Fatah is again inciting and promoting violence in Jerusalem, calling on Palestinians and Israeli Arabs to use violence to prevent the Israeli flag march that is to be held in the city later today. 

“Warning” of the apparently inevitable violence, Fatah and its leadership are inciting Palestinians to prevent the march, calling on them “to fight the march of the extremist settlers,” using “peaceful popular resistance” - a Palestinian euphemism which also refers to the use of violence and terror - and to “redeem Jerusalem" with “all they have.”

Praising the previous violence, which according to him was “the deciding factor on everything concerning changing the route of the so-called ‘flag march’ of the settlers,” – i.e., the premature ending of the march on Jerusalem Day in May - Fatah's Jerusalem Branch Secretary, Shadi Mattour, warned that “the situation in Jerusalem is liable to blow up at any moment.” 

The Fatah Central Committee also called for the mobilization of its activists “to stand as one line to defend Jerusalem and the sites that are holy to Islam and Christianity, and to fight the march of the extremist settlers.”