PLO Praises Student ‘Martyrs’ Who ‘Excelled’ By Attacking Jews
Following the release of high school seniors’ final exam results by the PLO this week, the official press praised “martyrs” who did not graduate because they were busy carrying out terror attacks against Israelis.
The PA’s official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida’s lead article listed 16 [Arab Muslim] students who did not take their final exams, but nevertheless “passed the difficult [test] of dying as martyrs for the sake of the homeland” with flying colors, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported.
“Dying as a martyr is the path of excellence and superiority,” the article read.
PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Al-Majdalani slammed Israeli forces for denying the assailants’ chance to finish high school.
“In these moments, we feel the absence of 16 students, the martyrs who should have taken the high school finals but who were prevented from taking them by the violent and aggressive occupation forces, who denied joy to their families,” he said.
Many of the articles used the double entendre “shahada,” which is the Arabic word for both “diploma” and “martyrdom.”
The article did not contain any information on the attacks the teens committed, which included killing a policewoman and several stabbing attacks against civilians and IDF soldiers. The terrorists were said to have been martyred by “the bullets of the occupation.”
