Netanyahu urges global denunciation of terror

At a press conference in Jerusalem late Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to stop all instances of incitement, which ultimately lead to terror attacks.

“Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and the PA are spreading false rumors, saying we are defiling the Temple Mount, that we plan to destroy holy sites — those are all lies,” he said.

He added that a “blood libel” was also spread about the suicide of a Palestinian bus driver for the Egged company on Sunday, in further anti-Israel incitement.

Netanyahu described the four victims of the Har Nof attack as “innocent and pure” and sent condolences to their families.

“This time,” he noted, Abbas “condemned the massacre… and that’s good… but it’s not enough.”

He slammed “daily, hourly incitement” against Israel in the PA territories… against the very fact of Israel’s existence.”

There’s incessant incitement in schools, mosques, media — “that’s the root of the conflict: the refusal to accept the legitimacy” of the Jewish state, he said.

“To my sorrow,” Netanyahu added, the world does not demand the PA end incitement against Israel. “I urge all world leaders… I want to see shock, utter denunciation” of terrorism, of the murder of Jews in their prayer shawls.