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March 23, 2009

Israeli Activist Calls for Assassination of Mahmoud Abbas
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A prominent right-wing Israeli activist has publicly called for the
assassination of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Nadia Matar of the
group Women in Green made the call last week during a speech in New York
organized by Americans for a Safe Israel.

Nadia Matar: “And don’t you understand that in order to bring peace to
Europe, one has to first destroy the Nazi beast? Today we must destroy
all the terrorist organizations. We must kill all the terrorist leaders,
starting with Mahmoud Abbas and all others.”

Nadia Matar was speaking at the Safra Synagogue in New York. The
synagogue’s rabbi, Elie Abadie, condemned Matar’s remarks, saying he was
“horrified at such hateful statements."



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