Jerusalem – Jewish activists bent on gaining greater access to a sensitive Jerusalem holy site should not visit there, Israel’s police chief said Tuesday.
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The sacred shrine known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary has been the focal point of deadly violence between Jews and Arabs in recent weeks.
Under a longstanding agreement at the site, Jews are permitted to visit but are not allowed to pray. In recent months, a growing number of Jewish worshippers have visited, many of whom seek greater access and the right to pray.
Palestinians see visits by Jews to the site as provocative and a sign of Israeli encroachment, and violent riots have broken out in Jerusalem over the tensions.
“People from the extreme right took the issue of the Temple Mount and turned it into an agenda and said, ‘We need to change the status quo,'” police chief Yohanan Danino told a conference in the southern town of Sderot. “We’ve always warned: … ‘Leave the Temple Mount alone. You don’t know what you are inflaming.'”
A series of attacks by Arab-Israelis and Palestinians have killed 11 Israelis in recent weeks, with some of the assailants believed to have been inspired by what they perceived as a need to defend the holy site. A Palestinian attacker recently shot and wounded Yehuda Glick, a leader of the Temple Mount activists.
Tensions between Arabs and Jews have soared over the violence and on Tuesday, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin canceled the appearance of a local pop star at a high-profile public event following the singer’s release of a new song about a fictional Arab who stabs Jews.
The song by Amir Benayoun reflects the recent tensions. Rivlin’s office said the sentiments expressed by Benayoun in the song “Ahmed Loves Israel” are “inconsistent with the responsibility required of the president’s residence.”
Palestinian artists also have released a song calling for attacks on West Bank Jewish settlers.
Off course these Jewish activist should be criticized.In fact they should be excommunicated for what they do.Besides the fact that its against the Halacha to go to the Har Habayis they are provocateurs and inciters.
The Noviminsker rebbe just called these Jews Rodfim whose hands are full of Jewish blood.They incite already angry Arabs even more to kill Jews. But these activist could care less about Jewish blood being spilled as long as they can go up to the har Habayis.
Rabbi Boruch Kaplan, who was a principal of the Beis Yaakov Girls School in Brooklyn, and who was a student in the Hebron yeshiva (religious school) in 1929 at the time of the killing of a number of Jews by some Arabs. Rabbi Kaplan explains how events unfolded, and how it was the arrogant and cowardly Zionists who perpetrated the events by provoking the Arabs. He also adds some comments about events at the time he recounted this story.
Of course, his walking in front of the kosel is a provocation too, as the Arabs consider E. Jerusalem to be theirs. So he should go back to HQ. Or Europe. Or wherever the Arabs think Jews should go, because they are our bosses, right?
Okay you cant go to the Temple Mount, maybe they will riot because they don’t want you at the Kotel next, and maybe they won’t want you Mt of Olives next, or they don’t want you where else or they will riot, when is enough, enough. Get it they don’t want Jews anywhere.
Fact is by going on har habayis we are waving a red cloth in front of a bull, you maybe right, but the bull gores you anyway [ in this case your not all poskin who are not blinded by the mizrachi shetah agree on this]
Mah yomru hagoyim? we saw how the goyim helped us in W.W.2. The goyim don’t want to see that jews are powerful today
It’s pathetic to blame Jews for inciting a Pere Adom, people. Our breathing incites them. All you are doing is making excuses for Jews being killed. It was always known that with proper preparation, we are allowed to go up to certain parts of the Har Habayis.
Whether we do or not, and I don’t, it is obscene to blame Arab behavior on Jews standing up for our right to Eretz Yisroel. At least the people who do go up to the Har Habayis show Hashem how meaningful it is to us and really want the Geulah. I don’t know if that sentiment, of wanting the Geulah really is felt by some of you. I have tragically heard some Frum people in the States say that even after Moshiach comes, they want to stay where they are. We all know what happened to those feeling the same way during Yatzias Mitzraim.