Posted on 02/17/2005 2:18:23 PM PST by dianaA
Jews and Christian are allowed to ascend the Temple Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any "holy objects" to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Wafq permission.
"You also can't bring anything with Hebrew letters, even secular Hebrew books. The Wafq confiscated many of my tour books. One time a guy pulled out the Hebrew edition of the [Jerusalem] Post, and they took that from him."
Christians on the tour tried to enter the mosque, but rejoined the group minutes later saying a Palestinian in worship garb slammed the doors and told them to go away.
Kupietsky took out a picture book to show the disappointed Christians images of the interior sections of the mosque, but a Palestinian cleric who had been watching the tour demanded Israeli police confiscate the book, assuming it contained prayers. A scuffle ensued between the police, the cleric and Kupietsky, but it was finally determined the book contained no Hebrew lettering.
Jewish and Christian archeologists charge the Wafq during the excavation disposed truckloads of dirt containing Jewish artifacts from the Temple period. After the media reported this, Israeli authorities froze the construction permit given to the Wafq. The remainder of the dirt now sits in a small garden outside the Al Aqsa Mosque.
The Temple Mount area is very well-maintained and the grounds expertly landscaped, with the exception of the garden housing the dirt that may contain Jewish artifacts that area is littered with garbage.
Visitors were finally taken to a second entrance area to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and were brought through a Muslim quarter back to the Western Wall, where all prayer is legal.
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I have a good idea. Just blow it up.
"You also can't bring anything with Hebrew letters, even secular Hebrew books. The Wafq confiscated many of my tour books. One time a guy pulled out the Hebrew edition of the [Jerusalem] Post, and they took that from him."
I would LOVE to visit there and bring a hand grenade. The Wafq will not need to confiscate it as I would be happy to give it to them and keep the pin as a memento of my trip to the Holy Land.
I gotta say I laughed at this. Good one! :)
Someone tell me why this should be the case.
Kick the jihadist usurpers of the Temple Mount!
Insanity and death.
Allahu fubar!
It fits. Fits very well. LoL
Someone pass this on to PCUSA.
Many thanks!
The Wafq? Sounds like Waffen SS to me. Once again Israeli Jews show that they don't deserve to keep Jerusalem with this sort of disgraceful cowardice, allowing Muslim pigs to treat them like excrement on their most hallowed ground. Can someone please explain why Israel doesn't dismiss the "Wafq" from the Temple Mount tommorrow?
i think after the wall is complete there will be a complete cut off and the violence will increase amongst the factions in palestinian parts for control they wil kill each other and all the ecconomic incentive to live next to the isrealies will be taken out of the picture.
Quite correct. The same could be said of all of Israel.
The arabs want 'palestine' more than the Jews want Israel - and they're atarting to get it, a reward for years of Jew-slaughter.
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Thanks for the ping!
Excuse my ignorance, but who died and put them in charge, anyway?
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