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Posted on 02/13/2007 5:39:43 AM PST by SJackson
If you follow the news carefully over the next couple of weeks, you will be able to witness the careful and delicate work of creating a false new "reality". What began as an attempt to rebuild a damaged ramp leading to the Mughrabi Gate has escalated into an international incident.
The work is proceeding near a temporary walkway that replaces a centuries-old stairway, which collapsed during storms in 2004. The Israeli authorities have explained that the renovations are needed to safeguard the ancient site and have told all the critics that there will be no structural damage to the ancient site or to the Temple Mount beside it.
Yet, those facts will not deter the forces in the Arab world that are trying to diffuse and end the inter-Palestinian warfare. History has taught that in deteriorating situations like the one in the Palestinian Authority, one can always deflect the criticism and blame the Jew.
The Palestinian leadership has made that very thought clear with their recent declaration, "We must unite the Hamas and [Fatah] blood in the struggle against Israel as we did at the beginning of the intifada." The Department of Arab and International Relations (DAIR) of the Palestinian Authority, has upped the ante by declaring that Israel has begun "demolishing two rooms in [the] Al-Aqsa mosque... in line with the Israeli plans to demolish the entire holy shrine and build the alleged Solomon temple in its place."
Israeli-Arab Sheikh Raad Salah, who heads the radical Islamic Movement, has issued a call for an intifada of Israel’s Arabs The leaders of Jordan, Syria and Iran, as well as Islamic chiefs in Egypt, have all condemned the work. "The world of Islam should show a serious reaction to the Zionist regime's insult to Al-Aksa Mosque," Iranian Islamic ruler Ayatollah Ali Khameini said on Wednesday, and he has called on Muslim nations to attack Israel in response.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry statement dismissed the criticism as an exploitation of the situation. "The Temple Mount is the holiest site of the Jewish people,” Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny said in a statement Wednesday. “The State of Israel will never do anything to harm the freedom of worship of members of all religions - in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel. There are irresponsible elements, who know full well that no harm is being caused here to any holy site, who are exploiting Israeli democracy to fan religious feelings for political gain.”
I look out the window of our shop in the Old City and watch the foreign press wandering the streets of Jerusalem, passing the time and waiting for the explosion that, in fact, their very presence may inadvertently bring about. Yet, the more menacing presence here in the streets of the Jewish Quarter are the blond-haired European crusaders who have come to make a presence and stand beside their comrades-in-arms against the Zionist creeping menace. They walk by in groups of three and four, and look in disdain at any Jew who dares come across their way in the streets.
I made a point of walking out of my shop on Tiferet Israel Street and descending the stairs to see what is being termed "an explosive powder keg" next to the Western Wall.
What I saw were hundreds of policemen and soldiers, alongside hundreds of journalists, hovering over the fenced-in "pit of doom." In the midst of the the powder keg were two small tractors with shovels attempting to dig out the mound of earth in order to construct the pylons that would hold up the bridge entry into the Mughrabi Gate. These small tractors looked so very different than the way they appear in some of the AP photographs.
In those photographs, the angle of the shot makes them look like those war machines in War of The Worlds by H.G. Wells, with their gigantic arm hovering over the "small and vulnerable" mosques on the Temple Mount. In fact, the little machines could hardly hold the burly driver sitting inside of one them as he was maneuvering them on the mound in the Western Wall Plaza.
Arab politicians at the site were lamenting on the TV news that, though the excavation seemed harmless, the whole area was "closed in by fences and under a shroud of suspicious secrecy." At that point, the Antiquities Authority took the Arab politicians into the area and showed them all there was to see. I highly doubt that the personal tour will quench the thirst for drama and blood.
We are watching drama being choreographed and fueled by self-serving purveyors of hate, and abetted by a media and perhaps a public looking for drama and action. I met a freelance photographer I know on his way down to the Wall. I asked him what was the big deal, as it is clear that the work has a very limited purpose and direction. He answered that the those facts are irrelevant and that "what is important is the story."
I fervently pray that the resulting choreographed story will not result in more unnecessary bloodshed. That doesn't seem to concern those who are fanning the flames, though, because in the end they know that they can always blame Israel.
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Yes, they will always blame Israel.
Although it's not the goal, that mosk should be destroyed anyways. It just doesn't belong there. Never did and never will.
Amazing how a dream from a (probably stoned) filthy, flea infested epileptic while sleeping one night 1400 years ago in a dirty mud hut in Mecca, (Mohammad if you haven't guessed) who at the time had an Islamic following of about 6 people, with the rest of his tribe thinking (rightfully so) that he was possesed by Satan and in need of some serious mental help, is the cause of all this trouble today.
You'd think common sense would prevail, and actual acheological proof, along with tons of other written proof show that a mosk never existed at that site at the time of Mohammads (camel urine) induced dream. How could it? Islam didn't even exist yet, He only had 5 or six followers. Who built this mosk?.
The building is only a recent construction, an encroachment by the Satanic cult of Islam, Satans temple, a deliberate mockery in defiance of God Himself.
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If the mosque doesn't sit on the actual site of the 2nd temple what does it matter? Honest question.
It is an abomination to have the houses of worship or idols of non-believers anywhere within Holy Yerushalayim - let alone on Temple Mount itself. King Solomon was severely, and correctly, criticized for allowing many of his wives/concubines to set up places of worship within Yerushalayim, and the principle is the same.
The Islamic claim that Temple Mount and their mosques there are the "3rd holiest site" in Islam are an outright FRAUD, which originated in the 1930's due to the efforts of the viciously anti-Jewish Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who was also one of Arafag's uncles, and a best buddy of Hitler's who helped to raise a division of Moslem SS soldiers in Yugoslavia). Here's a great site to get a more thorough explanation, along with some pictures: http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/templemount.html
It's well known that the claim that Mohammed rode his horse up to heaven from the Temple Mount was a later invention. There is no earlier record of this event. It was an invention by a later Muslim leader in Jerusalem who wanted to make his rule more important.
It is also well known that the Temple Mount is, well, the place where the Temple was located.
What makes me nervous about all this is that the Arabs have been accusing the Jews of plotting to blow up the mosques ever since the 1930s. The current construction work is nowhere near the actual site of the mosques. But the Arabs and their pimps in the western media never let that bother them.
On the other hand, the Arabs have been doing some major digging themselves right under the Dome of the Rock, and carting loads of rubble and antiquities off to the dump. It's always possible that the mosque will collapse, because they themselves have undermined some of the foundations and walls. If it collapses, guess who the world will blame?
If the weakened walls give out during an earthquake, that would be poetic justice, eh?
bingo!!!!
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