The commotion about Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount is intended to further an international gang-up against Israel in the face of a new government that refuses to appease the Palestinian jihadist quest to obliterate Israel “from the River to the Sea.” Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Gilad Erdan has slammed an upcoming “emergency” Security Council session over National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s recent visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem:
“We are here discussing the peaceful 13-minute visit of a Jewish minister to the holiest Jewish site under the sovereignty of the liberal democracy of Israel,” said Erdan, who blasted the 15-member Security Council for not holding similar meetings in response to Russian actions in Ukraine, Palestinian terror or Iranian attacks on international shipping.
Erdan also “argued that Israel had mistakenly agreed to the status quo in 1967 to alleviate the conflict and said the Palestinians were attempting to deny Jewish ties to the site.”
The “status quo” agreement was reached after the Six-Day War in June 1967, when Israel reconquered the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan formulated the agreement. Under its terms, “the Muslim Waqf, a Jordanian religious trust, would retain control of the Temple Mount. Jews would be allowed to visit the site without restrictions, though they would not be allowed to pray there. Israel would also take responsibility for security, though its forces would stay off the mount.”
An Israel Hayom article features Yisrael Medad, a Temple Mount activist for over 50 years, who advances the point that “Israel should not allow threats of Muslim violence to dictate what Jews can or cannot do on the Temple Mount. Once you accept the position that your enemy, or your rival, sets the rules, and you have no say in what those rules are, whatever you do will be wrong in his eyes.” The article also states that Jews have been praying at the site for years; and that in fact, today “thousands of Jews visit the site annually.”
In May 2021, Hamas launched an unprovoked barrage of rockets against Israel, which resulted in Operation Guardian of the Walls. This was a pivotal series of events that demonstrated the resolve of jihadis to attack Israel whether or not they themselves had been provoked by Israeli actions. The Israeli response to the rocket attacks also showed the resolve of Israel in protecting its citizens and its right to exist.
Jihadis (including stealth jihadis et al) are well known to appeal to every authority possible when they feel threatened. Palestinian leaders have now gone running to the pro-Palestinian United Nations to protest Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount. According to the Independent, the meeting is over “a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site and demand an end to Israeli extremist provocations and respect for the historic status quo at the site revered by Muslims and Jews.” The narrative that the mainstream media is promulgating is all wrong; the term “extremist” is falsely applied to the new Israeli government. It is the Palestinians who deny Jews a right to visit and pray at their holiest site, and threaten bloody consequences if they do so. They, not the Israelis, are the “extremists.” Consider for a moment the ongoing threat that persecuted Christians face in areas of the Middle East and Africa. They “provoke” jihadis by believing in Christianity and going to their churches. The persecution of Jews by jihadis began long before the establishment of the Jewish state, when Arab nationalists revolted against any Jewish emigration to the region.
Many remain ignorant of Islamic history, which includes the fact that Ottoman South Syrians ultimately came to be referenced as “Palestinians.” These Muslims from the surrounding region were displaced by the fall of the Ottoman Empire; they continue to advance the lie that they have an ancient historic claim to the land of “Palestine.”
The former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, states of the upcoming appeal by the Palestinians to the UN:
It’s part of the diplomatic terrorism by the Palestinian Authority. They put pressure on their representatives in the Security Council. Come and spread lies. It’s not helping the Palestinians. It’s not helping the Israelis. It’s not helping the peace process. It’s part of the blame game.
Senator Ted Cruz recently ripped Biden’s condemnation of Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount, stating an undeniable and simple truth:
A visit by a minister from Israel’s government to a site inside Israel is not a change in any status quo arrangement, and it should not be controversial for a Jew to visit the holiest site in Judaism.
According to the Netanyahu government, the status quo has not changed.
A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, issued on January 3 by Israel’s Government Press Office, says:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is committed to strictly maintaining the status quo, without changes, on the Temple Mount. We will not be dictated to by Hamas. Under the status quo, ministers have gone up to the Temple Mount in recent years, including Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan; therefore, the claim that a change has been made in the status quo is without foundation.
Mohamed Khaled Khiari, an assistant U.N. secretary-general, said, “The visit was sharply condemned by the Palestinian Authority, many others across the region and international community as a provocation that risked sparking further bloodshed.”
Do as we say or else there will be bloodshed has been the historic jihadi threat. This new Israeli government will be sure to stir up rage as it refuses to bow to the Palestinians in the face of their unreasonable threats.
Daniel Bielak says
“UN to hold ’emergency’ Security Council session over Ben-Gvir visit to Temple Mount”
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Oh my goodness. That’s absurd and evil.
gravenimage says
+1.
And good to see you posting again, Daniel.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It is Israeli sovereign territory, and the UN has no business telling Israel who may or may not pray there any more than the UN has telling Saudi Arabia who they may or may not allow into Mecca, telling India whether mosques in Varanasi, Mathura, Delhi and several other places may be reclaimed as temples, and so on
gravenimage says
UN to hold ’emergency’ Security Council session over Ben-Gvir visit to Temple Mount
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Utter insanity. His visit harmed no one–certainly not supremacist Muslims.