Jordan also banned Christians from visiting their holy sites. There is no easier way to prove that one’s faith is illegitimate than to prevent the expression of all other beliefs.
When it comes to Jews and Judaism, the Muslims, like Christians for centuries beforehand, go ballistics. The only way Islam can claim sovereignty over the Temple Mount is to prove that Jews have no link to it. The Bible is a Zionist lie, and the Jews’ only aim is to undermine the Al Aqsa mosque to cause it to collapse. And the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale, Just 24 bucks, please.
The Palestinian Authority’s argument is so ridiculous that even the media establishment canto swallow it, so the more the Arabs shout, the more they expose their ignorance.
On the Jewish side, even many secular and leftist Knesset Members, the ultimate supporters of freedom, have great difficulty in denying the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
Meretz MK Zahava Gal-On supported the principle of the freedom of Jews to pray there but added it should be done in agreement which is like saying 2 and 2 equals 5 so long as everyone says so. She accused Feiglin of provocation, which of course is true since the very presence of Jews is a provocation to Mahmoud Abbas, who does not want to see a single Jew in his conceptual Palestinian Authority country.
Feiglin told the Knesset the government should “allow Jews to pray on the Temple and to visit through every gate.”
Gal-On correctly said that Feiglin’s remarks could be the “match that ignites the powder keg” and ruin Kerry’s peace follies.
On cue, Palestinian Authority media accused Israeli police of “storming” the Temple Mount to disperse the rioters on Tuesday. Jordan, through a diplomat, warned that the issue will cause a diplomatic conflict.
Hezbollah last week stated through its media in Lebanon, “The increasing Zionist attacks against the Al-Aqsa Mosque are part of a project to destroy and make Jerusalem solely Jewish. The enemy is exploiting the current political conditions in order to terrorize the Palestinian territories and people.”
Feiglin on Tuesday fired the shot heard ‘round the Arab world. Kerry’s earplugs will filter out the noise, and he can continue on his merry way to manipulate the Palestinian Authority and Israel into accepting his framework.
When Kerry ascends the Temple Mount, maybe he will understand he simply is kicking the powder keg down the road until it explodes in you-know-whose faces.