T. Belman. Its all about restoring calm rather than asserting our rights. We should place a greater value on our rights.
Bibi changed this to also ban Arab MK’s.
The premier’s decree is an apparent attempt to de-escalate tensions, particularly as it relates to events on Temple Mount.
Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Jewish members of the Knesset and government ministers would not be allowed to visit the Temple Mount in the wake of recent violence that has raised tensions throughout Israel and the West Bank.
Netanyahu adopted the measure after convening the security cabinet Wednesday evening. Senior policy-makers made the recommendation in an effort to avoid a “dangerous provocation” that could set off a “powder keg.”
The premier’s decree is an apparent attempt to de-escalate tensions, particularly as it relates to events on Temple Mount.
The new directive will not be enforced against Arab lawmakers, who are expected to continue to make visits to Aksa mosque.
One government minister who is wont to visit the site is Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, who in the past has been quoted as saying that he “wants to see a third temple built here.”
“The Muslims here do as they please,” Ariel was quoted as saying by Channel 2. “They defile the site, and the Jews are only permitted to go there in small groups and only during certain hours. This has to change. There’s no logical reason for this.”
Last month, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon signed a decree banning the Murabitun and Murabatat Islamist activist groups, which gather on the Temple Mount to disturb and intimidate Jewish visitors to the holy site on a daily basis.
Ya’alon’s office stated that the action is in line with a recommendation by the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, and is in accordance with the position of the Israel Police. Ya’alon has become convinced that the step is necessary to protect national security and public order.
The activities of these male and female groups “form a central component in the creation of tension and violence on the Temple Mount in particular, and Jerusalem in general,” the defense minister’s office says. It describes the activists as engaging in “dangerous incitement” against tourists, visitors, and worshipers on the Temple Mount, which leads to violence that could endanger lives.
In the ensuing weeks since Ya’alon’s decree, Israeli police and Palestinian rioters have frequently clashed at the site, provoking outrage from Jordan and other Muslim countries who accuse Jerusalem of seeking to undermine day-to-day Islamic control of the mosques and shrines in the Old City.
In the United States, the title of “rabbi” has become camouflage for many Jews who once had a different moniker: “Comrade”.
arent they in BB coalition?
@ NormanF:
At this point, I’d settle for Larry David.
The premier’s decree is an apparent attempt in an endlessly humiliating series of attempts to mollify the implacable anti-Semite in the Oval Office.
Netanyahu is a greater threat to Israel than any Jew-hating Arab, as exemplified in his evil decree banning Jews from even visiting Har Habayit.
His solution is to appease Israel’s enemies instead of defeating them.
Netanyahu is King Saul, a weak, ineffective and morally confused man.
Israel awaits its King David.