Once again the Israeli press frames the problem wrongly — to be sure, this is a malady that it shares with the international media. The rioters on the Temple Mount were not rioting because they were Arab. I highly doubt that there were any Christian Arabs among them. They were rioting because they were Muslims, and believe that the Jews are the worst enemies of the Muslims, as per Qur’an 5:82. With Christian Arabs joining the IDF in increasing numbers, it’s time for the Israeli media to stop using this word in connection with the conflict, when at its root it is not a nationalistic, racial or ethnic conflict at all. “Arab Rioters on Temple Mount Wound Four Police Officers,” by Tova Dvorin, Arutz Sheva, October 8, 2014 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
Masked Arab rioters threw fireworks and rocks at security forces on the Temple Mount on Wednesday, in what has become a tradition of riotous violence before the major Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Riot police pushed the attackers back by setting up roadblocks, but it was not enough to deter the unrest.
The rioters continued to throw stones, bricks and iron bars at police from inside the Al-Aqsa mosque, while shooting fireworks at police and spraying an unidentified flammable liquid on them.
They also threw a Molotov cocktail at police, which ignited, wounded four officers lightly.
The police have restrained the rioters and removed all barriers protecting the entrance to the mosque. The wounded policemen were treated on the spot.
Five Arabs have now been arrested after the eruption, Arutz Sheva has learned.
“We will continue to show zero tolerance for any attempt to violate the public order, and we will arrest them and bring them to justice,” a police spokesperson stated Wednesday morning.
Arab rioting is all too common on the Temple Mount, which is Judaism’s holiest site – and the historical site of national Jewish worship and celebration on major holidays such as Sukkot.
The Jordanian Waqf has had de facto rule of the Mount since the 1967 Six-Day War, and keeps an iron fist on the Temple Mount and its activities; Jews face constant discrimination and violence for visiting the site, and there is a blanket ban on Jewish prayer there….
Jay Boo says
“The rioters continued to throw stones, bricks and iron bars at police from inside the Al-Aqsa mosque, while shooting fireworks at police and spraying an unidentified flammable liquid on them.”
( stones, bricks and iron bars inside the Al-Aqsa mosque? )
Is a mosque a place of worship or just a weapons arsenal?
Ha Meshuga says
See them setting fire to their “3rd holiest site”…wankers
Bettina says
With respect, Robert, I would disagree that naming arabs instead of muslims is incorrect. I find it the reference to arabs appropriate on several levels:
1- Israel, with its overwhelming infestation of muslim arabs, does not normally refer to them as muslims, precisely because Christian arabs are such a small minority. So the word “arab” is the go-to designation for rioters and terrorists.
2- You say, “…it is not a nationalistic, racial or ethnic conflict at all.”
I believe that the koranic injunctions to dominate, coupled with a historical greed
for stealing the land and the success of Israel, all point to arab nationalism and ethnic hatred. (We can’t say racism as Jews come in several races.)
In Israel an arab is implicitly muslim, unless referred to as a Christian arab. And muslims in faraway lands are normally absent from the dialogue, as Israel’s hands are pretty full with the arab beasts among them.
Bettina says
Figh, in mentioning koranic imperatives to attain world supremacy, I said these were coupled with arab greed, nationalism, and Jew-hatred. An essential mission for pan-arab unification is to wipe out Israel.
These two reasons coexist, but finding more than one cause for anti-Semitic riots and propaganda in the ME may be too much for some, who are more comfortable in ‘either-or’ dichotomous thinking.
I stand by my statement to explain why the Israeli press refers to all local muslims as arabs.
EvenSo says
After reading about all of the random violence internationally – the bombing of the building by IS in Gaza, the fighting between the IS supporters and the Kurds in cities in Germany and then this – I realised, it’s the full moon, it’s increased their lunacy! 🙂
Beagle says
The Blood Moon!!!
Be very afraid. But seriously, that’s probably good advice. Not afraid, but very concerned and observant.
Drakkar says
Flatten the place and build a LGBTQ “cultural” center in its place. There is room enough for a large pork emporium featuring Mo dogs wrapped in Danish cartoon wrappers.
