US Jerusalem decision backlash continues

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Clashes in Beirut as anti US and and anti Israeli protests over Jerusalem move turned violent
Clashes in Beirut as anti US and and anti Israeli protests over Jerusalem move turned violent

An Israeli security guard has been stabbed at Jerusalem’s main bus station and violence has flared near the US Embassy in Beirut over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Four days of street protests in the Palestinian territories over Trump’s announcement on Wednesday have largely died down, but his overturning of long-standing US policy on Jerusalem — a city holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians — has drawn more Arab warnings of potential damage to prospects for Middle East peace.

“Our hope is that everything is calming down and that we are returning to a path of normal life without riots and without violence,” Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Army Radio.

But in Jerusalem, a security guard is in a critical condition after a 24-year-old Palestinian man stabbed him on Saturday at the city’s central bus station, police say.

The alleged assailant was taken into custody after a passer-by tackled him.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, a critic of Israel, called it an “invader state” and a “terror state” in public remarks on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who spoke in Paris alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, fired back:
”I’m not used to receiving lectures about morality from a leader who bombs Kurdish villages in his native Turkey, who jails journalists, helps Iran go around international sanctions and who helps terrorists, including in Gaza, kill innocent people,” Netanyahu said.

Macron urged Netanyahu to make gestures to the Palestinians to break the impasse, and suggested a freeze of construction in settlements as a starting point.

“I asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to make some courageous gestures towards the Palestinians to get out of the current impasse,” Macron said.

Most countries consider East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after capturing it in a 1967 war, to be occupied territory and say the status of the city should be decided at future Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Israel says that all of Jerusalem is its capital, while Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state.

The Trump administration has said it is still committed to reviving Palestinian-Israeli talks that collapsed in 2014, but jettisoning old policies is necessary to break the deadlock.

Washington says it has not taken a position on Jerusalem’s final status or borders, but it is sensible to recognise that any future peace deal will have Israel’s capital in the city.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet US Vice President Mike Pence during his visit to the region, Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said on Saturday.

The White House said on Sunday that decision was unfortunate and Pence looked forward to seeing Netanyahu and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Israeli flags were burned as demonstrators vented their anger at Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital
Israeli flags were burned as demonstrators vented their anger at Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital

“It’s unfortunate that the Palestinian Authority is walking away again from an opportunity to discuss the future of the region,” said Jarrod Agen, a spokesman for Pence.

In Beirut, Lebanese security forces have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters near the US Embassy, while protests have also taken place in the Moroccan capital of Rabat and Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta.

Israel’s military says it’s destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel dug by Islamist group Hama along the Gaza Strip.
ECHO

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8 responses to “US Jerusalem decision backlash continues”

  1. Backlash? Looks like a bunch of butthurt Arabs and Muslims to me. But then they are always butthurt about something. Must be the spicy food’s fault. 🙂

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      Rainbow Sponge

      Waterboard them

  2. Germany is quite embarrassed over its own raging muslim population behaving like animals. They have already been down the anti-jew road before and they don’t want to revisit it again. Most civilized countries have anti-hate laws for a reason but the illogical muslim will not understand how to act civilized.

    1. People burning Israeli flags on German streets “do not understand, or do not respect, what it means to be German”.

      Finally Frank-Walter Steinmeier had said what was needed to be said for a long time ago.

      He added that he was “horrified and ashamed” by crowds burning Israeli flags in Berlin.
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9e95a7cf9fec121b5b14a9469d5a2b073b9db40c24c29d125ac58af3b8eba6eb.jpg Now you deserve to be our president!

  3. Concerned about Trump moving the US embassy to Jerusalem? Striking random targets in the west is useless and counterproductive. Trump’s wealth and properties are the only things he really cares about.

  4. In Berlin, the first candle of the city’s massive Hanukkah menorah has been lit to mark the traditional start of the Festival of Lights. At the same time, Palestinians and Arabs held anti-Israel protests in the capital.

    Shortly after 18:30, Berlin Mayor Michael Müller, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas and Israeli Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff stood together to light the first candle of Europe’s largest Hanukkah menorah.
    The menorah, which has been installed in front of the Brandenburg Gate to mark the eight-day-long Festival of Lights each year for the past several years, is 10 meters tall.
    It stands right next to the city’s 17-meter-tall Christmas tree.

    Protesters announced they would demonstrate at the Hanukkah celebration, too. A pro-Palestinian demonstration was scheduled to take place here at 16:00.
    Two days prior to the lighting of the menorah, angry Palestinians and Arabs burned Israeli flags and Stars of David in several neighborhoods around Berlin.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c2b5e7de4ad4ca91da082afbbf53179cb397c4a0b4400a3af7d5f0bc94fa04a7.jpg That was apparently too risky for police. At midday, the decision was made to move the demonstration about a kilometer away, to be held at Berlin’s central train station.

    A couple hundred protesters, many of them women and children, gathered there under the watchful eye of some 400 police officers and scores of journalists.
    Protesters unfurled posters of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, waved Palestinian flags and screamed slogans like: “We will stab soldiers and settlers,” “Bomb Israel” and “Allahu Akbar.”

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    السفير الفرنسي: قرار ترامب سيء
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  6. Two Arabic men were arrested on Wednesday suspected of gross murder at the fire attack against the synagogue in Gothenburg.
    What a surprise…

    According to the eyewitnesses, about ten people were involved in the attack on the synagogue on Saturday night, but so far only three have been notified suspicion of crime.

    One of those requested was a citizen of Syria 18-year-old and the other a 21-year-old is a citizen of the state of Palestine and is due to come to Sweden in 2014.
    Both are written at addresses in Gothenburg.
    Around the third suspect is still confidential.

    Sweden does not treat criminal refugees as we do, so they probably will not lose the right to asylum status or be immediate expulsion.

    Sweden too give these so called refuges (criminals) shelter and they say ‘tank you’ with a fire attack against the synagogue in Gothenburg.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a2b136a578dbda1fee2511b176d42b8bde2fd23d51837b3eae6d351cc0815865.jpg Remember that exactly one year on from the Christmas market terrorist attack, people affected are set to get more money and better help. It’s the latest step in efforts to make up for a poor initial response to the tragic events in Berlin.

    Jews in Sweden are increasingly afraid to show their religious identity. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0b7e091acf86c3ec2c9c38b5b5edb2dadc4060aff20d6ddec98c078b2f42c1d.jpg That says Dvir Maoz, youth leader in the Jewish Assembly in Gothenburg, who was in place on Saturday’s assassination.

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