Right-wing activist shot during annual Temple Mount event in Jerusalem
Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a well-known US-born right-wing activist, was shot at point blank outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on Wednesday night.
Glick was shot in his upper body during an annual 'Israel Returns to the Temple Mount' event organized by the Temple Mount and Eretz Yisrael Faithful Movement. The event was attended by MKs and notable right-wing activists, among them Deputy Minister Eli Ben Dahan, MK Moshe Feiglin, MK Miri Regev and Hagai Ben Artzi - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law.
The Jerusalem Police District spokesman said the shooter was on a motorcycle.
Glick is a central activist in Temple Mount movements and a symbol of the struggle for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Police and the Shin Bet have often barred Glick from the Temple Mount and he has been fighting legal battles against Israeli law enforcement authorities against these bans, some of which have been successful.
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October 29, 2014
A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in a Jewish settlement known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim in an area of the West Bank that Israel captured in the 1967 war and annexed to the city of Jerusalem, Oct. 28, 2014. (photo by REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
This time it was Israel TV Channel 2’s correspondent Amit Segal who provided the latest “scoop” about “new Jerusalem construction plans.” Segal reported Oct. 26 on the outcome of a dramatic meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett. This was preceded by a series of reports about an ultimatum that Bennett’s HaBayit HaYehudi Party had presented Netanyahu with: construction in the settlements or demolition of the coalition.
Segal’s report was accompanied by an announcement from the prime minister’s office to diplomatic affairs correspondents regarding his intention to speed up the construction of 1,060 housing units in East Jerusalem, 2,000 in the West Bank and also several infrastructure projects there.
Peace organizations and human rights groups that assiduously monitor developments in East Jerusalem were poised to act. Foreign diplomats were quick to report to their respective capitals about the new spoke in the wheels of the “peace process,” which in any case is in a deep freeze. Spokespeople at the foreign ministries in Washington and Europe took out their standing orders to condemn construction in the settlements, which violates international law and runs counter to the spirit of peace. As expected, the Palestinian Authority was quick to declare the new construction plans as additional, damning evidence against the Israeli government, which keeps deepening its occupation while declaring its desire to end it.
It is no coincidence that the story was leaked, of all people, to Segal, who is well versed in the quagmire of party politics but is perhaps not familiar with planning and construction procedures. There was a reason the prime minister’s office deviated from its usual practice of issuing written statements about Netanyahu’s important decisions, and opted instead for telephone conversations with political correspondents (and not with correspondents who cover settlement issues).
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/10/netanyahu-east-jerusalem-construction-plans-amit-segal.html#ixzz3He4cedBh