Israeli officials: The Palestinian Authority, Wakf are inciting Palestinians to murder

"Israeli officials are accusing both the Palestinian Authority and the Wakf Islamic trust of incitement to violence and have called on Palestinian leadership to restore calm in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

'The biggest problem right now is the volume of incitement coming from the PA and numerous speakers in the Arab world and Israel,' Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said in an Israel Project conference call on Saturday.

After terrorists killed two Border Police officers on July 14 and weapons were found on the Temple Mount, the police installed metal detectors at entrances to the holy site.

The placing of the metal detectors 'did not come in a vacuum,' Lapid said, but as a 'direct result' of the deadly attack carried out by three Muslims who were supposed to be on the Temple Mount to pray.

'The fact that people are pretending that putting in place metal detectors to save innocent lives is in some way an attack on Islam and freedom of prayer is terrible incitement that causes violence and death for no reason,' Lapid said, stressing that the incitement that comes from the PA and Wakf pretending there is an attack on the right of prayer and access to the Temple Mount, which is just 'untrue.'

'Every country on earth would have done the same,' he said. 'Are we not allowed to respond and protect ourselves? That is grotesque. Last week two Israeli officers, who were Druse, not even Jewish, were killed by people who brought weapons into a holy place. And instead of telling them that this is the wrong thing to do, they say that those who were killed are to blame, this is monstrous.'..."