JC says
If Jordan’s WAQF is not going to keep the Temple Mount peaceful, the Israeli/Jordan agreement should be annulled. Period.
If Netanyahu truly believes Jerusalem is to be open to Jews without restriction and is the eternal capital, this must happen anyway.
Stanton Cordray says
Touch the Temple Mount and what you will touch off will make the conflict so far look like a school picnic. It is almost impossible for non-Muslims to understand the passions aroused by adherence to that particular religion.
That Israel chivalrously granted jurisdiction of the Mount to the Jordanian waqf after the ’67 war means nothing to those who worship there. Muslims don’t seem to understand chivalry. They consider everything they get as nothing more than their due.
The really notable and disturbing thing about this story is that PRAYING at a Muslim shrine provokes violence. Praying doesn’t provoke violence in most of the settings where it takes place. I’ve never heard of Jews or Christians attacking anyone after prayers in a synagogue or a church, or of their being prpared with missiles to do so.
Only Muslims head for prayers with riot equipment in their pockets.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. The Muslims bring rocks into the al Aqsa mosque and store them there, ready for use. They’ve been caught doing it.
Semeru says
What a joke, there is a 130,000-strong Arab Christian community in Israel, according to the IDF, some 100 Arab Christians are currently serving in the army, up from 35 in 2012, whilst an additional 500 are performing civil service, up from 200 during the same period.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/christians-queue-to-join-israeli-army/
Larry A. Singleton says
Has anybody read this? I mean the whole thing.
The 4th Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research: Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel. Sept. 1968 Translated by D.F. Green (Support Secure Freedom)Front to back; 95 pages of outrageous lies and vile Jew-Hatred.
http://supportsecurefreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/Arab-Theologians-on-Jews-and-Israel-4th_Ed_082011.pdf
Larry A. Singleton says
Right of Return III 7-3-14
Read The Haj by Leon Uris and Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabrielle
Israel Palestine: Who’s Indigenous? by Ryan Bellerose (Israellycool) 1-9-14
http://www.israellycool.com/2014/01/09/israel-palestine-whos-indigenous/
BDS: The Attempt to Strangle Israel (You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTuTL8aCx6k
Fact Sheets: The Palestinian “Right of Return” (Jewish Virtual Library)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/2_return.html
The “Right of Return” Is Suicide for Israel by Jonathan Schanzer (MEF)
http://www.meforum.org/334/the-right-of-return-is-suicide-for-israel
The History of the Middle East Conflict in 11 Minutes (You Tube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZY8m0cm1oY
“Letter to the Editor” International Herald Tribune, July 1, 2003 by Giulia Boukhobza (Also in Bostom’s “Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism” book: Chapter 68, page 677: “A Libyan Jew Breaks Her Silence 36 yrs after surviving the 67 Tripolitan Pogrom”)
Congressional Record
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2003-09-04/pdf/CREC-2003-09-04-pt1-PgE1682-2.pdf#page=1
Historical Facts and Figures: the Forgotten Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries (UN Economic and Social Council/Commission on Human Rights)
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/FE7989175118CDA585256D750050CBC9
Jews Displaced from Arab Countries: A Story of Collusion (pdf)
(See p-4 “Exhibit E”!) (Justice for Jews)
http://www.justiceforjews.com/chrono_web.pdf
A japanese View of the Palestinians by Yashiko Sagamori
http://www.freeman.org/m_online/mar03/sagamori.htm
The Forgotten Refugees: An exchange of populations by David G. Littman (Dhimmitude)
http://www.dhimmitude.org/archive/The-Forgotten-Refugees.pdf
http://archive.today/bRB43#selection-553.0-573.19
The Forgotten Refugees – Full Documentary Movie-You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH8RL2XRr48
Original 1948 NYT article: “Jews in Danger in all Moslem Lands” by Mallory Browne (hirhome)
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/mallory_browne.pdf
Expulsion of the Jews from Muslim Countries 1920-1970 by Prof. Shmuel Trigano (IsraelSeen.com)
http://israelseen.com/2010/11/14/expulsion-of-the-jews-from-muslim-countries-1920-1970/
“Egyptian Emigres in the Levant of the 19th & 20th Centuries” by Prof. Gideon M. Kressel and Dr. Reuven Aharoni
