Under a cloud of great secrecy, Head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch Sheikh Raed Salah, took part in a convention held at Tel Aviv University on Monday.
"We have the right to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque," said Salah during the convention discussing the Arab sector's history. He was cheered on by the audience, composed of only Arab students.
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"We must stand besides Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque and object to the Israel's occupation policy," he added.
Salah addressed the possibility of the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying: "We must keep fighting until we remove the Israeli
occupation and free the holy Jerusalem."
The Sheikh was arrested in February for allegedly damaging and setting fire
to a Eucalyptus forest in Southern Israel. Prior to that he was released from the Ayalon Prison in Ramla last December after spending five months behind bars for attacking a policeman.
In 2010, Salah was also arrested
after taking part in the calamitous aid flotilla to Gaza.
Salah mentioned June's Gaza-bound flotilla,
claiming: "There are over a million Turks that are ready for it and want to participate."
As for the latest speech given by the United States President Barack Obama, Salah sent a clear message: "Obama demands to establish a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, while these borders are changeable. What does this mean? Deportation. It means that some of us will be deported," he concluded.
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