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"Over the past week or so there have been some strange doings on Jerusalems Temple Mount. As the lyrics of the old song go:
Theres something happnin here
What it is aint exactly clear
Theres a man with a gun over there
Telling me Ive go to beware
It appears that a growing band of Israeli messianic settlers have banded together to orchestrate a crisis on the Temple Mount. Their ultimate goal seems to be taking Jewish control over the sacred ground, including two of the holiest sites in Islam, the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
For many years, there have been radical settler groups preparing for such a day. Ateret Cohanim maintains a yeshiva which is training priests to resume the Temple rituals including animal sacrifice. Dov Hikinds wife earns $150,000 a year as its U.S. fundraiser. Theyre also breeding cattle in the hopes of find that miraculous red heifer which would serve as a sign that God is ready to resume Jewish rites on this sacred ground.
The settlers know that for Jews to rebuild the Temple would mean a holy war in the Holy Land that would likely dwarf the Crusades for passion and bloodletting. For these Jews, such an eventuality would bring the days of the coming of the Messiah closer, thus making the human suffering not just acceptable, but even desirable."
http://www.eurasiareview.com/23022012-israel-messianic-settlers-provoke-violence-and-seek-final-day-of-reckoning-oped/
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)and when I tried to google the story through another link (http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/02/22/settler-extremists-provoke-violence-threaten-muslim-sovereignty-over-templ) there was a message saying the site was blocked. Not sure what that means.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)The Tikun Olam link doesn't work though.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)from the OP link
The extremist site, The Temple Mount is Ours, calls for a mass pilgrimage in order to strengthen claim of Jewish sovereignty to the site. You can see in the video above from February 19th and this one what is the result of such settler provocation. The last time such a thing was attempted, Ariel Sharon instigated the Second Intifada and propelled himself into the prime ministers chair. Feiglin is smart enough to understand that such political grandstanding can be the making of an Israeli prime minister.
But hes also smart enough to understand that by identifying himself too explicitly with this movement he could get himself investigated by the police and possibly jailed. So he deftly denied credit for the flyer and made his own visit to the Temple Mount earlier than the time specified in the flyer.
A Feiglin associate in this interview posted by IMRA denies that the founder of the Manhigut Yehudit ["Jewish Leadership"] movement wants to rebuild the Temple. Instead, he claims Feiglin only wants to prepare the Jews for the moment when the Messiah will come and accomplish this task. Im afraid this sort of nuance is justifiably lost of Muslims who mistake a Jew who wants to lay the groundwork for stealing their holy site from them, with a Jewish Messiah who will actually do this. Feiglins representative rather ominously states in the interview that its the founders dream to make all Jews share in his vision, and that this is what will bring the Messiah and a rebuilt Temple.
Strangely, the representative of Feiglins group adamantly maintained that it had no obligation to publicly renounce the flyer. Further, he said it had no plans to file a complaint with the police about the document it claims was a fraud. This is generally diametrically opposite from the way most political parties operate in Israel. In similar circumstances, they would file a complaint and ask the police to investigate in order to clarify to the public their rejection of the message and the act of fraud. The fact that Manhifut Yehudit behaved so differently in this case raises major questions about its relationship to the flyer and those who created it.
pelsar
(12,283 posts)both use smart PR to keep their real intentions just below the surface. Its not hard to find them if one is looking, but most just stay with the easy going words that make for nice TV interviews.....
just give them the opportunity and the mask comes off.....
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Maan: "This is a serious attack that intends to impose full Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa a prelude to the establishment of the supposed (Third) Temple."
Tensions at the sacred complex have been heightened after far-right Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin tried to make a publicized visit to the site two weeks ago, and leaflets were distributed around the city calling to remove "Israel's enemies" from the site.
Israeli forces detained three Palestinians at the religious compound on Tuesday when clashes broke out as two groups of Israelis toured the site. Two days earlier, police detained 21 Palestinians in the midst of confrontations at the site.
Police also blocked Feiglin from entering and briefly closed the holy compound last Sunday, saying they feared unrest after the extremist literature circulated the city.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=462853