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| Jordan Said Working To Prevent Jewish Prayer At Temple Mount |
| 2014-10-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Jordan's King Abdullah II and other Jordanian government officials have been working to ensure that the Knesset does not ratify a bill that would allow Jews to pray at the Temple Mount, a Jordanian official said Tuesday. Khalid al-Shawabka, Jordan's Ambassador to the Paleostinian territories, claimed that Israeli MKs were attempting to pass a resolution which would effectively divide the compound between Moslems and Jews, the Paleostinian Ma'an News Agency reported. "Jordan's foreign minister has sent strongly-worded messages to foreign ministers of member states of the UN Security Council and to the UN demanding an end to the systematic assaults on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and on worshipers," al-Shawabka told the news agency in an interview. "[T]he Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem are red lines," al-Shawabka said, using a Moslem name for the compound. He added that the situation on the ground in the Israeli capital was "unacceptable," though he did not elaborate. Amman sees it's role as custodian of holy sites in East Jerusalem. Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered workers to take down a temporary ramp that had been built next to the sole entrance for non-Moslem visitors, in order to avoid a diplomatic kerfuffle with Jordan. Jews are currently forbidden from outwardly praying on the site, which is the holiest place in Judaism and the third holiest site in Islam. Jewish visits to the site have lately provoked protests by Paleostinians, who clashed with police on several occasions, prompting its temporary closure. In May, MKs Miri Regev (Likud) and Hilik Bar (Labor) said they would present for Knesset discussion a controversial bill to allow Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, according to Ynet, but it is still unclear when they plan to do so. Bar has since backed down from his support of the legislation, apparently after being heavily pressured to do so by members of his party, Haaretz reported. "There is no reason that Jews should not be allowed to pray in the holiest site in the world," Regev said, adding that she would fight for the initiative. "I firmly believe that each event of Moslem unrest on the Mount should lead to its closure to Arabs. The prime minister is not the only decider on the issue, and if the proposal does not pass I'll turn to the High Court of Justice in a public petition until Jews are allowed to pray with tallit and tefillin on the Temple Mount," Ynet quoted Regev as saying. The Temple Mount compound, which holds the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, is considered the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site to Jews as the site of the two ancient Jewish temples. Regev stressed that the bill will in no way change the status quo inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the southern perimeter of the plaza. But Regev's assertion did not prevent senior Paleostinian political analyst Abdel Raouf Arnaout from reporting that the Likud MK and Bar were scheming to divide prayer times inside Al-Aqsa between Jews and Moslems, as is the case in Hebron's Tomb of Patriarchs. The law, he wrote in Saudi daily Al-Watan, "claims that the mosque is holy to Jews as it is to Moslems and that Jews should be allowed to pray in it, as is the case with the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron in the West Bank." On Friday, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... called for Jews to be barred from the Temple Mount in a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... address. "It is our sacred place, al-Aqsa [mosque] is ours, this Noble Sanctuary is ours. They have no right to go there and desecrate it," Abbas said, according to Israel Radio. He insisted that defending al-Aqsa was tantamount to defending Jerusalem, which the Paleostinians are demanding as the capital of their future state. "Jerusalem is the jewel in the crown and it is the eternal capital of the Paleostinian state. Without it, there will not be a state," he said. On Saturday, he reiterated the statement, calling Jewish visitors "a herd of cattle." |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-22 18:56 |
| #5 I say build the new temple around the Dome and let the mooselimb worshipers visit according to their conscience. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-10-22 18:49 |
| #4 Yep P2K they did. Do it again and let the good guys rebuild it. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-22 17:23 |
| #3 ..the Romans did that once. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-10-22 11:21 |
| #2 Without it, there will not be a state, Sounds like a plan to me. Bulldoze the whole place down to the foundation. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-22 07:25 |
| #1 Just amazing how deep indoctrination can go when you catch them young enough. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2014-10-22 00:59 |