Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Palestinian Authority & Hamas keep tension high on Temple Mount, hoping for new Intifada


Abbas Aide Among Rioters Arrested on Temple Mount -Liel Kyzer

Some 100 Arabs hurled stones and firebombs at Israeli police on the Temple Mount, wounding three policemen, after Muslim leaders urged Arabs to defend Jerusalem against "Jewish conquest."

During the clashes, police arrested Mahmoud Abbas' adviser on Jerusalem affairs, Hatam Abd al-Qadir [pictured above].
(Ha'aretz/Ynet News)


Hamas: "Jerusalem's Fate Will Be Decided by War" -Jack Khoury

Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal declared that "Jerusalem's fate will be decided with jihad (holy war) and resistance, and not negotiations."

Israel Police Commissioner David Cohen said the leaders responsible for inciting the riots were on location at the Temple Mount, provoking the rioters. Cohen added that Israel's policy is to keep the Temple Mount open to both Jewish and Muslim visitors "today and on every other day."
(Ha'aretz)


Netanyahu: UN Gives Terrorists New Weapon -Lally Weymouth

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said:

There has yet to be a Palestinian leader who actually turns to his people and says - it's over....We recognize that Israel is the Jewish state just as we ask the Israelis to recognize the Palestinian state.

The Arabs fought wars and terror campaigns in the 1920s, '30s and '40s against any Jewish state, and then they rejected the [United Nations] partition.

Our presence in the territories is not the cause of the conflict but one of its results....[t]he cause is the persistent Palestinian refusal to recognize the Jewish state at any point.
(Washington Post)
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