Likud's Hotovely calls for Shin Bet chief's firing after comments on Abbas, Temple Mount

Bennett says "Abbas is calling for jihad in Jerusalem," after Shin Bet Chief Cohen had claimed that
PA president not inciting terrorism.

Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely on Wednesday called upon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head Yoram Cohen for denying that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was intentionally inciting terrorism and for coming out against MKs who ascend the Temple Mount.

At a closed-door meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Cohen said Abbas and the Palestinian leadership had no interest in encouraging terrorism and that he was not inciting violence.

But some could interpret Abbas’s statements as encouragement to terrorists, he added.

When Netanyahu was asked at a Jerusalem press conference on Tuesday about what Cohen said, he focused on the second part of his statement, downplayed the first and said there was no dispute between him and the Shin Bet chief.

Hotovely, who has made two high-profile visits to the Temple Mount, said Cohen harmed Israel by making both statements.

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