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		<title>The Fight for Religious Freedom in Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unseemly history of restricting Jewish prayer at Judaism's holiest sites.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #323333;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Shofar_LG.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246364" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Shofar_LG.jpg" alt="Shofar_LG" width="300" height="225" /></a>Yehuda Avner, a former advisor to multiple Israeli Prime Ministers, wrote an essay, <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894495134&amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">The Mughrabi Gate Incident</a>,</span> which is worth reviewing for those who wonder about the Jewish right to pray at the Temple Mount – as some years ago Jews were forbidden to pray – and blow the shofar at the Western Wall.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">Avner wrote:</p>
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<p style="color: #323333;">Some brave hearts defied the ban. Each year, as the Yom Kippur service ended &#8211; Ne&#8217;ila &#8211; a member of Betar, the youth movement of <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/torossian-what-would-zeev-jabotinsky-say-about-todays-jerusalem-terror-attack"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Ze&#8217;ev Jabotinsky</span></a> and Menachem Begin&#8217;s Irgun underground, would surreptitiously sound the shofar, and the police would move in and hit out in every direction. Menachem Begin was witness to one such Ne&#8217;ila on the Yom Kippur of 1943.</p>
<p>What he saw was a battalion of British policemen, armed with rifles and batons who, in starched, ironed uniforms, brassy parade-ground belts, navy-blue peaked caps and polished boots, looked invincible. With the cool confidence of jailers taking the measure of a prison yard&#8217;s inmates, they scanned the worshipers cramming the Western Wall&#8217;s narrow alleyway, trying to pick out who might turn out to be the blower. And when the sun went down and the shadows lengthened they squeezed in among the pious, elbowing their way towards the Wall, weapons angled and primed.</p>
<p>And then they heard it, and it drove them into a frenzy. A ruddy-faced sergeant, livid at the insolence, dashed toward a short figure clutching a shofar to his lips and, slapping the lad hard across the face, bellowed, &#8220;&#8216;Ere, stop blowing that thing.&#8221; Other policemen set upon worshipers trying to defend him, clobbering them with their batons.”</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">Choked dumb with emotion, <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/30/when-in-israel-visit-the-farkash-gallery-and-menachem-begin-heritage-center/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Menachem Begin</span></a> was later to write: &#8220;Our ancient stones are not silent. They speak of the House that once stood here, of kings who once knelt here in prayer, of prophets and seers who declaimed their message here, of heroes who fell here, dying; and of how the great flame, at once destructive and illuminating, was kindled here. This House and this land, with its prophets and kings and fighters, were ours long before the British were ever a nation.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="color: #323333;">Begin vowed that Jews would have the right to pray freely in Jerusalem.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">As Avner continues,</p>
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<p style="color: #323333;">Came the Ne&#8217;ila climax of Yom Kippur and in the ever-deepening twilight the white-clad cantor, facing the gigantic shadowy blocks of the antique Wall&#8217;s weathered stones, chanted in a voice that swelled and soared, &#8220;Sh&#8217;ma Yisrael… Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.&#8221; and the whole congregation affirmed this declaration with single-minded intensity.</p>
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<p style="color: #323333;">As the shofar sounded then, the Jews rejoiced. Today, at <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/why-the-temple-mount-belongs-to-jews-and-israel/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">the Temple Mount</span></a> the Jewish right to prayer is restricted.  Many years ago, Menachem Begin fought for the right of Jews to pray at the Western Wall – and today too Jews must fight for the right of freedom of prayer.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">The Temple Mount is the historical location of the First and Second Temples, the holiest place in the world for Jews – and Jews must be allowed to pray there.</p>
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		<title>The Car Intifada</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A death cult's new killing machines.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israel-stab-feature.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245071" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israel-stab-feature-386x350.jpg" alt="APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians" width="281" height="255" /></a>Hamas leaders have urged their followers to use their cars and knives to spill as much Jewish blood as possible. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Palestinians to stop Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism as well as the location of the Islamic Al Aqsa complex, by using &#8220;all means&#8221; necessary.</p>
<p>The calls for violence by top Palestinian authorities have been enthusiastically answered by thugs in the streets.  Six Israelis have been killed in terror attacks in the last thirty days – not by rockets this time, but by cars and knives wielded as murder weapons against Israeli soldiers and civilians alike, including women and children.</p>
<p>On October 22nd, a member of Hamas rammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old girl.</p>
<p>Last week, a Palestinian Jerusalem resident also turned his vehicle into a killing machine. An Israeli was killed and 13 others wounded when he aimed his vehicle at a group of people waiting at a light rail station. On the same day, yet another Palestinian ran into and wounded three Israeli soldiers near Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Leaders of Abbas’s party, Fatah, and of Hamas, Abbas’s partners in the so-called Palestinian “unity” government, shrugged their shoulders and said the attacks were perfectly “natural” or “normal” responses to Israeli policies. Indeed, they regard the killers as heroes.</p>
<p>As Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor said to reporters at UN headquarters in New York on November 10<sup>th</sup>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A person doesn’t just wake up one day and decide to stab someone or ram his car into a crowd of people.  These attacks are the results of years of anti-Israel indoctrination and the glorification of so-called martyrs. The incitement is everywhere.  In schools, mosques and media, the Palestinian Authority is glorifying terrorists and celebrating attacks on Jews and Israelis.</p></blockquote>
<p>Palestinians flocking to social media celebrated what they are calling the “Car Intifada.” <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/new-palestinian-hit-song-run-over-the-two-month-old-baby/">A video of a new song with that catchy title</a>, for example, appears on the MoslimMan.Rok Facebook page. It has become a hit that has Palestinians happily singing along to lyrics such as “Run over the two-month-old baby – that is how we get them.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=13007">reported by Palestinian Media Watch</a>, another song popular on Palestinian social media included the words:</p>
<blockquote><p>Run [them] over, destroy, annihilate, blow them up; Don’t let the Zionist live long… Today, the entire people demands a hero willing to fight with weapons. He began fighting with a car, running them over like rabbits.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0463c1;"><a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12979">Palestinian Media Watch also reported</a></span> on a cartoon appearing on one of Fatah&#8217;s official Facebook pages (&#8220;Fatah-The Main Page&#8221;), which carried the label &#8220;the run over organization&#8221; and urged people to &#8220;Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa.&#8221; On another Facebook page, &#8220;The National Liberation Movement &#8211; Fatah,&#8221; a cartoon is posted showing a car going after three fleeing stereotyped Jews wearing hats with the Star of David.</p>
<p>The car may be the Palestinians’ murder weapon of choice these days, but anything they can use to kill Jews, including women and children, will suffice. After all, they are just following the directions of their leaders. One of Hamas’s leaders said just last week, during a television interview, that even a Palestinian “who owns nothing but his faith has a kitchen in his house in which he has a knife.” It is his duty to “grab his knife and confront the Zionist enemy.”</p>
<p>Is it any surprise that in separate knifing incidents on November 10th, an Israeli soldier and a woman were stabbed to death by Palestinians practicing their “faith”? The soldier was killed in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian illegally there to look for work. The woman was killed at a traffic circle in the West Bank after the Palestinian murderer had tried and failed to run over people waiting at a bus station.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Abbas for “spreading lies” and inciting violence. “Instead of teaching his people the path of peace, he teaches them the path of terrorism,” the prime minister said. Prime Minister Netanyahu also announced a series of stepped up security measures to deal with the mounting crisis.</p>
<p>The Obama administration and European Union issued tepid condemnations of the killings. &#8220;It is absolutely critical that the parties take every possible measure to protect civilians and de-escalate tensions,&#8221; said US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. No kidding &#8212; but when it comes to the Palestinians who sing about killing babies, her pleadings fall on deaf ears.</p>
<p>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement on November 11<sup>th</sup> saying he was “deeply concerned about the upsurge in violence and killings over the past few days in Israel and the West Bank. Violence only deepens distrust.” The statement added, “while making more distant the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The Secretary-General calls on all sides to do everything they possibly can to avoid further exacerbating an already tense environment.”</p>
<p>As usual, the UN at its highest levels refused to lay the blame for the latest spate of violence where it belongs: on the Palestinians and their leadership. The spokesperson’s office for the Secretary General, despite several requests for comment, has refused to specifically condemn the incendiary remarks of Palestinian Authority President Abbas and other Palestinian leaders.  There has also been no UN condemnation of the Palestinians’ demand, which they have backed up with violence, that Jews and other non-Muslims be barred from worshipping anywhere on the Temple Mount. Instead, the UN, as well as the Obama administration, appear to support this demand in order to reduce tensions, even though the forcible exclusion of Jews and other non-Muslims from being able to worship at a site sacred to them is contrary to the basic human right of free exercise of religion.</p>
<p>Symbolic of the UN’s unconditional support for the Palestinians, no matter how badly they act, the United Nations hosted a fashion show to recognize the UN’s international year of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The event was held on November 10th, the same day of two murders of Israelis committed by Palestinians whom had been incited to their acts of violence by their leaders. As Israeli UN Ambassador Prosor asked rhetorically, “Solidarity with incitement? Solidarity with terror and extremism?” Apparently so.</p>
