In a region full of complexity, the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount status quo occupies a special place.
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Police believe Glick was not singled out in the rock attack and that the assailants did not know who was inside the vehicle.
The Qur’an promises the Children of Israel that they will return to the land of Israel from the four corners of the earth, so we should have greeted their return, especially during the first half of the last century, as living proof of the words of Allah and the realization of the prophecies of Muhammad.
The same technology can be used to deny entrance to Arabs who commit acts of violence.
Salah recently called on Jordan to bar Jewish visitors from the Temple Mount and accused Israel of seeking to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque to “build an imaginary temple on its ruins”.
I can understand that members of the faith do not want strangers to pray inside their holy mosque.
Jewish people think that it is the site where God gathered the dust to make Adam, and is where God resides. How can we expect any intelligent person to believe that?
Asked afterwards whether they had prayed, a violation of an 800-year-old ban on non-Muslim worship at the holy site, two of the group said they had done so in their hearts, while the woman declared proudly: “I prayed with my mouth moving”. “We tell the Israeli government: Stay away from our holy places, the Islamic and Christian holy places”. These Jews are not disturbing anyone.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday 12 Cheshvan made the following remarks at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.
The Temple Mount is frequently a flashpoint in Jerusalem.
Instead, the mufti urged Hitler to “burn them”, according to Netanyahu’s telling.
That agreement was reinforced when Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994.
They also argue that a few parts of the site, including the borders around the Hacheil area (part of the temple surrounding a few of its courts) and in particular, the site of the Holy of Holies, have not been properly mapped and identified, meaning any Jew entering them accidentally could be guilty of a severe religious crime.
Reuven acknowledges a few Jews do pray covertly, despite strict instructions from Israeli police not to bow their heads, move their lips, or sway.
“When we have 100,000 Jews visiting the Temple Mount, we will be able to demand Jewish prayer”, said Yehuda Glick, a leading activist who survived an attempt on his life a year ago by a Palestinian gunman.
The shocking upsurge in deadly attacks in Israel can not be disconnected from efforts of a few Jewish organizations to dramatically change the Temple Mount status quo, backed by inflammatory statements and actions of leading politicians. It’s the holiest site in Judaism. The rabbis have thoughtfully replaced temple sacrifice with oral prayer, priests with sages. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely asserted in an interview on Israel’s Knesset Channel Monday in that Jews should be allowed to ascend and pray on the Temple Mount.
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In a videotaped message translated by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Center, former Hamas interior minister Fathi Hamad also called on Palestinian Authority security forces to fight Israel.
The Israeli police have been careful not to enter the mosque itself, even though the Palestinian instigators base their militant operations inside the site. The Temple Institute acquired a copy of the official 1925 “Guide Book to Al-Haram Al-Sharif”, which states on page 4: “Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute”.
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What Hussein said on Israeli television underscores “the fact that the current denial of the historical Jewish presence on the Temple Mount is a political statement of recent origin”, said Satloff.
