| | The recent conduct of the head of the Palestinian Authority, the "Rais" Abu Mazen, is indicative of the hysteria, lack of control and pressure he is under. This conduct is not surprising and continues a familiar and well-known pattern of action from the past, according to which the Arabs raise Jerusalem "high" and incite against the State of Israel, the Zionists and the Jews, during Ramadan and whenever there is internal political or governmental distress among them. It is good to have the State of Israel and the Zionists who rule Jerusalem so that there will be someone to blame and someone to consume the accumulated anger, in the absence of a responsible leader even if he looks like an 'adult.'</blockquote> | | The recent conduct of the head of the Palestinian Authority, the "Rais" Abu Mazen, is indicative of the hysteria, lack of control and pressure he is under. This conduct is not surprising and continues a familiar and well-known pattern of action from the past, according to which the Arabs raise Jerusalem "high" and incite against the State of Israel, the Zionists and the Jews, during Ramadan and whenever there is internal political or governmental distress among them. It is good to have the State of Israel and the Zionists who rule Jerusalem so that there will be someone to blame and someone to consume the accumulated anger, in the absence of a responsible leader even if he looks like an 'adult.'</blockquote> |
| − | *How Hamas and the Palestinian Authority started the hate 'TikTok intifada':<ref>[https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mike-fegelman-how-hamas-and-the-pa-started-the-tiktak-intifada Mike Fegelman: How Hamas and the PA started the 'TikTok intifada'], ''The National Post'', May 31, 2021.</ref><blockquote>Sensing an opportunity and seizing on it, both the PA and Hamas positioned a court decision as an assault on Muslims worldwide and encouraged their followers on social media to violently riot...Before Hamas began indiscriminately firing 4,000-plus rockets at Israeli civilians — while hiding behind Palestinian civilians — tensions increased as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was winding down. In an effort to prevent violence, Israel installed temporary security gates in Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas responded with state-sponsored incitement, encouraging young people to violently riot against minimal security measures implemented to reduce friction and prevent conflict. | + | *How Hamas and the Palestinian Authority started the hate 'TikTok intifada':<ref>[https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mike-fegelman-how-hamas-and-the-pa-started-the-tiktak-intifada Mike Fegelman: How Hamas and the PA started the 'TikTok intifada'], ''The National Post'', May 31, 2021.</ref><blockquote>Sensing an opportunity and seizing on it, both the PA and Hamas positioned a court decision as an assault on Muslims worldwide and encouraged their followers on social media to violently riot...Before Hamas began indiscriminately firing 4,000-plus rockets at Israeli civilians — while hiding behind Palestinian civilians — tensions increased as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was winding down. In an effort to prevent violence, Israel installed temporary security gates in Jerusalem, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas responded with state-sponsored incitement, encouraging young people to violently riot against minimal security measures implemented to reduce friction and prevent conflict. Contemporaneously, a group of Arab families in the eastern Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shimon HaTzaddik, known in Arabic as Sheikh Jarrah, had been fighting eviction in a longstanding property dispute that was about to be ruled on by Israel’s Supreme Court. Sensing an opportunity and seizing on it, both the PA and Hamas positioned the court decision as an assault on Muslims worldwide and, once again, encouraged their followers on social media to violently riot. Hence Israel’s claim that a real estate dispute was used to foment discord and incite violence. And thus, the “TikTok intifada” was born with videos encouraging Palestinians to attack Israelis. And these messages were exported worldwide. Jews were attacked in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere. Bloodthirsty lynch mobs roamed the streets trying spark a pogrom of the likes we haven’t seen since Kristallnacht. Unbridled anti-Semitism was on full display.</blockquote> |
| − | Contemporaneously, a group of Arab families in the eastern Jerusalem neighbourhood of Shimon HaTzaddik, known in Arabic as Sheikh Jarrah, had been fighting eviction in a longstanding property dispute that was about to be ruled on by Israel’s Supreme Court. | |
| − | Sensing an opportunity and seizing on it, both the PA and Hamas positioned the court decision as an assault on Muslims worldwide and, once again, encouraged their followers on social media to violently riot. Hence Israel’s claim that a real estate dispute was used to foment discord and incite violence. And thus, the “TikTok intifada” was born with videos encouraging Palestinians to attack Israelis. And these messages were exported worldwide. Jews were attacked in Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere. Bloodthirsty lynch mobs roamed the streets trying spark a pogrom of the likes we haven’t seen since Kristallnacht. Unbridled anti-Semitism was on full display.</blockquote> | |