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Palestinians Want Western Wall as Part of Any Settlement
NYSun ^ | October 12, 2007 | Benny Avni

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: israel; palistinians; templemount; westernwall
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To: Squidpup; Alouette
They already have control of Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem, the Har HaBayit.

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!!!

21 posted on 10/12/2007 10:49:58 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vehaba'im zakhar uneqevah mikkol-basar ba'u ka'asher tzivvah 'Eloqim; vayisgor HaShem ba`ado.)
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To: Will88
Just made-up nonsense to give the Muslims a spurious claim to one more site of real importance to a non-Muslim group. If the West doesn’t wise up, they’ll be making the sort of spurious claims about the Vatican, Westminster Abbey, Notre Dame, Jamestown, etc.

... and New York, LA, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Miami, Atlanta, etc, etc, etc.

22 posted on 10/12/2007 10:56:40 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative.)
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To: ROTB; Squidpup
Israel’s politicians hate the wall because it reminds them of someone more important than them ... God, so they’ll sell it out in a moment.

All Israel needs to do is call on the name of Yah'shua.

Then it will be all over there and there will be peace in all the world.

shalom b'shem Yah'shua
23 posted on 10/12/2007 10:57:18 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: Squidpup

Muhammad tied his horse before ascending to the heavens?

If I am going to ascend to heaven I would first turn my horse loose.


24 posted on 10/12/2007 11:18:53 AM PDT by South Dakota (A soldier died for me today, I must ask and answer. Am I worth dying for?)
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To: Squidpup

Offer them a North, South, and East wall too.


25 posted on 10/12/2007 11:23:40 AM PDT by Son House ($$Proud Member of Vast Right Wing, Out To Lower Your Tax Rates For More Opportunities.$$)
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To: South Dakota

I’m sure the horse was still happier than hell to get rid of him.


26 posted on 10/12/2007 11:25:18 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: Squidpup
Palestinians Want Western Wall as Part of Any Settlement

Can we give them Wal-mart? It's western, and literally fulfills their requirements.
27 posted on 10/12/2007 11:38:30 AM PDT by Renderofveils
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To: Squidpup
And Olmert looks ready to give the terrorists what they want.

Does Yigal Amir have any brothers?

28 posted on 10/12/2007 11:42:55 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Convert from ECUSA; AdmSmith; Berosus; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...

The bulldozers of 1967 didn’t range quite wide enough. Thanks C from E.


29 posted on 10/12/2007 11:46:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Squidpup
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. "

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.

30 posted on 10/12/2007 11:46:26 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Vigilanteman
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31 posted on 10/12/2007 11:48:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Squidpup
What the hey. If they're going to be like this, then let the Third Temple begin rebuilding.

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.

32 posted on 10/12/2007 11:53:35 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.)
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To: montag813
And Olmert looks ready to give the terrorists what they want.

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.

33 posted on 10/12/2007 11:55:50 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.)
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To: Convert from ECUSA
When pigs fly and donkeys sing opera

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.

34 posted on 10/12/2007 12:34:58 PM PDT by Ingtar (The LDS problem that Romney is facing is not his religion, but his Lacking Decisive Stands.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


35 posted on 10/12/2007 2:04:02 PM PDT by Berosus ("The candidates that can't face Fox News can't face Al Qaeda."--Roger Ailes)
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To: Alouette

This is very upsetting.


36 posted on 10/12/2007 4:17:38 PM PDT by Brandie (Duncan Hunter in 08' Islam is a Death Cult, is that simple enough to understand!)
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To: Berosus

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!


37 posted on 10/12/2007 11:00:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Friday, October 5, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Squidpup

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.


38 posted on 10/13/2007 5:05:10 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: Will88
"Just made-up nonsense to give the Muslims a spurious claim to one more site ..."

Yeah. That's made up, but God really did give Israel to the Jews.

Ask them.

39 posted on 10/13/2007 6:02:57 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: XeniaSt

Amen!


40 posted on 10/13/2007 8:38:18 AM PDT by ROTB (Front Runner=rich guy who doesn't hate evil and strives to offend no one, AND WILL SELL YOU OUT!!!!!)
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