by individuals" against Israelis. The
following are statements by three members of the Central Committee
corroborating this Fatah support for terror. (More statements by these and
additional members of the Central Committee appear later in the report.)
Sultan Abu Al-Einein, Fatah Central Committee member
and advisor to Mahmoud Abbas, promotes terror
One Fatah Central Committee member who also serves as an
advisor to Mahmoud Abbas, Sultan Abu Al-Einein, likewise promotes terror. Abu
Al-Einein blessed the terrorists from the current terror campaign, saying:
"We bow before every drop of blood that has dripped from our children
and women... and every... Martyr's mother, who... when they notified her of his
death as a Martyr, she let cries of joy loose to the Heavens."
[Falestinona, website of Fatah's Information and Culture Commission in Lebanon,
Jan. 16, 2016] Abu Al-Einein also glorified a terrorist who killed 1 and
wounded 11 as "Martyr": "We loved you, while you sowed life
for all Palestinians" [Sultan Abu Al-Einein's Facebook page, Oct. 19,
2015] He has openly declared his total support for the terror campaign, saying
that he "supports, with all his might, the uprising and intifada... aimed
at defending the Al-Aqsa Mosque" from "defilement" and
"Judaization." [Falestinona, Oct. 14, 2015]
Abbas Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member and advisor
to Mahmoud Abbas, promotes terror
Abbas Zaki is a member of the Fatah Central Committee. He is
close to Mahmoud Abbas and has travelled internationally as Abbas' personal
emissary. Zaki stated that the murderers of four Israelis are
"giants and leaders" and went on to say that "whoever
succeeded in killing, this is a big thing." He added that such a
terrorist should have "an institution named after him, and a
statue [made] of him."
![Whoever succeeded in killing [Jews], this is a big thing](http://www.palwatch.org/STORAGE/Bulletins/2016/Danish%20report/Zaki_1.png){kind=link}
Mahmoud Al-Aloul - member of Fatah Central Committee
and Commissioner for Mobilization and Organization encourages terror
Fatah official Al-Aloul encouraged Palestinian youth to
"make the country a hell for the enemies"
Shortly after the murders of 4 Israeli civilians in two
separate attacks on Oct. 1 and 3, 2015, Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud
Al-Aloul addressed Palestinian youth on his Facebook page, encouraging them to
"rise up against the enemies":
Mahmoud Al-Aloul: "#Resist_boycott_rise
up (literally "make intifada")
"More resistance and
escalation against the occupation everywhere. Let us make the country a hell
for the enemies... all the members of the Shabiba (i.e., Fatah youth and
student movement) are potential Martyrs for the beloved Palestine."
[Fatah Central Committee member
Mahmoud Al-Aloul's Facebook page, Oct. 5, 2015]
Al-Aloul called to "continue attacks" against
Israelis
In another post, Al-Aloul stated that "whoever loves
the Shahada (Martyrdom death) is not afraid of the settler
herds." He ended with the following words of encouragement: "and
#let's_continue_the_attacks." [Fatah Central Committee member Mahmoud
Al-Aloul's Facebook page, Oct. 5, 2015]
Fatah glorifies and honors the terrorists of the
current terror campaign
Fatah leader sponsors sporting event after murderer of
two
As an unequivocal expression of support for murder, Fatah
continues to honor and glorify the killers of the current terror campaign. For
example, Jibril Rajoub, Central Committee member mentioned above, who is also
Head of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs and Chairman of the PA
Olympic Committee, sponsored a table tennis tournament, named after murderer
Muhannad Halabi, who murdered two people and stabbed a woman and her
baby in October 2015. Rajoub mentioned Halabi by name when he described the
"heroes" who constitute "a crown on the head of every
Palestinian." [Official PA TV, Jan. 2, 2016]
Mahmoud Abbas denies murdering Israelis is wrong. Terror
campaign is a "popular peaceful uprising"
Finally, Abbas himself has not been a moderating influence.
Abbas has not condemned even one terror attack during this entire violent
period, and worse still, he has justified these attacks by claiming they were
part of a "popular peaceful uprising": "We want peaceful
popular uprising, and that's what this is. That's what this is."
[Official PA TV, Nov. 16, 2015] Abbas made this statement after Palestinians
had carried out 65 stabbing attacks, 8 shooting attacks, and 8 car ramming
attacks, in which a total of 14 Israelis were murdered and 167 were
wounded.
Not even when US Vice President Joe Biden urged Abbas to
condemn a terror attack in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, where a Palestinian stabbed a US
citizen to death and injured 11 Israelis, did Abbas comply. He "offered
condolences," but never condemned the attack. [The Jerusalem Post,
March 10, 2016]
Abbas' frequent referral to all the terror attacks as part
of the Palestinian "peaceful" or "nonviolent"
"uprising" may have been what has led the Danish Minister for Foreign
Affairs and other international spectators to wrongly conclude that Abbas
is against the current wave of terror attacks against Israelis.
