Speaking in the days leading up to US President Donald Trump's unveiling of his peace plan last week, top Palestinian Authority official Mahmoud al-Habbash warned that acceptance of the deal would be "humiliating" and "shameful," and threatened that whoever does accept it "will pay the price of treason."
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Moreover, according to Israel-based watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch, Habbash, the PA's Supreme Sharia Judge, taught that to die as a martyr fighting the deal is far better than to accept the "filth of the century," as he scornfully termed the plan, which is commonly known as "the deal of the century."
Following the publication of the US plan, the official title of which is "Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People," Habbash called on Islamic preachers to use their Friday sermons to speak against the deal, which he defined as "a crime."
He urged Islamic preachers to "declare a decisive position against this crime that will satisfy Allah and His Messenger [Muhammad]," according to official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah.
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
