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    Israeli leader condemns Palestinian Muslim cleric

    JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinians' top Muslim cleric faced sharp Israeli criticism Sunday for a speech in which he quoted a religious text that includes passages about killing Jews in an end-of-days struggle.

    Mufti Mohammed Hussein's comments came at a political gathering of supporters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He said his remarks were taken out of context and that he didn't incite people to kill Jews. But by speaking at the venue, Hussein appeared to be linking the battle to the conflict with Israel.

    "The hour of resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews," Hussein told the gathering, citing a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. "The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and the stones will call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him."

    In a separate development, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he hoped to reach a compromise with settlers that would stave off a looming deadline to evacuate the largest unauthorized settlement outpost in the West Bank.

    The Supreme Court, ruling that Migron was built on private Palestinian land, has ordered the outpost to be uprooted by March 31. With residents vowing to defy the evacuation, Netanyahu suggested they be moved to nearby land that is not privately owned.

    An Israeli official said the proposal, which would need Supreme Court approval, aims to avert a violent standoff with the settlers. But Peace Now, an anti-settlement watchdog group, said the proposal was merely a stalling tactic.

    A spokesman for the residents, Itai Chemo, rejected the proposal. "Relocation is not an answer to these attacks," he said. Instead, he called for a "brave dialogue" with the government to find a "proper solution."

    The Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing internal government plans, said the settlement would be uprooted by March 31 if the residents do not agree to move.

    The mufti delivered his three-minute speech on Jan. 7 in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem during celebrations of the 47th anniversary of the Palestinian movement Fatah, said Itamar Marcus of Palestine Media Watch, an Israeli watchdog group that tracks incitement.

    Marcus' group posted excerpts of the speech on YouTube last week. The comments drew angry reactions from Israelis on Sunday.

    "We're talking about a heinous offense that all nations of the world must condemn," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement sent to reporters by text message. He asked the Israeli attorney general to launch an investigation.

    It is unclear what authority Israel would have since Hussein is appointed to his position by the Palestinian president. There was no immediate comment from Abbas' office.

    Hussein, who is based in Jerusalem, said his comments were taken out of context.

    "I was speaking about the final signs of the day of resurrection," Hussein said. "I did not incite, and I did not call for killing. We are not, at present, at the end of days."

    The Quran, Islam's holy book, offers contradictory attitudes toward Jews and Christians. There are texts that enshrine tolerance and respect for other faiths, while others are spiked with hatred and incitement.

    Some extremist rabbis also have found passages in Jewish texts that they believe justifies violence against the Palestinians.

    Tensions between Israelis and the Palestinians have been fueled by a three-year breakdown in peace efforts. Talks broke down in late 2008 and have remained frozen over the issue of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war and claimed by the Palestinians for a future state.

    The Palestinians say there is no point in negotiating as long as Israel continues to build homes for its citizens on occupied land. Israel says the future of settlements is a matter for negotiations.

    Some 500,000 Israeli settlers now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and some communities deep in the West Bank are considered especially hard line.

    Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed low-level contacts early this month with the aim of finding a formula for restarting formal negotiations. The Palestinians continue to insist that Israel freeze all settlement construction. Sunday's proposal to delay the evacuation of Migron is likely to harden Palestinian skepticism toward Netanyahu.

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    • .  •  4 mths ago
      James, what else do your friends in storm-front or wake-up-america are writing about Jews? They seem to be great experts in Jewish history and religion! :-))))
    • Ron  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      RC: In all seriousness, I don't know if you recall and frankly if you do not, it's fine, but when someone jerk posted your private data, I posted that was simply wrong. I felt that way then and I feel that way now. Clearly we differ on the nation of Israel, but I do respect the privacy of others and believe others should do the same. The fictitious posts about you and the cloning are wrong. We should be able to disagree within the bounds of being civil. However I do, as a Dodger fan, reserve the "right" to tease about the Giants. You may of course, tease me about the Dodgers and our current doggy-do owner.
      • REALITY CHECK 4 mths ago
        That's all well and good, but in all seriousness..I will continue to call you out on your condescension. Stop with the good buddy/that may be your fantasy patronizing crap and I might not feel the need. Beat LA
      • Ron 4 mths ago
        Some things to consider there.. I'll take the advise in the spirit it's offered.
    • Ron  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      Good night all from a balmy night in Los Angeles.
    • Natalie  •  4 mths ago
      Apparently Mission man has no problem with theocratic Iran funding Hamas.....and has a problem discerning between apartheid South Africa which totally subjugated Black South Africans , and with the Israeli parliament which has Arab representation , full voting rights,......funny.
    • Ron  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      James, seriously? Nothing is ever over? So the Apache may reclaim Arizona or the Comanche Texas? The Mauri can reclaim New Zealand? James, I know it sucks for you to know when you wake up that Israel will be here, just like New Zealand and just like Brazil. That debate is long over and done with. It's 2012 and the issue is final borders and peace. As for offering my services to Israel, I'm not an Israeli citizen nor a supporter of the Likud, so I don't think they will be asking me to take part anytime soon. but I value your confidence.
    • Hadjeekilla  •  Miami, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Obambo should be impeached for having a satanic book (quran) in the white house! this country has always being swored over the Bible, though hipocritical as the gov. may be, non the less, its not a satanic pseduo relegious book like the quran!
      • Dena 3 mths ago
        Might I point out that Jefferson also had a copy of the Koran...
    • lilly  •  4 mths ago
      James before you said.."If you are referring to the term gentile, then that certainly points how you feel about gentiles". Oh..please.. We are using it in the course of this conversation. You asked me if I thought he was like a "righteous gentile" and I said no. You were insulting those that are righteous. Don't twist my words.
    • ISHY  •  4 mths ago
      Proof RC is not all together up stairs. How did he get Equalizer was one of the clones from that statement. Delusional, purely delusional.
    • Michael Stone  •  Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts  •  4 mths ago
      james - Do you hear the laughing?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Harwood Heights, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Looks like Jihad Jimmy is at it again, why am I not surprised?
    • Jawad Yousof  •  3 mths ago
      This mufti was silent for the past 50 years until he got a job under the umbrella of Fatah. Where was this mufti speech in the past? Why he is talking now? He is being used to flag the Islamists, Hamas as the bad one for the benefit of Abbas as the proffered for Israel extremists. With Abbas or without the mufti, Israel does not need peace to give up the West Bank. Israel does not live the state that required peace.
    • lilly  •  4 mths ago
      James..you might consider him a very brave man, but would you all look at him in the same light if he were an American citizen giving away our military secrets? Something tells me no.
    • REALITY CHECK  •  Oakland, California  •  4 mths ago
      The New York Times has run a news story and an indignant unsigned editorial about the showing of The Third Jihad, a relatively tepid anti-jihad film, to New York Police Department personnel. The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) immediately got into the act, compelling New York’s ever ready to accommodate Mayor Michael Bloomberg to apologize and denounce the film, which he almost certainly has not seen. But that wasn’t enough for Hamas-linked CAIR: they’re calling now for the resignation of New York’s Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

