Posted on 06/01/2022 8:20:22 AM PDT by SJackson
Just at the end of the Six-Day War, when all of east Jerusalem, which includes the Old City and the Temple Mount, came into Israel’s possession, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a fateful decision. He decided that Muslims could continue to visit the Temple Mount, which they call the Haram al-Sharif, at all days and times. Jews, however, who had been barred from visiting either the Western Wall or the Temple Mount when the area was ruled by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, would be severely circumscribed in their visits, which would take place during a three-hour period in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, and only on five days of the week. But more fateful still was Dayan’s decision – he consulted no one – to prohibit Jewish visitors to the Mount from saying prayers aloud or even silently. He apparently wanted to placate the Arabs at the very moment when they had been so thoroughly defeated that they would have resigned themselves to whatever the Jews wanted, including exercising the right to pray openly and to visit for many more hours on the Mount. Dayan was not thinking through what such a policy would mean for Jews everywhere.
Within the last few years, little by little, the Israeli police have quietly begun to look the other way when Jews on the Mount silently mouthed prayers. That partial victory in practice led three young Jews to pray openly on the Mount, testing the limits of the new policy. They were arrested, and their lawyers went to court to challenge their detention. The result was a ruling by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, one long desired by many Jews, that undoes Dayan’s decision in June 1967.
A report on the new ruling is here: “Jerusalem court rules in favor of Jews praying on Temple Mount,” i24 News, May 22, 2022:
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Sunday ruled that Jews are now allowed to recite the Shema prayer and bow down on the Temple Mount.
The decision was taken following an appeal by the legal defense group Honenu against the arrest of three young Jews, detained after praying at the site. They received a 15-day restraining order.
The status quo at the site, administered by the Jordanian Waqf, allows Muslims to visit and pray there almost every day, while Jews are not allowed to pray there and can only visit the site on certain days at fixed times.
Judge Zion Saharay said that the recitation of the Jewish prayer “Shema Israel” presents no “reason that could lead to breach of peace,” saying three young Jews should not be banned from the site, as the police demanded.
“We are very happy with the court’s decision. It is time for the Israeli police to start arresting the rioters and people who commit crimes in Jerusalem, and to protect the inhabitants. They must stop dealing with esoteric issues while violating blatant religious freedom for Jews on the Temple Mount,” Honenu group lawyer Nati Rom said.
These Jews are being allowed to say a single prayer, the Shema, and to bow down on the Temple Mount. The “Shema” is as innocuous a prayer as one could imagine. It’s the Jewish declaration of faith:
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead, and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
This decision was a victory for religious freedom, undoing what Dayan never should have done in June 1967. Alas, this decision may be overturned. The Israeli police have appealed the ruling. A report on that wrongheaded appeal is here: “Police Appeal Court Ruling Allowing Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount,” Algemeiner, May 23, 2022:
The Israeli police have appealed the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ruling. They claim that allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount will cause an increase in “tension” with Muslims.
Well, of course it will. But whenever Israeli Jews assert their rights, from enforcing their property rights in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, to praying at the Temple Mount, this immediately causes “tension” with the Muslims, who are unwilling to accept anything the Jews may do, no matter how innocuous or justified. Why must peaceful Jewish worshippers be prevented from saying prayers at the holiest site in Judaism because the Muslims threaten violence? Those threatening need to be put in their place, informed that just as no one is allowed to interfere with their Muslim prayers being said in the Al-Aqsa Mosque or on the Al-Aqsa Compound, similarly, no one will be allowed to interfere with the prayers of Jews on the same site. When the Jews started to pray silently on the Mount during the last year, the Muslims made all kinds of threats. The prayers continued to be mouthed. And nothing happened. There Is no reason why the Arabs will behave differently this time, when Jewish prayers are said (softy, no doubt) aloud. The Arabs will push as hard against the Jews exercising their legitimate rights as they can, but if they are met with what the Revisionist leader Zev Jabotinsky called the “Iron Wall,” they will back down.
Nadav Shragai has an interesting take on the controversy, and on the ”Shema Israel” prayer, here: “The Battle for the Temple Mount,” Israel Hayom, May 24, 2022:
…There is no phrase more Jewish than the basic declaration of faith in “Shema Yisrael.” There is no prayer more Jewish than the one that accompanies us from the moment we enter the world until the moment we leave it. And there is no more natural place to say it – quietly or demonstratively – than the Temple Mount.
We need to remind ourselves of these simple truths today, when Israeli policemen are dragging Jews who recite “Shema Yisrael” on the Temple Mount away from it; and when court cases are actually presented for the record as “The State of Israel versus ‘Shema Yisrael.'”
