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What To Do About Car Terrorism

By: Stephen M. Flatow

Published: November 13th, 2014 - The Jewish Press

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......One source was the Palestinian Authority's leadership and social media. Exhibit A: Sultan al-Einen. He's a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and a member of the Central Committee of Fatah, which is the largest faction of the PLO (the PA's parent body) and is also chaired by Abbas. Palestinian Media Watch has compiled a long list of statements by Einen praising terrorists. But the one that attracted the most attention was his public praise, in May 2013, of a terrorist who stabbed to death an Israeli father of five. Einen said the killer was a "heroic fighter" and called for "blessings to the breast that nursed him."

 

In response, five members of Congress - Republican Ed Royce (Calif.) and Democrats Eliot Engel (N.Y.), Nita Lowey (N.Y.), Ted Deutch (Fla.), and Brad Sherman (Calif.) - wrote to Abbas, demanding that he fire Einen. Abbas ignored the letter.  (capitol switchboard # is 202-224-3121)

 

After the car attack by al-Shaludi two weeks ago, Einen publicly hailed him as a "heroic martyr" and charged that Israel "murdered him in cold blood." Fatah's Facebook page is replete with cartoons extolling "car terrorism" and urging viewers to "Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa."

 Now is the time for American Jews to ask those five members of Congress to take action - not just another letter that Abbas will ignore, but the imposition of penalties that Abbas cannot ignore.

 

Here's one idea: from now on, deduct the cost of medical treatment for victims of Palestinian terrorism from the $500 million that the U.S. gives the Palestinian Authority each year. Make it pay for the damage it causes. There are many other ways in which American Jews, working closely with friends in Congress, can force Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to stop praising and glorifying terrorists. That would be a first, important step in the process of changing the Palestinian culture that is raising children to become "car terrorists."

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LAST CHANCE AT KLINGHOFFER PROTEST 

The last performance of "The Death of Klinghoffer" is tomorrow, Nov. 15th at 1pm.

Read about AFSI member Michael Chenkin's experience after the last show.  It may move you to get out and greet the opera goers as they arrive, or after the performance (which runs 2 hours and 50 minutes).

Last night we (Nissem, Lynne and I) spoke with Leon Klinghoffer.  Not surprisingly, Klinghoffer rejected the charge that the opera named after him was anti-Semitic.  Of course, we did not speak with the murdered Leon Klinghoffer, but rather with Alan Opie, the actor who wonderfully sings the role of Leon Klinghoffer.  We were flyering the coming out crowd, and Opie stopped and spoke with us at length.  He was a mannerly and thoughtful gentleman.  He told us he had received very hateful e-mails and that this did not help our cause.  I believe he accepted that we (meaning all of us involved in the protests) did not send the e-mails, nonetheless, a lesson to be learned, people are repulsed by venomous attacks, and such attacks do us little good.

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