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Tibi's statements are tainted with racism and incitement" - ONE, Feb 26, 2015. "Tibi's statements are tainted with racism and incitement." Beitar Yam responded to the words of MK Tibi in "Voters Sport": "provoking for his voters... MK Regev: "Who expects the terrorist Arafat's advisor to tell the truth?" Member of Knesset Miri Regev responded to Tibi's words: "Ahmed Tibi as usual continues to lie. The things said by him were aimed at infiltrators and not at the foreign workers and long live the small difference between infiltrators and migrant workers with a permit." The MK added: "Who expects Tibi...

While Yassir Arafat and the PA’s official statements to the press condemned yesterday’s suicide attack, the PA Arabic media was telling a different story. The official PA daily granted Shahid (Martyr) status to the two suicide terrorists who murdered 16 Israelis yesterday in Beer Sheba. Reaching Shahada (Martyrdom) status is a supreme achievement in Islamic teaching, granting the Shahid the greatest rewards in the afterlife and a place of honor in Paradise near Mohammed’s Comrades and the Prophets. This defining of the murderers as Shahids was the opening sentence in today’s page one - headline story. Striking as well was...

Umm Nidal Farhat(1) came to public attention for the first time when she was filmed helping her son Muhammad Farhat leave home to carry out the March 20, 2002 attack during which he was killed. About a year later her second son, Nidal, was killed by Israeli forces. In an interview published in both the Israeli-Arab Kul Al-Arab weekly and the London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Umm Nidal reiterated that martyrdom (Shehada) is the most supreme act, and one of the basic principles of Islam. The following are excerpts from the interview: (2) Question: "First of all, let's talk about...

PMW has repeatedly documented that the Palestinian Authority [PA] has been pushing their children to see Shahada - Death for Allah - as something expected of them. In a televised gathering on Sunday, Yasser Arafat himself clearly encouraged young children to seek death, as he glorified a famous child Shahid [“Martyr"]. In addition, he addressed the cheering and chanting auditorium full of children as “colleagues, friends, brothers and sisters of Faris Ouda” - a 14 year old child who died in the conflict, who has been turned into a heroic symbol by the PA. One of those children, he said,...