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Hamas: Obama Visit to Temple Mount - a Declaration of War
2013-03-08
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups threatened on Friday that a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama to the Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel will be a declaration of war on the Arab and the Islamic world.
What was it the last time he visited?
2008, while he was running for president. He even stopped by Sderot, and claimed to understand why it upset the Israelis so.
A Hamas representative in the Al-Aqsa mosque, Mushir al-Masri, even called for a third intifada (uprising) and for Egyptian assistance in the "resistance" if Obama chooses to visit the Temple Mount.
Can we drone-zap Mushir? Maybe call him an honorary American if it helps?
According to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency, the Gaza-based terrorist organizations made the threats during a protest march on Friday over the riots that broke out earlier in the day on the Temple Mount.

According to the report, Khalid al-Batash, a senior Islamic Jihad member, also called to prevent Obama from visiting the compound.

Obama will be arriving in the region later this month, and PA media has been widely speculating that he plans to visit the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque. However, Washington is not planning such a visit.

Political and religious leaders in the Palestinian Authority have stressed that Obama should not visit the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in a way that might compromise what they called its "Muslim sovereignty."

Sheikh Akrameh Sabri, head of the higher Islamic council and former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, said that Obama must enter through a gate that was not under Israeli auspices.

"Any visitor is welcome to Al-Aqsa, but they should follow the regulations of the Waqf and enter through the Lions' Gate and not through Mughrabi Gate, to ensure Muslim sovereignty," he said.

Israel liberated the Temple Mount during the 1967 Six Day War, leaving the Waqf in charge of the compound.
Posted by:tipper

#2  now if he doesn't visit, he looks even more like an anti-semite paleo appeaser. Good for his loser base. Bad for a US President. Par for his course. Fore!
Posted by: Frank G   2013-03-08 20:36  

#1  You silly shits.

If he visits it isn't a declaration of war.

It is a appeasement move and surrender.
Posted by: DarthVader   2013-03-08 17:06  

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