ABBAS, FATAH CONTINUE TO OPENLY SUPPORT STABBING ATTACKS: With daily attacks on Israelis taking place across the country, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement appear intent on promoting violence, using both social media and traditional media outlets to legitimize and encourage murder. According to the Palestinian Media Watch organization, which monitor’s incitement in the PA, Fatah has launched a social media blitz in support of the recent spate of stabbing and shooting attacks against Jews all over Israel. In one the newer images, Fatah posted a picture of a knife, with an image of the Temple Mount superimposed. The image, posted on Fatah’s official Twitter account, was accompanied by the message “Israel is forcing the young Palestinians to follow this path to Jerusalem. Leave our land, you, your occupation, and your soldiers, and let us live in peace.” Despite his image in much of the Western media as a moderate, Abbas made similar statements following the murder of four Israelis late last year. In October 2015 the PA President spoke on official PA state television, echoing comments he made to the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida newspaper in which he said "the Palestinian side did not attack and did not do anything against the Israelis. We have to protect our holy sites." When an Arab terrorist murdered Taylor Force, an American citizen, and wounded 11 others in a recent stabbing attack in Jaffa, official PA television praised the attacker as “a martyr." (Arutz-7)