Israeli officials and public are outraged by the fact that their so-called peace partner, Mahmoud Abbas, sent a letter of condolence to the family of the terrorist who shot the Jewish activist, Yehudah Glick, at point-blank range last week.
The terrorist, Muataz Hijazi, from an Arab village in East Jerusalem who shot Glick, was killed by police the same night as the murder after he fired on police squads who had been dispatched to arrest him. Hijazi had already served 11 years in an Israeli prison for membership in an Islamic Jihad terrorist group and for assaulting prison guards.
Abbas has apparently described the terrorist as a martyr and wrote that “with anger, we have received the news of the vicious assassination crime committed by the terrorists of the Israeli occupation army against [your] son…who will go to heaven as a martyr defending the rights of our people and its holy places.”
Abbas continued that this “act won’t intimidate our people, but would increase its steadfastness in its homeland.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fiercely condemned the letter mourning the death of “someone who attempted to commit a despicable murder…It’s time the international community condemn him for such deeds.”
