by Dr. Reuven Berko
Anyone concerned with
the question of the Palestinian factions' unity can rest at ease -- the
Palestinian terrorist corporation comprising Hamas and the Palestinian
Authority does indeed speak as one.
Hamas political office
leader Khaled Mashaal on Friday urged any able-bodied Palestinian to
defend the Al-Aqsa mosque, saying that given Israel's presence in the
area, armed resistance embodies the true meaning of jihad.
The very next day,
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the
"peace-seeking" terrorists making up the 14th session of the Fatah
Revolutionary Council in Ramallah, and echoed Mashaal's statement,
urging the heads of the Palestinian terrorists groups to "spare no
effort" to keep Israeli "settlers" from visiting Al-Aqsa, which is, as
he put it, "our mosque and our church. The Israelis have no right to
enter it and defile it."
The bellicose phrase
"spare no effort" came as no surprise from the Palestinian leader, who,
in his recent speech at the United Nations, called on his people to
"continue in their resistance against Israel according to the legacy of
the fedayeen" -- the Palestinian guerrillas.
Only weeks ago, Hamas
-- the Palestinian Authority's partner -- fired rockets at Jerusalem
sites held sacred by all three major religions. And now, as the
representative of an imaginary people that has no historical, religious
or legal claim to Jerusalem, Abbas has professed both concern and the
proprietary right to Jerusalem, and has blamed Israel for desecrating
the holy city and creating a religious conflict.
Meanwhile, the West
continues to ignore church burnings and Christian persecution in the
Middle East, and seems oblivious to the bombings of ancient mosques by
Muslim terrorists. As far as the West is concerned, it seems that the
threat of global Islamist terrorism has little to do with Iran and
Turkey's territorial ambitions, the disintegration of Arab regimes in
the area, the Shiite-Sunni crisis, or the global domination conspiracies
of radical Islamic groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood or the
Revolutionary Guards.
As always, the one to
control the purse strings is the one to set the agenda. Qatar has
pledged $100 billion for the rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip, and
therefore it has the power to dictate the course of events.
Qatar is a known
supporter of Hamas, the Islamic Movement in Israel, and various other
terrorist groups striving to undermine the Egyptian, Jordanian and
Syrian regimes, and over the weekend it ordered its flagship news
network, Al Jazeera, to interview Abdullah Abadi, head of the Jerusalem
department in Jordan's Islamic Waqf.
The belligerent
interview portrayed Jordan, which oversees the management of the Al-Aqsa
compound as part of its peace treaty with Israel, as a helpless
accomplice to the "failure" which is the Israeli "takeover" of the area.
The latter, Al Jazeera claimed, is meant to undermine the Palestinian
and Islamic character of the compound in a bid to take it over.
Those who know how to
read between the lines understand that this was essentially a green
light for acts of terror against Israel, but the threat was also
directed at Jordan, with aim of further undermining its control over the
mosque and drive it out of Jerusalem. This was an attempt to kill two
birds with one stone, which is perhaps why Jordanian Foreign Minister
Nasser Judeh filed a complaint against Israel with the U.N., in a bid to
cover all bases.
Some in the West seem
eager to recognize the Palestinian terrorist state, while the Islamic
Movement is already running rampant in Jerusalem, justifying the funding
it receives. Abbas and Mashaal are perfectly coordinated on that point
-- given ample funding, terrorist leaders find it easy to light the
fuse, and Jerusalem is in their crosshairs.
Dr. Reuven Berko
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10289
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