Many senior PA officials also advocate for terrorist attacks against civilians. In a televised interview in February 2014 – when negotiations between the PA and Israel were still ongoing – Senior PA official and Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub stated, “We have never given up our arms. We never left the battlefield, and we have never raised a white flag…An armed resistance is on the table…As I’ve told you, we want to maintain the state of conflict between Palestine and the occupation.” Around the same time, Abbas Zaki, a senior advisor to President Abbas, admitted on Syrian TV that the “two-state solution” is simply the next step in destroying all of Israel.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas (right) awards Samir ‎Ghattas an ”Order of Merit” in June 2014 for advising Abu-Jihad (a PLO founder and planner of attacks that killed 125 Israelis) and for planning three separate attacks himself.

A Pew study conducted in 2014 shows that out of all Muslim countries and territories, support for suicide bombings in the Palestinian Authority is the third-highest in the world at 36 percent. This high number is most likely the result of the PA’s decades-long incitement and pro-terror campaign against Jews and Israel.

The PA also revives the ‘Jews killed Jesus’ line to ignite hate. In late 2013, PA President Abbas declared Jesus a “Palestinian” and a PA security forces newsletter published a poem: “Who will save Christians from the ones who killed Jesus?”

Overall, a regime that incites its people to hate and kill Jews and a regime that openly calls for the destruction of Israel – and trains its people to achieve that goal – is not “moderate” and does not seek peace.