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		<title>Why the Temple Mount Belongs to Jews and Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The facts underlying the Jewish connection.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tm.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244607" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/tm.jpg" alt="tm" width="278" height="181" /></a>In Jerusalem, The Temple Mount is the historical location of the First and Second Temples, the holiest place in the world for Jews.  There has been ongoing disputes about the right of Jews to pray there – and it is absurd that anyone in the world can deny Jews the right of freedom of prayer in the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/all-of-jerusalem-belongs-to-the-state-of-israel/">State of Israel</a>.</p>
<p>A week ago, American-born Rabbi Yehuda Glick, a leader of the movement encouraging Jews to pray at the Temple Mount, was shot by a Palestinian Arab assassin who objected to the idea of Jews praying on the Temple Mount.  The Palestinian Arabs continue to do all they can to deny Jews the right to live – and pray – in the Jewish State.  It is unacceptable – and Jews must have the right to pray at the Temple Mount.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816#.VFjTdZt0yUk">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a>, the Zionist prophet, once asked, “Is a situation moral in which one side can commit any crime or murder and the other is forbidden to react?”  There must be a price for <a href="http://observer.com/2014/09/the-muslim-brotherhoods-new-pr-agency-rejects-israel/">attacks upon Jews</a> in Israel at the holiest site in Judaism – and amongst that price must be increased rights of Jews to pray. As Ricki Hollander has said,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Jewish reverence for the Temple Mount<em> </em>long predates the building of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque in the 7<sup>th</sup> century CE, and even predates the construction of the first Jewish Temple by King Solomon almost 2000 years earlier.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There are so many meaningful reasons and quotes about the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount:</p>
<p>*  “There is very telling Jewish teaching about the Temple Mount, and that is: whoever controls the Mount, controls the world.” Yisrael Medad</p>
<p>*  “[The Temple Mount] is the only place in the country where you feel you’re discriminated against because you’re Jewish.” Eli Duker</p>
<p>*  “I want equal rights for Jews on the Temple Mount. What Muslims do, I want to do too.” Arnon Segal</p>
<p>*  “There is only one meaning to giving up the Temple Mount: the end of the State of Israel.” Ronen Shoval</p>
<p>*  “Although other parts of the Temple Mount retaining wall remain standing, the Western Wall is especially dear, as it is the spot closest to the Holy of Holies, the central focus of the Temple.” Rabbi Shraga Simmons</p>
<p>*  “This compound was our Temple Mount. Here stood our Temple during ancient time, and it would be inconceivable for Jews not to be able freely to visit this holy place now that Jerusalem is under our rule.” Defense Minister Moshe Dayan</p>
<p>*  “Islamist exclusivity has debased the Temple Mount. It’s time to return this holy site to its original inclusivity and allow anyone who wants to pray there respectfully to do so. That is the meaning of Jewish sovereignty and human dignity.” Moshe Dann</p>
<p>*  “According to the Talmud, the world was created from the foundation stone of the Temple Mount. It’s believed to be the biblical Mount Moriah, the location where Abraham fulfilled God’s test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.” Aaron Klein</p>
<p>*  “But you cannot be a Zionist if you are prepared to yield the place that provides us with the moral, historic and religious right to this land &#8211; the Temple Mount.” Ronen Shoval</p>
<p>*  “It is the supposed site of Mt. Moriah, where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son Isaac, where the prophet Muhammad is believed to have ascended into heaven, and was the location of the first and second temples, Judaism&#8217;s most holy structures.” Jason Reuter</p>
<p>*  “Every Jew that goes to the Temple Mount puts another stone in the building of the Temple, and is making another step to fulfill Jewish sovereignty on the Temple Mount.” Moshe Feiglin</p>
<p>*  “Three times a day, for thousands of years, Jewish prayers from around the world have been directed toward the Temple Mount. Kabbalistic tradition says that all prayers from around the world ascend to this spot, from where they then ascend to heaven.” Rabbi Shraga Simmons</p>
<p>*  “We were not trying to demonstrate that it’s exclusively ours, or that we want the Muslims off, only that it’s a significant, if not the most significant Jewish site, archaeologically, historically, and religiously. This is the heart of it all.” Elli Fischer</p>
<p>*  “To compare the Temple Mount to Mount Olympus is to bring everything into focus.” Dr. Israel Eldad</p>
<p>*  “It is the Jewish root – the deepest roots that any people has. Elsewhere, we grope for insight.” Rabbi Shraga Simmons</p>
<p>*  “The Temple Mount has remained a focal point for Jewish services for thousands of years. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition.” Aaron Klein</p>
<p>*  “Jewish religious interest in the Mount is not monolithic, and includes those who merely want to visit a site of great Jewish importance, those who believe Jews should be allowed to pray there, those who believe Temple rituals, like sacrifice, should be renewed immediately, and those who <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ronn-torossian-what-prime-minister-netanyahus-vision">support the construction</a> of a Third Temple in place of the Islamic shrines of the Noble Sanctuary.” Matti Friedman</p>
<p>*  “Since Jews ascend it would not enter my mind to stop them from holding prayers services there.” Itzhak Nissim</p>
<p>*  “Despite the conventional wisdom that the Jewish people were banished from this holy site, the evidence suggests that Jews continued to maintain a strong connection to and frequently even a presence on the Temple Mount for the next two thousand years.” F.M. Loewenberg</p>
<p>As Yisrael Medad of the <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/30/when-in-israel-visit-the-farkash-gallery-and-menachem-begin-heritage-center/">Menachem Begin Heritage Center</a> has noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Although the Temple Mount is important to both groups, only under Jewish rule have both religions been given access to the Temple Mount. Therefore, it must remain under Israeli rule.”</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/all-of-jerusalem-belongs-to-the-state-of-israel/">All of Jerusalem – including The Temple Mount – belongs to Israel.</a></p>
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		<title>Severely Distorted Thinking about the Temple Mount</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish people have a right to pray on the Temple Mount. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rabbi-yehuda-glick-3.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244422" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rabbi-yehuda-glick-3.jpg" alt="rabbi-yehuda-glick-3" width="310" height="253" /></a></strong>Jewish presence in the land of Israel goes back more than 3,000 years.  Jews prayed for millennia, while separated from the land, to be able to return.  Once they did return, the people sacrificed in order to build and protect the land.</p>
<p>And now, the Jew who is passionate about Jewish rights and Jewish attachment to the land is viewed as a “radical right winger,” a troublemaker.</p>
<p>The world at large certainly sees matters this way:  If only nationalist Jews would relent already, then Israel could reach an agreement with the Palestinian Arabs and there could be peace. But the fanatic and troublesome right-wingers keep getting in the way.</p>
<p>The reason that Jews who seek Jewish rights are seen as troublemakers is because the Arabs tend to negotiate by way of violence and threats.</p>
<p>A tendency towards violence is inherent in the Arab Muslim culture.  We are not looking at a modern phenomenon, but at a situation that has persisted for centuries.  We see it in the way children are treated in this society, and the fact that it is considered permissible if not necessary sometimes to kill women for the sake of family honor.  It is well known among those who deal with these issues that terrorists who kill Jews then mutilate their bodies.  Relief and satisfaction derive from gruesome expressions of violence?</p>
<p>The true roots of deep Muslim Arab anger, expressed via overt violence, are not “the occupation” or the lack of a Palestinian state.  Social scientists find it in such things as sexual abuse of young boys (also common in the culture); this perpetuates violence as the boys grow up angry.</p>
<p>But now the situation is being exacerbated by Palestinian Arab leaders, so-called, who use this tendency towards violence for political gain, inciting their people rather than seeking to reduce tensions in the street. They are manipulating the crowds. For the Muslim Arab culture that is so prone to violence is also an honor/shame culture.  The perception that they have been “dissed,” treated with disrespect, foments anger and then violence.  And the messages being delivered by the likes of Mahmoud Abbas to the Palestinian Arabs is precisely this: that they are being treated with disrespect by Israel.</p>
<p>This culture is not big on compromise, either. To compromise is to forgo part of what you are entitled to, and this diminishes your honor.</p>
<p>What happens then is that the Jew who seeks his or her rights is seen as “causing” Arab riots and attacks. How much more peaceful it would be, if only these Jews would stop insisting on things that irritate the Palestinian Arabs.   Sounds crazy/unreasonable/simplistic, but that indeed is what is happening.  Palestinian Arabs, who are collectively bullies, are being broadly embraced anyway.  Either their violence is perceived as justified, or it is simply deemed wise to give them what they want to keep them quiet.</p>
<p>It is particularly important to deal with this issue now because Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who speaks for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, endured an attack on his life in Jerusalem last Wednesday and faces a long struggle for recovery. Since he was shot, he has been referred to again and again in the media as “far right,” “radical” and more.  No one says, “Well, he deserved it.”  But implicit is the notion that if only he, and others like him, were less passionate about the Temple Mount there would be less Palestinian Arab anger.  People like Rav Yehuda are seen as stirring the unrest.</p>
<p>But this has precious little to do with who Yehuda Glick really is:</p>
<p>Invariably, his friends and family say he is a gentle, non-confrontational soul, who would be delighted for good relations with Muslims.</p>
<p>He calls the Temple the House of Prayer for All Nations. This concept is built into Jewish tradition: In the days to come, all monotheistic religions are to have a share in the Temple to be built on the Mount one day.  Isaiah 56:7 – “…for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”</p>
<p>While he doesn’t back down from Jewish rights he readily explains this vision, describing the possibility that the Muslim Dome of the Rock could be retained as part of the Temple, if the Muslims would be peaceful and share in an effort to cooperate.</p>
<p>And he has been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lHbxbDN8V4&amp;feature=youtu.be">filmed</a> joining in a prayer session with Arabs at the Mount.</p>
<p>Some radical extremist!</p>
<p>When Israel liberated the Old City and the Temple Mount in 1967, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a very foolish – a very bad &#8211; decision.  He turned to the Muslims in charge on the Mount – the Wakf or Muslim Trust &#8211; and told them that they would continue to manage day to day affairs there.</p>
<p>The worst of what he did was to rule that there would be no Jewish praying on the Mount, so as to not upset the status quo there.</p>
