In February, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported about how the Palestinian Authority (PA) praised American soldier Aaron Bushnell for potentially sparking a movement that would cause people to turn from passive protest to self-sacrifice against Israel.
A writer for the official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, even went so far as to say that Palestinian-styled self-sacrifice — one of the PA euphemisms for suicidal attacks — serves as an example for all humanity.
Last week, a 34-year-old Turkish imam visiting Israel took a page from the PA attack playbook, and stabbed and wounded an Israeli border policeman near Herod’s Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Turkish tourist’s attack was labeled by Fatah’s spokesman as a “self-sacrificing operation,” just as it did for Bushnell’s…