In escalation against Palestinian citizens of Israel, government bans Islamic

Moreover, the use of the label of “terrorist” to justify the anti-democratic political persecution of the Northern Islamic Movement and the Morabitat not only gravely endangers the possibility of Palestinian liberation, but the rights of all citizens under Israeli rule.

“A significant number of the recent attacks were committed against the backdrop of (the Islamic Movement’s) incitement and propaganda”, a statement issued by Netanyahu’s office said.

The Jerusalem hilltop compound, sacred to both Jews and Muslims, houses the Al-Aqsa mosque and is the third holiest site in Islam.

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior Palestine Liberation Organisation official, said in a statement that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is cynically exploiting the pain of the innocent victims in Paris … in order to create a misleading linkage and to justify Israeli state terror against the Palestinian people, while presenting Israel as the victim”.

Israel has repeatedly and vehemently denied Palestinian allegations that it is trying to change the status quo and has accused Palestinian political and religious leaders of lying and inciting to violence. Settlement construction and Israeli occupation “drive Palestinian violence – not any words spoken by a Palestinian leader”, Abbas told a delegation of the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the Dutch Jewish community’s main pro-Israel lobby and watchdog on anti-Semitism.

Exact details of the agreement were not immediately clear.

Around 200,000 Israelis now live in 15 illegal settlements in East Jerusalem alongside a Palestinian population of 310,000.

There are plans to boost the Arab sector that have been in place since the Or Commission in the wake of the riots of October 2000 and if the government were to implement even a fifth of the plans that have been approved since then, that alone would be a game changer, says Rekhess. “We view this kind of activity as illegitimate and counterproductive to the cause of peace”, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters in Washington, DC following news of the expansion.

Israel’s public radio said that the decision was made after long security assessments by the relevant Israeli security parties and the Palestinian ministry of telecommunications.

Since the violence broke out, Israel has sent troops to back up thousands of police patrolling cities, set up checkpoints in Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and outlawed an Islamic group accused of inciting violence.

Since the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center began asking Palestinians in 2001, “How do you feel toward suicide-bombing operations against Israeli civilians?” support has exceeded opposition by an average of 20 points.

Jerusalem Post reported in January 2015 that there has been a 92 percent increase in Jewish visits to al-Aqsa since 2009.

Also Thursday, Israeli Maj.

Other measures Israel has pursued in recent days have included controversial demolitions of homes of suspected attackers, which have sparked clashes, such as on Monday when Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank. The Gaza Strip was also conquered and occupied until 2005, when Israel withdrew, although Israel continues to largely control Gaza’s economy and sometimes conducts invasions and other military operations in a bid to stop Hamas militants from firing rockets into Israeli territory. And many Israeli communities in historic Judea and Samaria (renamed the “West Bank” of Jordan, after her 1948 aggression) and eastern Jerusalem were justifiably reestablished in Jewish-owned areas from which Jews had been ethnically cleansed in 1948 and prior. The officer was sentenced Wednesday.