<p>It is not at all certain that Dayan’s motivation in doing this was proper, and it is clear that, as he was not a religious Jew himself, he saw the Mount more as a site of historical interest than one of on-going religious concern.  But we can give him the benefit of the doubt in this respect: he probably didn’t understand Muslim Arab mentality or how matters would evolve.</p>
<p>Over the years Jews have petitioned for the right to pray on the Mount.  This issue was last brought before the High Court in 2006, at which point it was said that only if “there is concrete information about actual danger to life” should Jewish praying be forbidden.  But ultimately, the matter was left in the hands of the police, who prefer preventing Jewish prayer so that it is not necessary to send in reinforcements to contend with Arab rioting.</p>
<p>But how outrageous that in the Jewish state, where the rights of all religious groups are protected, it should be impossible for Jews to pray in the place that is holiest to Jews.</p>
<p>Over the last few years, there has been movement by Muslim groups to libel Israel, in order to arouse the people: The totally fallacious claim that Jews are about to destroy the Al Aksa Mosque on the Mount has been put out regularly.</p>
<p>But now it has gotten much worse: there is a battle cry that the Mount is totally the heritage of the Muslims and that Jews have no business setting foot on it.  Declared Abbas just days ago:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It is our sacred place, al-Aksa [mosque] is ours, this Noble Sanctuary [as Muslims refer to the Temple Mount] is ours. They have no right to go there and desecrate it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Abbas put out calls to “protect” the Mount from Jews. And then, when it was closed to everyone for a day, after the attempted assassination of Yehuda Glick, he called for a “day of rage,” because Muslims may never be prevented from entering the Mount for any reason.  This unleashed additional violence – with the throwing of pipe-bombs at police and much more in eastern Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods on Friday night and Saturday.</p>
<p>Palestinian Media Watch has reported that last week, before the conference on the Temple Mount, at which Yehuda Glick spoke:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;[F]ormer PA Prime Minister and PLO Executive Committee member Ahmed Qurei (Abu Alaa) issued a press release in which he condemned ‘the danger’ of the conference organized by Glick and warned of ‘extremist biblical plans encouraging settlers and extremist Jews to carry out large-scale invasions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and calling on the entire Jewish nation to invade the Mosque.’ He also stated that Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque are ‘undergoing one of the most dangerous periods since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’ and that it necessitates ‘immediate intervention.’&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>At the same time, there has been a growing sense of outrage among religious Jews that prayer on the Mount is not permitted.  Members of the Jewish Home party have been advancing legislation that would allocate different periods of time and different areas for Jewish and Muslim prayer on the Mount.  This proposal, which is altogether fair and equitable, is modeled after the pattern of shared praying time for the Machpela [Cave of the Patriarchs] in Hebron.</p>
<p>It will not succeed at this point, however, because Prime Minister Netanyahu will block it.  His rallying cry has been one of calling for “restraint” and maintaining “the status quo” on the Temple Mount.</p>
<p>To Israelis, he is saying that he will not permit the advancement of legislation for praying on the Mount, and to Arabs, that he will not permit the co-opting of the Mount by Muslims in a way that excludes Jews.</p>
<p>It is easy to understand Netanyahu’s unease.  Now even the Arab League has weighed in with threats.  Arab League deputy chief Ahmed Ben Hilli has called on Arabs and the international community “to put a stop to these practices by the Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem. Touching Jerusalem will lead to results with untold consequences.”  But these are only threats.  The Arab states have enough on their plates to contend with, without throwing their weight around on this issue.</p>
<p>However, we must be honest and recognize that the time of the “status quo” has already come to an end. Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, Director of the Temple Institute, says the Mount “has become a stronghold of Islam. The Arabs get tons of money just to have a presence there and intimidate Jews who dare to ascend the Mount.”</p>
<p>Unless the Jewish presence on the Mount is strengthened, Israeli influence will continue to diminish, with consequences that are unthinkable.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, it is the Muslim Wakf that is in control on the Mount, at least theoretically. And it is a Jordanian Wakf (not a PA Wakf).  The Jordanians have a role in what is going on.</p>
<p>Their peace treaty with Israel notwithstanding, they participate in threats, and have done everything in their power to diminish Israeli influence on the Mount. King Abdullah has just declared that he will work against “Israeli unilateralism” in Jerusalem and there have been mumblings about Jordan breaking its peace treaty with Israel over these matters.</p>
<p>King Abdullah is shaky on his throne.  He is contending with a host of radical forces at his border, thousands of Syrian refugees inside of his border, and pressure from Palestinian Arabs. Thus he plays it in a manner that he believes will best protect him.</p>
<p>And, consequently, Netanyahu has always done a very careful balancing act with Jordan. It is in the Israeli interest that the king should not fall.</p>
<p>With all of this said, however, it is instructive to consider the text of the 1994 Peace Treaty Agreement between Israel and Jordan. With regard to this issue, it says (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p>ARTICLE 9</p>
<p>PLACES OF HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE</p>
<p>1. <em>Each party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance</em>…</p>
<p>2. In this regard, in accordance with the Washington Declaration, Israel respects the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem. When negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high priority to the Jordanian historic role in these shrines. (This has to do with Israel not giving the PA priority on the Mount.)</p>
<p>3. <em>The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations</em> among the three monotheistic religions, <em>with the aim of working towards religious understanding</em>, moral commitment, <em>freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not only does this not give Jordan great power on the Mount, it would seem that Jordan has been severely remiss in meeting its responsibilities.  Freedom of access to places of religious significance?  Freedom of religious worship?  Well, now.</p>
<p>Housing Minister Uri Ariel (Habayit Hayehudi) has it right:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I hear the Jordanians are threatening the peace agreement and [I] wonder if they have forgotten the Six Day War and the years in which King Hussein leaned on Israel. The Temple Mount and Jerusalem are under Israeli sovereignty just as Amman is under the absolute rule of Jordan. They should internalize this fact.”</p></blockquote>
<p>THIS is the sort of talk we need to hear more of from the Israeli government.</p>
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		<title>Are You There Allah? It&#8217;s Me, John Kerry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secretary of state turns enforcer for Islamic supremacism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kerry.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244353" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kerry-430x350.png" alt="kerry" width="335" height="273" /></a>A week before the anniversary of September 11, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kerry-god-commands-me-to-protect-muslim-countries-from-global-warming-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">John Kerry announced</span></a> that he had been given a divine mission to protect Muslim countries from Global Warming.</p>
<p>The Secretary of State had spent September arguing that the Islamic State was Un-Islamic. He told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that it was a war against the “enemy of Islam.” Kerry was so eager to go native that he even switched from calling the Islamic State by the acronym of ISIL and instead joined Muslim governments in calling it by the more insulting Daesh.</p>
<p>The distinction made by Daesh is only intelligible to Arab Muslims, but our foreign policy has gone native by increasingly becoming obsessed with what they think, rather than what we think and what we need.</p>
<p>Some members of the Obama team had been accused of secretly converting to Islam, but only Kerry, whom no one had ever accused of believing in anything, seems eager to play a poor man’s Sheikh.</p>
<p>Kerry’s freelance Islamic lectures are as offensive as they are clueless.</p>
<p>When it came to the Mohammedan practice of enslaving non-Muslim women as sex slaves, Kerry insisted that the Islamic State’s claim that its actions were sanctioned by Islamic law was just as bad as the actual rapes. No doubt the Yazidi and Christian women who were being raped by Muslims would have agreed with the Secretary of State that their plight was just as terrible as the defamation of Islam.</p>
<p>After meeting with Muslim leaders, Kerry insisted that we had to delegitimize ISIS as Un-Islamic and “begin to put real Islam out there.”</p>
<p>It’s not the job of the Secretary of State to “put real Islam out there” and in deciding which Islam was the real Islam, Ayatollah John was functioning as an unlicensed Muslim leader.</p>
<p>ISIS Jihadists are denounced as Takfiris for declaring other Muslims to be infidels. Ayatollah John receives communion at the Paulist Center and then moonlights as a Muslim Takfiri by claiming that the Takfiris of ISIS are infidels.</p>
<p>This is the trap of “moderate Islam.” Once we distinguish a “good Islam” from a “bad Islam,” we have established the “good Islam” as a state religion. And then we have to support it and enforce its laws. Few leaders demonstrate the folly of trying to defeat Islamic terrorism by embracing Islam better than the Ayatollah of State.</p>
<p>Ayatollah John has not restricted his freelance Fatwas to disputes within Islam. Instead he has taken sides in religious disputes between Muslims and non-Muslims.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kerry-says-only-muslims-not-jews-should-be-allowed-to-pray-at-jewish-holy-site/">Kerry escalated his Jihad</a></span> by demanding that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism, be opened exclusively to Muslim prayer while banning Jews from being able to pray there.</p>
<p>After violence by Muslim settlers in Jerusalem, Kerry insisted that “The Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount must be re-opened to Muslim worshipers.”</p>
<p>“I support the long-standing practices regarding non-Muslim visitors to the site, consistent with respect for the status quo arrangements governing religious observance there,” he added.</p>
<p>That status quo was imposed because of the fallout from the Muslim occupation of Jerusalem and bans Jews from praying at their own holy site.</p>
<p>The United States does not believe that non-Muslims have fewer religious rights than Muslims. It does not believe that prayer is the privilege of any single group. That is an Islamic belief and the Secretary of State was starting to sound like an honorary member of ISIS.</p>
<p>In the Senate, Kerry had co-sponsored a resolution which stated that, “Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel during the past twenty-five years.” Now Kerry was proposing that Jerusalem should be divided under Muslim rule with Judaism being accorded the same inferior status as any other infidel religion.</p>
