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Palestinian group vows to kill MK Lieberman to avenge Acre riots
By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press
Tags: Israel news, Palestinian 

A Palestinian militant group that assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister in 2001 said on Tuesday it plans to kill right-wing MK Avigdor Lieberman in retaliation for recent Arab-Jewish clashes in Acre.

A spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine made the threat against the lawmaker on the group's radio station.

The spokesman, who identified himself as Abu Jamal, said the PFLP would act to defend Israeli Arabs. "Our fingers are on the triggers of our weapons and we know when to direct our fire ... The fate of the Zionist Lieberman will be similar to Ze'evi's," he warned.
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In 2001, PFLP gunmen shot dead right-wing minister Rehavam Ze'evi to avenge the assassination of the militant group's leader, Abu Ali Mustafa.

Lieberman wants to transfer Israeli Arab towns to Palestinian jurisdiction and annex large Jewish settlements in the West Bank to Israel. He termed the Acre riots a pogrom against Jews and the start of an intifada, or uprising, inside Israel.

The Palestinian news agency Ma'an on Tuesday quoted Abu Jamal as also saying that the Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza would not stop his group from responding to the violence which he said was a part of a policy of expelling Palestinians from Israel.

The tension in the mixed city began Wednesday when an Arab resident drove into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in the city on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, during which Israelis across the country refrain from driving. Outraged at what they described as a deliberate provocation, the Jewish residents assaulted the driver, sparking riots that raged in the city for five days.


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      1.   Abbas and Hanijeh, immediately dissolve the PFLP..... 11:24  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/10/08
      2.   What a joke 13:04  |  Matt 14/10/08
      3.   Leiberman should be brought to International Court, not murdered 13:07  |  Tim 14/10/08
      4.   Tim (#3) Brought to Court for what? 13:38  |  Gil 14/10/08
      5.   Faces of islam 13:48  |  Johnny 14/10/08
      6.   Lieberman for PM 13:50  |  Tony 14/10/08
      7.   This gang should be brought to the international court, 14:03  |  x-ray 14/10/08
      8.   #3 Tim, what for? 14:40  |  John Allen 14/10/08
      9.   The Shell Game Revisited 14:49  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 14/10/08
      10.   Abu Jamal needs to be targeted 15:14  |  Shepherd 14/10/08
      11.   Gee...where do you start 15:14  |  Tim 14/10/08
      12.   the IDF must immediately liquidate the PFLP and all its members 15:18  |  Jo 14/10/08
      13.   #3 Tit For what? 15:21  |  Ari ben Yisrael 14/10/08
      14.   Swiss (Dino): Crossed a Line??? 16:16  |  Brad 14/10/08
      15.   To Nr 3 16:28  |  Dani 14/10/08
      16.   TIM #3 Surely you are joking. 16:30  |  Big Sur 14/10/08
      17.   It sounds like in Somalia 16:43  |  Bob 14/10/08
      18.   Lieberman: an evil man 16:59  |  David James Vickery 14/10/08
      19.   Israel is a long time practitioner of "targetted assassination" 17:20  |  Natallie Durson 14/10/08
      20.   Palestinian group threatens assassination 17:32  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 14/10/08
      21.   #3 Tim-What for? Maybe Livni and Barak too? 17:35  |  KJJ 14/10/08
      22.   #4 #8 #10 #13 there are laws against incitement of course 17:41  |  Kris Lazar 14/10/08
      23.   To Nr 13 18:40  |  Dani 14/10/08
      24.   Tim # 3 18:53  |  ChanahS 14/10/08
      25.   Swiss (Dino) if I would use your style 19:01  |  David Israel 14/10/08
      26.   Why would a democracy allow racists in power? It is a shame that 20:04  |  Jack 14/10/08
      27.   Jack - no he does not 20:19  |  ChanahS 14/10/08
      28.   PFLP should carry out a targeted assassination of Liberman 20:29  |  Tarik 14/10/08
      29.   13 Big Sur 20:42  |  Mark of Lewiston 14/10/08
      30.   Channah S could anyone be worse then Olmert? Really? 20:48  |  Big Sur 14/10/08
      31.   #1 Arab (Dino) 20:57  |  Gregor 14/10/08
      32.   Jack you make me laugh 22:06  |  x-ray 14/10/08
      33.   Tim #3 22:41  |  Brod 14/10/08
      34.   Lieberman, will have Abu Jamal brought to him. 23:45  |  Stephen. 14/10/08
      35.   PFLP is part of the PLO 00:26  |  peter 15/10/08
      36.   Jack, you`re right 02:15  |  Avi 15/10/08
      37.   Hunt the killers 12:58  |  Brod 15/10/08
      38.   More haaretz duplicity 15:41  |  Arie 15/10/08
      39.   Hunt the inciters - Tarik, start running 15:51  |  Boris 15/10/08
      40.   brad re crossing a line 03:08  |  potobac 17/10/08
      41.   reasons shmeasons 17:52  |  Ahron ben Yisrael 21/10/08
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