In response to Acre riots, PFLP threatens to kill Lieberman

Israel Beiteinu chairman's associates: He won't surrender to terror; Hizbullah declares support for "Palestine's Arabs."

By GIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN, AP, JPOST STAFF
Lieberman 248.88 (photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
Lieberman 248.88
(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Tuesday threatened to kill Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman. A spokesman for group, identifying himself as Abu Jamal, made the threat speaking on the terror organization's radio station. The group assassinated tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi at the capital's Hyatt Hotel in 2001. Lieberman wants to transfer some Israeli Arab towns to Palestinian jurisdiction and annex large West Bank settlements to Israel. A source close to Lieberman said he would not change his conduct due to the threats, that he was not frightened by them and that he would not surrender to terror. Abu Jamal spoke in response to the recent Arab-Jewish clashes in Acre and said the PFLP would defend Israeli Arabs. "Our fingers are on the triggers of our weapons and we know where to direct our fire... The fate of the Zionist Lieberman will be similar to Ze'evi's," he said. Also on Tuesday, Hizbullah joined Gazans in responding to the riots, issuing a statement condemning the "barbaric and violent attacks of the Zionists" and praising Acre's Arabs, whose "heroic resistance safeguards the land and the honor." "We send the warmest regards to the respected members of our nation standing strong in Acre and in villages in northern occupied Palestine, subjected these days to an organized campaign of attacks by settler clans and the Israeli occupying regime geared at expelling them from their land," the statement read. "These actions, done with the sponsorship and coordination of the enemy's police force, would not have happened if it weren't for the international conspiracy against the Palestinians' rights," the Hizbullah statement continued.