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Friday, October 24, 2014
Nadav Shragai: attacks on Jews in Jerusalem's periphery organized and organized and funded by elements identified with Fatah and Hamas

Nadav Shragai: attacks on Jews in Jerusalem's periphery organized and funded
by elements identified with Fatah and Hamas
Open your eyes: Intifada
Nadav Shragai - Israel Hayom Thursday October 23, 2014
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10319


An intifada is breaking out in Jerusalem. Wednesday was its 112th day. It
may be a (semi) popular movement but it has long not been spontaneous. The
disturbances and continuous attacks on Jews in Jerusalem's periphery is
organized and funded by elements identified with Fatah and Hamas.

Many of the 900 arrested in this intifada enjoy legal defense funded by the
Palestinian Authority. The huge number of incidents, more than 10,000, their
wide distribution over Jerusalem's periphery, their nature, the use of "cold
weaponry," such as stones, Molotov cocktails and fireworks -- are all
reminiscent of the First Intifada.

This time there are no popular resistance committees, but many small
organizations that operate on the neighborhood level. They all carry the
slogans of a "popular resistance," preached to them by the Palestinian
Authority its president, Mahmoud Abbas. The car attacks, like Wednesday's,
may be on one man acts for which intelligence cannot be gathered, but their
inspiration comes from the general atmosphere in the city, the loss of
deterrence, the continued riots at the al-Aqsa mosque that police seem
unable to put down.

There have also been isolated incidents of gunfire, primarily from Shuafat
into Pisgat Zeev, which could be seen as the next stage in the third
intifada in Jerusalem and the transition to using guns, which are present in
the Arab towns and have stopped only being used for "celebratory gunshots."

Unfortunately, and belatedly, like in the First Intifada, decision makers
are finally starting to see this is not some passing wave of disturbances.
Israel Hayom was the first to recognize the phenomenon in three long weekend
pieces, and called a spade a spade in a series of opinion pieces (each
signed by the writer of these words). Sometimes what is clear to us here is
not clear to others over there, and vice versa. In this case, the leaders
missed or denied the existence of a developing situation. Either way now
they are now beginning to understand.

The Jerusalem light rail must continue operating

Wednesday's incident, like the never ending torrent of stones thrown at the
light rail trains, was intended to chip away at one the frail symbols of
coexistence in Jerusalem, and to ignite the volatile normalcy which most
Jews and Arabs alike in Jerusalem live in. The light rail has become a
litmus test for the sanity and fabric of cooperation [between Jews and
Arabs] that the media rarely reports on. It must continue running and serve
both the Arab and Jewish neighborhoods.

Those who want to "re-liberate Jerusalem" must understand that sovereignty
in all parts of the city, including the most remote Arab neighborhoods,
cannot be only defined in a rule book alone, it must be seen in the streets,
everywhere, over time, by the renewal of Jewish settlements in all parts of
Jerusalem, even if it makes Obama angry.

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