http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Egypt2.pdf
How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There? by Efraim Karsh (MEF)
http://www.meforum.org/2875/how-many-palestinian-arab-refugees
Are the Negev Bedouin an Indigenous People? Fabricating Palestinian History by Havatzelet Yahel, Ruth Kark, and Seth J. Frantzman MEQ
http://www.meforum.org/3254/negev-bedouin-indigenous
The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931 by Fred M. Gottheil (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine
Rewriting Israel’s History by Efraim Karsh (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/302/rewriting-israels-history
The Prophet Muhammad’s ‘Night Journey’ was Not to Jerusalem but to Medina by Ahmad Muhammad ‘Arafa
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/941.htm
“From Time Immemorial” with Joan Peters, Part 1 & 2 (Zola Levitt Ministries) http://www.levitt.tv/media/watch/680
“From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine” Book Review by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/1110/from-time-immemorial
Special Note: Read Chapter 17 “Muftiism” and Britain’s Contribution to the “Final Solution”
A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Glbal Jiahd by Rober S. Wistrich
Founding National Myths Fabricating Palestinian History by David Bukay
http://www.meforum.org/3273/palestinian-founding-national-myths
Palestinians, Jebusites, and Evangelicals by David Wenkel Middle East Quarterly
http://www.meforum.org/1713/palestinians-jebusites-and-evangelicals
Why Israel is the Victim by David Horowitz (Front Page Mag.)
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/why-israel-is-the-victim/
The 4th Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research: Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel. Sept. 1968 Translated by D.F. Green (Support Secure Freedom)Front to back; 95 pages of outrageous lies and vile Jew-Hatred.
http://supportsecurefreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/Arab-Theologians-on-Jews-and-Israel-4th_Ed_082011.pdf
You will, literally, not believe your eyes as you read this outrageous document. I mean it is jaw-droppingly un-believable. Truly an example of “you have to see it to believe it”.
Islamists Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/9669/islamists-project-islam-worst-traits-onto
Muslims Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Israel and the Jews by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/8348/muslims-project-islam-worst-traits-onto-israel
Hamas from cradle to Grave by Matthew Levitt
meforum-org/582/hamas-from-cradle-to-grave
Hamas On Campus.org
http://www.hamasoncampus.org/
Martin Kramer:
Gaza is a place with no Israeli settlements, from which Israel has totally withdrawn to the 1967 lines, and which nonetheless has become a Hamas terror state. That’s what happens in conditions of Gazafication. So when people say that in a two-state solution, Palestinians would have a “right of return” to the West Bank and not Israel, I do not find that particularly reassuring either. Any influx of Palestinians across the Jordan poses a problem for Israel, and it is naive to dismiss it. I would like to hear how, in a two-state scenario, Gazafication of the West Bank can be prevented. I haven’t heard it yet.
Neither have I.
Read The Haj by Leon Uris. And ask these questions:
What year did the nation of Palestine come into existance?
What were its national borders and what year did it cease to exist?
What currency did the nation of Palestine use and why is there no history of it?
Name one leader to the “nation of Palestine” prior to Yasser Arafat.
Larry A. Singleton says
HISTORY OF ISRAEL (and Fabricating Palestinian History) PART I
Mark Twain wrote:
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine . . . are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. He has made a marvelous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendour, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?
In a Nutshell: “Israel vs. Islamists: Setting the Record Straight” by Phyllis Chesler Israel National News December 24, 2013
http://www.meforum.org/3704/israel-vs-islamists
Israel Palestine: Who’s Indigenous? by Ryan Bellerose (Israellycool) 1-9-14 http://www.israellycool.com/2014/01/09/israel-palestine-whos-indigenous/fb_comment_id=fbc_388096334667683_490179154459400_490179154459400#f2b6f4b2698eda
The “Right of Return” Is Suicide for Israel by Jonathan Schanzer (MEF)
http://www.meforum.org/334/the-right-of-return-is-suicide-for-israel
Why Israel is the Victim by David Horowitz (Front Page Mag.)
