Netanyahu praises Norway for defunding from terrorist-named women’s center

Netanyahu praises Norway for withdrawing funding from a Palestinian women’s center named for a terrorist who took part in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.

Dalal Mughrabi and several other Fatah terrorists landed on a beach near Tel Aviv, hijacked a bus on the Coastal Road and killed 38 civilians, 13 of them children, and wounded over 70.

The new West Bank center, which opened last month and was funded in part by the Scandinavian country, is named in her honor.

The prime minister says he instructed Foreign Ministry Director General Yuval Rotem several days ago to press Norway and the United Nations to pull its donations from the West Bank project.

Norway’s foreign minister “did precisely that. And it’s good that he did,” the prime minister says.

He says “according to his understanding,” the UN will also distance itself from the organization.

“We implement this policy even with regard to our closest friends, and warn them we cannot accept it that friendly governments support organizations that glorify terrorism and act against IDF soldiers,” he says. “It’s a process.”

Netanyahu also defends his policy of boycotting foreign leaders who meet with far-left NGOs Israel accuses of setting up Israeli soldiers for future prosecution in foreign tribunals.

“You can meet me. But you cannot meet with these organizations and also meet with me,” he says, adding that this message is sinking in.

“Our soldiers protect us. And we will protect them,” he concludes.

— Marissa Newman