Report: Fatah calls for violent uprising in Jerusalem
P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party calls to “raise the level of confrontation in the coming days” and urges protesters to gather on Jerusalem Day for a “day of action.”
Israeli police clash with rioters outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on April 22, 2021. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
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(May 10, 2021 / JNS) In the wake of clashes in Jerusalem that left some 200 Arabs and 17 Israeli police officers injured, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party called on Saturday for increased violence in the city, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported.
“The Fatah Movement with all its elements and leadership calls to continue this uprising … Fatah calls on everyone to raise the level of confrontation in the coming days and hours in the Palestinian lands, the points of friction and the settlers’ roads,” the Fatah Central Committee announced in a statement.
10 May 2021
The ongoing violence in Jerusalem is a political game Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is playing in order to boost his popularity following his cancellation of the elections that had been scheduled for later this month, the head of a watchdog told Breitbart Jerusalem on Monday in an exclusive interview.
Jerusalem has been the center of violence in the waning days of the Muslim Ramadan holiday, with police officers and rioters embroiled in clashes. Palestinian rioters hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli police officers, who responded with stun grenades and rubber bullets.
According to Itamar Marcus, the director of monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch, the crisis in Jerusalem was “artificially created” because Palestinians understood that Abbas had canceled elections because his party Fatah and no chance to be victorious. In order to distract the population’s ire at him for trampling democracy, Abbas needed violence to redirect the anger at Israel.
10 May 2021
Israel on Monday rejected “serious concerns” expressed by the United States over violent clashes in Jerusalem between police and Palestinian rioters.
A day earlier, the White House issued a statement saying that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had spoken by phone with Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat “to express the United States’ serious concerns about the situation in Jerusalem, including violent confrontations at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount during the last days of Ramadan.”
“Sullivan highlighted recent engagements by senior US officials with senior Israeli and Palestinian officials and key regional stakeholders to press for steps to ensure calm, deescalate tensions, and denounce violence,” a readout of the call said.
Is Palestinian incitement driving the tensions in Jerusalem?
Is Palestinian incitement driving the tensions in Jerusalem?
Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs says the current riots are a direct result of the Palestinian leadership’s declaration that “the Al-Aqsa is in danger,” which has served as a battle cry against the Jews for the past 100 years.
(May 10, 2021 / JNS) Thousands of Arab protesters have been violently rioting on the Temple Mount (known by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif) throughout the “Jerusalem Day” holiday and over the course of the last several days, accusing Israel of attempting to “storm the Al-Aqsa mosque” and “Judaize” the entire city. Hundreds of rioters have been injured, along with dozens of Israeli police and security personnel.
May 10, 2021 at 7:37 pm
One of the perennial frustrations on the pro-Palestine left is the issue of allegedly socialist or liberal politicians who seem to have a blind spot when it comes to issue of Palestine.
In other words, they are Progressives Except for Palestine, or PEPs.
Things are not as bad as they once were. The influence of Labour Zionism on the Western left is thankfully in a rather abject historic decline, partly because of the terminal decline of the so-called Zionist left within Israel itself.
The Israeli Labour Party won a mere seven seats in the latest Knesset election, only one more than the ultra-right-wing Religious Zionism faction which is run by openly racist Kahanist fanatics.