Saudi Clerics Urge Palestinians to Maintain Jihad Against Israel

[Reuters] Several key Saudi clerics this week urged Palestinians not to give up jihad against Israel. "Maintain the way of jihad and preaching which has spread among the Muslim Palestinian people. Support it and beware of it easing up," said a June 30 statement published on Islamist websites signed by 16 leading clerics including Abdel-Rahman al-Barrak and Nasser al-Omar.