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| Sharon tells rabbis: Jews will be allowed back on Temple Mount |
| 2003-01-24 |
| Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held a secret meeting several weeks ago with rabbis from the Council of West Bank Settlements (Yesha Council), where there were discussion over reopening the Temple Mount to Jewish worshippers. Sharon told the rabbis that he was still determined to allow Jews to enter the Temple Mount compound. The meeting lasted around three hours, and was attended by Rabbis Elyakim Lebanon, Shlomo Aviner, Yigal Kaminsky, Daniel Shilo and Moredechai Rabinovic, who told the prime minister that antiquities on the Temple Mount were being destroyed by works being carried out. One of the rabbis told Sharon that he came to power party because of his September 2000 visit to the Temple Mount, but that he risks losing power if he does not act quickly to reopen the holy site to Jews. Sharon asked the rabbis to allow him to work behind the scenes toward this goal. Uh oh. I'm thinking this might just cause a wee little problem with the current tenants. Or, Ari might just have a plan to take care of that problem in the coming year. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 Sharon should declare that if there is another attack the Al-Aqsa mosque will be leveled, the arabic neighbors displaced, and the surrounding area welded into Isreal forever (to make it safe for the construction of the Third Temple or whatever the Rabbi's want). Nothing else has worked.The Moslems do not respect the lives of Jews or their own lives but they do respect their mosques. |
| Posted by: anonymous 2003-01-24 15:50:13 |
| #3 The Phillistines are actively trying to accelerate the excavation precisely TO CAUSE their mosque to crumble to the ground. Then they'll (of course) blame the Jews in the hope that it will trigger another Arab war against Israel. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-01-24 14:39:32 |
| #2 From what I read, the Paleoswinians in charge of the Temple Mount are determined to remove any archaeological traces of Jewish occupation there. Priceless knowledge and artifacts are being lost every day to their relentless bulldozing. I can only hope that they will be rewarded for their efforts by making their own mosque crumble to the ground. Sheesh, what is it with these petty despots always trying to rewrite history? |
| Posted by: Bent Pyramid 2003-01-24 14:00:05 |
| #1 The current tenants have been raising a ruckus, doing damage, and look to be in danger of eviction and losing their security deposit...they're on a month-to-month lease now..... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-24 12:09:09 |