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Former Canadian Minister 'Shocked' by Visit to Temple Mount
Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/1/14 | Elad Benari

Posted on 01/20/2014 10:13:21 PM PST by Eleutheria5

A former Canadian minister who visited the Temple Mount on Sunday was shocked to learn of the discrimination shown by Israeli police officers towards Jews.

Stockwell Day, who served as Canada’s Minister of Public Safety between 2006 and 2008, visited the Temple Mount following a coincidental meeting with a resident of Jerusalem, Yosef Rabin, who regularly visits the Temple Mount compound.

Rabin, who spoke to Arutz Sheva on Monday, said that his meeting with Day took place over Shabbat, when he visited friends for a Shabbat meal also attended by Day.

During the meal, Rabin said, he told the former Canadian minister about the situation on the Temple Mount where police, in an attempt to appease the Muslim Waqf which was left in charge of the compound after the 1967 Six Day War, ban Jews from praying or performing any other form of worship. Police sometimes close the Mount to Jews altogether in response to Muslim riots - for days or weeks at a time - despite evidence that such violence is usually planned in advance for the specific purpose of forcing Jews out.

“When I told Day about the situation on the Temple Mount, it pegged his interest and he asked me to arrange a visit for him,” said Rabin.

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TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: discrimination; harperisreal; stockwellday; templemount; visit
Canada is looking better by the minute.
1 posted on 01/20/2014 10:13:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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