The issue of Palestine has never been central to the Islamic State's worldview, ISIS.
Unlike many Arab and Islamic movements and organizations, which focused on the war in Israel and the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem, for ISIS - even in the days when it controlled territory and was several times dominant, these goals were perceived as distant.
Despite this, ISIS and a handful of its operatives in Israel did not ignore the Palestinian cause.
The archives of the Mamari Institute catalog difficult and blatant videos that have been uploaded to the Internet in recent years. One of them, in the Hebrew language, encourages "killing and slaughtering Jews" by "lone wolves", and by any means And more.
The ISIS campaign aimed at Israeli Arabs also includes a call for Muslims in Beit al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) to join the jihad against the Jews and fight for Islam and not for empty values of secularism and nationalism.
Along with a severe attack on Fatah (the "Jewish agent") and Hamas ("doing the Iranian Shiites' thing"), ISIS spokesmen in the same video promise that "Islamic Caliphate soldiers will arrive in Jerusalem and liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
Indeed, the two tangent points between Hamas, the northern (illegal Islamic Movement) and ISIS are the caliphate and al-Aqsa.
These two issues connect these three radical movements, and it seems that in Umm al-Fahm this is particularly noticeable.
The broader common ground is the idea of establishing a global Islamic caliphate.
On this issue, it is becoming clear once again these days that the blurred line that separates supporters of the northern faction from a handful of ISIS supporters among Israeli Arabs is actually a connecting line.
It is no coincidence that one of the two terrorists who carried out the attack on Hadera on Sunday, Ayman Ajabria, was photographed in the past alongside Raed Salah, the head of the northern faction.
In his vision, Salah sees Jerusalem as the capital of the Muslim caliphate.
The false blood libel "Al-Aqsa in Danger", with which Salah is so identified, is just one of the ladders to the caliphate.
In contrast, ISIS and its supporters have never limited or defined the boundaries of the future global caliphate or its capital.
After the defeats on the battlefields in Syria and Iraq, Jerusalem and al-Aqsa were for them a kind of new horizon, or at least potential for such a horizon.
Joint Squad
From the point of view of the northern faction, al-Aqsa is a place that must be redeemed from the "impurity of the Jews" and "liberated from its captivity."
From the point of view of a handful of Islamic State supporters among Israeli Arabs, al-Aqsa is everything the northern faction says and more: an instrument designed to spread and promote the idea of Islamic State and the war against the new infidels - Jews and Christians.
A breadwinner, who carried out the attack on Dizengoff Street in January 2016 in which three people were killed, was identified as both an ISIS member and a Hamas member.
Melchem was a resident of Arara who often visited Umm al-Fahm.
Two members of the large group of Hamas-East Jerusalem, which the GSS revealed a few years ago, were ISIS members: Ziad Imran Sanduka from the Old City and his friend Fahdi Abu Qian, a resident of the town of Hura in the Negev, were also active Salafi organizations and outspoken supporters of the Islamic State.
Ajabria with Salah, Photo: Photos of surfers, Section 27A of the Copyright Law
Abu Qayan, the Daeshist, was recruited to the same squad by Hamasnik Ahmad Azzam.
Only when Azzam told his operative in Gaza about the recruitment of Abu Qian did the operative explain to him that he was not interested in involving ISIS, and ordered him to sever ties with Abu Qian.
In Umm al-Fahm and nearby Arab concentrations in the north, there were usually no operatives from Gaza to make this separation: Baha'i Masaru and Ahmad Ahmad, two young men from Nazareth who used to travel together for Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, where they were exposed to Hamas ideology. Against police officers near the Lions Gate, precisely in the name of the ISIS organization with which they identified.
The GSS thwarted their activities.
When nationalism and frustration meet
Brigadier General (Res.) Nitzan Nuriel, who for six years headed the headquarters for the war on terror within the National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office, explains that what Hamas, ISIS and the northern faction have in common is the affiliation with the extremist religious component of Islam.
"There is no board meeting that decides on cooperation between them, the common basis is religion, the atmosphere of Ramadan and such and other personal elements of terrorists. The cooperation is not a product of policy, but of dating, friendships, shared needs for a moment, need for money or weapons.
All of these are from the field of practice.
"If we look for the verse in the Qur'an that everyone understands and interprets in the same way - we probably will not find one. The Islamist religious motif, spiced with nationalism, frustration and other elements, is what creates these mixes. "Not moderate Islam. Religious intolerance is the driving force behind everything."
Nuriel also mentions that Sunni Hamas, which is now leaning on Shiites, says: "All over the Arab world they are killing each other and here in front of us, there is cooperation between them. The basis for that cooperation is also the basis for cooperation within extremist Islamic factions. "And we are serious about overcoming the controversy. 'We will fight again, but for this purpose - we will join hands.
Objective: Independence Day
In July 2017, three members of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement from Umm al-Fahm carried out the deadly shooting attack on the Temple Mount and killed two border policemen, Eyal Satawi and Kamil Shenan. To him he suddenly tried to pull out a knife, shouted at them "Please from Jama'at Raed Salah" (I am from the Raed Salah gang), was shot by them and killed.
Inspired by this attack, two more terrorist attacks were carried out on the Temple Mount within a period of five months (after July 2017) - this time by ISIS fans from Umm al-Fahm.
The two attempts involved young people from the Jabarin clan, from which, as mentioned, members of the northern faction who murdered the border police on the mountain also came out.
Said Ben-Jasub Jabarin and another minor were involved in the first organization.
Both, like Ibrahim Ajabria - one of the two terrorists who carried out the attack in Hadera this week - tried to go to Syria and join ISIS fighting there.
Both also planned to carry out a shooting attack at one of the entrances to the mountain, and were thwarted.
