[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: It should be noted that the entire PA
leadership - including Mahmoud Abbas - demands that Israel release
absolutely every Palestinian held by Israel for attacks against Israelis.
The Palestinian who carried out the attack now joins the group they demand
Israel releases. Note also the wording of the condemnation. It limits the
condemnation to the attacks against civilians. It has nothing to say,
therefore, about the action that the terrorist took against police and other
non-civilians.

It would be interesting for Israeli reporters who speak with Palestinian
officials to ask them about the above as most of their audience is not aware
that this is the situation.]

PA Condemns Attacks Against Civilians
Date : 29/8/2011 Time : 13:42
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17171

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RAMALLAH, August 29, 2011 (WAFA - PLO news agency) – The Palestinian
Authority Monday condemned attacks against all civilians, including the
incident in Tel Aviv on Monday morning in which a Palestinian in his 20’s,
from the northern West Bank city of Nablus, ran an Israeli policeman over
and stabbed eight people late Sunday night near a nightclub south of Tel
Aviv, according to Israeli police.

According to Haaretz, the Palestinian stole a taxi, after stabbing its
driver in the hand, and drove into a police barrier that surrounded the
nightclub as part of routine security, running a policeman over and stabbing
eight people.

The Palestinian was arrested at the scene and taken for interrogation, where
Israeli police claimed that it was a planned attack.

The PA condemned this attack as well as the ongoing Israeli aggression
against Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem,
and reaffirmed its intention to seek membership and recognition of a
Palestinian state within 1967 borders and with Jerusalem as its capital in
the United Nations.

It said that “no attempts to divert attention will stop us from achieving
our goal.”

M.H./T.R./F.J.