I think the answer to this yes, given the alternatives, though it's a case of choosing the least-worst situtation. Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook establish that the Palestinian Authority [PA] is still violating the terms of receiving aid, in: Will the US follow its laws and suspend funding to Abbas?
The PA chose to name its latest computer center "after the martyr Dalal Mughrabi," who led the most deadly terror attack in the country's history. Her 1978 bus hijacking killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children, including American photographer Gail Rubin. The new center is funded by Abbas's office, which is bolstered by Western aid money. (Al-Ayyam, May 5)....
TWO MONTHS AGO, 31 years to the day after the Mughrabi murders, PA TV broadcast a special program celebrating the terror attack, calling the killing of 37 civilians "one of the most important and most prominent special operations... carried out by a team of heroes and led by the heroic fighter Dalal Mughrabi" (PA TV March 11). And its not just Mughrabi who is a Palestinian hero. Despite professions in English by Abbas and other PA leaders that they reject terror, the PA has a long and odious history in Arabic of celebrating terrorists as role models and heroes, often involving US money.
I will mention that to my knowledge, since the death of Yasser Arafat, the PA has been significantly less involved in incitement, let alone terrorism, than Hamas.
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