Jerusalem
The assailant was shot and killed by officers on the scene after ramming his vehicle into a checkpoint in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
The position will be based in eastern Jerusalem or Ramallah.
The second episode of the JNS podcast “Top Story” with Jonathan S. Tobin.
Participants express support for Hamas and call for the residents of the Gaza Strip to “stand strong.”
Meir Elran at the Institute for National Security Studies says social and economic progress in the Arab community means Israeli Arabs are now “less conservative, more academic and even more well-to-do, despite the huge economic gaps between Jews and Arabs.”
The terror group that runs Gaza “created a new equation by bringing the issue of Jerusalem and the holy sites into the public discussion and showing itself to be their defender,” said Kobi Michael, a senior researcher at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies.
In his first public statement since the start of the escalation of riots, rocket attacks and IDF retaliatory strikes, the Hamas Political Bureau head says that “Jerusalem is the central axis of struggle.”
The coming months will be tense for Israel and quite possibly very violent. Conflict aligns with the interests of the various Palestinian factions, as well as those of Turkey and Iran.
The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting that resulted in no action as tensions escalated in Jerusalem and rockets fell on Israel from Hamas in Gaza.
After being denied the opportunity for a new power grab through now-canceled elections in the West Bank, Hamas has changed course for an aggressive assault on Israeli civilians and to secure its image as “the defender of Jerusalem.”
Ongoing violence in Jerusalem and Gaza must stop,” tweeted British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab • European Union’s Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret was “extremely concerned.”
“Islam’s 3rd holiest site is being used to stockpile Molotov cocktails and rocks being lobbed at police and Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall, below the Temple Mount,” Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan tweeted in response to the Michigan legislator.
