Israel’s policies threaten to spark religious war


Natanyahu and Trump's policies on Jerusalem and Iran play into the hand of the zealots in Tehran and Gaza

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Uri Savir writes in Al Monitor, “There is great rage and anger in Ramallah over the May 14 relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Palestinian leadership feels that this move infringes on their right to East Jerusalem. There are also sentiments of frustration, as Ramallah estimates that the Arab and Muslim world did little to block it. On the other hand, the violence on the Gaza border infuriates West Bank Palestinians. A senior PLO official close to President Mahmoud Abbas told Al-Monitor that the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership has decided on several routes of action in response to the embassy move.”

“The PA had already announced that it was cutting ties with the Donald Trump administration, and now they have decided to cut not only formal ties but also informal ones. It also decided to orchestrate peaceful protests in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and to prevent Hamas from taking the lead on a violent uprising. At the same time, the leadership in Ramallah wants to work with Jordan on strengthening the Palestinian and Jordanian hold on Al-Aqsa Mosque. It also intends to work with the highest levels at the EU, together with the Palestinian Arab partners, on moving all East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhoods to the rule of the PA. The PLO official claimed that even the Trump administration may be open to this latter idea…The PLO official spoke with great anger and claimed that both the United States and Israel do not understand that their policies — the move of the embassy to Jerusalem, the settlement and annexation policies, the killings in Gaza — have a great effect on the more religious and fundamentalist forces in Palestinian society and the Arab world.” (more…)

 

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