<p>It was an extraordinary statement from the Secretary of State of a country that values religious freedom.</p>
<p>It wasn’t all that long ago that Kerry had been running for office and telling Jewish audiences of his visit to Masada, the Israeli fortress where the Jewish rebels had made their last stand against Rome.</p>
<p>“I&#8217;ve climbed to the top of Masada,” Kerry had told Palm Beach voters, and described yelling, “Am Yisrael Chai” (The people of Israel live) from the cliff. He also promised that he would do a better job than Bush of stopping Arab countries from funding terrorism.</p>
<p>Since then Kerry has continued telling the same story in front of every Jewish audience. Just last year he repeated the story and claimed “[t]hat’s why, my friends, you have a secretary of state who gets it.”</p>
<p>Now he told a Muslim audience that the leaders of the Arab countries that fund Muslim terrorism had told him that Israel was responsible for the Islamic State’s recruitment of Muslim terrorists. There’s no question that John Kerry gets it. But with Kerry, it’s always a question of just what it is he gets.</p>
<p>Senator Kerry had signed on to multiple resolutions calling for a united Jerusalem, along with the Jerusalem Embassy Act. As Senator, he had called “upon the President and the Secretary of State to publicly affirm as a matter of U.S. policy that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Secretary of State, he’s ignoring his own words.  Kerry, like Biden and Obama, was for a united Jerusalem before he was against it.</p>
<p>A few years ago, Kerry <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/30423"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had been shouting</span></a> “Allahu Akbar,” the battle cry that had originated with the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/no-john-allah-akbar-does-not-mean-thank-god-and-it-matters/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mohammedan ethnic cleansing of Jews</span></a>, with Imam Abdullah Farooq who had told his followers to “pick up the gun and the sword.”</p>
<p>When it came to a choice between Allahu Akbar and Am Yisrael Chai, between the sword of Islam and the prayer book of Judaism, John Kerry turned away from Masada and toward Mecca.</p>
<p>No non-Muslim may enter the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Kerry is fighting to turn Jerusalem into Mecca.</p>
<p>Masada had been the last stronghold of the Great Revolt of Israel against Rome. That rebellion had collapsed with the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple clearing the way for the eventual Muslim occupation of the Temple Mount. The Romans had brought in Arab auxiliaries to do the killing. The collapse of the Roman Empire opened the door for the Muslim occupation of Israel.</p>
<p>Even the “Palestinian” brand under which Arab Muslims have laid claim to Israel is an artifact of the Roman era.</p>
<p>To stand at Masada is to reject the legacy of religious persecution of the indigenous Jewish people by the Roman Empire and the Muslim Caliphate. Instead John Kerry has chosen to champion Islamic notions of religious inferiority under which Jews do not have religious freedom in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>When Jordan annexed Jerusalem, Jews were forbidden from praying at the site of their former temple. Under the Caliphate, Jews were forbidden from even ascending past the seventh step at the Cave of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives are buried.</p>
<p>Will John Kerry make a case for once again banning Jews from ascending past the seventh step?</p>
<p>Instead of religious freedom, the Secretary of State is promoting the Apartheid laws of Islam.</p>
<p>John Kerry doesn’t have the right to use the United States government to enforce Islamic supremacism. He can be an Ayatollah, a Mullah or an Imam. Or he can be the Secretary of State of the United States.</p>
<p>He can’t be both.</p>
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		<title>Kerry Says Only Muslims, Not Jews, May Pray at Jewish Holy Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when the United States used to uphold religious freedom?]]></description>
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<p>Why exactly is the Secretary of State <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-calls-on-israel-to-reopen-temple-mount/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter">trying to dictate who can and can&#8217;t pray at </a>a particular place? Does Kerry think that the Temple Mount is a public school?</p>
<blockquote><p>Washington called for Israeli authorities to reopen the Temple Mount to Muslim worshipers Thursday, while also condemning the shooting of a US-born activist who lobbied for Jewish rights on the holy site</p>
<p>“It is absolutely critical that all sides exercise restraint, refrain from provocative actions and rhetoric, and preserve the historic status quo on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount – in word and in practice,” Kerry said in a statement.</p>
<p>“The Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount must be re-opened to Muslim worshipers and I support the long-standing practices regarding non-Muslim visitors to the site,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>What<a href="http://myrightword.blogspot.co.il/2014/10/the-nytimes-does-in-temple-mount.html"> are those practices</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jews cannot worship atop the mount, only at the Western Wall.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Secretary of State of the United States just ordered Israel to limit prayers in a particular place to Muslims, not Jews. And apparently to ban other non-Muslims too.</p>
<p>Remember when the United States used to uphold religious freedom? These days it sends people to jail for offending Muslims and orders other countries to engage in religious discrimination on behalf of Muslims.</p>
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		<title>Being Safe While Isolated</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BN-FH124_1029GL_P_20141029214811.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244176" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BN-FH124_1029GL_P_20141029214811-450x299.jpg" alt="BN-FH124_1029GL_P_20141029214811" width="327" height="217" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Being-safe-while-isolated-380359">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Yehudah Glick has spent the better part of the last 20 years championing the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – Judaism’s holiest site. On Wednesday night, the Palestinians sent a hit man to Jerusalem to kill him.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And today Glick lays in a coma at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Two people bear direct responsibility for this terrorist attack: the gunman, and Palestinian Authority President and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas. The gunman shot Glick, and Abbas told him to shoot Glick.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Abbas routinely glorifies terrorist murder of Jews, and funds terrorism with the PA’s US- and European-funded budget.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it isn’t often that he directly incites the murder of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Two weeks ago, Abbas did just that. Speaking to Fatah members, he referred to Jews who wish to pray at Judaism’s holiest site as “settlers.” He then told his audience that they must remain on the Temple Mount at all times to block Jews from entering.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“We must prevent them from entering [the Temple Mount] in any way&#8230;. They have no right to enter and desecrate [it]. We must confront them and defend our holy sites,” he said.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday, in the three days leading up to the assassination attempt on Glick, the PA’s television station broadcast Abbas’s call for attacks on Jews who seek to enter the Temple Mount 19 times.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While Abbas himself is responsible for the hit on Glick, he has had one major enabler – the Obama administration. Since Abbas first issued the order for Palestinians to attack Jews, there have been two terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Both have claimed American citizens among their victims. Yet the Obama administration has refused to condemn Abbas’s call to murder Jews either before it led to the first terrorist attack or since Glick was shot Wednesday night.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only have the White House and the State Department refused to condemn Abbas for soliciting the murder of Jews. They have praised him and attacked Israel and its elected leader. In other words, they are not merely doing nothing, they are actively rewarding Abbas’s aggression, and so abetting it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Abbas called for Palestinians to kill Jews, the White House and State Department have accused Israel of diminishing the prospect of peace by refusing to make massive concessions to Abbas. The concessions the Americans are demanding include accepting the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from land they foresee becoming part of a future Palestinian state; denying Jews the rights to their lawfully held properties in predominantly Arab neighborhoods; and abrogating urban planning procedures in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem built within the areas of the city that Israel took control over from Jordan in 1967.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The US claims that it has great influence over the Palestinians. If this is true, then as Fatah’s official celebrations of Glick’s attempted murder make clear, that influence is being intentionally exercised in a negative way. The Americans are encouraging the Palestinians to be more violent, more radical and more extreme in their demands of Israel and propagation of Jew-hatred.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Obama administration is abetting Palestinian terrorism today. And it is doing so after it spent last summer siding with Hamas and its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey in its illegal war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, it is important to note that the most outrageous statements the administration has made to date against Israel came after the first terrorist attack in Jerusalem directly inspired by Abbas’s call to murder Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most outrageous statements the administration has made about Israel came of course this week with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s report that senior unnamed Obama administration officials called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a chickensh*t” and a “coward.” They also described an administration in a state of “red hot anger” against Netanyahu and his government. Those statements were made after three-month old Chaya Zissel Braun, an American baby, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem in an Abbas-incited attack.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most distressing aspect of Goldberg’s quotes is that in and of themselves, these profane, schoolyard bully personal attacks against Israel’s elected leader were the mildest part of the story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most disturbing thing about the gutter talk is what they tell us about Israel’s role in Obama’s assessments of his political cards as they relate to his nuclear negotiations with Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The senior administration officials called Netanyahu a coward because, among other reasons, he has not bombed Iran’s nuclear installations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And now, they crowed, it’s too late for Israel to do anything to stop Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They are happy about this claimed state of affairs, because now Obama is free to make a deal with the Iranians that will allow them to develop nuclear weapons at will.