Outrageous! Mums the Word on Assassination Attempt

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he's yet to hear one word from the international community over Palestinian Authority incitement, which sparked the attempted assassination of a Temple Mount advocate in central Jerusalem Wednesday evening.

In a meeting at his Jerusalem residence Thursday morning, Netanyahu said it's time the international community cease its hypocrisy and speak out against Islamic incitement.

"A few days ago I said that we were facing a wave of incitement by radical Islamic elements and by Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas], who said Jews must be prevented from going up to the Temple Mount by any means possible," Netanyahu said.

"I still haven't heard from the international community so much as one word of condemnation for these inflammatory remarks," he said. "The international community needs to stop its hypocrisy and take action against inciters, against those who try to change the status quo."

Netanyahu told participants he'd ordered the deployment of "significant reinforcements" to maintain security in Jerusalem and the status quo in the city's holy sites.

"This struggle might be long, and here, like in other struggles, we must first of all lower the flames. No side should take the law into its own hands," he said. "We must be level-headed and act with determination and responsibility, and so we shall."

On Wednesday evening, Mu'taz Hijazi, a member of the Islamic Jihad terror group, shot Rabbi Yehuda Glick, an activist for Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, shortly after he finished speaking at the center.

Israeli security forces tracked Hijazi to Silwan, a predominantly Arab neighborhood near the Temple Mount, where he was killed after resisting arrest and open firing on police.

Hijazi was a resident of Abu Tor, a mixed Israeli Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem, who was released in 2012 after serving an 11-month sentence for terror-related activities.

"I am happy to return to Jerusalem. I wish to be a thorn in the throat of the Zionist plan to Judaize Jerusalem," he said after his release, according to an Arutz Sheva report.

Hijazi, 32, apparently led a dual existence, working at a restaurant in the Begin-Sadat Center where he carried out the shooting attack Wednesday evening.