By demonstrating tough love, the USA can fulfill its moral obligation to best serve Israel’s national security and preserve it as an independent Jewish and democratic state, which for almost all Israelis is their most cherished dream.
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“All these measures taken by the Israeli establishment are unjust and unacceptable”, Salah said in a statement, calling it “blatant injustice”.
“Any entity or person belonging to this organization henceforth, as well as any person who gives it service, or who acts on its behalf, will be committing a criminal offense and is subject to imprisonment”.
“It has close ties with the Hamas terrorist organisation and it seeks to subvert the state in order to establish an Islamic caliphate in its place”.
Non-Muslim prayer is banned around al-Aqsa and Israel has said it will not change that. “This is a legitimate political movement…This decision is another step in the persecution of the Arab population, deepening tension between the country’s Arab citizens, and lessening citizens ‘ confidence in legal political organizing”.
Barakeh’s organisation, the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, called for a general strike over the ban for Thursday.
Tariq Khdeir, a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent and a cousin of Mohammed Abu-Khdeir, the youth whom Palestinians believe was abducted and murdered by far-right Israelis on Wednesday, is escorted by Israeli prison guards during an appearance at Jerusalem magistrate’s court on July 6, 2014.
The current round of violence erupted in mid-September over rumours that Israel was trying to expand the Jewish presence at Jerusalem’s holiest site.
Palestinian youths threw stones and firebombs while barricading themselves inside the mosque and Israeli police responded with stun grenades and tear gas.
An unidentified attacker earlier opened fire on an Israeli vehicle and then rammed his auto into pedestrians.
In the latest attack near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank, a police commander said a Palestinian drove along the shoulder of the main road and shot at crawling traffic, killing three people and wounding others.
Israeli police say a second Israeli man has died after a stabbing attack in a Tel Aviv office building.
Hundreds of people packed a ballroom Sunday to remember a 23-year-old California college student who was among the 129 people killed in the Paris attacks. Much of the Israeli-Palestinian violence has been focused on the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron, but Thursday’s attack in the economic hub of Tel Aviv returned the unrest to the Israeli heartland.
Part of Israel’s justification for criminalising the Northern Islamic Movement on Tuesday is that the group raises “tension on the Temple Mount”.
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State prosecutors had requested a seven-month jail term for the beating, which prompted global outrage when a video recording of it came to light.
