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by Bassam Tawil • September 1,
2017 at 5:00 am
- One
of the mothers who attended the meeting with the UN chief was
Latifa Abu Hmaid. Four of her sons, Nasser, Sharif, Nasr and
Mohammed are serving multiple life sentences for their role in
terrorism. The Palestinian Authority (PA) chose the mother of
these terrorists because they are all members of President
Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction, which is regularly
described by Western media outlets as a moderate and pragmatic
Palestinian party that believes in the two-state solution and
peace with Israel.
- The
minimum the UN chief and his aides could have done is to call
out the PA leadership and condemn it for the ambush and the
fabricated report from the official Palestinian news agency.
Had Israel been involved in a similar incident, we would have
witnessed a diplomatic crisis, prompted by the UN secretary
general and his spokesmen as well as the international media.
Palestinians, as usual, are given a pass.
- The
lie about "Jewish extremists" setting fire to the
Al-Aqsa Mosque has become so widespread and accepted that even
senior Muslim scholars such as Abbas's Grand Mufti, Sheikh
Mohamed Hussein, has also been spreading the blood libel. He
and most Palestinians continue to describe the Australian
Christian arsonist as a "Jewish extremist."
- According
to the Palestinian propaganda machine, nearly without
exception, the terrorists were on their way to buy bread for
their mothers or visit their grandmothers. These were innocent
victims, the story goes, arrested or shot by Israel for no
reason. Then there are the lies about Israelis
"planting" knives near the bodies of terrorists who
stab or try to murder Jews. Western journalists and others
accept these lies as facts.
United
Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his to Ramallah,
August 29, 2017. (Image source: UN Photo/Ahed Izhiman)
Fake news is an old story in the Palestinian world.
Yet recently, fake news has been taken to new heights by
Palestinian spin-doctors, who have been working overtime to mislead
the international community and media. A number of stories
published in the past few days in the Palestinian media demonstrate
the extent to which Palestinians are prepared to go to deceive the
world and impact international public opinion.
Excellence is often a virtue -- except when one
excels at lying. And if there is one thing at which the
Palestinians have excelled in the past few decades, it is spreading
lies about its conflict with Israel. The mainstream media in the
West usually takes the fake-news bait -- it sells papers! -- and
demonstrates tolerance, if not sympathy, toward
Palestinian-produced fake news fabrications.
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