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Temple Mount reopens to worshipers
Unrest at Temple Mount and inside Jerusalem's Old City prompted rabbis and politicians to call on Jews to forge a stronger bond with the site, The Jerusalem Post reported.
Police closed the Temple Mount to Muslim worshipers and visitors to negotiate with several dozen men who fled inside after throwing rocks and gasoline bombs, then spreading oil at the entrance as they fled. The Jewish prayer wall at the Temple remained open Sunday.
Israel's Minority Affairs minister, Avishay Braverman, said Monday the call by rabbis for Jews to be more aggressive about the Temple Mount, one of the most contentious religious sites in the world, would hurt Israel and the provocative move would undermine Israel's standing internationally, Israel Radio reported.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, in a statement Monday, said Cairo was concerned about what it called "Israel's actions in Jerusalem." Egyptian leaders said Israel must end inflaming passions, warning that Israel's behavior may have "consequences."
Nine police officers were wounded and 21 Arab rioters were arrested during clashes on the Mount on Sunday, in the alleyways of the Muslim Quarter and in east Jerusalem.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/26/2009
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10-26-2009 21:21
JJ wrote:
History matters not to the Arabs / Muslims / Palestinians. The only thing they [the Arabs / Muslims / Palestinians] want is for Israel to be destroyed and the Jews pushed into the sea. NOTHING these groups do, or have done, truly allows for the existence of Israel as a Jewish State. Their mantra: "From the river to the sea" referring that Arabs should rule from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Can anyone think of anything the Arabs / Muslims / Palestinians have done to promote peace? Perhaps the treaties with Egypt and Jordan could be an example but we all know [wink, wink] their sincerity is dubious. Currently the Jordanians are protesting to dissolve any treaty with Israel. BTW these treaties were for Israel to give back lands they received after Israel was attacked in exchange for peace. In other words, you attached Israel; you lost and want to start over claiming you won't attack Israel again at least until the next time. NICE GIG. To all those Jew hating Israel hating Americans; find a native American Indian tribe your ancestors took from those tribes and give it back. You attacked them. The Jews have been in Israel long before the Muslims.
10-26-2009 19:52
RH wrote:
According to the history I've read about God's chosen people, it was during the six day war in 1967, Israel captured the Temple Mount. First time in over 2,300 years Israel had control of the holiest site in Judaism.
Despite Israel's victory and their recovery of the land where the temples stood, Israel turned the authority of the Temple Mount back to the Muslims.
Despite Israel's victory and their recovery of the land where the temples stood, Israel turned the authority of the Temple Mount back to the Muslims.
10-26-2009 17:37
bj wrote:
The Jews
have been chased and persecuted and killed and robbed and everything else. For thousands upon thousands of years. After the horror of the Holocaust the international community decided to deed them Jerusalem. The Palestinians then became super patriots for that area in spite of the fact that before the Jews came home it was nothing but desert. Nothing but desert. Now it is a green and golden land and the nomads want it back. Fat chance. And this current battle over the Temple Mount was, AS ALWAYS, initiated by the Muslims. And since this country (USA) has Rev. J. Wright (antiwhite and anti usa) , J. Jacksom (antisemetic) I think we could be a little more tolerant of a rabbi that says Jews should be more defensive of holy sites.
10-26-2009 17:33
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All religion should be outlawed.
10-26-2009 17:01
ANDREW OLIVER SATCHELL wrote:
ANDREW OLIVER SATCHELL
GOOD
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