[Ynet] After holy site sees violent festivities and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, political leader calls on Moslems to defend mosque, large rally held in Gazoo.Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
suggested Jews should be banned from a holy site revered by both Jews and Moslems after hundreds of Paleostinians in Gazoo participated in a Hamas-organized rally Friday over Jerusalem's flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque, the scene of recurring festivities between Israeli security forces and Paleostinians in recent days.
Leaving mosques after prayers in Gazoo City, they rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud pledging to defend the mosque and waved green flags, the color of the Islamist movement Hamas, the de facto ruler of Gazoo. The rally was also attended by other Paleostinian factions, including the Lion of Islam Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, called on "our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank to defend al-Aqsa."
Police Spokeswoman Luba Samri said 5,000 people participated in Friday's prayers at al-Aqsa, which passed without event. Police had barred men under the age of 50 from accessing the holy site to prevent disturbances.
Abbas made the comments following recent festivities between Paleostinian worshippers and Israeli forces over what Paleostinians see as Jewish encroachment on the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Moslems as the Noble Sanctuary.
Abbas said Jews should be prevented from entering the site "by any means," adding that "this is our Noble Sanctuary... they have no right to enter and desecrate it."
Paleostinians also say Israel is unfairly restricting access at the site. Israel limited male Moslem worshippers this past week to those 50 years old and older due to recent violence there.
The site is the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam.
On Thursday, Hamas political leader, Khaled Mashal, called for Moslems to defend the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, saying Israel was trying to seize the site, which is revered in both Islam and Judaism.
Mashal, speaking in the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i capital Doha where he lives, said: "We call on all our people inside the country to hurry up to al-Aqsa to defend it."
On Wednesday, four Paleostinians were tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
following festivities with police at the Old City site.
Two days earlier, demonstrators clashed with security officers when non-Moslems were to visit the site.
The site is the scene of frequent tensions and also houses the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine.
It is revered by Jews, who call it the Temple Mount, as the location of the biblical Jewish temples and considered Judaism's holiest place.
Non-Moslem visits to Al-Aqsa complex are permitted and regulated by police, but Jews are not allowed to pray at the site for fear it could trigger major disturbances. Instead, Jews pray at the Western Wall below.
Moslems fear Jewish presence on Al-Aqsa is aimed at usurping the site.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that "Israel is committed to maintaining the status quo" there.