‘Terrorists Control a Portion of the Mount of Olives’

INN ^ | 10/26/2014, 10:25 AM | Ido Ben Porat, Cynthia Blank

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Jerusalem City Council Member, Arieh King, visited the Mount of Olives Saturday night, and returned from the trip shaken.

“The Israeli government has decided to abandon the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives and in recent weeks, terrorists have taken control of large parts of the mountain,” King wrote of the ancient site on his Facebook page.

Several weeks ago, the gravestone of the Hassidic leader, the Grand Rebbe of Modzitz, Rabbi Yisrael Dan Taub was destroyed, along with the gravestones of dozens of others, including several well-known rabbis.

Vandalism at the Mount of Olives cemetery is a rampant problem. In the past, Jewish visitors have filed hundreds of complaints regarding rock-throwing attacks by Arabs, and vandalism of the graves of loved ones. …

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Israel would have never come into existence in the 20th C if the current government had been running things.

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Bibi needs to tell Imam Obama al-Husseini to go f**k himself, and unleash hell on these monster occupiers. Forget world opinion. Forget boycotts by the EU. This is Israel’s very survival at stake. If Bibi doesn’t get this right there may not be an intact Jewish state in 10 years. And in the recent Gaza conflict, and recent events in Jerusalem, Bibi has gotten everything wrong.