The Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed the terror attacks in Paris on Israel.
Cartoons with that message were published on the party’s Facebook page, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Nov. 16, one day after an op-ed in the official PA daily said Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency was behind the attacks.
One cartoon shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helping an ISIS terrorist near the Eiffel Tower aim his machine gun. Another shows two matches in a matchbox labeled “Terrorism,” with the head of one match shaped like an ISIS terrorist and the other like an Orthodox Jew.
The op-ed was published Nov. 15 in the al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper and translated by PMW.
“It is not a coincidence that human blood was exploded in Paris at the same time that certain European sanctions are beginning to be implemented against settlement products, and while France leads Europe in advising the security council that will implement the two-state solution, Palestine and Israel — which the Israelis see as a warning of sudden danger coming from the direction of Europe, where the Zionist, occupying, settling endeavor was born,” the op-ed reads.
The PA newspaper also ran a cartoon comparing Israel to ISIS — an Israeli decapitates the al-Aksa mosque next to an ISIS terrorist beheading a hostage.
Abbas and Fatah both condemned the Paris attacks. — jta