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Martyrs Brigades calls on PA to release jailed "fighters," let them "defend J'lem."
he armed wing of Fatah, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, on Tuesday called on the Palestinian Authority to give back the weapons it had confiscated from the group’s gunmen so that they could participate in the “Jerusalem Intifada.” The call came as both the PA and Hamas continued to accuse Israel of planning to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Ahmed Bahr, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, called for a “military strike” against Israel. He claimed that Israel had just built a synagogue on the Temple Mount as part of its plan to destroy the Aksa Mosque. He also called on the Arab countries to withdraw their support for holding indirect talks between Israel and the PA.
The armed wing of Hamas, Izaddin al-Kassam, said recent events in Jerusalem will lead to “a new explosion in the face of the Zionist entity.” The group called on the PA to stop security coordination with Israel and to allow armed gangs to resume terror attacks against Israelis.
Abbas Zaki, a member of the Fatah Central Committee, predicted that the violence, which broke out in Jerusalem in the past few days, would escalate “if Israel insisted on pursuing its scheme to rebuild the so-called Temple Mount.”
Zaki and several Fatah and PA officials have in recent days claimed that the inauguration of the newly renovated synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem was part of a conspiracy aimed at destroying the Aksa Mosque.
Originally posted by hotpinkurinalmint
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Israel is not touching the Temple Mount for reasons you just described. It seems the Palestinians are getting their panties in a bunch because a synagogue that is near the Temple Mount is being rededicated. The synagogue sits on a site that has housed synagogues since antiquity.
Jerusalem is holy to Christians, Muslims, and Jews. All people of all faiths should have access to it and should be allowed to build houses of worship in it. It seems Muslims want it all for themselves and want to make it like Mecca or Medina, two cities in which non-Muslims are forbidden to enter.