[AlAhram] An Israeli judge's conclusion this week that "quiet" Jewish prayer should be allowed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, revered by Moslems and Jews, has stirred Paleostinian furore over the Jerusalem flashpoint.
Jews refer to the site as the Temple Mount, referencing two temples that were said to have stood there in antiquity. al-Aqsa is at the heart of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, falling within Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, but administered by the Waqf Islamic affairs council.
The Waqf called the Tuesday ruling by Jerusalem Magistrates' Court judge Billha Yahalom an illegitimate "provocation," while Paleostinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned Israel against any moves to enforce it.
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Even Israeli police have appealed the decision, which came in response to a petition by an Israeli rabbi, Aryeh Lippo, who on September 29 was slapped with a two-week ban from the plaza after praying there.
The Waqf reluctantly grants Jews limited access to the site at certain hours, but the Jewish presence at the al-Aqsa has long been a rallying cry across the Moslem world.
Before Israel's 1948 creation, riots during the British mandate of Paleostine in 1929 were linked to the possibility of Jewish prayer there.
In May this year, festivities over possible evictions in a nearby Paleostinian neighbourhood spread to the mosque compound, sparking an Israeli crackdown that escalated into an 11-day assault on the Paleostinians in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
- 'WHISPERED' —
No Israeli law prohibits Jewish prayer at the site, the third holiest to Islam.
But since 1967, the year Israel captured east Jerusalem including the Old City in the Six Day War, Israeli authorities have enforced a ban on Jewish prayer to prevent tensions.
Judge Yahalom's legal ruling was narrowly focused on overturning Lippo's ban from the plaza.
But commenting on his conduct, she wrote: "The appellant stood in the corner with a friend or two, there was no crowd around him, his prayer was quiet, whispered."
"I have not found that the religious acts carried out by the appellant were externalised and visible," she ruled, determining that such prayer did "not violate police instructions," and cancelling his ban from the site.
In appealing the ruling, police said Lippo engaged in "improper conduct in the public sphere."
- 'NOT ABSOLUTE' —
Mainstream rabbinical authorities oppose Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, with Jewish worship centred at the Western Wall plaza below.
In a ruling earlier this year on a petition demanding Temple Mount prayer rights for Jews, Israel's Supreme Court
 ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
found that, "every Jew has the right to pray on the Temple Mount, as part of the freedom of religion and expression."
"At the same time, these rights are not absolute, and can be limited to take into account the public interest."
Moslem leaders reacted to the Jerusalem court ruling with unanimous condemnation.
"These prayers constitute provocations and a violation of the sanctity of al-Aqsa," mosque director Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani told AFP.
"This decision also has no legitimacy because we do not recognise Israeli law on al-Aqsa," he said.
The Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation strongly condemned "the decision of the so-called Israeli 'Jerusalem Court.'"
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