“Moderate” Fatah leader praises rioters, says Jews have ‘no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet’.

Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday hailed the [Arab Muslim] rioters on the Temple Mount, saying any blood spilled in defense of the holy site was “pure.”

The [PLO] president’s comments came amid days of clashes between police and Arab protesters at the Temple Mount, which houses the al-Aqsa Mosque. The flashpoint site is deemed the holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam. The violent confrontations had mostly died down by Wednesday, with police deployed at the site.

“We will not forsake our country and we will keep every inch of our land,” Abbas said in a Ramallah address, according to the Maariv daily. “Every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure, every shahid [martyr] will reach paradise, and every injured person will be rewarded [by Allah].”

… “The Al-Aqsa Mosque is ours. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is ours as well. They have no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet, we won’t allow them to do that,” said Abbas.

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