Another attempted attack by ISIS operatives from Umm al-Fahm took place in November of that year and also involved two brothers from the Jabarin clan and another minor.
Central to this occurrence were ISIS incitement videos in the style of "slaughter the Jew," videos that, as mentioned, promised to liberate al-Aqsa under the ISIS flag.
The outline of the second attack attempt was reminiscent of deadly terrorist attacks in Iraq, in which dozens were killed.
The targets examined for carrying out the same attack were three: worshipers in a synagogue in Tel Aviv, Christians during Christmas, and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Expressions of solidarity with ISIS in Umm al-Fahm did not focus specifically on the Temple Mount issue.
The son of one of the families from Umm al-Fahm, who joined ISIS in Syria, was killed there.
Two other young men from the city, who flew to Turkey to join ISIS, were arrested.
One of them was Ibrahim Ajabria, one of the two terrorists who carried out the attack in Hadera, then, only 23. The Turks stopped him on his way to Syria and deported him back to Israel.
His interrogation revealed that he was trying to delete his browsing history on ISIS sites on his computer's hard drive.
He then left a letter to his family informing them of his intention to join the jihad.
The blurring between Hamas and ISIS is also embodied in the story of Ahmad Jabis and Basal Abidat, who a few years ago marked in their calendar the 72nd Independence Day of the State of Israel as a possible target date for a mass attack on the Sultan's Pool.
The two, who grew up in a distinctly Hamas environment, in the village of Jabal Mukaber in East Jerusalem, explored the possibility of carrying out a mass attack on behalf of ISIS, and even established contacts with the Islamic State.
Both were arrested ahead of time.
The attack on the Commissioner's Palace promenade in 2017, Photo: Reuters
Fadi al-Kanbar of Jabal Mukaber was also influenced by Salafi ideology, but with him the GSS was less successful.
He was apparently affected by two much more deadly car bombings, carried out by ISIS, Nice and Berlin.
Weapons in dangerous hands
After three deadly attacks in Be'er Sheva, Hadera and Bnei Brak, security forces are now required to deal with the danger of imitations of similar attacks, with the mixing and sometimes blurred differences between Hamas, the northern faction and ISIS (in Umm al-Fahm these mixes are more significant) and of course the stockpile. The almost unlimited in the Arab sector, which is available to terrorists from all movements.
This week, the defense establishment recalled that the terrorists from the northern faction who carried out their resounding attack on the Temple Mount in July 2017 also had no difficulty obtaining weapons, and even trained unhindered in the Ras al-Hij area, on the slopes of Umm al-Fahm.
In the northern city, the stronghold of the northern faction, explosives of various kinds have been accustomed for years - sometimes they are happy shots at weddings, and sometimes they are criminals checking their weapons.
The two cousins who carried out the attack in Hadera also had a large weapon and a large stock of bullets, and it is not impossible that they, like their predecessors, trained unhindered in their area of residence.
Weapons seized in the sector, Photo: Michael Giladi - Ginny
For years, the GSS has warned against the escalation of criminal shootings in the Arab sector into nationalist shootings. Now it is happening. this.
Following the events of May, a security official warned the political echelon that the use of illegal weapons by Arab rioters could be more common and widespread.
A year has passed since then, and these days seem to be the last minute to take extensive and proactive action, to reduce the stockpiles of weapons and ammunition that Arab society holds in its homes and other hiding places.
Offset axis
Turkey has not closed its Hamas headquarters in Istanbul, from which terrorist attacks and attempts against Israel have been directed in recent years.
In his last meeting with Erdogan, President Herzog did not receive a promise that the Turkish president intended to do so.
Moreover: in contacts with the Turks it became clear that they refuse to close the headquarters and expel its people from Turkey, as Israel demands.
These things were not stated explicitly, but were quite understandable: Erdogan's Turkey, the great patron of the Muslim Brotherhood, will not "betray" Hamas, just because it currently needs Israel.
The only step Turkey has taken so far is to transfer a list of Hamas operatives who are in it into the hands of Salah Aruri and demand that they stop acting against Israel.
Aruri is the deputy head of Hamas 'political bureau and also in charge of the activities of Hamas' military wing in Judea and Samaria, which has targeted many terrorist attacks in Turkey.
The Turks, at least for the time being, do not enforce this demand on Hamas members in Turkey, do not restrict or arrest them, and on the closure of offices in Istanbul - are unwilling to hear.
This was expressed in a tangible way, when two weeks ago an indictment was filed in the Jerusalem District Court against Khaled Sabah and two of his sons, from the village of Tzur Bachar in East Jerusalem.
This is an instructive document.
He reveals a tap of what has taken place behind the scenes of Hamas Turkey in recent months, in parallel with preparations for a summit meeting between Presidents Erdogan and Herzog.
President Erdogan, Photo: AFP
While the Foreign Ministry was working on the success of the president's last visit to Turkey, Sabah and his family flew to take responsibility for Hamas Jerusalem and to coordinate Hamas operations with the northern (illegal) faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
The indictment mentions shooting practice, preparations for future military operations and the organization of riots in the nearby Ramadan from the Temple Mount, but also financial matters, or what the investigators call the "offset axis": Sabah opened a bank account in Turkey for which Hamas deposited money.
In return for these funds, Sabah transferred hundreds of thousands of shekels from his personal fortune to Hamas terrorists and their families.
Laganat al-Quds was part of Sabah's financial operations.
It transferred money to Hamas operatives and martyr families.
According to the indictment, Sabah and one of his sons carried out between the years 2020-2007 "operations in property for terrorist purposes, in the amount of the association's income, in the amount of about NIS 27 million."
The address of the unconventional association is particularly intriguing: the Gate of Mercy compound on the Temple Mount.
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