Pictured above is the "moderate" Fatah faction, which controls the Palestinian terrortories designated as the "West Bank," but more traditionally referred to as "Judea." Notice how imaginative these ever-creative folks are, launching firecrackers (which are, by nature, miniature explosives) at a miniaturized model of a Jewish "settlement."

Which, considering that this is essentially what these militants do in real life, doesn't really involve that much imagination at all.

With "valued partners in peace" like this, who in the heck needs the peace process, anyway?

A shwarma restaurant in Aqaba, Jordan being named after the Mavi Marmara, which refers to the ship and the other ships that accompanied it as the 'freedom flotilla.'

PMW: Abbas supports Sudanese president accused of Darfur genocide

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has expressed his personal support for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, who is accused of being responsible for the genocide in Darfur. In a letter to the Sudanese president, Abbas wrote that he and Palestinians "have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar Al-Bashir."

In 2008, evidence was presented in the International Criminal Court of Justice that showed that "Al-Bashir committed the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur." The crimes against humanity include "murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape." [http://www.icc-cpi.int accessed Dec. 8, 2010] Warrants for his arrest have been issued by the International Criminal Court.

PA TV News reports that a member of the Fatah Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, was sent by Abbas to deliver a personal letter to the Sudanese president. In it, Abbas wrote that the Palestinian people "stand side by side with the brother country Sudan." The Palestinians, wrote Abbas, "emphasize" their "complete willingness to stand with Sudan in everything it wants and in the way it wants."

Click to view the PA TV News report on Abbas's letter to President Omar Al-Bashir.

The following is the excerpt from the PA TV News report on Abbas's support to the Sudanese president:

PA TV News host: "President Mahmoud Abbas's envoy delivered to member of Fatah Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, a written letter from His Excellency [Abbas] to his Sudanese counterpart [President] Omar Al-Bashir... Al-Ahmad said that President Mahmoud Abbas expressed in his letter the Palestinian people's support for the efforts of the Sudanese leadership in the face of the dangers that threaten Sudanese unity."
[TV news shows Al-Bashir reading Abbas's letter]
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Azzam Al-Ahmad, member of Fatah Central Committee: "President Abbas's letter says that the Palestinian people and its leadership stand side by side with the brother country Sudan, and that they have complete faith in the wisdom of President Omar Al-Bashir in coping with these dangers. We emphasize our complete willingness to stand with Sudan in everything it wants and in the way it wants, in order to support the unity of the land of Sudan and its people."

[PA TV (Fatah), Nov. 28, 2010]

Fatah Puts Up Memorial Plaque for Terrorist in Jerusalem

Jerusalem - Arabs in Shiloach near the City of David have put up a stone memorial plaque honoring a terrorist who was killed when he took part in an ambush of a Jewish security guard in the early morning hours of September 22.
The plaque is located near the scene of the attack and includes a portrait of the terrorist, as well as a map of Israel and the symbol of terror group Fatah.
Attorney Yitzchak Bam of the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel wrote a letter to the Minister of Interior and to the Israel Police Sunday in which he noted that the plaque was set up at the place where the terrorist was killed, which is not the site where he was buried. Therefore, the plaque constitutes an illegal memorial for a terrorist as defined by a law from 1988.
In addition, Bam wrote, the presence of the symbol of Fatah constitutes identification with a terror organization, in further defiance of the law.
He demanded that the plaque be removed.
The slain Arab was part of a team of three who set up an ambush for the Jewish guard. They blocked the road with garbage carts and waited for the security guard to drive up. They then began throwing rocks at him, and the car’s engine died. The guard fired warning shots but the gang continued approaching him, one of them brandishing a knife. Fearing for his life, the security fired at them, mortally wounding one of them in the stomach. The dead attacker, age 32, was later discovered to be carrying three knives, and police identified him as having been involved in previous riots.