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Post by Daniel on Oct 20, 2015 9:06:48 GMT -5
Israel rejects any international intervention at Temple Mount
By Times of Israel staff October 16, 2015
Israel on Friday rejected Palestinian calls for an international force to be deployed in East Jerusalem to promote calm around the Temple Mount and the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque.
“Let me be crystal clear — Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount. Such a presence would be a change in the status quo,” Israeli Deputy Ambassador David Roet told the UN Security Council.
The 15-member council met in an emergency session to discuss weeks of escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the territories.
The urgent talks were requested by council member Jordan following a meeting on Thursday of Arab ambassadors who expressed alarm at the escalating situation.
Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour had called on the Security Council to provide international protection to the holy site.
But Roet said Israel was respectful of all religions in the city. Meanwhile, he said, the Palestinians were unwilling to acknowledge any Jewish rights to the capital’s holy sites.
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www.timesofisrael.com/israel-rejects-any-international-intervention-at-temple-mount/
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Post by Daniel on Oct 21, 2015 8:56:58 GMT -5
Mess with Western Wall, mess with Israel
Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com)
October 21, 2015
The head of a messianic Jewish ministry warns that a United Nations agency is meddling with a sacred site in Israel that Israelis will fight and die for.
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, is set to vote today on a resolution that declares the so-called Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, belongs to Muslims.
"None of it belongs to the Muslims," declares Jan Markell, who heads Olive Tree Ministries.
The Western Wall, located in Jerusalem, is all that remains of the Second Temple that's located on the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount, along with the Western Wall, are the holiest sites in Judaism.
The UNESCO resolution, The New York Times reports, was submitted by Arab countries and claims the Western Wall is a Muslim holy site.
The Jerusalem Post reports the draft was submitted by Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
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www.onenewsnow.com/national-security/2015/10/21/mess-with-western-wall-mess-with-israel
Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif explained - BBC News
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Post by Daniel on Oct 21, 2015 9:05:17 GMT -5
UN Agency to Make the Jewish Wailing Wall an Islamic Holy Site?
By: Matthew Clark | October 20th, 2015
In news so bizarre it could only be yet another chapter in the world’s anti-Semitic hate for Israel, a U.N. agency is poised to designate the Jewish “Wailing Wall” as an Islamic holy site.
Yes, you read that right.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is reported voting on a measure to designate the Wailing Wall, the western wall of the Temple Mount – one of the Jewish people’s most holy sites – as an Islamic (and as such not Jewish) holy cite.
As CNS News reports:
The flashpoint is the Temple Mount, where the biblical Temples once stood. It is the holiest site in Judaism, but also is home to the Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest.
Due to Muslim opposition Jews are forbidden to hold formal prayer at the Muslim-administered site, although they may visit. That “status quo” has been in place since Israel captured the area from Jordan in 1967. Jews pray instead at the Western Wall – the remnant of a retaining wall on the western flank of the hilltop that once housed the biblical Temples.
The UNESCO measure due to be voted on on Tuesday reportedly declares that the Western Wall is part of Al-Aqsa mosque.
This is a blatantly anti-Israel move and a slap in the face to the Jewish people.
Israel rightfully argues that this action would “distort history.” The Wailing Wall is incontrovertibly a historic, cultural, and religious icon of the Jewish people. In fact, it has almost no relevance or relation to the Islamic faith whatsoever.
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www.redstate.com/2015/10/20/un-agency-make-jewish-wailing-wall-islamic-holy-site/
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Post by Daniel on Oct 21, 2015 9:18:45 GMT -5
UNESCO Passes Arab Resolution: Cave of Patriarchs 'Islamic'
By Ari Soffer
10/21/2015
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) passed a resolution Wednesday listing the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem as Muslim sites.
The resolution - which passed with 26 in favor, six voted against, and 25 abstentions - condemned Israel for archaeological excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem and particularly near the Temple Mount.
An initial draft of the resolution had also called for the Kotel (Western Wall) to be listed as an Islamic site - or more specifically as an "extension of the Al Aqsa Mosque" - but that detail was hastily withdrawn after widespread condemnation, including from UNESCO's own Director-General.
The revised draft also toned-down some of the more blatant anti-Israel language in the original, including referring to Jerusalem as the "occupied capital of Palestine."
Nevertheless, the resolution accepted Wednesday does co-opt two other ancient Jewish holy sites: the Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb, which contain the remains of the Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs and are regular sites of pilgrimage for Jewish worshipers.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202224
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Post by Daniel on Oct 22, 2015 8:47:51 GMT -5
In Defense of the Status Quo on the Temple Mount
By Lea Speyer October 22, 2015
Controversy surrounding the Temple Mount has reached unparalleled heights lately as international actors appear ready to step in to take away any rights Israel maintains over the holy site to maintain the status quo.
The term “status quo” regarding the Temple Mount has been thrown around recently by government officials, both in Israel and abroad.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly stated, to much criticism, that he wants to maintain the status quo on the Temple Mount while, more recently, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that “we need to have clarity” on the status quo.
