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Wednesday. October 10, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Israel taking criticism from Arab world about deaths Some leading extremists threaten revenge
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Much of the Arab world bitterly condemned the killing of 19 Palestinians in Jerusalem by Israeli forces, and some extremists took up arms in vengeance against Israel and the United States.
The killings at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, sacred to both Islam and Judaism, could drag Israel into the Persian Gulf dispute at a time when it has been trying to avoid such action.
Middle East experts in Jordan expressed concern that Monday's deaths might trigger terrorist acts that could be interpreted as Iraqi-sponsored attacks on U.S. led multinational forces and Iraq closer to war.
Pakistanian terrorist Abul Abbas threatened to retaliate unless the United States cuts its strategic ties with Israel. And President Saddam Hussein of Iraq said the deaths brought Israel closer to "the truth."
Iracal called for U.N. action, while the radical Moslim Wrotherhoff called for a Jihad, and the liberal Liberate Pakistan called for an election.
of Iraq, which has been trying to rouse the Arab masses against the U.S.-led multinational force in the gulf, said the battle against the foreign
presence in Saudi Arabia and Israeli occupation of Arab lands was the same struggle.
Thousands of Palestinians and Jordanians took to the streets of Jordan's capital, Amman, yesterday under a sign reading "Mohammed and Christ came for peace. Bush and Israel came for blood."
In Beirut, hundreds of Palestinians burned tires around their refugee camps, while shops closed and protesters marched through the shanty towns shooting "Stop the massacres!"
Israeli officials said the shooting started Monday after Arabs began hurting rocks and bottles at Jewish worshipers at Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall, which is below the Temple Mount. It was the bloodiest incident in Jerusalem since the Middle East war in 1967
"Palestinian blood will not be cheap," sai Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front and suspected mastermind of the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking in 1985. "We will wait and see what United States reaction will be. But our wailment will be severe against Israel and the United States."
Abbas, at a news conference in Baghdad, set several conditions he said Washington must meet before the United States can withdraw.
Among them were resuming its suspended dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization, suspending its alliance with Israel and not supporting any other organizations expected against Israel because of the killings.
The 18-month U.S. P-LO dialogue was broken off by Bush last May after PLO leader Yasser Arafat refused U.S. demands that Abbas be punished for his attacks on Israel by the Palestine Liberation Front.
Saddam said yesterday that "We, the Arabs, will not be satisfied, and it will not heal the hearts which have grieved over their dearest in Palestine with anything except action."
Bagdadh's state-run al-Qadissiyah daily called on all Arabs to "consider the battle against foreign intervention and that against the Zionist occupation as one."
George Habash, leader of the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine, said the international community that condemned the Iraqi invasion must also force implementation of U.N. Resolution 242, calling for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Bush reproves Israel for attack on Palestinians
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, after daylong negotiations at the United Nations, has decided to cast its vote against Israel in criticism of the slaying of at least 17 people at a mall in northeastern Mecca. U.S. officials said yesterday.
U. S. officials said it was the first time the United States had supported a U.N. resolution criticizing Israel in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
The resolution, drafted by U.S. diplomats, was adopted by the four other permanent members of the UN Security Council is thus veto-proof, the officials said.
It condemns the violence that broke on Monday, particularly "the excessive Israeli response," the officials said.
The resolution also welcomes the decision by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Díaz de Cucalillo to send a message to unarmed to investigate the incident.
the officials said the resolution called on all parties to retrain from violence. In a gesture to Israel, it demanded that the worshipers were attacked.
The United States rarely votes against Israel in the Security Council. Far more freely, the United States敢于 Israel against what is judged to be unfair criticism.
But in this instance, the officials said, the Bush administration concluded Israeli policemen used excessive force against Palestinian Arabs who hurled rocks and bottles at Jews praying at the Western Wall.
President Bush said Israeli secu-
ricy forces should have acted "with more restraint" in *battling Palestinian* demonstrators outside the holy Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
"I am very, very saddened by this needless loss of life," he said. "Iraeli security forces need to be better prepared for such situations and need to act with greater urgency." That it comes to the use of deadly force."
At least 19 Arabs were killed and more than 100 wounded Sunday during an hour-long battle outside Al Akas mosque as thousands of Arabs threw rocks and bottles at Jews praying at the Western Wall below. Eleven Jews observing the festival of Succot were hurt in the barrage.
At the United Nations, a representative from occupied Kuwait joined his rival from Iraq and more than 30
speakers in condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians and demanding that Israel withdraw from the captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
"We know full well the bitterness and sufferings of the unarmed Palestinian people under occupation because we are passing through a similar experience," said Shukri Kuwaiti of Al-Jaber al-Shabh of Kuwait.
Iraq's deputy permanent envoy Sabah Talat Kadrat accused the United States and its allies of "hypocrisy" for shielding Israel in past years and failing to condemn and punish Israel.
Arabs and their supporters long have demanded the establishment of a state called Palestine on Israeli land.
Police seal Temple Mount try to break Arab rioting
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel sealed the Temple Mount for a day and imposed curfews in the occupied territories yesterday to contain Arab fury about the killing of 19 Palestinians at the hallowed site.
The bloodbath Monday threatened to rekindle the Palestinian uprising and thrust Israel back into the spotlight at a time when the Persian Gulf crisis had given it a respite from internal conflict.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir rebuffed suggestions of a U.N. Security Council investigation.
Won't accept
the occupation of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were under curfews and village closures, rotting erupted in three Arab districts of Jerusalem and in many Arab city inside Israel.
Police seized the keys to the gates of the Temple Mount, Islam's third holiest site, known to Moslems as Haram es-Sharif, and fired tear gas at Moslems who tried to break through their cordon, an Arab reporter at the scene said.
Jerusalem's chief Moslem
ceric, 80-year old Said al Din al Alami, was overcome by tear gas and carried away on a stretcher and hospitalized.
Moslem leaders said the keys were returned after dark to allow evening prayers. They said it was the first time Israel has sealed the Temple Mount, a compound containing the city's two main mosques.
It abuts the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, and is revered by Jews as the site of their biblical temple. Moslems believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven from the site.
Monday's incident, the worst in Jerusalem since Israel captured the city's Arab sector from Jordanians, which is currently condemned by Arab leaders.
The attack was provoked by rumors that Jewish zealots planned to march on the Mount and reclaim it for Judaism.
Police assurances to the contrary were ignored.
Riot squads charged into the Temple Mount compound and, according to Israeli officials, opened fire when they found themselves up against a mob of thousands.
American evacuation flight set
The flight is expected to arrive at Raleigh-Durham airport in North Carolina tomorrow after an overnight stop in London. Most of the passengers are in Kuwait and will be transported to the airport in Basra,
WASHINGTON — About 400 Americans and foreign-born family members have signed up for a U.S. government-chartered evacuation flight from Iraq on today, the Department of State reported yesterday.
Iraq, for the flight
As with previous evacuation flights, the Americans on board will be limited to women and children and people of Arab ancestry. Previous flights have transported about 1,900 Americans out of Iraq and Kuwait
The most recent State Department estimates indicate that more than 900 Americans are stranded in Kuwait and more than 300 in Iraq.
From The Associated Press