New Palestinian terror campaign imminent
For the record | 16.03.2010 08:01
In the Gaza Strip, Halil al Haya, speaking for the ruling Hamas said "rivers of blood must be caused to flow," while the radical Muslim leaders of the Israeli Arab communities threatened to descend on Jerusalem in force.
Abu Ala, former Palestinian prime minister and peace negotiator with the Olmert government, and Hatem Abdul Qader, head of the Jerusalem desk in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, said the Day of Rage must be the opening shot for a fresh uprising (intifada) against Israel.
Abu Ala, former Palestinian prime minister and peace negotiator with the Olmert government, and Hatem Abdul Qader, head of the Jerusalem desk in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, said the Day of Rage must be the opening shot for a fresh uprising (intifada) against Israel.
Jerusalem on high alert for Palestinian violence
Although Monday, March 15, went by without an unusual level of Palestinian violence, aside from sporadic rock-throwing incidents against Israelis, Fatah factions opposed to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as well as Israeli Arabs to mark Tuesday as a "Day of Rage."
In the Gaza Strip, Halil al Haya, speaking for the ruling Hamas said "rivers of blood must be caused to flow," while the radical Muslim leaders of the Israeli Arab communities threatened to descend on Jerusalem in force.
Abu Ala, former Palestinian prime minister and peace negotiator with the Olmert government, and Hatem Abdul Qader, head of the Jerusalem desk in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, said the Day of Rage must be the opening shot for a fresh uprising (intifada) against Israel.
In rabid anti-Semitic diatribes, they are again accusing "the Jews" of "plotting to seize al Aqsa" in order to build their Third Temple and at the same time, deny all Jewish claims of an ancestral connection to Jerusalem "as one big lie" for the purpose of rewriting Muslim history.
There never was a Hurva (Ruin) Synagogue in the Old City, say these Fatah spokesmen, referring to the 300-old synagogue, rebuilt and rededicated Monday, March 15, on the ruins of the Jewish house of worship and community center the Jordanians destroyed during their 19-year presence in the Old City up until 1967.
The structure was rebuilt stone by stone according to the photos and plans of the old building.
Palestinian leaders are taking encouragement from the Obama administration's harsh campaign against Israel of the last five days as their big chance to embark on another violent war of "resistance" to Israel. They are convinced that the Jewish state is in such bad odor with its best friend, America, that it will be held responsible for the outbreak by the entire world, even if it is initiated by the Palestinians.
According to debkafile's military sources, Monday night, Mahmoud Abbas was still deploying his US-trained Palestinian security forces in an effort to thwart West Bank demonstrators' attempts to forcibly break through heavily-reinforced Israel roadblocks protecting the West Bank approaches to Jerusalem.
But he is laboring under heavy pressure to let large Palestinian mobs fight their way through to Temple Mount.
Israeli security chiefs are taking into account that Abbas might rethink his orders or lose control of the situation, in which case a bloody showdown may ensue between inflamed Palestinian mobs and Israeli security forces. Terrorist squads may also be preparing to launch raids into Israel from the West Bank.
Israeli security chiefs are not ignoring a possible conflagration flaring first Jerusalem or any other part of Israel where security forces are thin on the ground.
Monday night, police began monitoring the traffic on the section of Highway 65 leading out of the Arab Triangle of eastern Israel, the vehicles driving through the Jordan Valley's Highway 90 and along the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway 1. They turned back buses and other vehicles packed with Israeli Arabs heading for Jerusalem.
In the Gaza Strip, Hamas units were seen gearing up for attack, both for launching terrorist raids against neighboring Israeli towns and resuming missile and mortar fire, which had almost petered out in the year since Israel's Operation Cast Lead in the enclave.
Although Monday, March 15, went by without an unusual level of Palestinian violence, aside from sporadic rock-throwing incidents against Israelis, Fatah factions opposed to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on the Palestinians of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as well as Israeli Arabs to mark Tuesday as a "Day of Rage."
In the Gaza Strip, Halil al Haya, speaking for the ruling Hamas said "rivers of blood must be caused to flow," while the radical Muslim leaders of the Israeli Arab communities threatened to descend on Jerusalem in force.
Abu Ala, former Palestinian prime minister and peace negotiator with the Olmert government, and Hatem Abdul Qader, head of the Jerusalem desk in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, said the Day of Rage must be the opening shot for a fresh uprising (intifada) against Israel.
In rabid anti-Semitic diatribes, they are again accusing "the Jews" of "plotting to seize al Aqsa" in order to build their Third Temple and at the same time, deny all Jewish claims of an ancestral connection to Jerusalem "as one big lie" for the purpose of rewriting Muslim history.
There never was a Hurva (Ruin) Synagogue in the Old City, say these Fatah spokesmen, referring to the 300-old synagogue, rebuilt and rededicated Monday, March 15, on the ruins of the Jewish house of worship and community center the Jordanians destroyed during their 19-year presence in the Old City up until 1967.
The structure was rebuilt stone by stone according to the photos and plans of the old building.
Palestinian leaders are taking encouragement from the Obama administration's harsh campaign against Israel of the last five days as their big chance to embark on another violent war of "resistance" to Israel. They are convinced that the Jewish state is in such bad odor with its best friend, America, that it will be held responsible for the outbreak by the entire world, even if it is initiated by the Palestinians.
According to debkafile's military sources, Monday night, Mahmoud Abbas was still deploying his US-trained Palestinian security forces in an effort to thwart West Bank demonstrators' attempts to forcibly break through heavily-reinforced Israel roadblocks protecting the West Bank approaches to Jerusalem.
But he is laboring under heavy pressure to let large Palestinian mobs fight their way through to Temple Mount.
Israeli security chiefs are taking into account that Abbas might rethink his orders or lose control of the situation, in which case a bloody showdown may ensue between inflamed Palestinian mobs and Israeli security forces. Terrorist squads may also be preparing to launch raids into Israel from the West Bank.
Israeli security chiefs are not ignoring a possible conflagration flaring first Jerusalem or any other part of Israel where security forces are thin on the ground.
Monday night, police began monitoring the traffic on the section of Highway 65 leading out of the Arab Triangle of eastern Israel, the vehicles driving through the Jordan Valley's Highway 90 and along the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Highway 1. They turned back buses and other vehicles packed with Israeli Arabs heading for Jerusalem.
In the Gaza Strip, Hamas units were seen gearing up for attack, both for launching terrorist raids against neighboring Israeli towns and resuming missile and mortar fire, which had almost petered out in the year since Israel's Operation Cast Lead in the enclave.
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