PLO leader: Murdering Israeli civilians is "national
duty"
A statement which expresses the Fatah and PLO leaders'
attitude towards the current terror campaign was made by PLO Executive
Committee member Mahmoud Ismail, who defined the killing of Israelis as a
"national duty." In a conversation about the murder of a young
Israeli couple, which took place while their 4 children watched from the back
seat of the car, Ismail said the following: "There is no need to return to
the argument and dispute about who carried out the operation (i.e., the
killing)... There is no need to announce it and boast of having done it. One
fulfills his national duty voluntarily, as best as one can." [Official
PA TV, Oct. 6, 2015]
This attitude is representative of the PA's and Fatah's
approach throughout this terror campaign. The Fatah leadership has not
condemned the terror, but has presented it as patriotic and a legitimate part
of the Palestinian "struggle" and "resistance." Killing
soldiers or civilians anywhere is presented as a "national duty."
Fatah proud of its leading role in the current terror
campaign
Finally, Fatah is proud of its leading role in the current
terror campaign. Several Fatah leaders have specifically mentioned Fatah's
central role in the terror campaign.
Fayez Abu Aita, Fatah Spokesman, stated that Mahmoud
Abbas is leading the "blessed popular uprising":
"Fatah Spokesman Fayez Abu Aita... emphasized in a press statement published by the [Fatah] Information and Culture Commission today [Jan. 7, 2016]... that it is necessary to take into account the difficult and sensitive situation our people is experiencing, as it fights the battle for independence and an [independent] state, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, through the blessed popular uprising and the unlimited political confrontation with the occupation in the UN corridors and the International Criminal Court.'" [WAFA (the official Palestinian news agency), Jan. 7, 2016]
Amal Hamad, Fatah Central Committee member:
"I say that if one has a
responsible national feeling, on is supposed to thank Fatah for its resolve,
and for its ability to say 'No!' to the Americans, 'No!' to the occupation,
'No!' to all regional, Arab and international pressures... We are still
leading the popular uprising, with true resistance, 80 percent of the Martyrs (Shahids)
are Fatah people. If so, the movement is deeply rooted..." [Official
PA TV, March 1, 2016]
Jamal Muhaisen, Fatah Central Committee member,
Commissioner for Diaspora Branches and PLO Central Council member:
"They [Hamas] talk about
resistance. What is happening today? Today there is a struggle on two fronts.
There is the struggle in the field, by the popular resistance, and I
say that 90 percent of the Martyrs (Shahids) are from Fatah. I say to
Abu Marzouq (a senior member of Hamas -Ed.) that 90 percent of the Martyrs are
from Fatah, and I would like Hamas to be present in the popular uprising in the
field, matching its size. Hamas' presence does not match its size." [Official
PA TV, Feb. 14, 2016]
Abbas Zaki, Fatah Central Committee member and
Commissioner of Arab and China Relations:
"The Fatah movement draws
its strength from its people, and noted that its fingerprints are clearly
evident in the popular Palestinian uprising... Fatah is carrying the flag of
victory, through the national measures and that the fact that it is currently
leading the mass uprising is the best proof of this." [Official
PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 30, 2015]
3. Summary and conclusions
In summary, it is imperative that this hate speech,
violence promotion and terror glorification be condemned - by you, the Danish
government, and other members of the international community who wish to see
peace in the Middle East. Denmark and other supporters of the PA have a unique
position as financial donors to the PA to demand that the PA, including Fatah
as the ruling party in government, honors the commitments it has made in the
past: to stop incitement and to renounce terror. The PA's donors have
tremendous potential influence to demand a change in the messages and policies
that PA and Fatah leaders transmit to Palestinians.
When Rajoub, the Deputy-Secretary of Fatah's Central
Committee, which is headed by Mahmoud Abbas, refers to the the [sic] murder of
Israelis as "individual acts of heroism" and publicly says on official
Palestinian Authority TV that the Fatah Central Committee supports them, it
must not be ignored by the international community.
In your answer to MP Søren Espersen, you indicated that if
"Fatah, the PLO, the PA, or the Palestinian government" were actively
supporting the terror campaign, the Danish government would reassess its
attitude toward them.
The documentation in this letter and report shows that the
Danish government must "reconsider its assessment" of Fatah, the PA,
and Mahmoud Abbas, and take the necessary steps when dealing with a political
governmental body that openly supports terror as Fatah does.
Click here to read the rest of the report as a PDF
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About PMW
Founded in 1996, Palestinian
Media Watch is an Israeli research institute that studies Palestinian
society from a broad range of perspectives by monitoring and analyzing the
Palestinian Authority through its media and schoolbooks. PMW’s major focus is
on the messages that the Palestinian leaders, from the Palestinian Authority,
Fatah and Hamas, send to the population through the broad range of institutions
and infrastructures they control.
PMW’s many reports and studies on Palestinian summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, crossword puzzles, religious ideology, women and mothers, children's music videos and the PA’s indoctrination of adults and children to seek Shahada (Martyrdom), have had significant impact on the way the world sees the Palestinians. PMW has presented its findings before members of US Congress and to members of Parliament in numerous countries, including the … READ THE REST
PMW’s many reports and studies on Palestinian summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, crossword puzzles, religious ideology, women and mothers, children's music videos and the PA’s indoctrination of adults and children to seek Shahada (Martyrdom), have had significant impact on the way the world sees the Palestinians. PMW has presented its findings before members of US Congress and to members of Parliament in numerous countries, including the … READ THE REST
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