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/why-israel-is-the-victim/
U.S. Aid to Israel: Why It’s a Must by David Meir-Levi (FrontPage Mag.)
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/david-meir-levi/u-s-aid-to-israel-why-its-a-must/
“From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine” Book Review by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/1110/from-time-immemorial
Special Note: Read Chapter 17 “Muftiism” and Britain’s Contribution to the “Final Solution”
JPost Annual Conference 2014: Caroline B. Glick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LewVl3L1k
The Cairo Speech by Anne Bayefsky (Ass Kicking)
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/182912/print
History of Israel & “Palestine” in VERY Easy To Understand Maps
masada2000-org/historical.html
The Prophet Muhammad’s ‘Night Journey’ was Not to Jerusalem but to Medina by Ahmad Muhammad ‘Arafa
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/941.htm
PROOF THAT ISLAM IS FALSE (You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_9pgFMa7xs
The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Where Do You Get Off (You Tube video w Edward G. Robinson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnJ490ohTc#t=275
The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive – Witnesses of the Eichmann Trial English (You Tube video) I honestly couldn’t watch the whole thing. What I did watch, the beginning and the end, was almost like a little kid peeking through his fingers at a scary movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X098U8_oU1Q
Fact Sheets: Remembering the Six-Day War
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/53_Remembering67.html
Fact Sheets: The Palestinian “Right of Return”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/2_return.html
Media’s Lexicon Poisons Public Perceptions of Israel
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/24/media%E2%80%99s-lexicon-poisons-public-perceptions-of-israel/
The History of the Middle East Conflict in 11 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZY8m0cm1oY
The Big Lie and the Media War Against Israel: From Inversion of the Truth to Inversion of Reality by Joel S. Fishman (Daniel Pipes)
http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/4465.php
“From Time Immemorial” with Joan Peters, Part 1 & 2 (Zola Levitt Ministries) http://www.levitt.tv/media/watch/680
A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Glbal Jiahd by Robert S. Wistrich
Founding National Myths Fabricating Palestinian History by David Bukay
http://www.meforum.org/3273/palestinian-founding-national-myths
Palestinians, Jebusites, and Evangelicals by David Wenkel Middle East Quarterly
http://www.meforum.org/1713/palestinians-jebusites-and-evangelicals
Myths & Facts Online by Mitchell G. Bard (Jewish Virtual Library)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFindex.html
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFexclusives.html
The war against the Jews by Efraim Karsh (MEF)
http://www.meforum.org/3299/war-against-jews
Delegitimizing the Jewish State by Bat Ye’or Middle East Quarterly
http://www.meforum.org/2813/delegitimizing-the-jewish-state
The revisionist history of Sari Nusseibeh by Efraim Karsh (Middle East Forum)
http://www.meforum.org/3068/sari-nusseibeh-revisionist-history
Are the Negev Bedouin an Indigenous People? Fabricating Palestinian History by Havatzelet Yahel, Ruth Kark, and Seth J. Frantzman MEQ
http://www.meforum.org/3254/negev-bedouin-indigenous
“Egyptian Emigres in the Levant of the 19th & 20th Centuries” by Prof. Gideon M. Kressel and Dr. Reuven Aharoni
http://jcpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Egypt2.pdf
“Egyptian Emigres in the Levant…” The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
http://jcpa.org/article/egyptian-emigres-in-the-levant-of-the-19th-and-20th-centuries/
The Middle East’s Tribal DNA by Philip Carl Salzman
http://www.meforum.org/1813/the-middle-easts-tribal-dna
The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931 by Fred M. Gottheil (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine
How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There? by Efraim Karsh (MEF)
http://www.meforum.org/2875/how-many-palestinian-arab-refugees
Rewriting Israel’s History by Efraim Karsh (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/302/rewriting-israels-history
Hamas from Cradle to Grave by Matthew Levitt (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/582/hamas-from-cradle-to-grave
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: I Will Never Recognize a Jewish State