With such a simple yet heavy term being invoked over and over again to try and maintain peace in Jerusalem, what exactly is the legal status quo on the Temple Mount? Is it allowing the Muslim Waqf to continually discriminate against non-Muslims ascending the Mount? Condoning Islamist violence and terror on the holy site? Turning a blind eye towards Arab cover-ups of Jewish proofs to Judaism’s most holy site?
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In three short and powerful points, Israel and Jordan agreed that:
1. Each party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance.
2. In this regard, in accordance with the Washington Declaration, Israel respects the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem. When negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high priority to the Jordanian historic role in these shrines.
3. The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding, moral commitment, freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace.
And there you have it – the status quo, plain and simple.
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www.breakingisraelnews.com/51916/in-defense-of-the-status-quo-on-the-temple-mount-opinion/
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Post by Daniel on Oct 28, 2015 9:31:47 GMT -5
Abbas calls on UN Security Council to ‘protect’ Palestinians from Israel
By Joshua Davidovich October 28, 2015
Palestinian Authority President urged the United Nations Security Council to establish a “special regime of protection,” begging for the international community to impose a two-state solution and warning that time may be running out.
Speaking to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Abbas also said Ramallah would continue its state-building efforts, including joining the International Criminal Court, and rejected any bid to reach an interim peace deal with Israel.
Abbas called on the UN, “more urgently than any time before, to set up a special regime for international protection for the Palestinian people, immediately and urgently.”
“The Security Council is requested to shoulder its responsibilities and to establish a special regime of protection for the Palestinian people,” Abbas told the body, adding that his people “can longer bear all these attacks” by Israel.
“Protect us, protect us, we need you,” he added.
He also called again upon the Security Council to set a timeline for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, following a failed attempt nearly a year earlier.
“Is that too much to ask? Is it too much? Isn’t it high time for the international community to move from merely talking about the justice of the Palestinian cause to taking practical measures and procedures which would serve justice to my Palestinian people,” he said.
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www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-calls-on-un-security-council-to-protect-palestinians-from-israel/
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Post by fearnot on Oct 28, 2015 23:07:07 GMT -5
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Post by Daniel on Mar 21, 2016 13:03:51 GMT -5
Jordan: Security Cameras on Temple Mount To Detect Israeli Police “Brutality
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz March 21, 2016
“Even them will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon Mine altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” Isaiah 56:7 (The Israel Bible™)
Muhammad al-Mumani, Jordanian Minister of State for Information, announced over the weekend that the long-awaited security cameras intended to monitor and quell the violence on the Temple Mount will be installed in the very near future, perhaps even in the next few days.
The agreement to install the cameras was reached last October after months of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli Police on the Temple Mount. The police claimed that the Palestinians were threatening and attacking Jewish visitors to the mount, and the Morabiton groups, funded by the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, were constantly harassing and threatening non-Muslim visitors. The police also discovered pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and rocks prepared for throwing, inside the Dome of the Rock. It is also hoped that the cameras will refute the Muslim claims that Jews are entering the buildings or violating the status quo.
Temple Mount activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick told Breaking Israel News “We welcome [the cameras] which will ideally bring absolute transparency to the Temple Mount and expose the real source of the violence [there].”
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www.breakingisraelnews.com/64004/security-cameras-temple-mount-detect-israeli-police-brutality-installed-jerusalem/
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Post by Daniel on Apr 18, 2016 21:34:02 GMT -5
Jordan cans Temple Mount camera project
By Arutz Sheva Staff
4/18/2016
Jordan has decided not to install security cameras on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem because fierce Palestinian resistance turned the project into a "source of conflict," Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur said Monday.
"We have been surprised by the reactions of some (Palestinians) who have made comments expressing their doubts about the aims of the project," the official Petra news agency quoted Nsur as saying.
Investigative report Pinhas Inbari just last week revealed to Arutz Sheva that the relatively unknown Islamist group Tahrir is in fact in control of the Temple Mount, and he revealed that members of the group have chased away Jordanian representatives who came to install the cameras. It would appear that fear of Tahrir thwarted Jordan's plans.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/211073
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Post by Daniel on Apr 19, 2016 17:32:15 GMT -5
Report: Israel still supports Temple Mount camera idea
By Arutz Sheva staff
4/19/2016
Israel remains in favor of installing security cameras on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, even after Jordan reneged on the project due to Palestinian reservations, a senior official said Tuesday.
"Israel's support for placing cameras on the Temple Mount remains unchanged. That's because we believe in transparency," the Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"It is regrettable that the Palestinian Authority objects to this idea. It's clear that they don't want repeated Palestinian provocations caught on tape," the official said.
On March 20, Jordan said it would set up 55 security cameras around the flashpoint compound to monitor any Israeli "violations." Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu originally said the plan was to monitor violent terror-funded Arab rioters, although Jordan said it would have sole access to the footage.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/211149
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