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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today claimed that the Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem who plowed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, was affiliated with Isis. Netanyahu offered no proof of the Isis claim and it should not be given any credit. He appears to seek to link Palestinian terror attacks with attacks in Europe by those inspired by ISIS. Such linkage would, he believes, inspire sympathy for Israel in the world community and link it to the general revulsion that the West feels towards such attacks.

However these assaults, as reprehensible as they are, are not inspired by ISIS. Rather, they are inspired by long-standing Palestinian grievances against Israeli Occupation. There is no known ISIS presence in either the West Bank or Gaza. There is rumored to be a Salafist group in Gaza engaging in attacks meant to compete with Hamas. However this group is marginal at best.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/01/08/netanyahu-falsely-claims-jerusalem-terror-attacker-affiliated-isis/