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The obscene rhetoric they adopted in their characterization of Netanyahu didn’t come from “red hot anger.” It was a calculated move. Obama knows that he has caved in on every significant redline that he claimed he would defend in the nuclear talks with Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama has chosen to demonize Netanyahu and castigate Israel now as a means to transform the debate about Iran into a debate about Israel. The fact that the trash talk about Netanyahu was a premeditated bid to capture the discourse on Iran is further exposed by the fact that Obama has refused to take any action against the officials who made the statements.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He isn’t going to punish them for carrying out his policies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama knows that after next week’s midterm elections, he will likely be facing a Republican-controlled House and Senate. He has no substantive defense against attacks on his policy of enabling the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism to acquire nuclear weapons. The threat a nuclear- armed Iran poses to the US is self-evident to most people who pay attention to foreign affairs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since he can’t win the substantive debate, he wants to change the subject by pretending that the only country that opposes Iran’s nuclear weapons program is Israel, which, his senior advisers insinuated to Goldberg, was apparently bluffing about its danger. After all, if it was a reason for concern, Netanyahu would have bombed Iran three years ago rather than try to accommodate Obama.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As a consequence, any congressional opposition to his deal makes no sense and therefore must be the result of the nefarious Israel’s lobby’s control of Congress. Loyal Americans, like Obama, must stand up to the cowardly, power grabbing, warmongering Jews, led by the coward in chief Netanyahu.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, in castigating Netanyahu and Israel, the Obama administration has decided to use Jew-hatred as a political weapon to defend its policies of abetting Palestinian terrorism and enabling Iran’s nuclear weapons program.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are critical messages to the Israeli people and our leaders embedded in the Goldberg article.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, the unbridled attacks against Israel’s democratically elected – and popular – prime minister show us that when we are faced with an inherently hostile administration, the wages of appeasement are contempt.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No Israel leader has done more to appease a US administration than Netanyahu has done to appease Obama. Against the opposition of his party and the general public, Netanyahu in 2009 bowed to Obama’s demand to embrace the goal of establishing a Palestinian state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Against the opposition of his party and the general public, in 2010 Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s demand and enacted an official 10-month moratorium on Jewish property rights in lands beyond the 1949 armistice lines, and later enacted an unofficial moratorium on those rights.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s pressure, released murderers from prison and conducted negotiations with Abbas that only empowered Abbas and his political war to delegitimize and isolate Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And for all his efforts to appease Obama, today the administration abets Palestinian terrorism and political warfare.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to Iran, Netanyahu agreed to play along with Obama’s phony sanctions policy, and bowed to Obama’s demand not to attack Iran’s nuclear installations. All of this caused suffering to the Iranian people while giving the regime four-and-ahalf years of more or less unfettered work on its nuclear program.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu only cut bait after Obama signed the interim nuclear deal with Iran last November where he effectively gave up the store.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And for Netanyahu’s Herculean efforts to appease Obama, Netanyahu found himself mocked publicly as a coward by senior administration officials who snorted that now it is too late for him to stop Obama from paving Iran’s open road to nuclear power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">One of the assets that Netanyahu’s continuous attempts to please Obama was geared toward securing was US support for Israel at the UN Security Council. And now, according to the senior administration officials, Obama has decided to spend his last two years in office refusing to veto anti-Israel Security Council resolutions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Before formulating a strategy for dealing with Obama over the next two years, Israelis need to first take a deep breath and recognize that as bad as things are going to get, nothing that Obama will do to us over the next two years is as dangerous as what he has already done. No anti-Israel Security Council resolution, no Obama map of Israel’s borders will endanger Israel as much as his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear program.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As unpleasant as anti-Israel Security Council resolutions will be, and as unpleasant as an Obama framework for Israel’s final borders will be, given the brevity of his remaining time in power, it is highly unlikely that any of the measures will have lasting impact.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At any rate, no matter how upsetting such resolutions may be, Goldberg’s article made clear that Israel should make no concessions to Obama in exchange for a reversal of his plans. Concessions to Obama merely escalate his contempt for us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Bearing this in mind, Israel’s required actions in the wake of Goldberg’s sources’ warnings are fairly straightforward.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, to the extent that Israel does have the capacity to damage Iran’s nuclear installations, Israel should act right away. Its capacity should not be saved for a more propitious political moment.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only clock Israel should care about is Iran’s nuclear clock.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the Palestinians, whether Netanyahu’s willingness to stand up to Obama stems from the growing prospect of national elections or from his own determination that there is no point in trying to appease Obama anymore, the fact is that this is the only pragmatic policy for him to follow.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The proper response to the assassination attempt on Yehudah Glick is to allow Jews freedom of worship on the Temple Mount. The proper response to Obama’s nuclear negotiations is a bomb in Natanz. Obama will be angry with Israel for taking such steps. But he is angry with Israel for standing down. At least if we defend ourselves, we will be safe while isolated, rather than unsafe while isolated.</span></p>
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		<title>Muslims Rally to &#8220;Cleanse&#8221; Holiest Site in Judaism of &#8220;Jewish Filth&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They called on the Pakistani Army to emerge from under the thrall of America to liberate Jerusalem.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/islamist-temple-mount-rally-to-rid-site-of-jewish-filth/2014/05/29/">Coexist?</a> <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/28/palestinian-led-sharia-movement-rallies-at-al-aqsa-mosque-calls-for-pakistan-army-to-liberate-jerusalem-video/">Sorry, we&#8217;re Muslim</a>. And as Islamic Supremacists, we&#8217;re obsessed with Islamizing Jerusalem and using it for the capital of our Thousand Year Caliphate under the Pakistani Army.</p>
<p>Otherwise we would be happy to coexist with you. Really.</p>
<blockquote><p>Palestinian-founded and led sharia law movement Hizb Al-Tahrir, the Party of Liberation, hosted thousands of Muslims for Friday prayers last week atop the Temple Mount, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where footage showed its leadership denigrating Jews and calling for the Pakistani Army to emerge from under the thrall of America to liberate Jerusalem.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s just what the Middle East needs&#8230; the Pakistani Army. Even Pakistan doesn&#8217;t need the Pakistani Army.</p>
<blockquote><p>The group, which operates under the auspices and encouragement of the Palestinian Authority, is dedicated to uniting the world under a caliphate ruled by Islamic law (Shari’a) and has branches in Judea, Samaria and in Gaza.</p>
<p>According to MEMRI, members of the group issued a call to the ‘Islamic nation’ and the army of Pakistan to liberate ‘al Quds’ (Jerusalem) from ‘Jewish filth.’</p>
<p>The call and response began, “Oh the army of Pakistan!” followed by, “Come for the sake of the rule of the Koran!”</p>
<p>“Where is the Caliph Omar? Where is Saladin? Where is the Caliph of the Muslims?” the unnamed speaker asked those assembled. “Don’t you care that the Jews are defiling the place of the Prophet’s nocturnal journey with their filth? The Jews are the most hostile people towards the believers. They conquered Jerusalem.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That would be &#8216;reconquered&#8217; it from the Muslims who had conquered it. Too many Muslims have a problem with basic history. If you conquer a place, you can&#8217;t complain when its original indigenous inhabitants take it back.</p>
<blockquote><p>It is precisely incitement such as this that whips the mosque’s Muslim worshipers into a frenzy of hatred against Jews and Israel week after week and results in the violent riots that prompt police to close the site to anyone except Muslims prior to Jewish holidays.</p>
<p>Hizb Al-Tahrir was founded in Jerusalem, in 1953, as a Sunni Muslim organization by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, an Islamic scholar and appeals court judge from the nearby village of Ijzim.</p>
<p>Branches of the movement are in 40 countries, and are especially active in the Western diaspora. The organization is believed to have a million active members, according to an archived profile by The New Statesman, and credits itself with expanding the popularity of the call for sharia law and a unified Muslim caliphate.</p>
<p>In the book, Abu Rashta said, “Before Hizb al-Tahrir launched its career the subject of the Caliphate was unheard of. However, the party has succeeded in establishing its intellectual leadership, and now everyone has confidence in its ideas, and talks about it: this is clear from the media worldwide.”</p>
<p>After becoming more vocal, he was arrested by Jordan, designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, and then emerged from prison shortly before the death of predecessor Zallum, in 2003, with Abu Rashta assuming full control over Hizb al-Tahrir, as the third Palestinian to lead its charge to create the global Muslim caliphate.</p></blockquote>
<p>The word &#8216;conscience&#8217; doesn&#8217;t mean what Amnesty seems to think it does.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/temple_mount.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196891" alt="temple_mount" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/temple_mount-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>The <a href="http://www.templemount.org/">Temple Mount</a> in Jerusalem is the <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/united-with-israel/the-eternal-connection-betw-the-jews-and-temple-mount/2013/06/06/">holiest place on earth</a> according to Judaism.  It is where both Biblical Temples stood, whose destruction is commemorated this week with fasting and mourning on the Ninth day of the month of Av according to the religious calendar.  The Western Wall is considered holy <i>only because of its proximity</i> to the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&amp;_Culture/geo/Mount.html">Temple Mount</a>.  Jews everywhere in the world pray while facing the Temple Mount, and if they were to pray on the Mount itself they would face the Holy of Holies, the singularity point in between the cherubs that were positioned on top of the Temple Ark inside the Temple.  While God&#8217;s presence is everywhere, according to Judaism<a href="http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4412&amp;q=1">, its most intense concentration is at that point</a>.  The Western Wall is simply the guard wall around the perimeter of the Temple Mount, and is of Herodian (Roman) origin standing upon earlier Hasmonean foundations.</p>
