While Palestinian thugs in expensive suits were shaking hands with unelected European Union diplomats at the recent “summit meeting” in Britain, back at home the official Palestinian media continued spewing lies and incitement in Arabic: Palestinian radio: Tel Aviv club a ‘military target’.

The suicide bomber Friday detonated his explosives amongst patrons waiting outside the seaside nightclub Stage in a packed promenade popular with young Israelis. The attack immediately killed four, with a fifth dying from serious injuries Monday. Like most suicide bombings in the Jewish state, the Tel Aviv attack specifically targeted Israeli civilians.

But Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, claimed in Arabic hours after the attack the area bombed “may have looked like a nightclub, but it was not innocent. Rather, it was a high-level Israeli military target,” according to a translation provided to WND by Dr. Michael Widlanski, professor of communications at Hebrew University.

The Palestinian station told its listeners information received from a “very senior Israeli officer” indicated “an elite unit of the occupation army” was meeting in the nightclub and was the target of the “martyr” operation.

Two days later, Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, an official newspaper directed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party, ran a front-page picture of the suicide bomber, identified as Abdullah Badran, 21, a university student from near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, with a caption calling him a “martyr.”