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US condemns Ben Gvir's comments on Temple Mount: Reckless statements and actions
Arutz Sheva ^ | 27/8/24

Posted on 08/27/2024 2:55:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

The US "strongly opposes" Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir’s public support for building a synagogue on the Temple Mount, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told Axios’ Barak Ravid on Tuesday.

“It would demonstrate blatant disregard for the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites in Jerusalem,” Miller told Ravid.

"Ben Gvir’s ongoing reckless statements and actions of this minister only sow chaos and exacerbate tensions at a moment when Israel must stand united against threats from Iran and its proxy terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. They directly undermine Israel’s security," added the State Department spokesperson.

Miller said it is critical that the Government of Israel continue to ensure its policy in the Temple Mount "is adhered to”.

“The US reaffirms its commitment to the preservation of the historic status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites and will continue to oppose unilateral steps that are counterproductive to achieving peace and stability and undermine Israel’s security," he told Ravid.

Miller’s comments come a day after Ben Gvir was interviewed by Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) and said, "The policy allows for prayer on the Temple Mount, and there is an equal law for Jews and Muslims."

Ben Gvir added, "I would establish a synagogue there."

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: adolphbiden; antisemitism; bengvir; bidencondemns; bidenkillsjews; condemns; matthewmiller; senilehitler; statusquo; templemount; us; uscondemns
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Status quo was that Temple Mount cops get to beat/arrest any Jew caught praying on the Temple Mount. Nothing wrong with that./s

Big Mosque is a staging area for riots and sometimes terror strikes. Totally acceptable./s

1 posted on 08/27/2024 2:55:56 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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It’s always been my understanding that among some Jews that there can be no such thing as Israel until the Third Temple is built on the Temple Mount.

The third Temple would be built exactly as the Second Temple was. From my limited readings, there’s some question of exactly where the Third Temple was located on the Mount.

But any attempt to construct a Third Temple would cause the Arab world to have a conniption the likes of which we’ve never seen before.


2 posted on 08/27/2024 3:00:33 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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Miller said it is critical that the Government of Israel continue to ensure its policy in the Temple Mount "is adhered to”.

Why sure. So has there ever been a synagogue built on the Temple Mount? It seems like King Solomon had a temple there and a second one later. So this business about status quo rings sorta hollow to me. What am I missing?

3 posted on 08/27/2024 3:01:10 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Three conspiracy theorists walk into the bar . . . . same time . . coincidence? I think not.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Historic status quo?
How about going back at least 2600 years or more?


4 posted on 08/27/2024 3:01:33 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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But any attempt to construct a Third Temple would cause the Arab world to have a conniption the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

Wouldn't that be too bad. After I had deconstructed that mosque, I'd say any blowback and we will flatten Mecca.

5 posted on 08/27/2024 3:03:33 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Three conspiracy theorists walk into the bar . . . . same time . . coincidence? I think not.)
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To: Eleutheria5
That Mosque thing needs to be bulldozed, and the scraps dumped into the Mariana Trench.

6 posted on 08/27/2024 3:11:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SaveFerris

Everything is happening which has been prophesized. The birth pangs are getting closer and closer.

Isaiah 2:1–3
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%202%3A1%E2%80%933&version=NIV

2 In the last days

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.

3 Many peoples will come and say,

“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


7 posted on 08/27/2024 3:20:08 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: Eleutheria5

The link doesn’t work for me.


8 posted on 08/27/2024 3:20:57 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I fart on their beards!


9 posted on 08/27/2024 3:21:04 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: MplsSteve

It’s going to happen. I don’t know if it’s before the tribulation or during it.


10 posted on 08/27/2024 3:27:46 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: Eleutheria5

Blow that house of Satan to dust and put a synagogue on the site.

L


11 posted on 08/27/2024 3:32:08 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.p)
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To: Eleutheria5

What’s worse than reckless are the unrequested meddlesome opinions and provocative statements eminating almost daily from the Nazi Snake Department etc

A serious denazification is absolutely required to clean the scum out of our government


12 posted on 08/27/2024 3:38:53 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MplsSteve

In Orthodox Jewish tradition, the 3rd Temple will be built by G-d Himself, to the specifications in the latter chapters of Ezikiel.

So this minister is just rabble rousing.

No need to dynamite any mosques or Al Aksa. Though in 67 they should have seived it all of course.


13 posted on 08/27/2024 3:40:32 PM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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To: Eleutheria5
...Historic status quo with respect to the Temple Mount.

The "historic status quo" is a Temple dedicated to the God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob on the Temple mount and not a Mosque. A 3rd Temple will be built on the mount & Messiah Yeshua will occupy it. You can bank on it!

14 posted on 08/27/2024 3:46:22 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: BipolarBob

The Umayyads allowed Jews to build a synagogue on the Temple Mount, at least for a time.

The conquering Fatamids allowed a synagogue in the 10th century. That lasted until Crusaders conquered Jerusalem.
But the conquering Saladin again allowed a synagogue for a time.

In 1967, conquering Israelis had a synagogue there for a short time until Moshe Dayan forbade Jews from praying on the Mount.

Aside from trouble with Islam, traditional hareidi authorities prohibit Jews from the Temple Mount completely while National Relgious authorities allow Jews in certain areas there.


15 posted on 08/27/2024 3:51:35 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The US Department of State is at least as corrupt and anti American as the US DOJ.


16 posted on 08/27/2024 3:53:22 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: faithhopecharity

>> A serious denazification is absolutely required to clean the scum out of our government

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


17 posted on 08/27/2024 3:54:46 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Indy Pendance

Just tried it. It worked for me.


18 posted on 08/27/2024 3:56:12 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: BipolarBob

It’s been seen before. In the summer of 1929, the Kotel synagogue wanted to open a new door in the partition with the women’s side, and rumors got so out of hand that there were pogroms all over Israel based on the false allegation that we were trying to rebuild the Temple. That was when the massacre in Hebron occurred, but there were pogroms everywhere, which the British studiously ignored for three days.


19 posted on 08/27/2024 3:59:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Mariner

>> The US Department of State is at least as corrupt and anti American as the US DOJ.

State is worse, IMO. They had a head start in converting to godless marxism, dating back to Wilson at least. The nation could survive the complete elimination of the entire DoS, letting a muscular DoD take over their essential duties until they can be rebuilt from the ground up in a constitutional conservative mold.


20 posted on 08/27/2024 4:00:49 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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