Before October 7, violence on the Temple Mount was routine and intense at times, and now Israel is gearing up for what the Jerusalem Post has called “October 7-Part 2,” which could be planned for this year’s upcoming Ramadan, a month dedicated to jihad and further inflamed by Palestinian dignitaries.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s worse case scenario warning is realistic, and his warning is prudent given the current climate and the fact that Islamic zeal is off the charts since October 7.
Palestine and Gaza are manifestations of Islam’s power.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) October 14, 2023
Consider some points :
1. the emboldening of jihadis after October 7;
2. the fact that Ramadan is the month of jihad;
3. widespread Palestinian rage over the war against Hamas, fueled by Islamic religious zeal;
4. prodding by the Iranian regime as it escalates the activities of its proxies, and now claims that its Afghan proxy battalions are ready to support Gaza;
5. the wavering of the Biden administration’s support for Israel;
6. pressure from the United Nations for a ceasefire, which would enable Hamas to survive and regroup:
7. the unity of the ummah globally in standing for Hamas.
Ramadan is certainly a period that Iran, Hamas and Hizballah will take advantage of one way or another. Some may regard Gallant’s warning as an exaggeration, but it is a better to be prepared. Preparedness, however, isn’t always straightforward. Gallant is “strongly against National Security Minister Itamar Ben- Gvir’s push to reduce access to the Temple Mount for certain Israeli-Arabs or Palestinians during Ramadan.” Palestinians call it the Al-Aqsa compound. One can only imagine the reaction to such an order as Palestinians ready themselves for “martyrdom” in an explosive atmosphere.
“‘October 7, part two:’ Iran plans for terror during Ramadan, Israel charges,” by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2024:
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday warned that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are trying to use Ramadan to inflame the region so as to achieve another October 7 disaster against Israel.
According to Gallant, their hope is to provoke Palestinians in the West Bank, Hezbollah, and Arabs and Muslims across the region to attack and turn their rage on Israel, using the Temple Mount and tensions in the West Bank as an excuse.
The defense minister has been a leading voice for smashing Hamas and earlier in the war, tried to persuade the war cabinet to launch a preemptive strike on Hezbollah.
Gallant calls for reducing tensions
However, at this point, he believes that fighting the war without hesitation must go hand in hand with reducing tensions in areas where there is no reason for there to be tensions.This means Gallant is strongly against National Security Minister Itamar Ben- Gvir’s push to reduce access to the Temple Mount for certain Israeli-Arabs or Palestinians during Ramadan….
crown says
Not that I currently subscribe to the “end-times” belief espoused by some evangelicals, but… it sure is looking like things are moving in that direction.
I suspect some of Israel’s nukes are gonna be needed soon.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I strongly agree w/ Itamar Ben-Gvir’s move to restrict (or even ban) any (not just certain) muslims from visiting Temple Mount during Ramadan. Given everything that has happened since October, Israel no longer morally owes them exclusive rights to that place
As for this plan, given how the US is letting Israel down, the latter should gather whatever support it can get from both Russia and China and use that to level its enemies. Ignore US until this Biden term has ended
maria says
Yes Itamar Be-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are the future PMs
Alena says
I agree
somehistory says
Why should any enemies of Israel have any access to the site where the Jews consider to be their *holy* place? Long, long years ago, the Temple built for the sacred worship of the God of the Bible, Almighty Jehovah, was in Jerusalem. The materials were gathered by King David; and the building under King Soloman; with a rebuilding in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah.
No one worshiping the false god which mozlums worship was there, carrying out their warfare, rape, murder, torture and the telling of monumental lies upon lies.
When false gods….such as ba’al…were brought in, these were removed, destroyed, and their source was known as satanic.
Nothing about islam is “holy.” Nothing, nada, zero, zip. islam is filth, evil, demonic, feculent demands and lies. Just as was ba’al and the other disgusting gods of the people who tried to cause Israel to leave their worship of Jehovah. ba’al worshippers, such as Jezebel, were condemned and their false gods shown to be an insult to the God of the Hebrews. Jezebel had many prophets of Jehovah murdered.
Why should anyone who adheres to the lying belief that the God of the Bible wants all Jews dead have any access to Jerusalem?
How would King David have dealt with mozlums had there been mozlums in his day? The same as he dealt with the Philistines. The same way King Jehu dealt with Jezebel.
Allowing mozlums access while the members of hamas, hezbollah, and other terror groups are on the rampage, just means that some murderous mozlums will already be inside the City.
arthur facteau says
Well said, and I fully agree. Why let the enemy inside your city, and more to the point, why allow a (what I believe) cult of Satanic anti God worshipers anywhere near Holy Ground to start with? Do what David would have done. He led by example, so follow that example…
dumbledoresarmy says
The Mohammedans have been digging, digging, digging underneath the Temple Mount for years. I would bet good money that they have a massive military installation/ arsenal, etc, right underneath it… and possibly with tunnels extending outward in all directions (yes, Jerusalem is built on ROCK but as long ago as before the time of King David people were digging tunnels in it, even then; and they didn’t have the tools that modern people have) .
I hope that the Israelis have thought about and planned for this possibility; because who knows where the mohammedans may be planning to pop out from – e.g. – out of the middle of the Western Wall, like the monster in “Alien”? – or what they may be planning to explode.
All that stuff about an “Al Aqsa Flood” makes me wonder; Freudian slips and all that.
I would say to the Israelis: watch, watch, WATCH, because I would not put it past the mohammedans to blow up the Temple Mount itself, if they could. They don’t *really* regard it as holy.. all that nonsense is only for the consumption of Useful Idiot infidels; they hate it and despise it as they hate everything that is holy to any non-Muslims anywhere; they only squat on top of it because they KNOW it’s incredibly holy for Jews and significant for Christians. It’s a TROPHY, not a shrine, for mohammedans.
And since they don’t really view it as holy, they will destroy it, if they think they can kill lots of Jews by so doing… indeed they would destroy all of Jerusalem, all of the Holy Land, if they could, because their horrible ideology fills them with a dark lust to desecrate and destroy whatever is beloved of other – non-Muslim – human beings. To take the beautiful and the good and smash it to bits.
Alena says
+10