We now have the State of Israel going to court in the hope of overturning the recent decision of the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court that Jews should be allowed to say prayers aloud on the Temple Mount. Let us hope that that decision is not overturned, and that the Israeli government treats Jews on the Temple Mount just as it treats Arabs. Yes, there will be some Arab riots, but after the expected tantrum, with a show of force by the police on the Mount, now protecting rather than prohibiting Jews saying prayers, the Muslims will in the end accept, with oriental fatalism, the new status quo.
“They claim that allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount will cause an increase in “tension” with Muslims.”
Y-you mean, they won’t like us anymore?
"came into Israel’s possession"...as if it wasn't Israel's goal from the outset to launch a surprise attack and grab as much territory as it could.
Tough luck.
Appeasement with your enemies never works.
Don’t give in to the muzzies at all. They will just push for more and nothing but full capitulation to islam will satisfy them.
The Israelites simply took back what was historically theirs to begin with.
It wasn’t like they were attacking and grabbing territory that wasn’t theirs.
I went to the Temple Mount in 2019. Unfortunately the Muslims closed off access for non-Muslina to the Dome of the Rock.
When I was in line to go up access ramp, there was a sign from the Jewish religious authorities warning Jews not to go. The reason given is they might accidently step on the area where the Holy of Holies is.
Fantastic news.
Jews can actually pray on the Temple Mount.
Islamic forces will react.
Unfortunately the Dome of the Rock is “The Abomination That Brings Desolation”.
The reason given is they might accidently step on the area where the Holy of Holies is.
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It is believed that the spot is under the Dome of the Tablets, located in a direct line with the Eastern Gate.
The Dome of the rock, and the Mosque of Omar are believed to be located the the Court of the Gentiles.
Seems plausible, since the Dome of the Rock covers a very uneven area of exposed rock, rather than a threshing floor (flat area), where the Holy of Holies was located.
Couldn’t thresh any wheat where the Dome of the Rock is lacated.
Build the Temple already. The Dome of the Rock cannot stay where it is, but can share the complex off to the side. Al-Asqa can stay, but be closed for weeks as punishment every time someone even picks up a pebble. Once Israel sannounces it is being built, the Arab world will go insane, but it won’t last. Just like all the predictions of terror or war if Trump moved the Embassy turned out to be bunk. Remind Muslims that Allah promised Israel (greater Israel, in fact) to the Jews (’Night Journey’), and only an apostate disagrees.
Sounds like Uvalde police. They don't want to be bothered to do their job.
I don’t think I can Bare That.
Don’t negotiate with muslimbs, tell them/FORCE them to GET THE F**K OUT.
“Most historians[3] believe that Islam originated in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE.[”
“The Islamic structures on the site, such as the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque, are perhaps the most ancient Islamic structures in existence, dating back as far as to Caliph Omar [sic].” (Umar)
“ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644.” (7th century)
“According to the traditional account,[4][8] the Islamic prophet Muhammad began receiving what Muslims consider to be divine revelations in 610 CE” (The INVENTION of Allah and Islam by a madman) So the FRAUD begins
“Temple Mount was the location of the First and Second Temples, the first built by King Solomon in the tenth [10th] century BC to house the Ark of the Covenant “
Let me see... 1000 BC vs 610 AD (using the date that the madman Mohammad INVENTED Allah and Islam)
So the Temple Mount was Jewish ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED and TEN YEARS BEFORE Mohammad the pedophile, murderer, madman INVENTED Allah and Islam)
The Jewish claim to the Temple Mount is at least ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED and TEN YEARS older than Muslim claims.
AND the Muslim religion of Islam is a SHAM, an INVENTION by Mohammad the pedophile, murderer, madman.
I realize I keep repeating that Mohammad was a murdering pedophile, madman, but it is to drive home the TRUTH about Islam. It is as FAKE and MADE UP as Kwanza. (although believers in Kwanza don’t want to cut off your head and rape your wife and children).
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Prophet of Doom by Craig Winn.
The ENTIRE book is available to download as a PDF for FREE. Like REALLY free. Zero conditions or info required.
Get a grip...they surprise attacked Egypt and destroyed its air-force, then grabbed the Sinai desert, the Gaza strip, the Golan Heights and the West Bank.
Don't start a war if you can't take a joke.
The stringent halachic ruling is that it is forbidden to enter any area where the original Temple building might have stood, not just where the Holy of Holies may have stood. This would leave strips of accessible areas on the current Herodian plaza in the north, east and south where there is no chance the original Temple building stood.
[footnote 19]…In one instance, in 1971 the mufti, Sheikh Sa’adi El-Alami, asked the Rabbi of the Kotel, Rabbi Yehuda Getz, to use his influence to exert the ban on Jews ascending the Temple Mount. Getz replied that “If I use my powers, you, the Mufti, would be the first who could not enter, given the prohibition on non-Jews’ access to the area.”…
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