Posted on 10/12/2007 9:33:38 AM PDT by Squidpup
UNITED NATIONS As an American-hosted Middle East summit approaches, Palestinian Arabs are hardening their positions: An aide to the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, said yesterday that the Palestinians will demand sole Arab control over Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem, the Western Wall. Mr. Abbas's adviser on religious affairs, Adnan al-Husseini, made the new demand in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv, sparking an outcry from many Israeli politicians who complained that recent reports about the Olmert government's proposal to transfer Arab-dominated neighborhoods in Jerusalem to the jurisdiction of a Palestinian state have led to further Arab demands. As the last remnant of the ancient Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70 of the common era, the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, is considered Judaism's holiest site. Muslims, who call it Al-Burak, also venerate it as the place where they believe the prophet Muhammad tied his horse before ascending to the heavens. "We are talking about full control" over Jerusalem, Mr. Husseini, a scion of one of the most prominent Palestinian Arab families, told Ma'ariv. "The Wailing Wall," he said, "is a Muslim waqf," or sacred endowment, "and therefore cannot be abandoned."
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I'm really starting to wonder why so many secular nationalist Jews went back to 'Eretz Yisra'el in the first place. Their secular ideology has proven incapable of sustaining loyalty to 'Eretz HaQodesh which is retained by even anti-Zionist Charedim.
Zionism without G-d is dead. Long live Torah! Mashiach now!!!
... and New York, LA, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Miami, Atlanta, etc, etc, etc.
Then it will be all over there and there will be peace in all the world.All Israel needs to do is call on the name of Yah'shua.
shalom b'shem Yah'shua
Muhammad tied his horse before ascending to the heavens?
If I am going to ascend to heaven I would first turn my horse loose.
Offer them a North, South, and East wall too.
I’m sure the horse was still happier than hell to get rid of him.
Does Yigal Amir have any brothers?
The bulldozers of 1967 didn’t range quite wide enough. Thanks C from E.
This is a new one on me...I thought the story that Arafat's uncle (and Hitler's favorite Arab) made up in the 1930s was that Mohammad (piss be upon him) "ascended to heaven on a winged horse". Now they claim he tied it up on the Western Wall???
This is like a bad SNL skit or something, except the stupid Israelis seem willing to accept it and throw their history in the dumpster.
What are they going to do? Be outraged? Be offended? Make more demands?
They already do these things with no provocation, so the Jews have nothing to lose.
Build it already and have done with it.
Barak tried that already and get slapped around for it by everybody. And he found out that they don't want peace. That's the LAST thing they want. If they get peace, then they have to get rid of their victimhood and earn a living themselves and they CERTAINLY don't want that.
Peace would only show them for the losers that they are.
This has already happened in the Shrek films. I would not doubt that the very secular Israeli government would pass this over to the Muslims in a heartbeat if they thought it would help them politically.
I’ll be the first to claim the Kaaba in Mecca for the Jews, because Moslems insist Abraham was once there. It’s only fair, since Jews and Moslems have to take turns paying their respects at his tomb in Hebron.
This is very upsetting.
Don’t forget, I want to pry the black stone out of the Kaaba (before the Kaaba itself is demolished) and have it made into a urinal. Cakes alive!
The time honored quadrenial pursuit of an American presidential legacy is upon us.
The final year of an administration is when the panic to make a Mid-East peace deal sets in and all rules and common sense fall by the wayside as administration officials furiously try to buy palestinian cooperation with Israeli sacrifice.
The muslims know how it works and have learned to play American negotiators like a $2.00 fiddle.
With a highly motivated but incompetent pushover like Condi pandering to the muslims on one hand, and using her presidential charter to strongarm Israel for concessions on the other, almost anything is possible.
Yeah. That's made up, but God really did give Israel to the Jews.
Ask them.
Amen!
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