Thursday, April 8, 2010
Washington Street. Lincoln Avenue. Freedom Drive. Liberty Lane.
You can tell a lot about a nation by the people and the values they lionize. Tell me about Palestine. Have they produced anything for the world other than the worship of terrorist murder?
The future Palestinian Authority presidential compound will be built along a street named for an infamous Hamas arch-terrorist, Channel 10 reported on Wednesday.
The Ramallah street was named for notorious Hamas suicide bomb mastermind Yihyeh Ayyash, also known as the "engineer," who was the architect of multiple attacks, including a 1994 bombing of a Tel Aviv bus, which killed 20 people, and injured dozens.
Ayyash was killed in 1996 in what was most likely an Israeli assassination, after his cell phone exploded in his Beit Lahia home, in the Gaza Strip.
According to the Channel 10 report, the street sign posted at the Ramallah location read: "Yihyeh Ayyash, 1966-1996, born in Nablus, studied electrical engineering in Bir Zeit University. Was a member of the Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, and was linked by Israel to a number of bombings. Was assassinated by Israel in his Beit Lahia (Gaza Strip) home in 5.1.1996."...
The Prime Minister's office has issued this statement:
"This is an outrageous glorification of terrorism by the Palestinian Authority. Right next to a Presidential compound in Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority has named a street after a terrorist who murdered hundreds of innocent Israeli men, women and children. The world must forcefully condemn this official Palestinian incitement for terrorism and against peace."
The AJC has issued a statement here: AJC Appalled by Palestinian Authority Glorification of Hamas Terrorist Leader
April 8, 2010 -- New York -- AJC is outraged by the Palestinian Authority decision to name a Ramallah street after the notorious Hamas terrorist Yahya Ayyash. The street is located next to the Palestinian presidential compound in the West Bank city.
"If President Abbas is truly committed to a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this public glorification of terrorism is the absolute wrong message to convey to both Israelis and Palestinians," said AJC Executive Director David Harris.
Commonly known as "the engineer," Ayyash was until his death in 1996 the chief Hamas bomb-maker, responsible for the brutal murder of dozens of Israelis in suicide bombings in the mid-1990s.
Last month, during Vice President Biden's visit a public square in Ramallah was dedicated to the female Palestinian terrorist who led the 1978 Coastal Road bus hijackings and massacre of 37 Israelis and an American photographer.
Palestinian Media Watch has a report on several similar matters: The duplicity of Fayyad and Abbas: Preaching non-violence while honoring terrorists
And, see Barry Rubin below: Why Does the Palestinian Authority Celebrate Those Who Turned Christianity's Holiest Shrine into a Military Bunker?
