Is It Time For G-d To Destroy The Al-Aqsa Mosque?

Abbas Vows to End Jewish “Contamination” of Temple Mount

By Lea Speyer November 12, 2014 , 11:32 am

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“There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.” (Proverbs 6:16-19)

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas (C) visits the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of Arafat’s death on November 11, 2014 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/POOL/Flash90)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned Tuesday that he and fellow Palestinians would not allow Jews to “contaminate” the Temple Mount, adding that allowing Jewish prayer at the site would result in a global “religious war.”

In a speech given to thousands at a gathering commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, Abbas warned that the Israeli government was attempting to change the status quo on the Temple Mount.

“Keep the settlers and the extremists away from Al-Aqsa and our holy places,” Abbas stated.

“We will not allow our holy places to be contaminated. Keep them away from us and we will stay away from them, but if they enter Al-Aqsa, we will protect Al-Aqsa and the church and the entire country,” he added. .

Abbas defended the violent riots perpetrated by Muslim “heroes” at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, saying that they “have a right to defend themselves and the holy places.”

He further stated that no Muslim or Christian would ever recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “The Muslim and Christian worlds will never accept Israel’s claims that Jerusalem belongs to them. The Jerusalem that was occupied in 1967 belongs to us,” Abbas declared.

The Temple Mount is one of the most hotly contested religious sites in the world. The holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest in Israel, Jews are forbidden from praying on the Mount. Israel captured the Temple Mount in 1967 from Jordan but allowed the Muslim Waqf to remain in control of the area.

 

Over the last several weeks, Israeli security officials have had to chase rioters fleeing into the Al-Aqsa Mosque itself. Stone throwing and Molotov cocktail attacks have become commonplace on the Temple Mount.

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeated several times that he does not intend to change the status quo on the Temple Mount, Abbas and fellow Palestinian leaders continue to incite violence against Israel.

“Israel’s leaders are making a big mistake if they think they can turn back history, to impose a reality, and to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque as they divided the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron,” Abbas stated, referring to the Cave of the Patriarchs which has both Jewish and Muslim prayer.

Abbas promised that he would present a resolution to the UN Security Council by the end of this month to force Israel to withdraw from parts of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria by November 2016. He said that “no pressure” would deter him.

On Oct. 30, 2014, a Palestinian rock thrower targets Israeli police in Jerusalem’s Abu Tor neighborhood, near the house of the Palestinian man suspected of attempting to assassinate Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick. (Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In a response to Abbas’s claims, Netanyahu accused the Palestinian president of spreading “lies” about Israel and for fueling “wild incitement” and violence among Israeli Arabs and Palestinians.

“Today, Abu Mazen [Abbas] has again proven that he is irresponsible,” Netanyahu said at a press conference. “Instead of calming the situation he is inflaming it. Instead of speaking the truth, he is disseminating lies to the effect that we intend, or are operating in some way, to change the status of the holy places – this is a gross lie.”

The prime minister announced new measures that will be taken by Israel to stem the wave of violence that has spread from East Jerusalem across the country.

“We are in the midst of a campaign of incitement and terrorist directed against the State of Israel and its citizens,” Netanyahu said. “This campaign has continued since the foundation of the state and even before then. We have defeated terrorism until today and we will defeat it this time as well.”

Among the new directives issued by the prime minister, increased numbers of security forces will be deployed across the country, the demolition of terrorists’ homes will resume, and harsher measures against rioters are to be adopted.

“We will take a firm hand against those who throw stones, Molotov cocktails, and of course fireworks,” he said. “We will outlaw organizations that are fomenting the situation in Jerusalem.”

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/24232/abbas-vows-to-end-jewish-contamination-of-temple-mount/#OY9byLtw4jUtbGbO.99

Terror Comes In Many Versions

Stone Throwing Is Also Terror

Michael Freund - The Jewish Press,  March 20th, 2013

As I write these words, a Jewish toddler injured in a Palestinian terror attack is lying in a hospital bed struggling for her life.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on March 14, Adwa Biton and her three young daughters were driving along Route 5 near Ariel in Samaria. They were on their way home after the girls had paid a visit to their grandmother when a group of Palestinians along the side of the road began hurling stones at Israeli vehicles.

Our ostensible peace partners scored a direct hit when one of their projectiles struck a truck, which swerved off course and collided with Biton's vehicle. The car was crushed under the weight of the truck, and it took rescue workers nearly half an hour to extricate the family.

When they did, they discovered that two-year-old Adelle Biton was not breathing and required mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Somehow, they managed to revive her, though she was in critical condition. Her two sisters, six-year-old Naama and four-year-old Avigail, as well as her mother, were all moderately injured.

This horrific incident, which left an innocent child on the brink of death, was nothing less than an act of terror. No bullets were involved nor were any bombs detonated, but that does not in any way make it less cruel or heartless.

After all, when a Palestinian picks up a stone and throws it at an Israeli vehicle, he is not expressing outrage or protesting against some perceived wrongdoing. He is making a conscious decision to grab hold of a potentially deadly object and send it hurtling through the air in order to cause bodily harm.

This is not about a group of kids tossing pebbles on the water at the beach. It is a group of thugs trying to terrorize people and intimidate them from making safe use of the roads. And it must be stopped.

Indeed, in recent weeks there has been a sharp upswing in the number of Palestinian rock-throwing attacks against Israelis, though you would never know it from reading the mainstream press, much of which has spoken vaguely of “growing tension” in the region without bothering to mention the attacks.

At around the same time as the attack on the Biton family, Palestinians near the Jewish community of Eli in Samaria stoned an Israeli vehicle and injured a one-year-old baby boy, causing him light injuries from which he is expected to recover.

And in a third rock attack that same evening, Palestinians stoned an Israeli bus heading to Tel Aviv. When the windows smashed, glass went flying through the air, wounding Aviva Hazan, the wife of a former Likud Knesset Member, in the eye.

This situation is simply intolerable and cannot be allowed to continue. Stone throwing may be low-tech terrorism, but terrorism it most assuredly is. And it is time for the Israeli government and army to treat it as such.

To begin with, Israel should impose harsher sentences on Palestinian stone-throwers and classify their actions not as “disturbing public order” but as “terror.” Likewise, the rules of engagement need to be revised in order to give Israeli troops greater freedom to use force against Palestinians hurling rocks.

And video cameras should be installed along key routes throughout Judea and Samaria in order to make it easier to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice swiftly.

Such measures will deter Palestinians from taking to the roadside, amassing an armory of rocks, and targeting innocent Israelis. If they know their actions will be taken seriously and punished acutely, they will think twice before engaging in such brazen acts.

Israel must take steps to ensure that those who raise a hand against Israelis, whether holding a rifle or a rock, will be dealt with accordingly.