Lt. Col. res. Meir Indor, Chair of the Almagor terror victims association, denounced US President Joe Biden's speech in Bethlehem today during his meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
In response, Indor said: “We, the terror victims in Israel, are against the statement President Biden brought to [Abbas] in Bethlehem, a big present, a statement about the two-state solution, which means to upgrade the Palestinian Authority to a state."
“Before you're going to do it, Mr. President… I want to show you the facts. Those are the faces of 1,400 people people [pointing to poster behind him with faces of terror victims], innocent people, citizens who were murdered by the Palestinian groups under the Palestinian Authority,” he said. “Not only under their responsibility but supported by them, by propaganda on TV, by teaching in schools the Palestinian Authority against the Jews, by sponsoring terrorists.”
He added: "Not only that, part of the [security units] in the Palestinian Authority took part in the Intifada, like the police who shot Israeli soldiers, like the police who were shooting at settlements that are near Tel Aviv. We will not make that mistake again.”
Indor displayed a poster that explains that since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority there have been “200 percent more terror victims.”
“The experiment failed,” the sign says.
“We are not stupid. Yes, we were naive but we're not going to give them that present because it will bring our next generation more casualties and more people will be killed and we paid enough in the Holocaust,” he said. “This state that we're building here is in order to protect the Jews and not to bring them to an area which they have to be afraid to go to the coffee shop or in the market. President Biden, I hope that the American nation will not go with that and will support the Jewish nation.”
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