The shooting attack carried out yesterday (Sunday) by the cleric and teacher from East Jerusalem, Fadi Abu Shahidam, who also turned out to be known to the police and the GSS as a prominent and influential Hamas operative, is a symptom of a more serious phenomenon in the east of the city in recent years.
This is Hamas' infiltration of East Jerusalem and the disgraceful disregard of the Israeli government and the security forces for the terrorist organization's constant takeover of Islamic sanctuaries in East Jerusalem in general and on the mountain in particular.
Most often, this is done through seemingly legal charities, which are funded through donations from Turkey amounting to tens of millions of dollars.
Police forces activity shortly after this morning's shooting attack in the Old City / Photo: Police Spokeswoman
The significant sums are channeled from senior Hamas leaders, and especially the deputy chairman of the organization's political bureau, Salah al-Aruri, who heads Hamas' "West Bank headquarters" and his men, are silent in Turkey and enjoy a wide sale of Erdogan's government. Members of the World Muslim Brotherhood in its arms who marked East Jerusalem in general and the Temple Mount in particular as a national, religious and ideological strategy.
It is enough to see who are the people who set and set the tone in the various Islamic endowments on the Temple Mount and in the Arab neighborhoods in the east of the city to understand how strong the Palestinian terrorist organization's grip on East Jerusalem is.
Not only does the organization place its people in all possible positions in the Islamic factories in the east of the city, but they are also present in the education system in East Jerusalem whose many employees receive their salaries from the Jerusalem municipality or the Ministry of Education.
Among those figures are many extremist Hamas operatives who serve as teachers and educators - and spread their extremist, anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Islamic teachings to Palestinian students in schools in the east of the city.
One of them was the same heinous terrorist, Fadi Abu-Shahidam, who had taken care in advance of cementing his wife and children in Jordan while he was preparing to carry out the deadly shooting attack.
Padi Abu Shahidam near the Dome of the Rock,
At the same time, although Abu Shahidam's extremist views were known and known to the police and security and intelligence agencies, the man continued to spread his extremist and terrorist doctrine - and receive his monthly salary from the Jerusalem municipality.
On the contrary, he repeatedly went to professional training courses funded in part by his employers in the Ministry of Education and the Jerusalem Municipality.
It can be said with great confidence that the GSS and the various intelligence bodies of the Israel Police and the IDF succeed in thwarting terrorist organizations and terrorist infrastructure ahead of time, similar to the wave of arrests made by the GSS and security forces in Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem.
However, this activity is nothing more than a drop in the ocean and is considered to be dead cups in the face of the oiled system operated by Hamas and the Turkish associations in East Jerusalem, while constantly and constantly eroding Israeli sovereignty in the east of the city.
At the same time, what has been continuously damaged is the deterrent capacity of the security and intelligence bodies, and the Israeli law enforcement system, which in fact is almost non-existent in the east of the city.
Hamas has long been able to understand that the organization's hold on East Jerusalem can not only be strengthened through extremist Islamist beliefs, but also requires a lot of financial funding.
And in the absence of legal options to transfer funds from Gaza, the West Bank or Jordan to Hamas factories in East Jerusalem, the Turks entered a vacuum created.
Through millions of dollars being poured into seemingly legal organizations operating in the east of the city under the auspices of Turkish governmental and non-governmental organizations, Hamas is strengthening its presence in the east of the city.
And all openly, without fear and without fear.
The activities of the Turkish "Heritage" organization, which aims to strengthen Turkish influence in Jerusalem - while ignoring its being the capital of Israel,
When the first intifada broke out in the late 1980s, the GSS and the defense establishment found it difficult to track the funding routes they funded and fueled the demonstrations that led to the violent uprising and murderous attacks carried out by Palestinian terrorist operatives. Understand how the system works - and put an end to the Palestinian celebration of finances.
A similar move is now required in East Jerusalem, as without the determined action of the relevant authorities in Israel - with the cooperation of all the intelligence, security and economic factors that will lead to the drying up of financial sources financing Hamas' activities in East Jerusalem - we will sooner or later find ourselves on control of the Temple Mount. And in East Jerusalem in general.
This is when in practice the one who controls the territory is Hamas.
Moreover, there are quite a few people in East Jerusalem who claim that in practice this is already the case today, and it may worsen when some of the coalition money promised to the RAAM party also goes to non-profit organizations and charities of the Islamic Movement in East Jerusalem.
Chairman of the Prime Minister, Mansour Abbas, Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman / Noam Moskowitz
Officially, Israel is the sovereign, but beneath the surface, those who actually run these things are Hamas operatives through the same associations and charities that are run mostly by extremist Islamic elements like the same terrorist, Fadi Abu Shahidam, who was defined by Homeland Security Minister Amar Bar-Lev. An operative of Hamas' political wing. "
As if it were another public figure or a legitimate political figure.
In Israel, it is customary to belittle and underestimate Abu Mazen, but it is worth taking a look at the Palestinian Authority and seeing how Ramallah's security forces operate against Hamas' activities in the West Bank.
The Palestinian security forces are working resolutely against Hamas and its operatives in the West Bank.
Any attempt to organize Hamas and even the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Palestinian Authority is severely suppressed.
Hamas operatives are arrested and thrown into Palestinian Authority prisons, and any source of money from Hamas and its proxy organizations in the West Bank is confiscated and confiscated by the Palestinian Authority.
The harsh hand of the Palestinian Authority's security forces against Hamas operatives in the West Bank has spawned quite a bit of cynicism and black humor among Palestinian activists who admit without hesitation that between arrest and interrogation in the basements of Palestinian Preventive Intelligence (Muhabrat; DS) or the Israeli GSS, Hamas, by and large, prefers the pampering conditions in GSS investigations.
If it was not sad, it really could have been funny.