      And that stands to reason, based on the principle that when one’s enemy is down, one should kick him some more. Hamas-linked CAIR sees its chance to end all effective counter-terror measures in New York, and is going for it.
    • No Guns-No Glory  •  4 mths ago
      How Hamas treats their women:

      MYTH:


      "The rights of Palestinian women are protected in the Palestinian Authority."


      FACT:


      Discrimination against women is common in Palestinian society and institutionalized by Palestinian authorities in the territories, particularly in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Physical violence, including spousal abuse, employment prejudice and education inequities are just some of the ways that Palestinian women are mistreated on a daily basis. Like the abuse of women throughout the Arab and Muslim world, however, the media, human rights organizations and even women's rights groups have paid little attention to these violations of human rights.



      In January 2012, women employees at the Palestinian Women's Affairs Ministry began a "hunger strike till death" to protest harassment and mistreatment of women by their own leadership.1 "The situation is [so] grave," one striker said, "[that] women have received threats to be shot in their legs ... [or] not to let [into] their offices."2
    • BF  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      As always religious dogmas are the roots of most problems. Jews and Muslims are both equal human beings with equal rights to live next to each other.
    • lilly  •  4 mths ago
      I do agree that there is a lot of anti Muslim sentiment...and it's wrong you will never catch me posting "kill all______" or "all ___ are like this". Don't you think your a little hypocritical? You paint all Jews and Zionist Jews with such a broad brush. Plus you threw in the "Jews control the media" for good measure.
      • Bart C 4 mths ago
        There is alot of anti muslim sentiment. I don't know whats wrong with non muslims not supporting islam's command to muslims to kill Christians and Jews. Non muslims should be more tolerant of muslims religious duties
    • Hadjeekilla  •  Miami, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      lets relocate Obambo over to Iran...this way he can be amongst his boys...
    • No Guns-No Glory  •  4 mths ago
      Such abuse, though, is only the tip of the iceberg.



      In 2007, two in five women in Gaza reported being subjected to violence and, in 2009, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights reported nine women had been murdered in honor killings in the Palestinian Territories.3 In 2009, 52 percent of Gazan women faced regular physical violence and 14 percent were victims of sexual violence; 37 percent of women in the Gaza Strip said domestic violence is the primary safety problem facing girls and young women.4



      Legally, women are supposed to be protected by Palestinian law, but their rights are still severely infringed. Rape, for instance, is illegal - and punishable with up to fifteen years in jail - but the law does not cover spousal rape and abuse. Likewise, assault and battery are crimes under Palestinian Authority law, but rarely applied to cases of domestic violence. Moreover, Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza are governed by Shariah law when it comes to marriage, but few women are actually accorded their proper rights from these laws.5
    • Not afraid of you  •  3 mths ago
      "The hour of resurrection will not come until you fight the Jews," Hussein told the gathering, citing a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. "The Jews will hide behind stones and trees. But the trees and the stones will call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God, there is a Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him."

      If this is what the mufti peaches, how is it taken out of context?? he says to kill jews and its written in the koran to kill infidels just like all you non-muslims, (lke me!)
    • FromPaul2Saul  •  4 mths ago
      Joseph, the perpetrators in Beth Shemesh were Haredim who are non-Zionists at best and anti-Zionists at worst.
      They believe in gender segregation as much as Wahhabis do.
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