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{re-blogged at Jews Down Under}

BEFORE we get to the heart of the matter, readers must internalize the essence of the global struggle between Islam and the west; its epicenter. Islam’s fiery swathe and conquest – while burning/raging throughout the Mid East and beyond – is laser-focused on Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem, Zion (“IF I Forget Thee O Jerusalem”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8thyFfK1PY , an IDF linked rendition…and a more traditional one just below).

 

INCONTROVERTIBLY, Islam’s top “religious jihadi” prize is the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site…הַר הַבַּיִת…הַר הַמוריה. The Jewish people’s centrality. Their core. Their heart and soul.

IN this regard, its wresting is a theologically-driven jihad, one which is laced with political, national and territorial overtones. But above all else, it is mandated by Islamic doctrinal dictates; supported by Shariah law, and with an end goal to purge Judaism (and Christianity) to submit humanity to the will of Allah. Don’t dare forget this.

WITH the above seared into your deepest recesses, even ex PM Ehud Barak – a never say no to “peace” leftist – understood the inherent truths of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount to Israel’s survival, as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop him, as PM in 2000, from turning around and effectively handing over (it was not “a form” of Muslim sovereignty, as reported below) Jewish sovereignty to Muslim control. This dastardly betrayal came atop the first capitulation, back in 1967, almost immediately after the reunification of Jerusalem and amid the costliest, bloodiest, of battles! 

“Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are the cornerstones of Jewish identity.”
	Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the United Nations, September 7, 2000
“Yes, at Camp David, Israel did agree to a form of Muslim sovereignty over the Temple Mount.”
	Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, Israel TV Channel 1, November 16, 2000

INDEED, who hasn’t heard the glorious words…spine-tingling…even after so many years – ” the Temple Mount is in our hands!” –

 

 

EGREGIOUSLY, betrayed, once again, by Israel’s leftist leaders, even after the IDF’s bloody sacrifices: “Defense Minister Dayan immediately ceded internal administrative control of the Temple Mount compound to the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic trust) while overall security control of the area was maintained by Israel. Dayan announced that Jews would be allowed to visit the Temple Mount, but not to hold religious services there”. Credo que absurdum?? 

MOREOVER, despite losing an annihilatory war waged against Israel, Israel’s leaders rewarded blood-sucking Arabs/Muslims for their aggression! Not only that, but the so-called “centrality” of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, to Arabs/Muslims has been wishy-washy at best, merely dependent upon their political shifting winds of conquest. What kind of Jewish leaders behave this way? Asked and answered.

Jerusalem was conquered by Muslim forces in 638 CE. The link to Jerusalem is based on a flight taken by the prophet Muhammad on his winged horse, El-Burak, in 620 CE to “the furthest (Al-Aqsa) Mosque”, this despite the fact that Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Qur`an. Commentators insist that the “Al-Aqsa” Mosque was located in the Hejaz Peninsula, either in Medina or another town, al-Gi’ranah. The ascent to Heaven via Jerusalem is found in the Qur`an in Sura 17, verse 1. Jerusalem is termed Ulla al-Qiblatayn, the first of the two directions of prayer, due to the fact that prior to the setting of the direction towards Mecca, Muhammad had his faithful face Jerusalem for a few months, probably due to Jewish influence. Today, Muslims can be seen prostrating themselves towards Mecca although their posteriors face the Dome of the Rock. The assigning to Jerusalem a post-Qur`anic sacredness fell to Caliphs in later centuries who sought political advantage over their rivals.¹⁸

WHICH brings us to the present, and the continuous terror and murderous mayhem plaguing Jerusalem.

FOR an overview, a ratcheted up third intifada is taking place, whereby Jewish rights to the Temple Mount have been effectively abrogated. These humiliating conditions have been ongoing for decades, but they are now coming down from atop the PM’s office, never mind his incessant mantra: “47 years ago Jerusalem was reunified, that was the way it used to be and that is the way to will always be,” Netanyahu said. Regardless, the facts on the ground, the constant humiliation (with the resultant terror) suffered by Jews in their capital city, attest otherwise. Slowly, and surely, Jewish control over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount is becoming little more than empty rhetoric. Wither they go, so too does the rest of Israel.

ONTO this week’s assassination attempt on Yehuda Glick, who founded and heads the LIBA Initiative for Jewish Freedom on the Temple Mount…...

A report Thursday said that the shooter who seriously injured Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick was an Islamic Jihad terrorist who worked at arestaurant inside Jerusalem’s Begin Center. Glick was shot outside theCenter late Wednesday after a conference on increasing the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount.

The shooter, police said, acted spontaneously – and reports Wednesday night said that he may have guided to shoot Glick by Islamist-run web sites that urged Arabs to protest or otherwise interfere with Wednesday night’s conference.

