Wrongheaded
According to Khaled Abu Toameh, apparently:
The armed wing of Fatah, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, on Tuesday called on the Palestinian Authority to give back the weapons it had confiscated from the group’s gunmen so that they could participate in the “Jerusalem Intifada.” The call came as both the PA and Hamas continued to accuse Israel of planning to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount inJerusalem.
“We call on all the Palestinian security services in the West Bank to release all Palestinian fighters from prison and to give them back their weapons so that they can join their people in defending Jerusalem against Israeli aggression,” the armed group, which was supposed to have been dismantled years ago in line with understandings between the PA and the US, said in a leaflet distributed in Ramallah.
While Aksa’s actions can hardly be justified by any arguments, Israel hasn’t been promoting peace either with its plan to build more settlements in East Jerusalem, a plan decried by pretty much everybody.
