14-Apr-15: Women and what the Palestinian Authority sees them as good for

Um Nasser (also Um Nasr, Um Sharif, Um Muhammad), designated
by the PA as embodying its transcendent values [Image Source]

From the official organ of the Mahmoud Abbas-dominated Palestinian Authority, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (edition of March 11, 2015) as translated by the diligent people of Palestinian Media Watch without whom the PA's propaganda in all its hideosity would go largely unappreciated.

It's an article evidently timed to appear during International Women's Day festivities:

The Commission of Prisoners' Affairs honored its female employees and several released female prisoners, March 10, 2015. Director of Prisoners' Affairs Commission [and PA Parliament Member] Issa Karake and Chairman of the Prisoners' Club Qadura Fares honored the female employees of the authority and the club and a number of released female prisoners on the occasion of the International Women's day, today [March 10, 2015] at the headquarters of the El-Bireh Women's Arab Union Society. The event was attended by Rashida Mughrabi [that would be the sister of notorious woman terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, one of the PLO terrorists who carried out the hijacking of an Israeli bus and the murder of 37 Israelis, all civilians, 12 of them children, in 1978. Disgracefully, PA schools, summer camps, and sports tournaments are named after her]; Chairwoman of the Women's [Arab] Union Muntaha Jarrar; Um Nasser Abu Hmeid, mother of four prisoners sentenced to life in the occupation's prisons; the released girl Malak Al-Khatib and a number of [other] released female prisoners...

Um Nasser et al, being honoured again [Image Source]

Here, courtesy of PMW, is what the heroic Mrs Abu Hmeid (pictured above - actual given name: Latifa) has achieved in her life.

Of her seven sons, one is deceased (Abd Al-Mun’im Muhammad Yusuf Naji Abu Hmeid, previously of Hamas), three others are in prison for various terrorists actions, while four more are too but they are all in for acts of homicide:

• Her son Nasser took part in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's so-called military wing - as if the rest of Fatah is nt heart-and-soul engaged in terrorism. He is currently serving 7 life sentences plus 50 years in an Israeli prison for killing 7 Israeli civilians and for 12 additional attempted murders. 
• Her son Nasr (who says Palestinian Arabs have no sense of humor?) belonged to the Tanzim (another Fatah terror faction, this one headed by the imprisoned "peace activist" Marwan Barghouti). Like his brother Nasser, Nasr is serving 5 life sentences in an Israeli prison for his involvement in two terror attacks and for arms dealing.
• Their brother Sharif carried out terror attacks against Israeli civilians as well as soldiers and is behind Israeli bars serving 4 life sentences for accompanying a human bomb to an attack in March 2002.
• And her son Muhammad is serving 2 life sentences plus 30 years for involvement in terror attacks directed at Israelis.

This radiant mother, the embodiment of human kindness and the endless search for peaceful relations with people who hold to different religions and different outlooks on life, is a regular fixture at PA ceremonies (here for instance from 2011), evidently because of the transcendent peace-and-future-centric values her life reflects in the eyes of Palestinian Arab society.