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| Miscreants Misbehave On Temple Mount, Police Insert Themselves | |||
| 2014-11-06 | |||
| [Ynet] Holy site closed, then reopened as right-wing Jewish activists waited to enter to hold prayer vigil for shooting victim Yehuda Glick; Paleostinians throw rocks and launch fireworks at police, one Paleostinian maimed The Temple Mount compound was closed to visitors on Wednesday morning shortly after Paleostinians clashed with security forces, throwing rocks and launching fireworks, as a large group of right-wing activists waited at the entrance to the holy site. One Paleostinian was maimed in the festivities. The site was reopened shortly after, highlighting its volatile nature, as tensions between Jews, Arabs and security forces rise. The right-wing activists came to the site to conduct a prayer vigil for the quick wellbeing of Yehuda Glick, a right-wing activist who was shot last week. Glick is one of the leaders of a movement seeking to enable Jews to pray at the Temple Mount, currently only permitted to Moslems, and he was shot outside of a conference which centered on the issue. As the door of the visitors' entrance opened, masked Paleostinians began throwing stones and fireworks at the area which was surrounded by massive police forces, and a 'battery' of fireworks aimed at the security forces' entrance was also fired as they fled into the mosque. One Paleostinian was maimed during the festivities, and while he was being evacuated to a Red Islamic Thingy ambulance awaiting him, Paleostinian youths attempted to use the opportunity to enter the compound, but were blocked by security forces. MK Hanin Zoabi (Balad) and MK Ibrahim Sarsur (Raam-Taal) arrived at the Temple Mount on Wednesday morning as part of a tour by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel and were denied entrance along with the rest of the group. Police forces entered the compound, as the rioters fled to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, from which they continued to pelt the police with stones, light fireworks and spray police with fire extinguishers. After initially deciding to close the area to visitors, and then reopening the area, Jerusalem police decided to lift the checkpoints slowing the Moslem entrance to the area, but the rioters continued to target the police, lighting maimed a few. Assaf Freed, an advocate of Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount, said to Ynet, "We came to the Temple Mount to say we are not scared and we will not give in to terror, a week after the dark liquidation attempt Yehuda Glick. "If they came to harm one Yehuda Glick, there will be thousands of Jews here. We asked police to let us enter in big groups, but I was told that it depends on the evaluation of the situation," Freed said. Freed added that the activists intended arrive "with masks in the image of Yehuda Glick. It's not a provocation.
The flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque and adjacent neighborhoods have seen months of violence, with the mosque compound a rallying point for Paleostinian resistance to perceived Jewish attempts to take control of it.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Time for Israel to do some "urban remodeling" and remove the Al Aqsa mosque from Jerusalem's skyline. Just bulldoze it flat with tanks, and machine-gun the muzzies that try to stop it. These people need a good axehandle upside the head to get them to behave. If they won't behave after that, shoot them. They're useless to the civilized world anyway. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-11-06 14:30 |