Nov. 15
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY:
Hang them 'on an electric pole,' urges Sultan Abu Al-Einein; Abbas aide:
Execute Palestinians who sell land to Israelis--Fatah official praises Yehudah
Glick's shooter, calls for public killings of those who engage in property
transactions with Jews
Fatah Central Committee member Sultan Abu Al-Einein said Palestinians who sell
their land to Jews should be publicly executed.
Einein, who also serves as an adviser to Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas, told the Iranian Arabic-language TV channel Al-Alam that "anyone
who sells even an inch of our Palestinian land must be killed in the streets
and hanged on an electric pole."
The October 31 interview was posted and translated Friday by MEMRI, the Middle
East Media Research Institute, a US-based watchdog group.
Under Palestinian law, land sales to Israelis are illegal and a crime
punishable by death. The PLO's Revolutionary Penal Code (1979) applies the
death penalty both to "traitors" and to those accused of "transferring
positions to the enemy." Since the late 1990s, Palestinian courts have been
dealing out death sentences to convicted land dealers, though Abbas has not
authorized the implementation of executions since his election in 2004.
In response to recent Israeli acquisition of apartments in Jerusalem's Arab
neighborhoods last month, Abbas issued an executive order amending the penal
code to establish punishments for those who sell land to "hostile countries."
Abbas's new punishments for Palestinians who engage in property transactions
with Israelis include hard labor and life imprisonment. In the interview,
Einein also praised Mutaz Hijazi, a member of Islamic Jihad who attempted to
assassinate Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick last month, saying "the
way to defeat the Israeli occupation is the way of the martyr Mutaz Hijazi."
"If the people do not fight the Israeli occupation in the way they see fit, in
order to liberate their land, they do not deserve to live," he said.
(source: The Times of Israel)
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