The riots on the Temple Mount on Sunday — during which dozens of extremist Muslims with masked faces barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque, threw rocks, timbers and firecrackers, and even prepared Molotov cocktails — are just the latest in a violent, prolonged and ongoing series of incidents with which the police have to deal on a nearly daily basis.
The situation in the Temple Mount compound today reflects a loss of control and absence of Israeli sovereignty. Hamas flags are waved proudly, undisturbed; provocations, attacks, and disruptions are aimed at Jews, who have returned to exile and been replaced by “landlords” who desire riots, not peace.
This reality is the result of the policy of “containment” Israel has adopted in place of any determined initiative. The fear of war erupting is what is guiding policy, not the eruptions of violence that already exist on the ground. But the response the government allows is not proportionate and it is difficult to identify a clear-cut policy on how rioters should be dealt with, other than keeping them away until the next round of violence breaks out. Israeli also implements an incomprehensible policy of restrictions against Jews on the Temple Mount, who are prohibited from whispering prayers, carrying out religious rites, or bringing in flags, while Muslims are allowed to do anything legal they desire, rightfully so.
The rationale behind the Israeli policy is based on the fact that the issue of the Temple Mount is uniquely sensitive and complex, particularly for the Jordanian royal regime. Increased tensions there could easily lead to an explosion among the Jordanian masses, who would take to the streets and cause a wave of protests that could bring down the Hashemite kingdom, which is anyway holding on with its fingernails. It doesn’t matter who started the provocation — the provocation itself is sufficient to spark a regional crisis whose outcome is uncertain.
Israel cannot allow itself to fall into that complicated geopolitical situation, especially in light of the crumbling neighbor nations and the takeover of large swaths of territory by non-state players. Jordan currently functions as the only bulwark between Israel and the flood of death and destruction to the east, and cooperation between Israel and Jordan on security and intelligence is worth its weight in gold.
Nevertheless, Israel can still maneuver between its strategic national interest and respect for the rights of its Jewish citizens. The Jordanian regime could be notified ahead of time about anti-terrorist initiatives to calm fears of Al-Aqsa being taken over. Or we could explain to the Jordanians that Jews should be allowed to pray freely in the compound, just as Muslims do, and that there is no threat or danger in it.
The policy of containment toward rioters is damaging to everyone involved and cannot go on. If Israel elects not to fix the current situation, it will eventually encounter an eruption of violence from an unexpected quarter.
see the video and how young kids are trained right outside the Temple Mount in the sick muslim violence. it is criminal to allow this in the Jewsih state. the wakf and the hashemite stooges who appoint and direct him in this evil must be driven out. these children will grow up to kill Jews.. there is no reason that Jewish soldiers die in order to protect their lives when later they will kill the soldiers children and widow.
@ bernard ross:
Suddenly, today, right now, he found the need to rush to… Cyprus… He can keep on going to KBNMT.
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
His purpose in power is to control the right wing an make sure that no right wing platforms are implemented. that is why he had to steal votes from benett by fraudulent misrepresentation.
I am astounded that he does nothing to prevent the abuse of jews by muslims on the MOunt and allows muslim clerics to incite anti semitism. All he has to do is permanently ban those abusers from the mount. those are policies of the 3rd reich. Perhaps he wants the jews abused, at this point I would put nothing past him. what is the purpose of israel if not to protect Jews from anti semitism in their own homeland?
drjb Said:
Yes, this is their narrative, which proves like the NK that the Torah can be twisted to meet the desires of men seeking their own benefit. I note that it also concveniently exempts them from the draft and gives them welfare to live off the work of others. This does not exempt them from defending the Mount from the muslims desecrations. They can demand that the Mount be closed to all, that no one go. they can block the gates to the muslims without going up themselves.
drjb Said:
in other words they are saying that if they do not benefit then it has no value to them. How can something be Holy and yet you care nothing about it. What about the sages who visited the Mount?
drjb Said:
One says this, one says that, How can something determined by men be considered from G_D? If it is so changeable then how can it be halachic? Isnt it more likely that deals were struck and they issued the rulings in collaboration with the gov? Are they gloating now and saying that they got what they had coming? I find it strange that so many Jews think it would all be ok when the religious take over but I see nothing to support that notion. To me it looks like the religious are as much a source of defamation and libel as the secular leftists. It seems clear to me that in the hands of men the Torah can be made to rationalize anything, even black hatters dancing with the persian genocidal jew killing maniacs. we can say they are nuts and a cult, but they claim also to be True Torah Jews and read the Torah. Other than I prefer Kahane interpretations to theirs what makes me right and them wrong?
Please explain to me why the Israeli govt doesn’t allow Jews to pray at their Temple.
Remove the rock throwing knucklehead Palestinians who desecrate this Holy site.
Just so I’m clear, because I’m not sure this can be nachone……..Arabs on Har Habayit can scream “slaughter the Jews” in Arabic quite freely (and often), but a Jew mutters “Mohammed is a pig” in Hebrew, and gets arrested?
I think my head is about to explode.
@ bernard ross:
As we speak hundreds of psychopaths in uniform, following orders from Netanyahu, are attacking Jews in Bet El, dozens detained brutally. Netanyahu wants to destroy, of course “following his courtiers orders”, several housing units in Bet El.
