Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
had refused, as of Saturday night, to condemn the current surge in Paleostinian terrorism, including the killing of a 13-year-old Israeli girl on Thursday and a father of 10 on Friday. He is also reportedly refusing to take calls from Israeli and world leaders who are seeking to encourage him to speak out.
As of Saturday night, Abbas had made no official statement in response to the killing of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who was stabbed to death as she slept in her bedroom at home in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, on Thursday morning, or the drive-by shooting on Friday afternoon of Rabbi Miki Mark.
A Channel 2 report on Saturday said numerous Israeli and world leaders had contacted Abbas, pleading with him in particular to speak out publicly in the case of Ariel, but to no avail. Abbas, said the report, is even refusing to take some of the calls.
He has also ordered media loyal to him in the Paleostinian Authority to keep the terror cases out of the headlines.
The report said Abbas feels that the PA is growing weaker and losing control, and is concerned that the Israeli cabinet -- which was meeting on Saturday night -- is about to take punitive measures that will weaken him further.
He is also said to be furious with the international
Quartet... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy....
, which on Friday issued a much-anticipated report that predictably castigated Israel for settlement building but also, unexpectedly, issued withering criticism of incitement against Israel and the glorifying of terrorism by the PA.
"Many widely circulated images depict individuals committing terrorist acts with slogans encouraging violence," the report states. Incitement to violence on social media, affecting especially young people, has increased since October 2015 (coinciding with the ongoing wave of Paleostinian terrorism; RA), and is particularly affecting the youth, the Quartet further establishes.
The text notes that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and "other radical factions" are behind the worst examples of incitement. "These groups use media outlets to glorify terrorism and openly call for violence against Jews, including instructing viewers on how to carry out stabbings." But it also blames some "members of Fatah," Abbas’s party, for having "publicly supported attacks and their perpetrators, as well as encouraged violent confrontation." It cites a senior Fatah official who praised hard boyz as "heroes and a crown on the head of every Paleostinian."
The PA has publicly renounced terrorism against civilians and commitment to non-violent resistance, the report notes. "Regrettably, however, Paleostinian leaders have not consistently and clearly condemned specific terrorist attacks. And streets, squares and schools have been named after Paleostinians who have committed acts of terrorism."
The PA’s Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
on Friday blasted the report’s authors. The document, he said, "does not meet our expectations as a nation living under a foreign colonial military occupation." It "attempts to equalize the responsibilities between a people under occupation and a foreign military occupier," Erekat protested.