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The Dangerous New Status Quo In Jerusalem
[IsraelTimes] The ongoing wave of attacks in Jerusalem, and the festivities between Paleostinian youths and Israeli security forces, indicate strongly that the favorite approach of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers -- "managing the conflict," rather than solving it -- is creating a difficult reality for the capital of the state of Israel.The status quo is holding in the West Bank, with the possible exception of the car-ramming attack/accident near the al-Aroub refugee camp north of Hebron on Wednesday night. Paleostinian Authority security forces have managed -- during and since the summer's Israel-Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, conflict -- to maintain the relative quiet. There are almost no attacks coming out of the West Bank; and the PA security apparatus, despite the unity agreement between the PA and Hamas, has not stopped arresting Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and Hamas members. In the two months since the end of Operation Protective Edge, the PA has detained more than 250 activists from the two organizations. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-08 |
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