<p>The site has religious <a href="http://www.ldolphin.org/chron.html">significance for Christians</a> as well.  After the destruction of the Second Temple, churches were sometimes erected there. When the Muslims conquered the area, they followed the practice <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&amp;_Culture/geo/Mount.html">of building mosques or proclaiming as sacred to Islam</a> the religious sites of other religions.  The Muslim general Umar bin al-Khattab was the second Caliph and led the armies of Islam.  In his writings he expressed scorn for Jerusalem and never acknowledged its sanctity.  When a temporary mosque was erected on the Temple Mount (long pre-dating the current Al-Aqsa mosque structure),  it was placed in the southern edge of the Mount.  A general in the armies of Umar, an ex-Jew who had converted to Islam, pointed out to Umar that placing the mosque in the <em>northern</em> section of the Mount would allow Muslims to pray while facing <em>both</em> the Holy of Holies of the Jews and Mecca.  Umar insisted that it be placed on the <em>southern</em> margin so that Muslims would pray facing Mecca but with their backsides toward the Holy of Holies.  That is where the Al-Aqsa mosque stands today.</p>
<p>Thus, the southern edge of the Mount, that is located above the ruins of what archeologists call Solomon&#8217;s Stables, has religious significance for Muslims.   In the center of the Temple Mount is another structure known as the Dome of the Rock, famous for its golden domed roof.  Some refer to it mistakenly as the &#8220;Mosque of Omar.&#8221;   But the structure is not a mosque at all and has no special religious significance for Muslims.  The problem is that this structure sits exactly on the spot that most (but not all) experts, archeologists and rabbis, believe is where the Holy of Holies once stood.  It also contains the &#8220;Foundation Stone,&#8221; which has religious significance for Judaism.</p>
<p>The Israeli army conquered the Temple Mount in 1967 in the Six Day War, when Israel liberated Jerusalem from the illegal Jordanian occupation.  At the time Israel should have dismantled the &#8220;Dome of the Rock&#8221; and moved it elsewhere, while leaving the Al-Aqsa mosque in peace.  <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/Moshe_Dann/The_Temple_Mount_and_Jewish_Sovereignty/">Muslims could then continue to control</a> and administer everything associated with the mosque.  But doing so did not require Israel to relinquish control over every inch of the Temple Mount.  The Israeli government nevertheless decided to pursue tranquility through appeasement and cowardice (sound familiar?).  Not only would the Muslim religious authority be granted <i>de facto</i> hegemony over the entire Temple Mount, they would also be granted the power to prohibit or restrict entry to it for Jews.</p>
<p>This has been the <i>status quo</i> ever since.  Jews are <a href="http://www.yourjewishnews.com/2013/03/26099.html">often prevented altogether</a> from entering the Mount.  At other times, Jews are permitted some limited access, but under condition <a href="http://www.bhol.co.il/article_en.aspx?id=54335">that they do not pray</a> while on the Mount.  Jews whose lips move quietly while on the Mount <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-arrested-for-temple-mount-prayer/">have been arrested and evicted</a>, motivating a few to learn ventriloquism.  Anyone <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/169098">daring to prostrate themselves</a> while on the Mount in the direction of the Holy of Holies is treated even more harshly.  So here we have the spectacle of the Israeli government backing a prohibition on Jews praying in the holiest site of Judaism for fear of upsetting Muslims.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, serious collateral damage from Israel&#8217;s cowardly decision to maintain Muslim control of the Mount has been <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/02/waqf-ignores-high-court-ruling-continues-to-destroy-temple-mount-artifacts/">the systematic destruction of artifacts</a> and antiquities uncovered on the Mount by the Muslims, <a href="http://hnn.us/node/43379">particularly in cases where</a> the artifacts clearly point to the ancient Jewish presence on the Mount.  Islamic radicals, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=489">including the &#8220;moderates&#8221;</a> from the Palestinian Authority, <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/08/the-mounting-problem-of-temple-denial/">have long denied</a> that there <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/abbas_temple_denial_and_the_distortion_of_history.html">ever were Biblical temples on the site</a>, mountains of overwhelming archeological and historic evidence notwithstanding.  They have destroyed priceless evidence to the contrary. <a href="http://www.echad.info/templemount/jpost22-04-01.html">UNESCO has never uttered</a> a word in protest.  It should be noted that radical Muslims also object to Jews praying at the Western Wall, which they also deny has religious significance for Jews.  Jews at the Wall are regularly assaulted by stone-throwing Muslims on the Mount.</p>
<p>The status of the Temple Mount and the question of public access to it for Jews is further complicated because of some seemingly bizarre and esoteric features of Jewish religious law.  Rabbinic law prohibits Jews from entering the grounds where the Temples stood while they are in a &#8220;state of impurity.&#8221;  The notion of &#8220;state of impurity&#8221; is a Biblical one, where one becomes &#8220;impure&#8221; by having any contact with a dead body, including being present in a cemetery or funeral.  This impurity is not a moral judgment, and in some cases indeed one is commanded to make oneself &#8220;impure&#8221; (such as attending a relative&#8217;s funeral or burying a corpse found in public space), but merely serves as a basis for prohibiting entrance into the Temple for ritualistic purposes.  The Biblical &#8220;cure&#8221; for the impurity using ashes from a special red heifer cannot be used today because no such <i>bona fide</i> animals are available. The bottom line is that according to Jewish rabbinic law itself, Jews may not enter the grounds where the Temple stood, and especially not where the Holy of Holies stood.</p>
<p>On the one hand, the Jewish religious restrictions upon Jews make the politics of the Temple Mount seemingly easier to surmount.  Religious Jews do not seek access to the center of the Mount for religious purposes, the area where the Dome of the Rock now stands.  On the other hand, most of the Temple Mount is clearly outside the grounds of the Biblical Temple, in areas where the &#8220;impure&#8221; may enter, and there is no reason why Jews cannot enter these and conduct prayers there.  (No one is seeking to conduct Jewish religious activities inside the Al-Aqsa mosque!!)  But radical Muslim hegemonists consider this an affront to Islam.  Not only must Jews be denied access to the Temple Mount to &#8220;defend&#8221; the Mosque, but Jews should be denied any sovereignty or presence in Jerusalem altogether.</p>
<p>All of the above puts some results from a recent public opinion poll into proper perspective.  As published in <i>Makor Rishon</i>, July 12, 2013, the vast majority of Israelis oppose construction of a new Temple now, and opposition among religious Jews is even stronger.   Those who say they favor building of the New Temple may actually mean they&#8217;d like the Messiah to show up and order such a move, not that government bureaucrats do so.  No one seems opposed to <a href="http://www.templeinstitute.org/">&#8220;preparing&#8221; for the coming Messianic Age</a> by doing things like tailoring garments for Temple priests, forging Temple trumpets, or learning the rabbinic laws concerning conduct of Temple ritual.  Even the most ornery atheist can find nothing in such things objectionable.   A minority of Israeli Jews favor some preliminary construction for a new Temple building, presumably including dismantling and relocating the Dome of the Rock, but no such proposal is being seriously considered by the government.</p>
<p>Interestingly, a full 72% of Israeli Jews favor partitioning of the territory of the Temple Mount so that Muslim control and administration is restricted to the Al-Aqsa mosque, and where Jews would have access to other parts of the grounds.  A large plurality favor legal initiatives that protect Jewish rights of access to the Mount, including the right to conduct prayers there.</p>
<p>More generally, the entire legal <i>status quo</i> for the Temple Mount, under which Israel relinquishes control to the Muslim religious authorities, serves as yet another reminder that Jewish self-abasement and cowardice do not win Israel any tolerance or goodwill.  The time has come for Israel to make it clear that it will no longer seek peace via gestures of debasement of Jewish dignity nor by auto-suppression of the legitimate religious rights of Jews.  If the Muslim world should ever wish to come to terms with Israel and seek an actual <i>modus vivendi</i>, then it will have to do so with an Israel that insists on the defense of legitimate Jewish religious rights, including their right of access to (at least) parts of the Temple Mount.</p>
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		<title>Muslims Threaten to Slit Jerusalem Cop&#8217;s Throat After Koran Shoe Outrage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>What is it with the Muslim world and shoes anyway? Between all the shoes being thrown and the mortal insult of having to see the bottom of someone else&#8217;s shoe, major sole searching is required.</p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s this incident which is a shoe-in for <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=7803">the most ridiculous Islamic outrage incident</a> of the week.</p>
<blockquote><p>Jerusalem Police is bracing for violence near the Temple Mount on Friday after the spread of an inflammatory internet article claiming that one of its policemen threw a Quran onto the ground and stepped on it.</p>
<p>Muslim Internet forums published photos of an Israeli policeman earlier this week, accusing him of defiling Islam&#8217;s holy book, the Quran. The man serves in the Israel Police&#8217;s religious sites unit, and the website called on Muslims to throw shoes at the man, and to even slit his throat.</p>
<p>The event which sparked the controversy took place this past Sunday. A group of female Muslim worshippers at the entrance to the Temple Mount were disrupting visitors from entering through the Jewish entrance. Police on site attempted to move the group of women and during the ensuing commotion a Quran fell out of one of the women&#8217;s bags.</p>
<p>A police officer standing next to the woman in question became the subject of an intense smear campaign; he was accused of throwing the Quran to the ground, kicking it and even stomping on it. As a result of the ensuing death threats against the policeman, Jerusalem police have had to take measures to ensure his safety.</p></blockquote>
<p>The patently ridiculous spat began when Muslim used their women to try and block Jews from entering their own holy site, which they hijacked with a mosque once they had conquered Jerusalem.</p>
<p>This Muslim act of religious intolerance then led to some faux outrage when the segregators scuffled with police resulting in a Koran on the floor and threats of murder and shoeing.</p>
