Jerusalem Intifada is On The Brink of Full Force Catastrophe!

4 Oct 15

Jews and Arab Palestinians are worlds apart as Abbas calls for a “Jerusalem Intifada”. (Uprising, war)

Jews and Arabs worlds apart in Jerusalem’s Old City

Jerusalem (AFP) – In the Old City of Jerusalem, both Palestinians and Jews were talking on Sunday about fear and the prospect of a new intifada or uprising.

Some sought to exorcise the spectre of a new conflagration which other Palestinians would welcome, while Jews said they have seen it all before.

Between the two peoples there seems to be a total lack of understanding of the other, although they may live just streets apart within the same ancient walls.

The Western Wall, visited by tens of thousands of Jews over the high holy days of the past few weeks, is at the foot of the plateau housing the Al-Aqsa compound to which Muslims flocked in similar numbers for the feast of Eid al-Adha during the same period.

But the Palestinians do not understand the small but strident minority of Jews who claim the right to worship at the Al-Aqsa site, known to them as Temple Mount and the most revered spot in Judaism.

And the Jews do not grasp that it is just a small minority of radicalised Muslims who are sowing terror with knife attacks in the Old City, such as Saturday’s killing of a rabbi and an off-duty soldier and the wounding of the rabbi’s wife and their two-year-old child.

The attacker, shot dead by police, was a young man from the Israeli-occupied West Bank said to be an Islamist militant and reportedly enraged by increasing Jewish encroachment on the mosque compound.

A few metres (yards) from the attack site three Palestinians sit at the foot of a wall. Read More