The Palestinian Authority has named teams in a soccer tournament after suicide bombers and other “heroes” of the intifada. The tournament, and a team, have been named for Abdel Baset Odeh, the bomber who carried out last year’s “Passover Massacre” in Netanya that killed 30 people, according to the Jerusalem Post.
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