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3163.htm
PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-13/palestinian-israeli-jews-future-state-israel-PLO/50394882/1
Arafat’s Swiss Bank Account by Issam Abu Issa (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/645/arafats-swiss-bank-account
Palestinians by Eli E. Hertz (“All [that Palestinians] can agree on as a community is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build.” (pdf)
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/7/palestinians.pdf
Jordan Is Palestinian by Mudar Zahran (MEQ)
http://www.meforum.org/3121/jordan-is-palestinian
The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/84/the-muslim-claim-to-jerusalem
More on the Muslim Claim to Jerusalem by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2001/11/more-on-the-muslim-claim-to-jerusalem
Constructing a Counterfeit History of Jerusalem by Daniel Pipes
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2002/05/counterfeit-history-jerusalem
The Battle over Silwan by Shaul Bartal (MEF)
http://www.meforum.org/3281/silwan
Myths and Facts UN Resolution 181 – The Partition Plan November 29, 1947
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/conflict/10/resolution-181.pdf
Palestinians ‘Peoplehood’ Based on a Big Lie Eli E. Hertz (Front Page Mag.)
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30960
Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/dawkins_harris_hitchens_new_atheists_flirt_with_islamophobia/?source=newsletter
Islamists Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/9669/islamists-project-islam-worst-traits-onto
Muslims Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Israel and the Jews by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/8348/muslims-project-islam-worst-traits-onto-israel
“The Christian Aid Conference on Peace and Justice in the Holy Land” by Denis MacEoin (Gatestone Institute) (See “Wafa al-Biss”)
I would STRONGLY urge you to first read the Appendix at the end of the article: “From a letter to an anti-Israel activist, to be published in 2013”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3529/christian-aid-conference-holy-land
A man who suffered under real apartheid explodes the Leftist/Islamic supremacist libel that Israel is an apartheid state (Jihad Watch)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/black-south-african-explains-why-israel-is-not-an-apartheid-state
Discover the Scam Israeli Apartheid Week 2014 (You Tube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMDQUTv51ak#t=18
South African Jews and Apartheid by Franklin Hugh Adler (pdf)
http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1193&context=macintl
South African Jews Struggle With Legacy of Apartheid by Claudia Braude
http://forward.com/articles/143231/south-african-jews-struggle-with-legacy-of-aparthe/
(See comments on this article)
These are almost “pro and con” articles.
Ha Meshuga says
Larry, explore if you haven’t already:
http://www.hirhome.com/
Larry A. Singleton says
Yep, I’ve got an article on my “to read” list from it. You might have given me the lead.
Bettina says
Larry, thank you for your link-rich article above. I see now that you’ve provided more in your next post. I’m compiling them into a Word doc to follow your links at my leisure. I appreciate your effort.
Larry A. Singleton says
Thanks. I’ve attacked each one of these articles with pen and hi-liter. They are all great articles. The challenge is narrowing them down to a manageable few.
Elisheva14 says
Rabbi Richman faces more often than most. But he says he isn’t fazed; in fact, he sees he growing belligerence by Islamists as a positive sign that the Jewish people are reclaiming their holiest site after centuries of occupation.
Rabbi Richman of the Temple Institute writes:
“As someone who experiences this regularly, I do not find confrontation with these Muslim agitators to be frightening or even the least bit disturbing. On the contrary, I believe this phenomena is a sign that the Muslims themselves know that their days of domination on the Temple Mount are numbered.
“They scream when we ascend the Mount because they know that the master of the house is coming home!”
Charli Main says
You can be absolutely sure about this, Micheal.
That the day will come when the vile Muslim abomination defiling and desecrating the Temple Mount will be bulldozed to rubble, the filth scooped up and dumped in the sea.
Inka Hutz says
Larry, you have provided enough reading material for a long time, I will definitely look into it, Thank you.