Tikvah
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April 26, 2021

Rockets from Gaza and Riots in Jerusalem Are a Way for Palestinian Leaders to Distract from Their Own Failures

And to court votes in the upcoming elections.

Over the past few days, Israel has seen an upsurge of violence: first isolated and unprovoked Arab attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews, and worshippers returning from Ramadan services clashing with police in Jerusalem’s Old City. Then a Jewish extremist group marched through the city, waving banners reading “Death to Arabs,” and attacked an Arab home—after which Arabs began to riot. Not to be left out, Hamas and its affiliates have resumed the violent protests at the Gaza border fences, and fired dozens of rockets and mortars at villages in southern Israel. Khaled Abu Toameh explains what Palestinian leaders, focused on the upcoming elections for the Palestinian parliament, have to gain:

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