Israel bans Islamist Arab party for ‘inciting violence’

“We must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence”, Wallström had said in a television interview.

The weapons sale comes amid strained relations between the US and Saudi Arabia over the Iran nuclear deal.

Abbas, the statesman of Indyk’s imagination, didn’t condemn the West Bank killing of last week, per his policy during the recent terror campaign. He is due to begin an 11-month sentence in the coming days. “But he won’t stop with this”.

During periods of tension, police at times block busloads of Islamic Movement supporters from Jerusalem.

A few 17 related organisations were also served with orders shutting them down. Police seized money, documents, and computers and authorities froze the movement’s bank accounts.

When students asked why they should learn more about Israel, the teacher replied, “Israel is a neighboring country and we have a peace agreement”.

Ghanem said nothing about the Islamic Movement had changed in the past decade.

He also allegedly said Muslims’ “finest moment” would be to become “martyrs” protecting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Israel has attributed the Islamic Movement for fanning the flames among the nation’s Arabs and says the violence is the outcome of incitement from Palestinian leaders.

“My governmentwill continue to take whatever action is necessary against incitement and terror,”Netanyahu said in a statement, adding,”we continue to invest resources in favour of the citizens of Israel, Jews and Arabs alike”. The group is split between the more radical northern branch and the southern faction which participates in mainstream Israeli politics.

Knesset member Taleb Abu Arar of the Joint (Arab) List said told Israel Radio that Israel had “declared war on the Arab community in Israel, and Israel had to bear the consequences”.

After parting ways, the northern group continued on as a service organization, funding charities, schools-gender segregated and coeducational-and local newspapers. Arabs comprise 20 per cent of the Israeli population.

In response, the Islamic Movement has funded so-called female Murabitat and male Murabitun groups to watch over Jewish visitors and ensure they do not pray.

European Parliament Member Marijana Petir of Croatia reiterated Martusciello’s sentiments, saying, “We will not boycott Israeli goods”.

Both Zahalka and Ghanem said they feared that Netanyahu would next target Zahalka’s democratic nationalist party, Balad. The movement is based largely in northern Israel.

“Israel must act as an example and spearhead the struggle against radical Islam, whose emissaries we saw massacring innocent people in Paris”, Israel Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said in a statement Tuesday. Saudi Arabia is also part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State terror group.

Zeki Aghbaria, a spokesman for the northern Islamic Movement, called the government’s characterisation of the organisation, as “political incitement”.

News of the decision came a week after Netanyahu held talks in the White House with President Barack Obama in which the right-wing Israeli leader publicly reaffirmed his commitment to a two-state solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.

The prohibition triggered outrage among lawmakers and Arab leaders.

Israeli’s Zionist Union, however, praised the ban, complaining only that it was long overdue.

The timing of Netanyahu’s announcement takes advantage of the growing climate against Islamic political activism at the local, regional and worldwide levels.

The United States was quick to offer support for Europe’s position.

Regionally, meanwhile, the Islamic Movement is at its weakest. The government has called the Islamist group a “sister movement” of the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist organization.

The current round of violence erupted in mid-September over reports that Israel was trying to expand Jewish presence at the Jerusalem shrine and spread to the West Bank, Israeli cities and the Gaza border. “This is nothing more than anti-democratic, political persecution”.

Zahalka said Netanyahu wanted a scapegoat and had found a convenient one in Salah.

In the wake of the ISIS attack on Paris, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “militant Islamic terrorism attacks our societies because it wants to destroy our civilization”, which is why “all terrorism must be condemned and fought equally with unwavering determination”.