Kerry, Abbas to Meet amid Wave of Arab Terror

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Secretary of State John Kerry is likely to meet separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in as the wave of Arab terror continues in Israel.

"He [Abbas] needs to be condemning this, loudly and clearly," said Kerry, who insists Abbas has been committed to nonviolence. "And he needs to not engage in some of the incitement that his voice has sometimes been heard to encourage. So that has to stop."

A Bedouin terrorist armed with a pistol and a knife attacked Israelis at the Central Bus Station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva Sunday evening. He stabbed a soldier, took his gun and went on a shooting rampage, wounding 10 others before being shot and killed himself.

The soldier died and sadly an Eritrean man also died when he was mistaken for a second terrorist, shot by police and then attacked by a mob.

In Jerusalem, Israeli authorities began erecting a security wall between the Jewish neighborhood of Armon HaNatziv and the Arab neighborhood of Jabel Muakber.

On Saturday morning, as Israelis were going to synagogue, a 16-year-old from Jabel Mukaber tried to stab a border policeman. He was shot and killed. The attack came four days after two terrorists from there shot and stabbed to death two people on a bus and seriously wounded three others.

One resident said she had witnessed both attacks in her neighborhood.

"First of all, I have nothing against Arab Israelis. I have a lot of friends. I'm against those who come and try to kill me," she said.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu rejected a French proposal to put international observers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

"Israel cannot accept the French draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council. It doesn't mention Palestinian incitement, it doesn't mention Palestinian terrorism and it calls for the internationalization of the Temple Mount," Netanyahu said.

Palestinians say they are fighting to protect the al-Aksa Mosque. Israel says there are no changes there.

Netanyahu noted that Muslims throughout the Middle East attack Muslim as well as Jewish holy sites.

"Only Israel, Israel alone, is the guarantor of the holy sites on the Temple Mount," he said.

Netanyahu is planning to meet Kerry in Berlin this week. Following that meeting, Kerry will probably meet Abbas in Jordan. Reports say Netanyahu won't offer any concessions to Abbas. But he will demand the Palestinians stop their incitement against Israel.