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The PA connection to the 1929 murder of 130 Jews By Maurice Hirsch

Posted By Ruth King on August 23rd, 2019

While the massacre took place in 1929, over 60 years before its creation, the Palestinian Authority has wholeheartedly adopted the event, glorifying three of its participants and perpetuating the spark that ignited the massacre.

In the aftermath of the massacres, British mandate forces arrested and prosecuted dozens of Arabs. While most of the death sentences handed down were commuted to life imprisonment, three Arabs who, according to a report by the British government to the League of Nations, “committed particularly brutal murders at Safad and Hebron” were put to death on June 17, 1930.

Every year the PA marks the execusion of these three murderers – Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, and Ataa Al-Zir.

In June this year, on the 89th anniversary of their execution, PA TV marked the execution of “the three heroes” and used the opportunity to add that they have become “a legend of self-sacrifice for the homeland” and that “souls that have been sacrificed for their country will not die.” In this manner, the PA constantly reinforces its message that dying while carrying out an act of terrorism is an outcome that guarantees that the souls of the terrorists do not die.

In 2016, a spokesman for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party even went as far as demanding that Britain should “submit an official and public apology to our people… and to the families of the Palestinian Martyrs (Shahids) who were executed in cold blood by the British Mandate forces on June 17, 1930″.

He also called “to include the names of the heroes of the Al-Buraq revolution in the Martyrs’ list of the national Palestinian prisoners’ movement, because their cause contains the uniqueness of the Palestinian historical narrative and it holds within it the fragrance of the experience of a remarkable Palestinian struggle and the historical story of our people since the British Mandate. Likewise, he emphasized that the eternal national event of the death as Martyrs of the three heroic prisoners should be noted in order to remind Britain and the world of the tragedy of our people and its expulsion by force from its lands.”

The PA and Palestinians refer to the massacre as the Al-Buraq revolution. The PA justifies the murder of 130 Jews saying that it was in response to Jews marking the fast of the 9th of the Jewish month of Av – the day on which both Jewish Temples were destroyed – by singing the Jewish national anthem at the Western Wall. The PA refers to Western Wall as the Al-Buraq wall.

This year too, the PA instigated and initiated violence, in rejection of ‘Jews’ right to visit the Temple Mount on the 9th of Av.

The three murderers are today an integral part of the Palestinian terror glorification, and Palestinians refer to them in their songs.

It would appear that in the 90 years that have passed since the massacre very little has changed. Palestinians still consider the murderers of Jews as heroes to be emulated and the Temple Mount is still used as a rallying call for violence against Jews.

Below are a sample of additional PA and Fatah references to the murderers and their hero status, just in the last few years:

2019

At a summer camp for kids named “I am a Palestinian,” a poster on a wall shows a list with the names of 10 prominent Palestinians on it. Among presidents and poets are the three 1929 massacre murderers and several other terrorist murderers, including Dalal Mughrabi and Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin

Names on poster:

2018

2017

In a post on the Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee member and Fatah Commissioner of Popular Organizations, Tawfiq Tirawi added:

2016

The Al-Buraq Wall – Islam’s Prophet Muhammad is said to have rode during his Night Journey from Mecca to “al aqsa mosque”, i.e., “the farthest mosque” (Quran, Sura 17), and there tied his miraculous flying steed named Al-Buraq to a “stone” or a “rock.” (Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Book 47, Hadith 3424). In the 1920’s, Arab Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini decided to identify the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem as that “rock” or “stone,” and since then Muslims refer to the Western Wall as the “Al-Buraq Wall.”

Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel’s Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.

Abu Iyad (Salah Khalaf) – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat’s deputy, one of the founders of Fatah, and head of the terror organization Black September, a secret branch of Fatah. Attacks he planned include the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics (Sept. 5, 1972) and the murder of two American diplomats in Sudan (March 1, 1973). It is commonly assumed that his assassin, a former Fatah bodyguard, was sent by the Abu Nidal Organization, a rival Palestinian faction.

George Habash – Founder of the terror organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP has planned and carried out numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians since its founding in 1967 and throughout the Palestinian terror campaign between 2000- 2005 (the Intifada).

Abu Jihad (Khalil Al-Wazir) – a founder of Fatah and deputy to Yasser Arafat. He headed the PLO terror organization’s military wing and also planned many deadly Fatah terror attacks in the 1960’s – 1980’s. These attacks, in which a total of 125 Israelis were murdered, included the most lethal in Israeli history – the hijacking of a bus and murder of 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Ahmed Yassin – Founder and former head of the terrorist organization Hamas. The Hamas movement is responsible for numerous terror attacks and the deaths of hundreds of Israeli civilians.

Yahya Ayyash – The first Hamas bomb-maker and leader of Hamas’ Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades in the West Bank, he is considered the initiator of Palestinian suicide bombings and nicknamed “the engineer.” He built the bombs used in many terror attacks, including the Mehola Junction bombing (2 murdered, 9 injured, April 16, 1993), the Afula bus bombing (8 murdered, 55 injured, April 6, 1994), the Hadera central station bombing (6 murdered, 30 injured, April 13, 1994), the Tel Aviv bus 5 bombing (22 murdered, 47 injured, Oct. 19, 1994), the Ramat Gan bus bombing (6 murdered, 33 wounded, July 24, 1995), the Ramat Eshkol bus bombing (5 murdered, over 100 injured, Aug. 21, 1995), and the Bet Lid bombing (22 murdered, 66 injured, Jan. 22, 1995). He was killed by Israeli security forces on Jan. 5, 1996.

Wadi’ Haddad – member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who was directly responsible for many of the PFLP’s most prominent terror attacks, including a series of hijackings of Israeli EL AL planes in the 1960s and 70s. These included the hijacking of an EL AL plane flying from Rome to Tel Aviv on July 22, 1968 – the plane was forced to land in Algiers, where the 32 passengers were held as hostages for 39 days; the EL AL Flight 253 attack in Athens on December 26, 1968; the hijacking of 3 planes on September 6, 1970, which were forced to land, after which the passengers were released; and the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 on June 27,1976, whose passengers were freed in Israel’s Operation Entebbe.

Muhammad Jamjoum, Fuad Hijazi, and Ataa Al-Zir “committed particularly brutal murders [of Jews] at Safed and Hebron,” according to the report by British Government to the League of Nations. They were convicted of attacking British soldiers and murdering Jews in the 1929 Hebron Massacre, in which 65 Jews were murdered. They were executed by the British in 1930.

Majed Abu Sharar – senior Fatah and PLO leader from the 1970s.

Saad Sayel – Senior Fatah commander. He led the PLO forces that were based in Lebanon during the early 1980s.

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