Paleostinians burned pictures of US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday night, as anger ramped up over an expected announcement by Trump Wednesday of US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Israeli troops girded for the possibility of violence.
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Trump is to publicly address the question of Jerusalem on Wednesday and US officials familiar with his planning said he would declare Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, though he would not order the embassy move immediately.
Paleostinian factions have called for protests against the moves, which would de facto recognize Israeli illusory sovereignty over the city despite Paleostinian claims to part of it.
Israeli security services were preparing for the possibility of violence in the West Bank in light of Paleostinian terrorist groups calling for demonstrations in response to US Trump’s expected moves, sources said.
In a statement earlier Tuesday, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, called for Paleostinians to "make Friday a day of rage against the occupation, rejecting moving the American embassy to Jerusalem and declaring it the capital of the Zionist entity."
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...warned that a US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel’s capital would be a "dangerous escalation" that crosses "every red line."
Political factions led by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...’s Fatah movement also called for daily protest marches this week, starting Wednesday, and Fatah’s youth wing said "all options [are] open for defending Jerusalem."
The US State Department on Tuesday ordered