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kingdom to be “on maximum alert.” In France, on that same day, a terrorist killed three people at a church in Nice. Muslims have been uprising since a French school teacher showed his students cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed. Muslims have also called for the boycott of French products. Although Saudi Arabia has expressed outrage by the cartoons, it is far more muted than in other countries. The Saudi Foreign Ministry has said the kingdom “rejects any attempt to link Islam and terrorism, and denounces the offensive cartoons of the prophet.” Saudi clerics have condemned the caricatures, but have also cited Islam “mercy, justice, tolerance.” Another prominent sheikh called on Muslims not to overreact. Diplomatic posts have been targeted in the past. A 2004 armed assault on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah which was blamed on al-Qaeda killed five employees. In 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up near that same U.S. Consulate, wounding two guards.
Top Fatah Militant Killed
On Saturday, a senior commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was killed in a refugee camp near Nablus. Hatem Abu Rizek was 35 years old. He was affiliated with Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah operative who is Mahmoud Abbas’ competitor. It is unclear how Abu Rizek died. Some say he was shot by Palestinian Authority security officers during clashes in the area. PA security forces deny that account and say that
Abu Rizek was killed when a hand grenade he was throwing blew up in his hands. Three years ago, Abu Rizek and other Fatah gunmen from the Balata area in the West Bank turned themselves into PA security forces after they were accused of imposing a reign of terror on Palestinians in the Nablus area. A year later, Abu Rizek was arrested on suspicion of receiving funds from Dahlan. At least five others were injured during clashes between Fatah groups in Balata over the weekend. There have been rising tensions between those who support Dahlan and PA security forces. Last week, clashes erupted between the two sides in the Al-Ama’ri refugee camp, near Ramallah, after PA security forces arrested a number of Fatah activists for their alleged affiliation with Dahlan. The PA suspects that Dahlan, who is based in the United Arab Emirates, has been funding several Fatah members in the West Bank as part of an effort to undermine Abbas loyalists. Some Palestinians regard Dahlan as a leading candidate to replace Abbas. Dahlan, who heads a group named Democratic Reform Current, was expelled from Fatah in 2011.
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sia or China if the aircraft were sold abroad, including to Israel. Israeli defense officials asked to buy the F-22 – one of the world’s most advanced fighter jets – to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region after the U.S. agreed to sell F-35 fighters to the United Arab Emirates, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday. This is not the first time that Israel has expressed interest in the F-22 jets, but previous requests were denied. The United States had actually halted production of the fighter jet in 2011 and legally barred its sale to other countries. Interestingly, Trump is not the first American president to recommend selling the specialized jet to Israel. At the end of his second term, in 2001, then-President Bill Clinton said that he would approve such a sale but ultimately left the decision in his successor George W. Bush’s hands. Esper and Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz have met three times in the past few weeks. Esper also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Eshel and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi during his trip last week. On Thursday, U.S. Congress was notified that the White House wishes to sell F-35s to the United Arab Emirates. The plan is to sell as many as 50 units of the Lockheed Martin-made jets for roughly $10.4 billion. Israel has ordered the same number of F-35s from the U.S., although not all of them have been delivered yet.
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According to senior sources in Tel Aviv, President Trump has approved the sale of F-22 stealth fighter jets to Israel. This was communicated to Israeli officials by U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper during a visit to the Holy Land last week. Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, a publication owned by Saudi Arabia and based in London, reported on the milestone on Friday. Before the fighter jet would be able to come to Israel, though, U.S. Congress would first need to overturn a current law barring Washington from exporting the advanced fighter jets. The House of Representatives passed the law in 1998 over concerns that the unparalleled stealth technology in the F-22 could fall into the hands of Rus-
Mass Druze Funeral Held
A mass funeral for a Druze sheikh in which thousands of people took part took place on Saturday after his body was snatched from the hospital. The funeral for Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi was held in the Golan border town of Majdal Shams, which was under lockdown due to its number of active Covid-19 cases per
