Fateh official: rampant arrests in Jerusalem are calculated to arouse political response

30.09.09 - 12:56 Jerusalem / PNN - Member of the Revolutionary Council of Fateh, Dimitri Diliani said today that he considers the intensive campaign of arrests carried out by the Israeli authorities in the occupied city of Jerusalem since Sunday's attacks on Al Aqsa, and particularly before dawn on Tuesday, as an extension of escalating provocations.
“These rampant arrests are aimed to provoke reactions,” he said today. “They are a calculated move by the politically extreme right-wing government. Netanyahu's political impasse is at the helm as he is also suffering in the international arena because of the diplomatic achievements under the leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which managed the recruitment of the international community against the settlements in the territories occupied in 1967, leading with Jerusalem.”
Diliani continued to tell the press today that the Israeli government has been “plagued by the most difficult political positions on the international scene for decades, passed to the successive governments of the occupation, because of its insistence on the implementation of the agendas of right-wing coalition parties that hold a nature of racism against the positions of the international community and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”
Dozens of Palestinians were rounded up during and after the Israeli attacks by both soldiers and settlers on Al Aqsa Mosque Sunday, just a day before the ninth anniversary of the Al Aqsa Intifada.
Diliani added that Fateh is following the arrests, and is working to provide legal assistance for the Palestinian political prisoners.