Paris attacks: Israel provides terror intelligence. Palestinian media exploit tragedy

Palestinian media use Paris attacks as platform for anti-Israel messages

Through traditional and social media, Fatah and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which are both headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, used Friday's deadly terror attacks in Paris as a platform to spread anti-Israel messages.

Palestinian Media Watch reported that on Saturday, an image posted on Fatah's official Facebook was accompanied by the text, "Terror is terror and we condemn all terror. Be it destroying houses in Nablus and killing our children by Israel or hitting a Russian plane over Egypt. The Paris attacks are criminal acts done by coward terrorists."

On Sunday, an op-ed published in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida—the PA's official daily newspaper—stated, "It is not a coincidence that human blood was exploded in Paris at the same time that certain European sanctions are beginning to be implemented against settlement products, and while France leads Europe in advising the security council that will implement the two-state solution, Palestine and Israel—which the Israelis see as a warning of sudden danger coming from the direction of Europe, where the Zionist, occupying, settling endeavor was born...The wise and correct thing is to look for who benefits. In short: They need to search the last place reached by the octopus arms of the Mossad... It is clear that its 'Mossad' will burn Beirut and Paris in order to achieve [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's goals. He, who challenged the master of the White House, hides in his soul enough evil to burn the world."

Israel provides France with terror intelligence after Paris attacks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that Israel has provided France with intelligence related to the perpetrators of Friday's six coordinated terror attacks in Paris—which killed at least 129 people—and intelligence about other terrorist plots in Europe.

"Israel stands shoulder-to-shoulder with France in this joint battle against militant Islamic terrorism," Netanyahu said. "I've instructed Israel's security and intelligence forces to assist their French counterparts and their counterparts from other European countries in any way possible."

The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility for Friday's attacks.

"Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians," said Netanyahu. "It can never be justified. Terrorism must always be condemned. It must always be fought. Innocent people in Paris, like those in London, Madrid, Mumbai, Buenos Aires, and Jerusalem, are the victims of militant Islamic terrorism, not its cause. As I've said for many years, militant Islamic terrorism attacks our societies because it wants to destroy our civilization and our values."

"I call on the entire civilized world to unite to defeat the plague of worldwide terrorism," he added. "An attack on any one of us should be seen as an attack on all of us."

Paris venue where 89 people killed previously targeted over Jewish ownership

The Bataclan concert hall—site of the deadliest of Friday's six coordinated Islamist terror attacks in Paris, with 89 people killed—was under Jewish ownership for four decades and had received frequent threats in the past for that reason.

Sold only two months ago by co-owners Pascal Laloux and Joel Tuitto, the venue is still under their responsibility.

"One of the managers called me and began to tell me about the disaster that was taking place," Tuitto, who recently moved to Israel, told Israel's Channel 2. "I could hear the gunshots and the voices in the background....The terrorists were inside the theater, and I heard the gunshots, but I couldn't do anything."

Tuitto said he had co-owned the Bataclan since the 1970s, and that according to the terms of the sale, he remains responsible for it until September 2018.

The French magazine Le Point reported that in 2011, a terrorist told French security services that "we (the Army of Islam terrorist group) had planned an attack against the Bataclan because its owners are Jews."

The Bataclan, which regularly hosted Jewish and Israeli events, also received serious threats in 2007 and 2008. Tuitto said a group of masked Palestinians had even come to the venue two years ago demanding its closure due to its "fundraising for Israel and the IDF," and warning of an attack if their demand was not met, but nothing came of the threat.

The band playing at the Bataclan the night of the brutal attack, Eagles of Death Metal, played a concert in Tel Aviv this past summer.

After Paris attacks, airlines help Israelis seeking to return from France

Flights between Israel and France continued as usual over the weekend, despite the state of emergency declared in France following the series of deadly Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, which included closing the country's borders.