Dit is Abbas’ recente bijdrage aan de de-escalatie van de gespannen situatie in Jeruzalem:
“With anger, we have received the news of the vicious assassination crime committed by the terrorists of the Israeli occupation army against [your] son Mu’taz Ibrahim Khalil Hijazi, who will go to heaven as a martyr defending the rights of our people and its holy places,” Abbas wrote in a condolence letter sent Saturday to the shooter’s family.
De schutter van Yehuda Glick was overigens geen onbekende van de Israelische politie.
Hijazi, who worked at the Begin Center, had been arrested in 2000 and served 11 years in prison. He had originally been sentenced to six years for membership in the Islamic Jihad terror group and for participation in violent rioting. Additional time was added to his sentence after he was tried for assaulting a prison guard.
Maar voor de Palestijnse president, in het westen geprezen om zijn ‘gematigde’ standpunten, is hij een held en is het geheel terecht dat hij Yehuda Glick, een man die zelf nooit geweld gebruikte, probeerde dood te schieten.
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Abbas says Glick shooter will go to heaven as martyr
http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-says-glick-shooter-will-go-to-heaven-as-martyr/
In condolence letter to Hijazi family, PA head decries ‘vicious assassination’ by IDF ‘terrorists'; Netanyahu calls for international condemnation
November 2, 2014, 11:41 pm
Family members seen taking shelter from tear gas while mourning at the home of the Palestinian man from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tor suspected of the attempted murder of Yehudah Glick, October 30, 2014. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian man who shot Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick would go to heaven as a martyr.
“With anger, we have received the news of the vicious assassination crime committed by the terrorists of the Israeli occupation army against [your] son Mu’taz Ibrahim Khalil Hijazi, who will go to heaven as a martyr defending the rights of our people and its holy places,” Abbas wrote in a condolence letter sent Saturday to the shooter’s family.
The PA president also expressed his “sincere condolences,” and spoke of Palestinian rights to the land.
Israel Radio’s Gal Berger said an Abbas spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the letter and posted a photo of it on Twitter.
Right-wing Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehudah Glick was shot by Hijazi outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in central Jerusalem on the night of October 29, according to police.
Israeli security services reported that the suspected attacker was killedthe next morning by the police’s special anti-terror unit after he opened fire on officers who came to arrest him at his home in the capital’s Abu Tor neighborhood.
Abbas’s letter was roundly condemned Sunday night by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman.
“While we’re trying to calm tempers, Abu Mazen [Abbas] sends a condolence letter for the death of someone who attempted to commit a despicable murder. It’s time the international community condemn him for such deeds,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
The letter “testifies more than anything else to the fact that Abu Mazen [Abbas] is indeed a partner: a partner for terror, a partner to terrorists, a partner of murderers,” Liberman said in a statement on Facebook.
Abbas’s letter amounts to “open support for terror and encouragement of further murders,” he wrote.
“I call on the international community to reject and condemn this man who is leading the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a violent, frightful place.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Fatah Revolutionary Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 18, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)
Hijazi, who worked at the Begin Center, had been arrested in 2000 and served 11 years in prison. He had originally been sentenced to six years for membership in the Islamic Jihad terror group and for participation in violent rioting. Additional time was added to his sentence after he was tried for assaulting a prison guard.
Renee Ghert-Zand and Haviv Rettig Gur contributed to this report.
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