The visit comes as some hardline Israeli Jewish settlers promote the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
from al Jazeera
Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has led a group of more than one thousand ultranationalist settlers to the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem, his third such entrance to the site this year.
(admin edit: '(Ben-Gvir's) mother was a Kurdish Jewish immigrant who had been active in the Irgun as a teenager and was a homemaker. His family was secular but as a teenager he adopted religious and radical right-wing views during the First Intifada. He first joined a right-wing youth movement affiliated with Moledet, a party which advocated transferring Arabs out of Israel, and then joined the youth movement of the even more radical Kach and Kahane Chai party, which was eventually designated as a terrorist organization and outlawed by the Israeli government" He was too RABID and RACIST even for the IDF)
The provocative minister’s entrance to the holy site on Thursday took place as Jews observed Tisha B’Av, a fast day mourning the destruction of two ancient Jewish temples.
“This place is important to us and we have to return to it and prove our sovereignty,” Ben-Gvir said as he led the group, adding that the “unity of the nation of Israel is important”.
Ben-Gvir consistently makes anti-Palestinian remarks and was a former youth leader of a now-banned group that Israel has declared a “terrorist” organization.
The visit comes as some hardline Israeli Jewish groups promote the destruction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – one of the holiest sites in Islam and a Palestinian national symbol – and the construction of a third Jewish temple in its place.
While ultra-orthodox Jews, along with Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, expressly forbid even the entrance of Jews to the compound for religious reasons, nationalist religious Zionists such as Ben-Gvir have encouraged it in recent years.
The situation at the compound was “incredibly tense”, said Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan, reporting from one of the entrances to the compound.
At least 1700 Jews had entered the site under police protection, with Khan saying that one man had been arrested and that some arguments had broken out.
Jews are prohibited from praying on the site as part of a longstanding status quo agreement. However, many of those who entered on Thursday were seen praying and singing, while some Palestinian Muslim worshipers trying to enter were turned away, Khan said.
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Snagged this off some forum back ca 2018, after the coin issuance.
ReplyDeleteDunno why, i mean u could spend 10 consecutive lifetimes just on any one of the major "religions", 24/7 to slog thru the accumulated gigatonnes of verbiage, psychotic ramblings of scribes whose mental state at the time was unrecorded.
And to what end??
Probably i was almost amused by his point that the end-timers have "lived" for this supposed big day for every pathetic day of their lives for the past 2500 GDF years!
As TLR was wont to say to his sidekick during many a show, b4 it was edited out post-production "Good luck with that horseshit, Tonto!"!
in February 2018 Israel issued a silver coin worth a half shekel. Reason: the Holy Bible says that the entrance fee for the 3rd Temple is a silver coin worth a half shekel. On this coin you see the Last Trump depicted, who fulfills the 2500+ year old prophecy of the third & last Temple in JerUSAlem. Daniel 9:27 states that the major political leader will confirm the 7-year covenant with Israel.
Meanwhile this covenant is visible to everybody & a sign that he will remain for (at least) 7 years in office (possibly the office of the US president doesn’t exist longer.
The end times community has been eagerly waiting for the 3rd Temple for nearly 2,000 years, with the 7/26/15 announcement by the Temple Institute waking me personally up. Since summer 2015 there is not the slightest doubt that we have come down the stretch