By Abdel-Raouf Arnaout
JERUSALEM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said his government should use "all means at its disposal" against "terrorists," including legislation allowing it to demolish their homes.
"Those who incite terrorism do not want to see us anywhere: neither in Jerusalem nor Tel Aviv," Netanyahu said.
"I promise you that they will not succeed," he added at a meeting of the right-wing Likud Party, of which he is the leader.
Netanyahu vowed, Israel Public Radio reported, to fight anti-Israel "incitement," which he claimed was emanating from Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority (PA) and radical Islam.
According to the broadcaster, he vowed to fight those calling for the state of Israel's destruction.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, meanwhile, called for suspending one member of the Knesset (Israel's parliament) who he accused of supporting "terrorist activities."
The broadcaster quoted Lieberman as saying at a meeting of his Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel is Our Home") Party that residency rights should be revoked from Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who were involved in "terrorism."
"The issue is not complicated at the legal level," Lieberman reportedly said.
The Israeli government had earlier revoked residency rights from three Palestinian lawmakers and a former PA cabinet minister after accusing them of belonging to Gaza-based Palestinian faction Hamas.
Earlier in the day, Palestinian youths threw rocks at an Israeli car and at the East Jerusalem homes of Israeli settlers. No casualties however, were, reported.
Tensions have been running high in the occupied West Bank since late last month, when Israeli authorities temporarily closed East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The move was followed by repeated clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian youths – clashes made more intense by the killing on Saturday of a 22-year-old Israeli-Arab by Israeli police.
According to Israel officials, the Israeli-Arab victim had obstructed police in the East Jerusalem town of Kafr Kanna and assaulted a policeman with a knife.
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