Posted on 11/10/2014 1:15:37 PM PST by robowombat
Jerusalem Terror, Rioting Part of Bigger Plot
By Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell CBN News Middle East Bureau Thursday, November 06, 2014
JERUSALEM, Israel -- For several weeks, violent riots and terror attacks have rocked neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. Palestinians accuse Israel of endangering the al-Aksa Mosque, but what's really behind their accusations?
In yet another terror attack, a Palestinian terrorist used a vehicle as a weapon to plow into Israelis, killing one and wounding 13 others Wednesday.
The incident took place at a busy intersection not from Jerusalem's Old City. It's the second attack of this kind in two weeks and many are wondering if this is the new weapon of choice for Palestinian terrorists.
Later, another terrorist rammed into three soldiers at a bus stop outside of Jerusalem.
Earlier in the day, Palestinians rioted on the Temple Mount. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said they're separate issues.
"There are tensions in Jerusalem, but our aim is to do everything possible to deal with these types of incidents and, of course, to stay one step ahead and prevent those incidents from taking place," Rosenfeld said.
But Hamas itself made the connection. Shortly after the first attack on Wednesday, the terror group said it was intended to defend al-Aksa, referring to the mosque and all the Temple Mount.
Israel said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is inciting violence by telling Palestinians the al-Aksa Mosque is in danger.
"We've seen it on the ground level with Fatah," Rosenfeld explained. "The Israeli police have had to deal with Palestinian suspects throwing stones at police officers."
Israel's Foreign Ministry posted a video it says shows Palestinian youth preparing and fighting Israel police on the Temple Mount.
A growing number of Jews want to pray on the Mount, where only Muslims are allowed to pray. The Israeli government says it won't allow that to happen.
Palestinian affairs expert Pinhas Inbari told CBN News the trouble is part of a bigger plot.
"It is not spontaneous. It is coming from Muslim Brotherhood and behind the Muslim Brotherhood is Qatar," Inbari said.
Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has the al-Nusra group in Syria and Bayt al-Makdas in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
"All of them together and they want to make Jerusalem the main subject, top of the agenda in order to regain the Arab masses again," he explained.
Inbari said Abbas stopped short of directly paying Palestinians to commit terror, but Hamas is filling in the gap. He said, however, the call to violence isn't resonating with most Palestinians.
"But it is far, far below the expectation of Muslim Brotherhood. Jerusalem by far, generally speaking, is not dragged into the conflict," Inbari said.
Just ban auto traffic. Let them mow people down with their shopping basket instead.
Throw a rock, catch a bullet.
That’s about it.
If the Arabs on the West Bank and Gaza spent 1/10,000th as much time trying to improve the lives of their own people, rather than trying to end other people’s lives, the world would be a far better place.
Someone once said that until the Palestinians love their children more than they hate the Jews, there will be no peace.
Obama is behind these protests. It’s been his M.O. in every country where he didn’t get his pissy little way, including America (Occupy Movement).
Any reaction by Israel will be met with “concern for human rights” by Obama, ultimately giving him a rationale to finally abandon Israel in the U.N.
Presumably Netanyahu sees through this and will act accordingly.
It’s so true too. Even each other...
For the past few months, even weak leaders like Obama and Francois Hollande have been sending their war planes to bomb the terrorist group ISIS in order to save Iraqis and Kurds from death.
Yet the leader of Israel refuses to send HIS country’s war planes to bomb the terrorist group Hamas in order to save his own people from death.
The Jewish state of Israel, which was meant to be a refuge where Jews being persecuted in other countries could find safety, has become more dangerous for Jews than virtually every other civilized nation in the world.
Every few weeks we read a headline from Europe such as ‘’Jewish Teen Beaten in France,’’ while every day we read headlines from Israel reporting that Jews of all ages are being murdered by Hamas in Jerusalem.
Thanks to Israel’s weak leadership, if a young Israeli wants to fight Islamic terrorism, he will have to move to France or America and join their air forces.
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