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TweetThose peaceful Palestinians are at it again, this time threatening to assassinate another politician despite a “truce” (jihadists use the lull in violence brought about by a truce to re-arm and reload – see Hizbullah and Hamas for examples).
Jerusalem, 14 Oct. (AKI) – Palestinian militants on Tuesday have vowed to kill hard-line Israeli Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman following the four-day riots in the northern Israeli city of Acre.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said that Lieberman’s fate would be similar to that of slain former Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi, shot dead in 2001 at his hotel by a PFLP militant in response to the assassination of the group’s leader Abu Ali Mustafa.
“The Brigades will not stand by idly and the truce will not prevent them from responding to the occupation’s ongoing crimes… the plan to eliminate the enemy’s ministers has yet to end,” said the statement, issued through the militant group’s radio station on Tuesday.
“The Brigades’ bullets and rifles are still directed at those ministers and the fingers are still on the trigger.”
Lieberman (photo) has allegedly called for the expulsion of Arabs from Israel to towns with Palestinian jurisdiction and has expressed his wish to annex large Jewish settlements in the West Bank to Israel.
He also called the riots that broke out last week a ‘pogrom’ against Jews and the start of a new Intifada or ‘uprising’ inside Israel.
Last Thursday, riots broke out between Jews and Arabs in northern Israel after an Arab man was allegedly assaulted by a group of young Jews.
The Arab man, Jamal Tawfik was allegedly beaten by the mob at midnight local time on Wednesday after he drove into the eastern part of the northern city of Acre during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
The Arab man claimed that he was on his way home in the east of the city. The Jewish youth said the man was deliberately making too much noise
Riots broke out and spread to surrounding Arab neighbourhoods, while hundreds of people took to the streets. The riots were finally quelled on Monday.
The PFLP is a Marxist-Leninist, secular nationalist organisation founded in 1967. After the ruling Fatah movement, it is the second largest in what constitutes the Palestine Liberation Organisation.
Lieberman is the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party and was deputy prime minister under the leadership of acting prime minister Ehud Olmert.
Lieberman left the coalition in January 2008.
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