The Palestinian who carried out the attack was identified as 20-year-old Abdel Rahman al-Shalodi of the Silwan neighborhood in east Jerusalem. He was shot on the scene and later died in hospital. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority [PA] cannot avoid responsibility for killing the baby. In order to understand what drives a young Palestinian man to carry out such a deadly attack, one needs to look at the statements of PA leaders during the past few weeks. These are the kind of statements that encourage young men such as al-Shalodi to go out and kill the first Jews he meets on the street. These statements refer to three developments linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Operation Protective Edge last summer, visits by Jewish groups and individuals to the Temple Mount (or Noble Sanctuary), and Jews moving in to apartments in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. During the 50-day military confrontation between Israel and Hamas in July and August, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his senior officials in the West Bank made it a daily practice to incite their people against Israel. The anti-Israel campaign of incitement reached its peak with Abbass speech at the UN General Assembly last month, when he accused Israel of waging a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip. Abbas made no reference to Hamass crimes against both Israelis and Palestinians. Now that the war in the Gaza Strip has ended, Abbas and the Palestinian Authority have shifted their focus to recent events in Jerusalem. A few days before the terrorist attack in Jerusalem, Abbas strongly denounced Jews who visit the Temple Mount as a herd of cattle. A video still of al-Shalodi driving along the station platform, hitting passengers. Abbas told Fatah activists from Jerusalem who visited him in his office that they must make an effort to stop Jewish settlers, by all means, from desecrating our holy sites. Abbas added: We must prevent them from entering the Noble Sanctuary by all means. This is our Al-Aqsa. Al-Aqsa is a red line: Israel must be aware that the ongoing raids and attacks on Al-Aqsa will cause a volcanic explosion in the area that will reach Israel. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the State of Palestine, and without it, there will be no state. Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have been exploiting the visits by Jews to the Temple Mount to incite Palestinians against Israel. They have been incorrectly denouncing these visits as assaults and raids on Islamic holy sites by Jewish extremists. Forty-eight hours before the Jerusalem attack, Abbas intensified his rhetorical assault on Israel by announcing that any Palestinian who is involved in property transactions with hostile countries (Israel) would be punished by life imprisonment with hard labor. Abbass announcement came in response to reports that Palestinians had sold homes to Jewish families in Silwan -- the Jerusalem neighborhood where al-Shalodi lived. By threatening to punish Palestinians for selling property to Jews, Abbas was sending a message that this is an awful crime that should not pass without a Palestinian response. These are the three major events that have been used by the PA leadership to whip up Palestinians.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:53:46 +0000
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