NETANYAHU will never defend Temple Mount, on the contrary, the ghastly speechster wants it fully taken by Islam. Or by the Vatican in some areas.
What we see in Bet El IS THE ONLY use of force here. Against Jews, constantly.
He is the worst of all renegades. Ever was so.
If the Muslims fanatics continue to disrespect the Jews, let close the TM to everybody.
@ bernard ross:
I agree with all your remarks. The one issue that you have left out, and which is a great problem, is the Haredi posture, as prescribed by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, that says, Jews are prohibited from going to the Temple Mount.
For all your justified anger and disgust, you fail to mention that most religious Jews don’t care about the T.M. because we are, Jewishly, not allowed there; so why get worked up about something I’m not supposed to have anyway?
This lack of interest on the part of the majority of religious Jews allows the israeli government to act like cowards. They will NEVER do ANYTHING towards greater access to, and control of, the TM as long as halachically, Jews are told not to go.
We need new rabbinical leadership that can issue a halachic opinion saying that it is a mitzvah to go and pray in the TM. Then, and only then, when thousands are demanding access to the TM, will things change. In the meantime we will keep on pissing in the air!!
when is BB going to put a stop to this 5th column who desecrates the mount and abuses jews the jordanian wakf must be ended, they have breached the treaty by attacking jews at prayer.
the muslim perceives the jew as dishonorable, willing to sell his patrimony if they riot less, willing to accept insult, abuse and anti semitism from them. He sees the Jew as having lost the wars because to him the jew is afraid. Muslim perception of honor coupled with permissive attitudes to their crimes is what fuels the problem the national interest is destroyed by the lack of Jewish honor.
No sane people win a war and allow their enemy to abuse them in their own homeland… only the jews, like the author of this ridiculous article, are able to rationalize, authenticate and endorse the continuation of this ridiculous, dysfunctional behavior
this is the narrative to which I do not subscribe. Jordan is not a bulwark, it is Israels strength which is a bulwark to Jordan. How does Jordan repay Israel and Jew for supporting them? Jews cannot hold citizenship there, Jews cannot hold land there, when the muslims riot on the mount jordan blames the Jews, Jordan is part of the incitement, jordan is not fulfilling its part of the treaty which calls for security and equal rights in holy places. Jordan is the probem not the solution. withot the hashemites Israel could enter Jordan and establish a friendly gov who would open immigration to pals from the west bank. Jordan is identified with blocking solutions. I am sick and tired of hearing this BS paradigm that stability in the nations of Jew killers is good for Israel, I disagree, it is chaos, suffering, misery and death in the lands of the Jew killers that is good for the Jews.
Jordan must change its administration of the wakf, fire the anti semitc wakfs, end muslim incitement, end his libels that Jews incite by praying there… or else they must be given the boot and their hashemite stooge in Jordan given for dinner to jihadis like ghadaffi.
this is mealy mouthed, stockholm syndrome, shtetle jew rubbish. After so many jews died to protect Jews in Israel this writer advises the Jews to arrive cap in hand begging sympathy from the hashemite stooge that was vanquished in battle decades ago. No wonder Israel is in trouble with the shtetlists running it.
such advice incites the muslims to more riots, more attacks, more defamations, more libels more teaching in their schools that jews are sons of apes and pigs. when one acts out of fear the muslim is like a dog who smells the fear and barks more…. this is what has been happening ever since the Jews thought up the ludicrous idea of negotiating with their vanquished rather than dictating to their vanquished.
The allowance of the continuation of abuse of jews in the Jewish homeland is the greatest crime against the Jews. it is the continuation of the nazi and european tactics but now administered by jews against jews. the muslim must respect the jew in israel or get out, no 2 ways about it.
here is the only way they will respect and observe instructions:
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
this is the universally accepted proven method that works. if there is another way then the onus is on the arabs to woo the Jews and make the Jews beleive that they want peace through their actions and words. If not they must be driven out, across any available border.
It is simple,, anyone who abuses,incites, stalks, threatens, riots, protests on the temple Mount agianst Jews, is banned for life from entry. this includes the anti semitic wakf. what is so difficult about that?
All I see is a BB that has allowed these abuses against Jews throughout his reign and rule, sucking up to the hashemite stooge who libels and defames jews.
Appeasement uber alles.
National interest is indistinguishable from Jewish honor. They are one and the same, now and forever. The cluelessly obstinate policy of seeking to mollify the Gentiles through weakness always fails, and deserves to fail because it is cowardice masquerading as expediency.
The Islamists respect only strength, and Netanyahu provides them only with weakness. This masochism of forswearing self-defense in deference to world opinion yields only aggression. Jewish fear of acting decisively is a far graver threat to Israel than is Muslim malice.
Why not? The miserable, perhaps intentionally so, set up led by the speechster DOES NOT INTEND or ever did intend to safeguard even our most sacred Icons.
And nothing will change except for the worst if the self elected trash passing as judges and the system built around that ghastly core is not razed and a FREELY elected system set in that place.
We are in dire settings and have little time to play around.