<p>Having shoes thrown at you up there is not such a big deal, considering that mosque worshipers who have occupied the high ground have been known to hurl showers of rocks. But it&#8217;s just another reminder that Muslims are not very good at sharing sacred spaces with the people that they conquered.</p>
<p>The Koran is a text of Islamic supremacism. Islamists are sensitive to any insult to it, because it is a matter of group pride that elevates them above the infidels.</p>
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		<title>How Hamas is Trying to Claim Victory Over Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 02:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's safe to say that Obama has no plans to visit the Temple Mount. That is why Hamas is pushing the rumor that Obama does plan to go to the Temple Mount and threatening violence if he does.]]></description>
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<p>Obama&#8217;s visit to Israel is likely to be as minimalist as possible. He will undoubtedly make a ritual stop at Yad Vashem, Israel&#8217;s Holocaust memorial, a talking point that he used effectively while debating Romney. And he will find a way to meet with the Palestinian leadership, with the exception of Hamas.</p>
<p>That narrows the scope of Hamas&#8217; point scoring abilities. The Palestinian Authority is already provoking violence in the hopes of being bribed into shutting it down. That has probably already happened behind the scenes. But Hamas wants something bigger. Jerusalem.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s safe to say that Obama has no plans to visit the Temple Mount, a Jewish holy place relating to the Temple eras, which Muslims hijacked by putting up a mosque. No president has ever gone there and no president would for all the obvious reasons. Last time Obama stopped by the Western Wall of the former Temple. He probably won&#8217;t even do that this time.</p>
<p>That is why Hamas is pushing the rumor that Obama does plan to go to the Temple Mount and threatening violence if he does.</p>
<p>If that sounds confusing, welcome to the Middle East.</p>
<p>Hamas needs to throw its weight around. It needs to humiliate America. Muslim countries often pull off ritual humiliations like these without Americans ever being the wiser.</p>
<p>The complete unlikeliness of Obama going to the Temple Mount, in the real world, makes it a perfect piece of propaganda that will allow Hamas to claim that it kept Obama from going to the Temple Mount.</p>
<p>Hamas wouldn&#8217;t be able to get away with it if Obama hadn&#8217;t shown so much weakness as to create the impression that he can be easily pushed around. Since he did, Hamas can score easy points by claiming to have stopped Obama from doing what he wasn&#8217;t going to do anyway.</p>
<p>Of course Hamas isn&#8217;t the only group or individual who pulls stunts like that with Obama.</p>
<p>Just about anyone can do it these days.</p>
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		<title>Islamizing the Temple Mount</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Giulio Meotti]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denying the Jewish people their right to pray at their most holy site.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/temple_mount.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-133426" title="temple_mount" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/temple_mount.jpg" alt="" width="346" height="259" /></a>It’s the House of God. For centuries, Jews have remembered the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem by crushing a glass at weddings or leaving unpainted a patch of wall in their homes. The Temple Mount is the magnificent edifice that has served the faithful as a symbol of God’s glory for 4,000 years. It’s Mount Moriah mentioned in the Book of Genesis. It’s the site where humanity received the gift of monotheism. It’s where God’s “shechina,” or presence, dwelt. Even the secular imagination, Jewish or not, has been shaped by the “Holy of Holies,” the most sacred site of the Jewish people. It’s there that King David raised a sanctuary for the Ark of the Covenant and King Solomon and Herod built the Temples.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: medium;"> </span>The Roman emperor Hadrian covered those ruins with a pagan temple to Jupiter; the Crusaders used it as a garbage dump to defile its Jewish significance and turned the area into a stable for their horses; the Arabs later built their own Islamic holy sites on top of those of their defeated enemy.</p>
<p>Many devout Jews today don’t set foot on the Temple Mount, afraid that they may be stepping on the ground covering the ruins of the Holy of Holies, allowed only to the High Priest on Yom Kippur. That is enough to keep them away. But there are those who believe they have a right to pray on the grounds where the Temple stood, particularly on Tisha be’Av, the anniversary of its destruction (Maimonides too prayed there). Though many respected rabbis forbid praying on the Mount, other very important Jewish leaders permit it. And there is a growing and brave movement, led by Rabbi Yisrael Ariel and Professor Hillel Weiss, which is trying to build awareness among the Israeli public on the Temple Mount. They are leading a historic battle for the rights of the Jews in their most holy site.</p>
<p>In theory, Israel currently controls the Temple Mount. In reality, since 1967, when the Israeli army seized the “holy basin” from Jordanian forces, the Jewish State gave up religious freedom for the Jews. Immediately after the liberation of Jerusalem, then Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan handed over the keys of the Temple Mount to the Waqf, the Muslim religious trust that serves as custodian of the site, which includes four Muslim minarets.</p>
<p>Historically it should be noted that only under Israeli rule was the site open for everyone, Muslims, Christians and Jews. The Islamic Waqf is now attempting to deliberately destroy all evidence of Jewish claims to this site, while using terror and intimidation to impose its exclusive claim to the sacred mountain. The Waqf has proceeded on two fronts: de-Judaize the Mount by archeological destruction and to Islamize it by preventing the Jews from praying there.</p>
<p>Freedom of worship for all religions, including free access to the holy places of all faiths, has always been a cardinal principle of Israel. And by and large, Israel has honored this principle, even under extremely difficult circumstances. It is ironic that Judaism’s holiest site should be the only place in Israel where this principle is violated.</p>
<p>Nothing justifies the infringement of religious rights to the Temple Mount. That infringement undermines respect for the rule of law in Israel by making a mockery of the law that guarantees freedom for all faiths. The Islamic Waqf has removed every sign of ancient Jewish presence at the site. At the entrance, an Arab sign says: “The Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard and everything in it is Islamic property.” Today, Jews are barred from praying on the Mount and are not even allowed to carry any holy articles with them. With Muslim clerics supervising visits, Israeli police have frequently arrested Jews for various violations, such as singing or reciting a prayer even in a whisper.</p>
<p>A few days ago Israeli police issued new draconian instructions for non-Muslims who ascend to the Mount. Non-Muslims are now not even permitted to close their eyes while on the Mount or do anything that could be interpreted as praying. Jewish women have been arrested following claims by police and Waqf officials that they were praying on Temple Mount.</p>
<p>Why is it a crime for a Jew to mention God’s name on Temple Mount? And why is the State of Israel complicit in enforcing this anti-Semitic rule?</p>
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		<title>Jerusalem: The Heart &amp; Soul of the Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yedidya Atlas]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exposing the Palestinian cause to de-judaize the mostly religiously important Jewish city. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/western-wall-jerusalem-day-33.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125954" title="western-wall-jerusalem-day-33" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/western-wall-jerusalem-day-33.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>Last month Qatar hosted representatives from Islamic countries attending the &#8220;International Conference for the Defence of Occupied Jerusalem.” Supposedly they convened to discuss “the legal status of Jerusalem before and after the Israeli occupation, the reality and the future of Jerusalem under occupation, and the status of the holy places under international law.” The real reason, the Islamic reason, was to perpetuate the lie that Jerusalem is not Jewish.</p>
<p>It was no surprise that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the notorious Holocaust denier, or Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi, whose organization’s 22<sup>nd</sup> summit in 2010 approved the conference, among other Muslim political luminaries, attended. It was even par for the course that the UN representative Robert Serry attended to give official UN backing to the Big Lie on Arab-Muslim Jerusalem. Nor was it a bombshell that Kenneth Insley, Jr., who was listed as “consultant” to the US Department of State, attended also delivering a speech in support of the aforementioned Islamic mythological history of Jerusalem. (To date, the State Department has failed to explain whether or not Mr. Insley, a known promoter of anti-Israel hatred, was there on behalf of the US government as the conference billing listed him.)</p>
<p>But the primary thrust of the conference was just another in a long line of Islamic attempts to throw the sands of confusion and deception in the minds eyes of Western policy makers and the Western media. The purpose: to cause the aforementioned Western fellow travelers to participate and support the Islamic re-writing of Jerusalem’s history.</p>
<p>The reason that Jerusalem is so important to Muslims is because it actually is important to the Jews. After all, when East Jerusalem with the Old City and the Temple Mount was occupied by the Arab and Islamic Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from 1949 until 1967, Jerusalem was not important to the same Arab/Islamic leaders who subsequently shed crocodile tears over the loss of Jerusalem following Israel’s liberating Eastern Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War. During the 19 years of Jordanian occupation, for example, the King of Saudi Arabia, PLO chieftain Yasser Arafat, et al., never once visited Jerusalem, never felt the need to go up to the Temple Mount and pray at the mosque. Moreover, those Muslims who do pray at the “al-Aqsa Mosque” built on the Temple Mount turn their backs to the mosque and face Mecca. Why? Because Jerusalem, as we will see from a brief historical review, means nothing per se to Muslims except in relation to the city’s importance to their declared enemies: Jews and Christians, those “People of the Book.”</p>
<p>Anyone who is conversant at all with Biblical history and archeology, as well as more than three millennia of Jewish law and traditions, knows the unique and central role Jerusalem plays in Judaism. Jews have always prayed towards Jerusalem, and in Jerusalem, they pray towards the Temple Mount. Jews have mourned the destruction of both the First and Second Temples for upwards of 2,000 years, and pray daily for the ultimate rebuilding of the Third Temple in Messianic times. The Passover Hagaddah (also read by President Obama in the White House, according to his latest AIPAC speech), as does the Yom Kippur service, concludes with the phrase, “Next year in Jerusalem.” One of the 18 benedictions in the primary Jewish prayer (the “Amida” or “Shemona Esrei”) recited three times daily by religious Jews is the prayer to return and rebuild Jerusalem as of old. Since the days of King David, Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish state.</p>
