AhlulBayt News Agency - The Israeli occupation police are to detain Sheikh Raed Salah on the eighth of May and will allow all media outlets to broadcast the news along with photos of Salah handcuffed and clothed in the blue uniform of prison to terrorize all those who defend al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) has recently sentenced Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic movement in the occupied Palestinian territories, to nine months, starting on the date mentioned, under the pretext of incitement to violence and racism in Wadi Joz speech in 2007.
All Jewish extremist parties in recent months took turn in the incitement against Sheikh Salah, even the top of the pyramid of the Zionist regime, Benjamin Netanyahu, who accused him two weeks ago of trying to blow up the situation in al-Aqsa Mosque with the advent of the Easter holiday.
Wadi Joz speech
The Israeli authorities tried since February 2007 to find out from between the lines of Sheikh Raed Salah's Wadi Joz speech anything to charge him with, so as to take him away from the scene in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa by detention.
Lawyer Khaled Zabarqah, a specialist in the affairs of Jerusalem, confirms that, commenting on the charge against Sheikh, "On that day, the bridge of the Moroccan Gate, which connects the Buraq Square to the Mughrabi Gate, had been targeted by the occupation which also prevented Sheikh Salah from entry to al-Aqsa Mosque, so people thronged in Wadi Joz where Sheik Salah delivered the speech which later spread on the media.”
Zabarqah indicated that Salah's speech addressed the crimes of the occupation, speaking about the required support for Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque from the Arab and Islamic nation. The Israeli occupation responded by an indictment and a case against him that dates back to 2007, but it only recently passed a prison sentence of nine months against him.
Dr. Jamal Amr, an expert in the affairs of Jerusalem and the settlements, told the Palestine Info reporter that he had attended the speech personally and that it did not violate the law, stressing that "the occupation's goal is just to find a pretext to silence and kill the sound of resistance, and outlaw all of the Sheikh's activities and to make him an exemplary to anyone who follows his path".
Amr expects that the occupation will open other files against Sheikh Salah after dealing with the file of Wadi Joz speech; including the file of financing sources and his association with outlawed movements, and the file of obstructing the police's work; these files will be as pretexts to constantly keep him under the threat of detention.
Al- Aqsa Mosque is currently living "in the eye of the storm", as described by Fakhri Abu Diab, academic activist in institutions founded for the defense of the territory of Jerusalem, "Because the occupation targets anti-occupation activists, especially in Jerusalem."
Netanyahu and the extreme right
The Israeli premier's accusation against Sheikh Salah of inciting violence with the advent of the Easter holiday constituted an attempt to ride the wave and win the support of the extreme right.
Lawyer Zabarqah believes that the incitement by Netanyahu as the head of Israeli government creates the conditions for targeting Sheikh Salah physically by Jewish extremists.
He continues: "The second explanation is that Netanyahu's statement carries an interference of the government in the work of the judiciary, which is incompatible with the democratic system, but Netanyahu bypasses it to silence Sheikh Salah."
Removing Sheikh Raed Salah off the scene, especially after the understandings of the United States Secretary, John Kerry, in 2015, creates conditions –according to lawyer Zabarqah's analysis- to target al-Aqsa Mosque, taking advantage of the decline of Arab and regional positions.
The conditions that al-Aqsa is passing through are not only bad political and field conditions but the problem here is that they coincide with the official Arab regimes collusion with the Israeli occupation, according to Zabarqah's viewpoint. “This creates a historic opportunity for the occupation to Judaize al-Aqsa”.
Dr. Jamal Amr said that "the leaning of the Israeli society to the extreme right encourages Netanyahu to incite against Sheikh Salah to win their electoral votes”.
He added: "Netanyahu fights any Islamic trend in the region to weaken it, especially in Jerusalem, as the region respects the strong. He also tries to create confusion and to frustrate the Arab ordinary citizen by saying that he had contacts with Sunni Arab states".
Among the most serious attempts to Judaize al-Aqsa Mosque monitored by expert Amr is a recently issued map for tourists where al-Aqsa Mosque is not mentioned at all, but rather signs with "Temple Mount" are written on it in place of the Aqsa.
The absence of Sheikh Salah
The absence of Sheikh Raed Salah from the streets of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa would facilitate the Judaization and violations in Jerusalem by the Israeli occupation and the extreme right, as Salah represented personally, and with his movement and followers, a bulwark in face of the Judaization practices.
Fakhri Abu Diab confirms that Salah is a link between Palestine and the outside world. He, furthermore, gives moral, psychological and material support for the sit-inners, because of which his movement was banned last year and now he is to be jailed.
He added that: "The occupation was disturbed recently when Sheikh Salah repaired Marwani Masjid and continued with Al- Bayareq project, transporting worshipers from all areas of 1948 Palestine to the al-Aqsa Mosque.”
The number of these worshipers, however, had decreased due to the decision of banning the Islamic movement, and now will decrease more due to the detention of the Sheikh, he added.
Abu Diab pointed out that the absence of Salah from the scene will affect the restoration projects of homes in the Bustan neighborhood of Silwan and the aid provided for the poor families living in the vicinity of al-Aqsa and Jerusalem; it will affect as well the support of Muslim and Arab institutions which prefer to contact with him personally.
25 right-wing Jewish organizations are in agreement on targeting Sheikh Salah under Israeli political and security cover and protection in an unprecedented harmony.
Preparations are still under way in 1948 occupied Palestine by all parties and activists to accompany Sheikh Raed Salah, on the eighth of May, in a march that starts from the town of Umm al-Fahm, at eight o'clock in the morning reaching the Ramle prison gate, to which Sheikh Raed will be transferred to serve his prison term.
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