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| Amid Tensions, Israeli Lawmakers Push for Jewish Access to Sacred Site | |
| 2014-11-03 | |
| [NY Times] A hard-line Israeli politician from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party toured this city's most contested holy site with a police escort on Sunday, and a far-rightist minister reiterated a contentious call for Jews to be allowed to pray there, despite Mr. Netanyahu's plea for politicians to show responsibility and restraint after days of heightened tensions over the sacred compound. The visit by the politician, Moshe Feiglin, passed without violence, eliciting only chants of "God is Great!" and taunts from Moslem protesters as Israeli, Paleostinian and Jordanian leaders appeared intent on lowering the heated language and trying to calm the atmosphere. The site -- revered by Jews as the Temple Mount where the ancient Jewish temples once stood, and by Moslems as the Noble Sanctuary, the location of Al Aksa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and the third-holiest site in Islam -- was reopened to non-Moslem visitors on Sunday.
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| Posted by:Fred |