From: Newsmax Palestinian leaders reacted to Tuesdays killing of five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue by calling the murder victims terrorists and characterizing the synagogue as a command center. The victims included three Israeli-American rabbis and one British-born rabbi, who died at the scene, and an Israeli police officer who later died from his wounds. Seven other Israelis were injured when two Palestinian cousins entered the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue and attacked victims with meat cleavers and a handgun before being shot dead by police. The militant Palestinian group Hamas described the attack as a quality development in the confrontation with the Israeli occupation, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The organization welcomes the terror attack, an appropriate and functional response to the crimes of the occupation. Hamas spokesman Sheikh Aal Radhwan called the four murdered rabbis the greatest terrorists in that racist state. These are no civilians. They are terrorists, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which translated the comments of Palestinian leaders. Radhwan said rabbis represent the greatest terrorism against our Palestinian people and our holy places. They are terrorists because they are occupiers, because they are extremists, and because they are oppressors. Hamas Political Bureau member Osama Hamdan said the attack is the kind of act that defends the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and condemns the Israeli crimes, according to CNS News. He added: According to all the international laws the settlers are not civilians. International law defines them as armed militias. Sultan Abu Al-Einein, an adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, praised the attack on his Facebook page, calling it a heroic operation and posting graphic pictures showing dead Jews wearing prayer shawls. He called the two dead attackers martyrs. Fatah spokesman Ahmad Assaf called the attack the natural result of Israeli violations in Jerusalem. Tawfiq Tirawi of the Fatah Central Committee, a prominent Palestinian political party, charged that the responsibility for the Israelis killed lies with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, his government, and his settlers. The responsibility also lies with America, which helps Israel. Abu Ahmand Fouad, deputy secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said: That synagogue is a kind of command center for the planning of acts of aggression against our people and our holy places. This is no prayer synagogue. And Palestinian political scientist Abdul Sattar Kassem said: This operation was symbolic because it was carried out in a synagogue. For the Palestinian people, synagogues represent Israeli settlements and extremism. Netanyahu ordered authorities to demolish the attackers homes, and authorities promised action to revoke the permit for the wife of one assailant to remain in Israel. As the Insider Report disclosed last week, several Jewish groups have condemned Abbas for inciting violence in Israel and the West Bank rather than seeking to quell the hostilities.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 08:32:32 +0000
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