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2021-12-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Firebrand Arab Israeli Islamist released from prison, given hero’s welcome
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[IsraelTimes] Radical holy man Raed Salah,
| ... alternately Raed Saleh, he fancies the title "Sheikh of Al Aqsa" as suitable for the head of the outlawed Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, the militant arm of the Israeli branch of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Umm al-Fahm in the Galilee. The Southern Branch went in for Israeli politics as part of the Obama-era Arab Joint List project, though their goals are the same. Sheikh Saleh’s role is to cycle in and out of Israeli prisons for cause — perhaps now would be a good time for Israel to change the pattern... |
tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
for praising a deadly Paleostinian terror attack, arrives in his hometown of Umm al-Fahm after nearly a year and a half behind bars
A controversial Moslem holy man was greeted by cheering supporters in his northern Israel hometown on Monday after his release from prison, where he served 17 months for incitement to terrorism.
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ٍSheikh Raed Salah has long been one of Israel’s most prominent Islamists. Salah led the Islamic Movement’s radical Northern Branch until it was banned by the government in 2015 for its alleged terror ties. Israeli authorities charged that the Northern Branch had helped incite a wave of stabbing attacks and car-rammings against Israelis.
Salah was arrested two years later and eventually convicted of incitement to terror, as well as supporting a banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization — in this case, his own Islamic Movement.
"They tried, by prosecuting me, to prosecute the Holy Koran, and the Prophet’s ways, and our heritage," Salah told news hounds at a presser in Umm al-Fahm.
Salah was incarcerated for praising a 2017 attack by three Arab Israeli bully boyz at the holy Temple Mount site in Jerusalem’s Old City; the assailants shot full of holes two Druze coppers before being killed by Israeli forces.
The hilltop is Judaism’s holiest place, as the site of both Biblical Temples, as well as the third-holiest sanctuary of Islam. The incident — and an Israeli decision to intensify security on the hilltop — precipitated days of intense festivities between Israeli forces and Paleostinians. Several Paleostinians were killed, both while committing attacks and during festivities with Israeli troops.
According to the verdict against him, Salah gave a sermon in the midst of the crisis in which he praised the "deaders of al-Aqsa."
"For eight days they have not stopped [saying] over and over ’In blood and spirit we will liberate al-Aqsa.’ Have not stopped confronting the Israeli occupation, confronting the guns of the Israeli occupation, unafraid of the batons of the Israeli occupation and not afraid to be injured, maimed, arrested, not afraid of anything but Allah," Salah said.
Salah gave a similar speech at a symbolic funeral for the three button men in Umm al-Fahm, and a would-be stabber from the city who was arrested in Tel Aviv days later indicated he had been inspired by Salah’s words, according to the conviction.
In video filmed by local Arab Israeli media on Monday, the holy man could be seen standing in a car that slowly made its way through a crowd of chanting supporters. Many of Salah’s admirers waved Islamist green flags emblazoned with the faith’s fundamental credo.
Salah was accompanied by deputy Northern Islamic Movement chair Kamel al-Khatib, who has been the Islamist faction’s chief spokesperson in Salah’s absence.
Israel’s Islamic Movement was founded in the early 1970s by Sheikh Abdullah Nimr Darwish, a preacher from Kafr Qasim.
In the 1990s, the Islamists split over the negotiations between Israel and the Paleostinians that led to the Oslo Accords. Darwish’s Southern faction embraced the grinding of the peace processor, eventually deciding to enter the Knesset as the Ra’am faction.
The more radical Salah and his disciples — the so-called Northern Branch — staunchly opposed the Oslo Accords and Israeli parliamentary politics alike. The division was rarely publicly acknowledged, with both parties continuing to call themselves simply "the Islamic Movement."
Salah had previously been convicted on a number of occasions for terror charges and in 2017 was released from prison after serving a nine-month sentence for incitement to violence and racism.
Nonetheless, his 2020 conviction was slammed by Arab Israeli parliamentarians as an attempt by suppress free speech.
Former Hadash MK Yusef Jabareen, a resident of Salah’s hometown, said at the time that the ruling was "political persecution that has no ’security’ considerations."
In its decision on Salah, the Haifa Magistrate’s Court rejected the idea that convicting him impinged on free speech, saying that those rights did not extend to support for acts of violence, especially from a community leader.
"The leader knows that the public looks to him and learns from his words, as well as his silence, on supporting criminal acts. And so he bears responsibility," the judge wrote. 
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