A review of remarks and announcements by U.S. officials over the course of
the last two weeks finds that U.S. official NEVER explicitly criticized the
PA or Palestinian officials in the last two weeks.

Consider the following typical exchange that took place after Israel
released a video of 13 year old terrorist Ahmed Mansra, recovering in
Haddassah Ein Karem thus disputing Palestinian Abbas claim that he was
executed:

John Kirby Department of State Spokesperson
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
October 15, 2015

QUESTION: One of the Israeli complaints is, though, that you’re – while you
say that, you’re very careful to direct it at both sides. And what the prime
minister’s point today was was that you haven’t – the Administration – and I’m
not talking about you personally, but the Administration hasn’t singled out
President Abbas for criticism or for not – haven’t singled him out for not
doing what you think or what they think he should do to stop the incitement.
Are you prepared or are you able to say that something similar to what
president – Prime Minister Netanyahu said, that President Abbas in
particular has not done enough, or is that not the position of the
Administration?

MR KIRBY: I think our position is clear, again, on the use of – or terrorism
as a tactic, and our position’s been very clear on the violence and what we’re
seeing. And again, the Secretary has been exceedingly clear about the use of
inflammatory rhetoric, accusations, actions – all that can feed the
violence. And I think – again, I’ve – I think I’ve addressed that.

QUESTION: But if I may, you keep calling this terrorism, but Abbas is not.
And does that constitute – by him effectively condoning the actions that you
are calling terrorism at the State Department, is that incitement? Because
we don’t have an example of what you’re characterizing as incitement, right?

MR KIRBY: I can appreciate wanting me to characterize every comment, and I’ – I think I’m going to leave it where I left it, which is – I mean, I think we could probably agree that incitement, inflammatory rhetoric is pretty self-evident and you don’t need a dictionary to determine it. What the Secretary’s been – and I can only speak for Secretary Kerry, not for President Abbas and not for Prime Minister Netanyahu. The Secretary has been exceedingly clear about what he wants to see, what we want to see, which is the violence stop and the rhetoric, accusations, and actions which feed that violence, we want to see that stop. And we’ve made that case publicly, we’ve made it privately, and I can assure you that the Secretary will continue to make it.

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