Posted on 12/29/2013 3:16:22 AM PST by markomalley
In June 1967, Israeli paratroopers entered Jerusalem's Old City after Israel's miraculous victory in the Six-Day War. The Old City had been under Jordanian control for nineteen years, an era of wanton destruction of synagogues and of ethnic cleansing of all Jews from the Old City. The paratroopers made their prayerful way to the Temple Mount, the holiest piece of ground in all Judaism, site of the First and Second Great Temples and, by tradition, the ark itself. Three paratroopers climbed to the top of the Dome of The Rock (built atop the former Second Temple) and unfurled the Israeli flag for the first time. Four hours later, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan ordered the flag taken down. Then, in one of the most incomprehensible acts in Jewish history, Dayan handed over the entire Temple Mount to the Muslims, to be administered by the Waqf, the Jordanian Muslim religious trust. And thus it remains.
Dayan told his critics that he committed this act of ignominy to protect against the building of a Third Temple, which pious Jews indeed pray for…
Meanwhile, and not surprisingly, in the Muslim grand scheme to erase Jews from all of Jerusalem, since 1967 things have steadily gotten worse at the Mount. Jews are allowed only limited access to the Mount, and are strictly forbidden to pray there. If a Jew is seen so much as moving his lips while there, he runs the risk of being attacked, pelted with rocks and other missiles, and will very likely be arrested -- by the Israeli police…
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Details about the questions and decisions behind giving up the Temple Mount from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
http://jcpa.org/jpsr/s99-yc.htm
Comment withheld as I can never understand the Jewish mind in their religion.
If the Jews cared nothign about the Temple Mount - then the moslems would have already sold them the land or it would a wreck...the only reason moslems hold this place as “value” is to have a reason to emotionally stir violence...
Dayan told his critics that he committed this act of ignominy to protect against the building of a Third Temple....
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Why would he want to prevent such? Pardon my ignorance.
The Muslims only want that which other religions crave.
The Muslim is not about love or forgiveness
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