\"The loyalty of Israel\'s Arab citizens must be looked into.\" So said Public Security Minister Uzi Landau today in a pre-Rosh HaShanah (New Year) briefing today. \"We should check the entire educational system in the Arab sector, their loyalty to the State and to Israeli law, including the teachers. We must be sure that taxpayers\' money is not used to raise a generation that will harm the State.\"
Landau made the remarks in the wake of the news that an Israeli-Arab from the Galilee was the suicide terrorist who murdered three Israelis in Nahariya yesterday - the first Israeli-Arab to commit a suicide terrorist act. The police have also arrested the killer\'s son, Salah Habaishi, 26, on charges of murder and attempted murder. He was originally arrested 11 days ago during the course of Israeli security agencies\' search for his father, and was released after a short while, only to be arrested again yesterday.
Minister Landau also said that anti-Israel Arab movements should be outlawed, and that the government is planning to change the law according to which families of Arab terrorists in prison are eligible for national insurance payments: \"It cannot be that a boy throws rocks at Israeli cars, and his family receives child support stipends.\" Regarding Temple Mount disturbances, he had news: \"The policy has changed, and from now on Arab disturbances there will be met with an immediate break-in of police forces.\" Landau also said that there would be no further illegal excavations by the Moslem Waqf on the Temple Mount, and that building materials have been banned from the Mount. The Committee to Prevent Temple Mount Desecration denies the veracity of these claims.
Former senior GSS official Nachman Tal, a member of the Council for Security and Peace and a researcher at the Jaffe Center, was asked by Arutz-7 today if it was really so surprising that an Israeli-Arab suicide bomber has surfaced. \"It did not surprise me at this point in time,\" Tal said, \"but two years ago it would have surprised me… This guy was part of an extremist northern-Israel Islamic Movement faction, which does not recognize the State of Israel in any way. There are a few thousand of them. Their counter-faction from the south is a bit more practical in terms of recognition of Israel…\"
Tal said that in general, \"attacks by Israeli-Arabs are not organized by a movement, but are rather private initiatives inspired by the incitement of local imams [Moslem religious leaders]. For instance, nine years ago, the murderous Night of the Gliders, when four soldiers were killed, was perpetrated by a few Um el-Fahm killers who heard the imams... The same thing with the car bombs of two years ago in Haifa and Tiberias...\" As an example of unchecked murderous incitement, Tal noted that this coming Friday, \"there will be an annual Islamic festival in [the Israeli-Arab city] Um el-Fahm, with the inflammatory title, \'El Aksa Mosque in Danger.\' There will be tremendous incitement there, including a video speech of Sheikh Yusuf al-Kardawi, who is so extreme that he was expelled from Egypt; he is one of the few Moslem leaders who is totally in favor of suicide for the sake of killing Jews...\" [Others say that the soul of one who commits suicide is punished no matter what the circumstances of his death.] Tal said that it is not true that the GSS has stopped seeking intelligence in the Israeli-Arab community, as claimed last week by former Northern District Police Chief Alik Ron - but he does feel that more tools such as administrative arrests and closure of inciteful newspapers must be employed.
Earlier today, MK Yisrael Katz (Likud) demanded that the Prime Minister immediately fulfill his promise to outlaw the Israel Islamic Movement, and order the demolition of the house of the Nahariya suicide terrorist as well. Katz called on his fellow Knesset Members to support his proposal to prevent terrorism supporters from serving in the Knesset. \"The hesitation in taking necessary measures against anti-Israeli incitement could cost much blood,\" said Katz. In a related item, the Knesset House Committee will discuss this Wednesday the Attorney-General\'s request to strip Arab MK Azmi Bishara of his parliamentary immunity; this will enable Bishara to be charged with incitement for his anti-Israel remarks during his trip to Syria. Committee Chairman Yossi Katz (Labor) said that the members would not \"rubber stamp\" the Attorney-General\'s request.
Landau made the remarks in the wake of the news that an Israeli-Arab from the Galilee was the suicide terrorist who murdered three Israelis in Nahariya yesterday - the first Israeli-Arab to commit a suicide terrorist act. The police have also arrested the killer\'s son, Salah Habaishi, 26, on charges of murder and attempted murder. He was originally arrested 11 days ago during the course of Israeli security agencies\' search for his father, and was released after a short while, only to be arrested again yesterday.
Minister Landau also said that anti-Israel Arab movements should be outlawed, and that the government is planning to change the law according to which families of Arab terrorists in prison are eligible for national insurance payments: \"It cannot be that a boy throws rocks at Israeli cars, and his family receives child support stipends.\" Regarding Temple Mount disturbances, he had news: \"The policy has changed, and from now on Arab disturbances there will be met with an immediate break-in of police forces.\" Landau also said that there would be no further illegal excavations by the Moslem Waqf on the Temple Mount, and that building materials have been banned from the Mount. The Committee to Prevent Temple Mount Desecration denies the veracity of these claims.
Former senior GSS official Nachman Tal, a member of the Council for Security and Peace and a researcher at the Jaffe Center, was asked by Arutz-7 today if it was really so surprising that an Israeli-Arab suicide bomber has surfaced. \"It did not surprise me at this point in time,\" Tal said, \"but two years ago it would have surprised me… This guy was part of an extremist northern-Israel Islamic Movement faction, which does not recognize the State of Israel in any way. There are a few thousand of them. Their counter-faction from the south is a bit more practical in terms of recognition of Israel…\"
Tal said that in general, \"attacks by Israeli-Arabs are not organized by a movement, but are rather private initiatives inspired by the incitement of local imams [Moslem religious leaders]. For instance, nine years ago, the murderous Night of the Gliders, when four soldiers were killed, was perpetrated by a few Um el-Fahm killers who heard the imams... The same thing with the car bombs of two years ago in Haifa and Tiberias...\" As an example of unchecked murderous incitement, Tal noted that this coming Friday, \"there will be an annual Islamic festival in [the Israeli-Arab city] Um el-Fahm, with the inflammatory title, \'El Aksa Mosque in Danger.\' There will be tremendous incitement there, including a video speech of Sheikh Yusuf al-Kardawi, who is so extreme that he was expelled from Egypt; he is one of the few Moslem leaders who is totally in favor of suicide for the sake of killing Jews...\" [Others say that the soul of one who commits suicide is punished no matter what the circumstances of his death.] Tal said that it is not true that the GSS has stopped seeking intelligence in the Israeli-Arab community, as claimed last week by former Northern District Police Chief Alik Ron - but he does feel that more tools such as administrative arrests and closure of inciteful newspapers must be employed.
Earlier today, MK Yisrael Katz (Likud) demanded that the Prime Minister immediately fulfill his promise to outlaw the Israel Islamic Movement, and order the demolition of the house of the Nahariya suicide terrorist as well. Katz called on his fellow Knesset Members to support his proposal to prevent terrorism supporters from serving in the Knesset. \"The hesitation in taking necessary measures against anti-Israeli incitement could cost much blood,\" said Katz. In a related item, the Knesset House Committee will discuss this Wednesday the Attorney-General\'s request to strip Arab MK Azmi Bishara of his parliamentary immunity; this will enable Bishara to be charged with incitement for his anti-Israel remarks during his trip to Syria. Committee Chairman Yossi Katz (Labor) said that the members would not \"rubber stamp\" the Attorney-General\'s request.