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The Lie That Will Start A World War
American Thinker
Right now, even as we speak, frum (pious) Jews are trying to gain access to pray on the Temple Mount. These Jews were forbidden by Israeli courts to pray on the Temple Mount. In the last year, they have started defying those courts and asserting a right to their patrimony.
Moshe Dayan, after taking the Mount in 1967, unwisely gave the administration of the area back to the Jordanian-controlled local Waqf, who had been in charge of the area before the Israelis captured it and have been in charge ever since. A Waqf is an irrevocable endowment of property to an Islamic religious or charitable trust. It may never be sold to infidels. Lest one think this is unique to Islam, the Jewish National Fund set was set up to purchase land in Mandatory Palestine that was covenantally to remain in Jewish hands forever, never to be sold – or even leased, initially – to Arabs.
Now you know why every house or acre is fought over; both sides see land as an eternal trust.
The Waqf is hyper-vigilant about protecting Islamic claims on the Temple Mount, which they call the Haram al Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary). Even the appearance of a Jew praying – the smallest of religious connections – is forbidden by the Waqf. They want to crush any Jewish claim, and they have gone so far as to publicly deny any historical connection of Jews to the area, an idiocy that flies in the face of thousands of years of history.
Israel has indulged the Waqf, and, for decades it was illegal for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Any Jew caught praying could be arrested by the Waqf guards, who then turned the Jew over to the Israeli police, who amazingly would sometimes prosecute the offender.
Any time Jews make even the slightest pretense of a religious or political claim to the area, full-scale riots will occur. When Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in September 2000, it was the pretext for starting the Second Intifada – actually, it started the day before, when an IDF soldier was killed in anticipation of Sharon’s visit. The Palestinians blamed Sharon for the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
However, in the past year, as Israel is moving strongly to the right, more and more mainstream Jews are starting to assert their claim to the Mount. They are taking visits to the Mount, often under armed guard. Riots are occurring quite often.
In response, the Israeli government has made the ridiculously obsequious request to the Jordanians – who run the local Waqf – that Jews be allowed to pray on the site.
The matter reached the highest of official levels this month when Israel asked Jordan, which administers Muslim religious affairs at the site, to consider allowing limited Jewish worship there, according to a Jordanian official.
