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Politicians on the right were quick to leverage the highly publicized arrest of the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, Raed Salah, at his home in Umm al-Fahm early in the morning of Aug. 15. They are busy using the event to score points with their electorate, a fairly common ritual by now.
Salah, a former mayor of Umm al-Fahm, was suspected of inciting terrorism on numerous occasions, including after the July 14 attack on the Temple Mount in which three young men from Umm al-Fahm killed two police officers. He praised the attackers at their funerals, calling them martyrs.
