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by Bassam Tawil • April 20, 2020 at 5:00 am
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* Abu Jihad was not assassinated by Israel because of any political activities or ideology. His assassination stopped him from masterminding more attacks and killing more Israelis.
* Abbas and his Fatah officials, nonetheless, believe that Abu Jihad and other Palestinian terrorists are honorable and decent men who were fighting for the sake of their people. What contribution did these terrorists make to Palestinian society? Did they build a school or a hospital for their people?
* When Abbas describes terrorists as heroes, he is actually telling young Palestinians that those who plan and carry out terrorist attacks against Israelis should serve as role models. Abbas evidently wants all Palestinians to be like Abu Jihad and the terrorists in Israeli prisons. For Abbas and other Palestinian leaders, the glorification of terrorists seems to be more important than the fight against a deadly virus.

By praising and honoring the memory of the assassinated terrorist Abu Jihad, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is actually encouraging his people to follow in the footsteps of an arch-terrorist who sent people to murder innocent civilians in Israel. Pictured: Posters of Abbas (left), Abu Jihad (center) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the shutters of a store in the village of Kharbata, near Ramallah, on January 13, 2006. (Photo by Patrick Baz/AFP via Getty Images)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not been seen in public since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the region last month. His absence, however, has not stopped Abbas from doing what he does best: praising and glorifying Palestinians who kill Jews.

On April 16, Palestinians marked the anniversary of the assassination of Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad), a PLO leader and co-founder of the Palestinian ruling faction Fatah, which is today headed by Abbas. Before Abu Jihad was assassinated by Israeli commandos at his home in Tunis in 1988, he had planned several terror attacks inside Israel against both civilian and military targets.

Last week, Abbas, who is supposed to be busy helping his people curb the spread of the coronavirus, found the time to publish a statement describing Abu Jihad as "one of the historic leaders" of the Palestinians who "played an important role during an "historic, difficult and dangerous phase."

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by Majid Rafizadeh • April 20, 2020 at 4:00 am
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* How on earth it is in the US "national interest" to allow a regime that is kidnapping and killing Americans and their allies, and planning to attack US diplomatic facilities, to receive billions of dollars in aid?
* An additional problem, based on a pattern for which Iran has only itself to blame, is that there is no evidence that Iran has the slightest intention of using these funds to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic or to help Iran's people. The Trump administration already offered to send medical help to Iran, but Iran has continued to turn it down. "Possibly," Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei said, "your medicine is a way to spread the virus more."
* Moreover, there have also been suggestions that a secret Iranian fund of reportedly $200 billion, controlled by Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei, could perfectly well help Iran to fund its crisis.

While the Iranian regime has been killing Americans during the coronavirus crisis and planning to kill more, President Trump's plan to block the mullahs' request for $5 billion in aid, as well as his Iran policy of maximum pressure, are definitely steps in the right direction. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

While the Iranian regime has been killing Americans during the coronavirus crisis and planning to kill more, a group of American politicians are urging US President Donald J. Trump to loosen sanctions on Tehran regime and refrain from blocking the mullahs' request for $5 billion in aid.

The former vice president and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, for instance, recently called on the Trump administration to loosen sanctions on Iran.

He pointed out that it is "bad enough that the Trump administration abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in favor of a strategy of 'maximum pressure;" he added that "it makes no sense, in a global health crisis, to compound that failure with cruelty by inhibiting access to needed humanitarian assistance. Whatever our profound differences with the Iranian government, we should support the Iranian people."

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