In an article on the Noble Sanctuary, or Temple Mount, in occupied East Jerusalem, New York Times reporter Jodi Rudoren twice refers to the Jewish extremists’ plans for the plateau.
Many Palestinians point to recent visits by Uri Ariel, Mr. Netanyahu’s agriculture minister, who has joined fringe groups in calling for a new Jewish temple to be built there . . .
The mount is also the holiest site in Judaism, and has drawn growing numbers of Jewish visitors in recent years, including many who agitate for the right to pray freely at the site, and a far smaller number who want to take full control of it and replace the iconic Dome of the Rock with a new temple.
“Build?” “Replace?” This is surely soft-pedalling more violent visions on the part of Jewish extremists.
Last year Phil interviewed several of these religious zealots at a demonstration in Jerusalem. The demonstrators chanted in Hebrew, “The mosque will burn, the temple rebuilt.” One spoke of possibly blowing up the mosques during a war. “We don’t know the exact details. There are some hints in scripture. It’s possible an earthquake could destroy the buildings, it’s possible a war could destroy it,” he said, then cited a leading Israeli rabbi who in 1967 “called someone powerful in the Israeli army and told him to blow up the Al Aqsa Mosque.” But the Israeli army missed “that window of opportunity.”
That Jew was clearly talking about religious war.
We let them have Mecca, but this is our city. . . When the people are ready, they will defeat their enemies with the help of God.
Is there any doubt in your mind that the 2nd Temple stood on the Temple Mount?
It is you are dishonest and soft-pedaling the Islamist supremacism behind this “dispute.”
The only reason that the mosque stands there is because the Temple did at one point. That spot would have no significance to anybody were it not for the Jewish scripture’s sanctification of it.
I don’t get you Phil — regardless of what you would like, you are a Jew. Why do you defend people’s right to discriminate against you? What’s in it for you to demean yourself so pathetically as to urge others to exclude you from your own religious heritage?
All the principles of “tolerance” and “freedom” about which you sermonize tri-weekly are hollow tripe: you don’t even expect them to applied to yourself and your compatriots.
“The only reason that the mosque stands there is because the Temple did at one point. That spot would have no significance to anybody were it not for the Jewish scripture’s sanctification of it.
I don’t get you Phil — regardless of what you would like, you are a Jew.”
This attempted guilt tripping over the what some Jews consider the Holiest of Holys is a slug below the belt…
Symbols are just that….Symbols. And this one is becoming more and more tarnished as the days pass
The Herodian Temple probably did stand on that site, and was an extended version of the Second Temple. As for the first temple there is no evidence of its existence. But so what? It has been a Mosque for 1300 years, which is longer than it was ever a Jewish temple. Why should that give any Jews the right to seize the holy place of another religion? This is the politics of the madhouse and a classic example of religious ‘traditions’ being invented for extremist political purposes. Traditional Jewish belief was that Jews were forbidden even to set foot on the site until the age of the Messiah. These Temple Mount fascist fruitcakes are complete nutters and should be locked up.
It’s a quote from DoubleStandard’s comment, 3rd para – not gracie!
Rock worshipers. Financed by gold worshipers, ammunitioneers.