Glick’s photos were prominently displayed on the sites, with his image circled in red, and a notation pointing out that he was a “settlement leader.” The site said that it was Glick who was planning a “mass invasion” of the Temple Mount which would bring tens of thousands of Jews to the site, and that he was behind a plan to eliminate Muslims from the Mount altogether.

Speaking to reporters Thursday, Professor Shimon Glick, Yehuda’s father, said that his son had complained to police of threats against his life “many times,” but had been ignored. In response to his comments, police said that they had “no record” of any complaints by Yehuda Glick……

“Every Jew who ascends the Temple Mount is a target of violence. It starts with shouting, continues with spitting, throwing rocks and then with Yehuda being followed,” said Knesset MK Feiglin.

He stressed that “the writing was on the wall. The weakness of the government, the security forces and of the Minister of Public Security against the Arab conduct on the Temple Mount and the harassment of Jews, stimulates the continuation of violence and leads to attempted murder.”

NOW one must follow the DIRECT cause and effect to get to the “heart of the matter”, as stated in the opening paragraph; murderous Arab/Muslim Jew-hatred, coupled with cowardly, appeasement-driven Israeli leaders. No doubt.

FROM time immemorial, Arabs/Muslims have been slaughtering Jews, as well as others standing in their way of hegemony. This is not news. However, what many are not privy to is a “dirty secret”; one which is responsible for compromising the safety of Israel’s majority Zionist public, its Jewish citizens.

ON the heels of last week’s terror attack in Jerusalem, resulting in the slaughter of a 3 month old baby and a 22-year-old young woman, and with close to a dozen wounded, admissions of “stand down” orders (against Arabs/Muslims) are rippling forth from Israel’s security forces:

A Border Patrol officer serving in eastern Jerusalem has for the first time revealed the police helplessness in dealing with the “silent intifada” that has been gripping the capital in recent months, as Arab rock, firebomb and even gunfire attacks rise sharply.

Speaking on Channel 2‘s “Shesh Im” TV program Thursday, a day after a Hamas terrorist wounded nine with his car including a three-month-old babywho was killed in the attack, the officer admitted the Border Patrol warriors are forced to “stand like dolls” against the Arab terror.

“We feel like our hands are tied,” the combat officer revealed, placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of Interior Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich for the collapse in security.

According to the officer, senior captains as well as Aharonovich are trying to calm things down and hush up the “silent intifada” rather than fight Arab terror to the end….

IN response to question 2, “and what part(s) has PM Netanyahu (the buck stops with him, he gives the security arms their marching orders) played in keeping the Jerusalem police force’s “hands in their pockets”…drip, drip…

Former senior Shabak (Israel Security Agency) officer Menahem Landau on Friday warned that attempts to ignore the “silent intifada” plaguing Jerusalem and continue as if nothing happened will only encourage more terror attacks.

Landau spoke to Arutz Sheva about the situation after a Hamas terrorist wounded nine people in Jerusalem with his car Wednesday, murdering a three-month-old baby and critically wounding an 18-year-old seminary girl.

“We are witnesses to the fact that this business has not stopped for three months already, and the more they succeed (in attacks) it will entice more and more terrorist attackers,” said Landau. “They see there isn’t a strong hand on our side, so they will continue.”

The statement comes a day after a Border Patrol officer serving in Jerusalem complained “our hands our tied,” revealing the police have been limited from above in their ability to quash the terrorism gripping the capital….{blogger’s note: where “from above”, perhaps a birdie is whispering in their ears from the sky?}

CONCLUSIVELY, Arabs/Muslims are VERY open about controlling the Temple Mount, and with Jerusalem as their (caliphate) capital!

KNOW this: whomever controls the Temple Mount rules Jerusalem and is defacto the sovereign entity over all of Israel. This is regardless of the blatant lies streaming forth from Israel’s leaders, as they continuously intone: “Jerusalem will never be divided”. Hogwash. If anything, suffice it to say that they are basically akin to supine “caretakers”, rather than acting as the current custodial/owners of the Jewish homeland in perpetuity. Assuredly, if this bold claim is not centered in reality, then all of the horrific facts (stated above) cannot be true either. But “they be”!

THE core thrust dovetails into the aforementioned (opening paragraph) epicenter: what are Jewish nationalists, the majority public, willing to do to “take back” control over Jerusalem (Israel), irrespective of all else? We already know what the Arabs/Muslims are willing to do…and they have admitted to their falsified “Palestinian” identity on multiple occasions, yet Israel’s leaders are deaf to their words AND (mis)deeds. Why? Rhetorical.

Fathi Hammad, Hamas’s Minister of the Interior and National Security, had this to say, ” Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.” Likewise, Zuheir Muhsin, late member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Executive Council, intoned: ” The existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian State is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel.” Similarly, Hussein bin Talal, late King of Jordan, opined,” The appearance of the Palestinian personality comes as an answer to Israel’s claim that Palestine is Jewish.”

Israel’s leaders, wherefore art thou??