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<p>Islamist fascism has a problem.  It is that traditional Islam, and the Koran in particular, explicitly acknowledge that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people.  The war of Islamofascism against Israel and its population thus directly contradicts the teachings about Jews and Israel found in the Koran itself.  The Islamofascists, however, have found a solution to this dilemma.  And they are being provided with this “solution” by a notorious Jewish anti-Semite.</p>
<p>Let me explain.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.templemount.org/quranland.html">Koran itself is extraordinarily clear</a> about the status of the Land of Israel in Islam.   While in general criticizing Jews for their supposed sinfulness, something the Jewish Bible does quite a lot of also, <a href="http://www.thejc.com/judaism/judaism-features/what-koran-says-about-land-israel">the Koran relates</a> in Sura 5:21, that Moses (a revered teacher in Islam) tells the Jews to &#8220;enter into the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you.&#8221;   Moses adds to his people, according the Koran:</p>
<blockquote><p>“O my people!  Remember the bounty of  God upon you  when  He bestowed  prophets upon you , and  made  you  kings and gave you that which  had not been given to  anyone before you amongst  the nations. O my people!  Enter the Holy Land which God has written for you, and do not turn tail, otherwise you will be losers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Elsewhere (Sura 17, 104) the Koran proclaims: &#8220;And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: &#8216;Dwell securely in the Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together in a mingled crowd.&#8217;&#8221;   The founder of modern Zionism, Theodore Herzl, could not have said it better.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://jmm.aaa.net.au/favicon.ico">legitimacy of Jewish claims to the Land of Israel</a> is repeated in Sura 10:93-94<span style="text-decoration: underline;">: </span></p>
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<blockquote><p>“We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling-place (Israel)&#8230;If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The Koran also explicitly documents the existence of the Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.  Sura 17:7 records the destruction of the First Jewish Temple by Babylon and the Second Temple by Rome, and Mohammed never contests the Bible&#8217;s claim that the Temples were in Jerusalem. Indeed, the return of the Jews to their homeland after centuries of exile can be seen as the fulfillment <em>of Islamic</em> prophecy. Sura 17:104 of the Koran says: “And we said to the Children of Israel afterwards,  ‘Go live into this land (Israel). When the final prophecy comes to pass, we will summon you all in one group.&#8217;”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://97.74.65.51/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13587">noted by Prof. Khaleel Mohammed</a><em>, </em>from the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego  State University, the medieval exegetes of the Koran – roughly analogous to the Talmud for Judaism – recognize Israel as belonging to the Jews, as their birthright given to them by God.  Two of Islam’s most famous exegetes explained thus: ‘Ibn Kathir said: “That which God has written for you, i.e. that which God has promised to you by the words of your father Israel that it is the inheritance of those among you who believe.”  Muhammad al-Shawkani interprets Kataba to mean “that which God has allotted and predestined for you in His primordial knowledge, deeming it as a place of residence for you.”’</p>
<p>From the above, one would think that Islamofascism faces a theological quandary in its attempts at conscripting Islam for a genocidal jihad against Israel and the Jews.   But Islamofacsists have invented a solution.  They can <em>jihad</em> all they want against Israel and the Jews, Islamic theology notwithstanding, because they claim that the Jews … are not the Jews.  If modern Jews are really not Jews at all, then Israel is not a country of Jews, and so Israelis have no rights to sovereignty in their own homeland as promised in the Koran.</p>
<p>So just why are modern Jews not Jews, in the pseudo-theology of the <em>jihadis</em>?  Because the Islamofascists are recycling the old mythology about European Jews or “Ashkenazim” being nothing more than converted Khazars.  And the new guru of the “Jews-Not-Being-Jews” hoax is none other than Tel Aviv University history professor Shlomo Sand.</p>
<p>To explain this mind-numbing development, let’s take a few steps back.  Yes<a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21499/The_Khazar_Myth_and_the_New_Anti-Semitism.html">, there was indeed a Kingdom</a> of Turkic peoples living north of the Black Sea in the Dark Ages called the Khazars, and – yes – its ruling family and part of its population did convert to Judaism.  The Khazar kingdom was largely destroyed by the expanding Russian kingdom in the tenth century, and anything remaining was destroyed in the Mongol invasions.  What actually became of the Jewish Khazars is unknown.  Some may have integrated themselves into other Jewish communities in the Middle  East, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>Later a myth was created about the Khazars being an important component of European Jewry.  This myth was to a large extent the invention of the 1976 book, <em>The Thirteenth Tribe</em> by Arthur Koestler, a writer better known for his lifelong battles against totalitarianism in all its forms.  Koestler wrote his book largely in order to create interest and sympathy for Jews and Israel, believing the Khazar story would serve as a basis for respect and fascination with Jewish history.  In reality, there is very little evidence of any type, from genetic markers to family and place names, that there is any significant Khazar “blood” among Western or Ashkenazi Jews.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Koestler’s public relations ploy backfired.  In recent years, the Khazar myth <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21499/The_Khazar_Myth_and_the_New_Anti-Semitism.html">has been hijacked</a> by Neo-Nazis and Islamofascists to invent a racialist argument against Jews being entitled to self-determination, independence, or a homeland in the Land of Israel.  If Jews are nothing more than converted Khazars, or so goes the argument of the anti-Semitic racialists, then they are foreign interlopers in the Levant and have no right to statehood there.</p>
<p>Now, as a matter of fact, even if the Khazar myth <em>were true</em>, and Ashkenazi Jews <em>were</em> descendent from converted Khazars (and – we repeat &#8211; the myth is NOT true!), it still would not make the slightest difference.  Jews never defined themselves in genetic or racial terms.  They always saw themselves as an ethnic group marked off by religion, tradition, and language.  Converts are just as Jewish as are those born to a Jewish mother and just as entitled to participate in Jewish self-determination.  And, to top it all off, most Israeli Jews are not even Ashkenazi Jews.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the popularity of the Khazar myth among anti-Semites represents a return of modern anti-Jewish bigotry to the racialism of the 1930&#8242;s and earlier.</p>
<p>Nearly every anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi website denounces Zionists and Israelis as &#8220;Khazars.&#8221;  Web chat lists in which Jews defending Israel are dismissed as &#8220;Khazar usurpers&#8221; are too numerous to count.</p>
<p>The racialism once again in vogue holds that Jews would only have legitimate claims to the right of self-determination in their homeland if they were appropriately Semitic from a racial point of view.  Palestine is part of the Semitic racial <em>lebensraum</em> and those who do not possess the correct pure racial markings have no business being there.  Racial purity is suddenly the new basis for national rights.</p>
<p>If we take the racialist argument to its illogical conclusions, Palestinian Arabs have the right to exercise all claims to sovereignty in Israel due to their being true racial Jews, while Zionists are non-Jewish Khazars &#8211; racial imposters and usurpers.  But to make things even sillier, Arabs themselves are, of course, a mix of racial strains, with a particularly large Caucasian component thanks to Arab intermixing with Spanish and Italian Europeans, Caucasian Berbers, Vandals, Goths, and even some Vikings.</p>
<p>Lest the world dismiss “Khazar Zionist” nonsense as something as pathetic as the conspiracist “911-Truth” form of mental illness, along comes an anti-Semitic pseudo-academic from Tel Aviv University itself to lead the racialist charge against the Israeli “Khazars” and against Jewish self-determination.   <a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/faculty/sand_shlomo">Professor Shlomo Sand</a> is a hard-core Stalinist <a href="http://www.google.com/cse?cx=003938713500856905333:ghdjn7wl9zu&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=shlomo+sand&amp;siteurl=www.google.com/cse/home?cx=003938713500856905333:ghdjn7wl9zu">and Jewish anti-Semite</a>.  He was active for a while in the 1960s and 1970s in a tiny Israeli Maoist splinter named <em>Matzpen</em>.  From its ranks emerged an espionage ring of Israeli Jewish and Arab communists, <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,906703,00.html">who trained as terrorists in Syria</a> and were jailed by Israel in the 1970s.  Writing mainly in French, Sand has built much of his “academic” career on churning out Marxist boilerplate diatribes.  He is a fanatic anti-Zionist and makes no attempt to hide his desire to see his own country obliterated.</p>
<p>Sand last year recruited himself to the aid of the Islamists seeking to annihilate Israel.  So the Koran says the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews?  In that case, Sand himself, a professor at Tel Aviv University, will recycle Neo-Nazi mythology about Israeli Jews being converted Khazar interlopers.  The result was Sand’s book, <em>The Invention of the Jewish People</em>, a pseudo-history published in English by <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/favicon.ico">Verso Books</a>, a publishing house set up by “<a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/">New Left Review</a>,” specializing in communist and Bash-Israel “books.”</p>
<p>Sand’s book about Jews being a fraudulent “invention” is amazingly un-original.  If submitted as a student paper I suspect it would be rejected as plagiarism of the contents of anti-Jewish web sites.   Sand’s book has been hailed as ground-breaking scholarship by Neo-Nazis, jihadists, terrorist web sites, anti-Semites and communists of all stripes.  <a href="http://www.isracampus.org.il/Extra%20Files/Anita%20Shapira%20-%20Shlomo%20Sand%20book%20review.pdf">Serious historians have dismissed it</a> as pseudo-academic poppycock, as <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999386.html">fraud</a>, and as little more than <a href="http://forward.com/articles/108457/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&amp;utm_content=70937483&amp;utm_campaign=July+3,+2009+_+ijktul&amp;utm_term=Opinion:+Jewish+Peoplehood+Denied,+While+Israel%E2%80%99s+Foes+Applaud">a comic book recycling</a> of Neo-Nazi myths about Jews being Khazars.  Sand’s conclusions from the imaginary “evidence” about the Khazar roots of Israelis resemble those of his <em>jihadi</em> groupies, namely, that Israel has no right to exist and that Jews are not Jews at all, certainly not any sort of a people.  Tel Aviv University has won for itself the dubious honor of serving as home base for arguably the world’s worst “academic” anti-Semite, and has raised questions all over the globe about the academic standards it has obviously abandoned.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, we have grown accustomed in our 21<sup>st</sup> century to the bizarre collaboration between Islamist fundamentalists and far-leftists.  Even so, one cannot help marvelling at the spectacle of an Israeli Stalinist professor devoting himself so passionately to prolierating the myths required by Islamofascist fundamentalists, and by so doing grant them the means for ignoring the Koran itself.</p>
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