This is why there will never be a full peace with the Palestinians.
Israel suggests joint control over the Temple Mount complex. The Palestinians then use that to foment more attacks.
The head of the Islamic Movement’s northern branch, Sheikh Ra’ad Salah, said on Saturday that Israel is trying to forcibly divide the Al-Aqsa mosque between Jews and Muslims, Israel Radio reported.
The report also quoted Salah as saying that anyone trying to resist this effort by Israel risks being arrested or even killed “in cold blood.”
He referenced as an example Ahmed Hatib, who stole a gun from a guard last week in Jerusalem’s Old City, and was killed in an ensuing gunfight with another guard.
And then they return to the fiction that Jerusalem has Islamic roots, and no Jewish connection. Forget that it’s the city of the Jews. No, that’s all lies. King David? Muslim. King Solomon? Muslim. That Jesus guy? Another Muslim. Not Jews. All Muslims.
Speaking at a convention in East Jerusalem, Salah also said that the Israeli establishment is systematically attempting to Judaize the city, and disconnect it from its Palestinian surroundings in order to easily transfer its Arab population.
The myth of transfer now, too. So what should we do, then?
Salah said, according to the radio report, that Israel’s goal is to turn Jerusalem into a “nonnegotiable” issue, and called on Arabs to protect the mosque and not to surrender.
I don’t see how this will ever change. Generations of Muslims have been raised to hate Israel and Jews, and have grown up on lie that Jerusalem was a Muslim city. And especially the lie that their mosques are not on our holiest site.
The Islamicization of Israel continues apace.
I say: “Blow the Dome and rebuild the Temple. Could the Muslims hate you more than they already do?” But then it’s probably good I’m not in charge.
So let it turn out to be correct rather than a myth. After all, Be careful what you wish for, you may get it
We will have the third temple built there anyway, might as well be sooner than later.
You might find this of interest. It has a number of links to the Qur’an where it says Muslims should read the Torah and the Bible, and the Qur’an confirmed the validity of these earlier books.
I should hope so.
While it’s happening slowly, Jerusalem is being encircled by Jewish communities, and once the ring is complete, we should consider ways of thinning out the Muslim population inside that ring.
Forget thinning out the Muslim population inside the ring, let’s consider ways to thin out the Muslim population around the world. We had no problem fighting the evils of Naziism, Fascism, and Tojoism, we can’t we do the same thing with the evils of Islamism? Wasn’t Albert Einstein a Jew? Perhaps we could apply some of his “equations” to the problem…
How many Jews and Synagogues are there in Arab lands?
How many Muslims and Mosques are there in Israel?
The answer to this basic question seems to be oblivious to the anti-Israel crowd.
Between 1948 and 1967 Jews could not even visit our holiest site the Western Wall in Jerusalem, all traces of Judaism were desecrated and the rest of the world did not give a damn.
Jews are not allowed to be citizens or buy land in Jordan, can you imagine the outcry if Israel did the same to its Muslim population?
The hypocrisy is @#$%$ pathetic
Bob said:
I say: “Blow the Dome and rebuild the Temple. Could the Muslims hate us more than they already do?â€
(slightly edited, but the core idea has been left intact.)
Thank you, Bob. You are so right!
Some other things we should do…
First, stop expecting help from America. Because, in case you’ve not been paying attention, America is no longer as pro-Israel as it once was. It’s drifting away. Review what the current crop of Presidental candidates are saying. Because, among the major candidates, (both Democrats and Republicans,) I count only three candidates as being distinctly pro-Israel. Sorry, I wish it were otherwise.
Second, near-term American anti-semitism is likely to be in the form of another Jim Baker, (a past sec./state,) not that he’ll not act openly, only very quietly, For example, probably Israel will be told to change it’s conduct vis such-and-such a matter or military assistance will be withheld. This has already happened several times previously. I know this for a fact under the first Bush administration and I am pretty sure that such incidents also occurred under Clinton, (The first Bush admin, SAID THIS publicly. It was no secret at the time. The issue involved US loan guarrantees with US banks.)
So what should Israel do?
Develop military responses that don’t require massive support and don’t depend on US aid.
For one example, use fuel-air bombs. This would have made the Hamas folks more than a little uncomfortable during their recent (2006,) engagements with Israel. More martyrs. (They should thank us!)
Also, more unconventional attacks. (And ignore the UN. When they are fair we can listen.)
Aslo, we should announce a policy that muslim violence will cost them in the future, and every time we lose someone in the country legally (IE, a citizen or a visitor,) it will cost them say, ten acres of land from Gaza or the West Bank.
And major incidents, such as bombings, should cost them important locations, such as the Temple mount.
So look, I’m a lot older than most of the people posting here. And on other matters we would disagree. (Hey, our God doesn’t make cookies, all alike — he makes individuals.)
And acting on these positions will cost Israel. In the most critical way. The lives of Jewish people.
And while the cost for me to say these things is very low, the cost to the IDF could be substantial.
Still, we do have God’s promises to favor us and we can expect him to keep his word. (I think the IDF’s problems in 2006 were from a single root cause — we had just given part of Israel away. Let’s not do this again!)
The nature of being Jewish has never been to be agressive or mean. Which is why so many times in the past we have been caught unprepared and, in many situations, utterly defenseless. Which is why should try to keep our IDF strong.
Bob’s suggestion to “blow the dome” and rebuild the Temple seems a bit rash to me.
Leave at least one wall (perhaps, the eastern wall) standing, and charge admission.