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| Arab Mk: Temple Mount Not Holy To Jews |
| 2014-10-14 |
| [IsraelTimes] The Temple Mount is not holy to Jews, and they should not be allowed to visit the site, MK Taleb Abu Arar (Ra'am-Ta'al) told a Jewish activist on Friday. "It should be closed all the time to Jews because they have no business there," Abu Arar wrote in an email to Tom Nisani (Hebrew link), who had written MKs to complain that the site was closed to Jews last week by Israeli authorities as a measure to prevent altercations with Paleostinians on the site. Writing in the name of "Students for the Temple Mount," Nisani wrote the MKs demanding that they "act with the police and the government to correct the injustice." "I wrote before Shabbat to all 120 Members of Knesset to advise them of the injustice of the Temple Mount's (repeated) hermetic closure to Jews and tourists, [which happened] without explanation and without notice," Nisani wrote on Facebook on Saturday. "This is how an MK in the state of Israel, Taleb Abu Arar, chose to respond a short time later," Nisani added, attaching an image of the email response from Abu Arar. "In his opinion, if I was born a Jew I have no right to go to the Temple Mount compound." "So long as the state of Israel continues to permit the denial of its foundations and very existence, [they] will continue to eat away at its illusory sovereignty and harm its future. No more turning a blind eye. No more racism," wrote Nisani. Reached by The Times of Israel on Monday, Abu Arar confirmed he had written the note. "The Al-Aqsa Mosque, which sits on 144 dunams, is holy for Moslems, not Jews. Jews should find their holy places elsewhere until the coming of the messiah, as their rabbis say. I don't recognize the name Temple Mount. The Jews have nothing to look for there," he said. The site has seen repeated festivities between Paleostinian rioters and police over Jewish visits to the site, especially during the Jewish Sukkot holiday this week. On Monday, dozens of Arab rioters, primarily young men, were holed up in the Al-Aqsa Mosque atop the mount. The site was closed to Jewish visitors since the middle of last week, but reopened Monday morning. "Every day Israel causes unnecessary conflict and provocations by letting Jews go up there," Abu Arar charged. "I know and believe that it's the Al-Aqsa Mosque, holy to Moslems and not to Jews. The Mughrabi gate [from which non-Moslems can enter the site] has to be closed to Jews." If there were even "a 1% chance that [the site might be] holy to Jews, I wouldn't get involved. There are many holy places to Jews where we don't intervene. But this is holy to Moslems. The [Jews'] entry to it is enflaming the region. We don't want conflict," he said. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... a Jewish MK, Likud's Moshe Feiglin, visited the site Monday and called for the removal of the protesters. "The Temple Mount must be completely cleared of the savage mob, which must not be allowed a foothold or 'holy' places of refuge," he wrote, referring to the mosque on the site's southern edge where the protesters were holed up. Despite the protests, "hundreds of Jews are finally going up to the mountain in joy," Feiglin wrote on Facebook. "Through them, the exclusive illusory sovereignty on the mountain will be returned to the people of Israel, and the state of Israel will invite every Jew to go and pray [there]." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Good to know. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-14 08:55 |