(Last update: October 15, 2018)
Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas has worked to promote terror attacks against Jews in Israel since the moment he became leader of the PLO in November, 2004 (after the death of Yasser Arafat). Since his leadership began, Palestinians under his rule have murdered and injured more than 3,300 Israelis (here).
That's more than 230 serious assaults a year against Jews. Many of those assaults were deadly. It's an average of almost 20 assaults a month, every month, for 167 months.
Abbas rules with an iron fist. Whatever is reported about Israel in the PA receives his blessing--either explicitly beforehand or, implicitly, by his silence afterwards. His leadership focuses on terror.
He incites for Palestinians to attack Jews. His incitement is unrelenting (here, here and here). It's constant.
For example, in December, 2017, PA radio and TV started an incitement campaign by rebroadcasting 41 times in three days a 2014 Abbas call for violence against Israel (here). Those calls resulted in violence against Jews in Jerusalem. By the end of February, a poll of Palestinians showed that Palestinians were becoming more extreme in their support of anti-Israel terrorism (here).
It's been said that Yasser Arafat was the 'father of modern terrorism' (here). If that's correct, then Mahmoud Abbas has become the 'father of the modern incitement for terrorism'.
Between December 2017-October 2018, Abbas has made headlines in the PA more than 14 times, using hostile or incendiary comments about Israel, Jews, Jerusalem, no peace and martyrdom against Jews (here). He's a one-man hate machine--and that vicious rebroadcast above in December, 2017 was just the tip of a long history of incitement Abbas has engaged in--and promoted--against Israel.
You can see how this hate-spewing specialty of his has affected Palestinian behavior over just the last three years. During the 1,025 days between app September 14, 2015 and July 8, 2018, there were app. 9.966 attacks against Jews in Israel (here). That's more than 60 attacks per week. In addition, if you include what Gaza's been doing to Israel in a similar time-period (January 1, 2016-July 8, 2018), the numbers get worse.
All of these attacks occur in a context of incitement from PA leadership. The leader of this incitement in Abbas himself (here).
Take a second look at attacks against Jews in Israel. Count the number of rockets Gaza has fired into Israel during the September 2015-July 2018 period; add that into the the number of actual terror attacks, attempted terror attacks and attacks thwarted by Israeli security forces. The result is an additional 2,400 attacks to add to the previous total of 9,966 attacks.
Those numbers still aren't complete. They don't appear to include the more than 750 fire kites that have been burning Israel's South--or the hundreds of other fire kites that still come into Israel but, thankfully, do no damage.
Once you finish this terror arithmetic, you'll see that there have been more than 12,000 attacks (and attempts) against Israel in the last 35 months.This total may actually be low. Some (many?) attempted attacks simply don't get reported--the paperwork such attempts create means that, for some, it's easier not to report them at all--no police report means getting home early from work.
If you're looking for a good definition for "Arab Jew-hate", you've got it here. Our 'Palestinian' neighbors--egged on by Abbas's incitement--have proven how wondrously Palestinians can embrace Jew-hate: putting aside for the moment attacks against Jews in Israel before September, 2015, Arabs in Gaza and the PA have spent the last 3 years attacking Jews here in Israel at an average of more than 84 times a week.
Get the picture? Arab Jew-hate isn't just a theory. It's real.
What have all these attacks gotten for Abbas? Nothing. He's no closer to driving out Jews than he was earlier, before September 2015. One might even argue that, today, Israel and its Jewish citizens are far more determined than ever before to keep fighting Abbas' hate, not be cowed by it.
Meanwhile, Palestinians living under Abbas' incite-for-terror leadership have reaped few benefits. They have more funerals, more hunger, less freedom and still no infrastructure for creating a viable state.
The hallmark of Abbas' leadership is his unrelenting incitement for terror. He has time only for terror against Jews. Insanely, he ignores his own Palestinians' general health and welfare. Instead, he obsesses over developing rules and laws against Jews and Israel (here).
How's his terror campaign working out? It isn't. It unifies the Jewish people in Israel. It's a disaster for Palestinians.
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