Arab-Israeli Conflict: Part 1

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Hamas calls for mass protests over Temple Mount metal detectors
Terror group leader Ismail Hanieyh urges ‘day of rage,’ says al-Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem are a ‘red line’
By Times of Israel staff | July 20, 2017

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The Palestinian terror group Hamas called for mass protests on Friday against metal detectors placed at the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem.

In a televised speech Thursday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh urged Palestinians to participate in a “day of rage” against the stepped up security measures, which were imposed after three Arab-Israeli gunmen killed two Israeli policemen in a terror attack at the site last week.

Friday prayers on the Muslim holy day are the busiest time in the week at the Temple Mount with tens of thousands expected to arrive at the compound.

Israel initially closed the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, as it searched for further weapons. The compound, which houses the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, was reopened Sunday with metal detectors installed, a step Palestinians protest as a change to the longstanding status quo. The Temple Mount is the holiest place to Jews as the site of the biblical temples.

Haniyeh said “al-Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem are a red line,” and that “the closure and punitive measures on Jerusalemites and sanctuaries will not be allowed.”

The increased security measures were taken after police said the three attackers who emerged armed from the compound and shot at police on Friday had stashed their weapons on the holy site.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-calls-for-mass-protests-over-temple-mount-metal-detectors/

 

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Police video shows how Friday’s terrorists got their guns onto Temple Mount
By Alexander Fulbright | July 20, 2017

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Police on Thursday released video footage from the terror attack at the Temple Mount last Friday showing how the assailants were assisted in smuggling the guns into the Al-Aqsa Mosque there on the morning of the shooting.

In the security camera footage, the three Arab-Israeli gunmen — Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad Jabarin, 29; Muhammad Hamad Abdel Latif Jabarin, 19 and Muhammad Ahmed Mafdal Jabarin, 19 — can be seen arriving in Jerusalem from their hometown of Umm al-Fahm by bus before separately entering the Old City of Jerusalem through Herod’s Gate. They proceeded to enter the Temple Mount through the Huta Gate.

At the gate, one of the attackers was stopped and questioned after apparently arousing the suspicion of a police officer before being eventually allowed to enter the site.

The video also shows that the three attackers had an accomplice, an unidentified fourth individual, who brought the guns in a backpack onto the Temple Mount and left them in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Channel 2 reported that the accomplice has been arrested and that he was also an Israeli Arab. His identity has not been released.

The security footage later shows the fourth man leaving the Temple Mount and exiting the Old City through Herod’s Gate prior to the attack.

Two of the attackers can then be seen exiting the mosque together, while the third assailant exits by himself shortly after them with the bag of weapons on his back.

The three terrorists are next seen walking together down an alley at the site to switch their clothes before returning without the bag, with the weapons now hidden on their bodies.

The video ends with the security footage from the moment the shooting of police officers Kamil Shnaan and Haiel Sitawe began, footage the police released last week following Friday’s attack.

Despite some initial reports that officials from the religious body that administers the site helped the attackers smuggle the weapons into the Al-Aqsa Mosque prior to the attack, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily had reported Thursday morning that police believed the assailants brought the weapons onto the Temple Mount the morning of the shooting. This was confirmed in the security footage.

“This is all the footage and information available at this stage of the investigation,” said police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld.

Following the attack, Israel took the rare step of closing the Temple Mount for the first time in nearly 50 years in order to search for more weapons, before later reopening the site to Muslims on Sunday and non-Muslims on Monday after installing metal detectors at the entrances. Such detectors were previously only in place at the Mughrabi Gate entrance to the Mount, the sole entrance for non-Muslim visitors.

The decision to place the metal detectors at the Temple Mount’s gates following the shooting has been met with widespread outrage by Muslim leaders, with Waqf officials calling on Muslims not to enter the site until they are removed.

To protest the move, demonstrators have held protests outside the entrances to the site daily this week, which at times have devolved into violent clashes with police officers.

In an interview with Army Radio Thursday, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would rule on the issue later in the day after he holds security consultations upon his return from a working visit to Europe. The security establishment was reported to be divided over what to do given the volatility surrounding the site. But Erdan rejected Arab accusations that new Israeli measures were an attempt to expand control over the site and insisted they were necessary to carry out proper security checks.

“The Israeli police needs these metal detectors so the security checks can give a proper response to the security considerations,” he said. “I assume there are contacts internationally to try to calm the situation, but in my eyes there is no reason why the situation should not be calm.”

Tensions are high ahead of Friday, the highlight of the Muslim religious week, when tens of thousands of Muslims typically attend prayers in the walled compound in Jerusalem’s Old City. Muslim leaders have called for mass protests if the metal detectors are not moved before then.

In preparation for the possibility of unrest, the IDF announced Thursday that it was putting five additional battalions on alert in the West Bank “ahead of Friday,” though the military added that those battalions may be released should the situation change.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/police...-mount/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

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Leaders Appeal for Calm as Protests Continue in Temple Mount Dispute
by Associated Press | Jul 20 2017

JERUSALEM — World leaders appealed for calm in Jerusalem as Muslims in the city called for a day of mass protests on Friday, in response to Israel’s decision to install metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem shrine.

Several thousand Palestinian Muslims prayed Wednesday evening in the streets near Lion's Gate, one of the entrances to the shrine that was fitted with metal detectors.

Such prayers, with the faithful kneeling in orderly lines on the pavement, have been the main form of protest this week, signaling their refusal to pass through the metal detectors, but protesters have also scuffled with police.

Conflicts over the holy site, revered by Muslims and Jews, have repeatedly triggered Israeli-Palestinian confrontations. The site — known as the Temple Mount to Jews and Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, to Muslims — is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Hungary, spoke by phone Wednesday with Israeli security chiefs and was to hold more consultations after his return to Israel on Thursday.

The latest escalation began last week when three Palestinian gunmen launched an attack from there, killing two Israeli policemen at a gate to the Muslim-administered compound.

In response, Israel began installing metal detectors, a move Muslim religious leaders and Palestinian politicians allege is part of an Israeli attempt to expand control at the site.

Israel has denied such allegations, saying metal detectors are routine security devices used at holy sites around the world. Metal detectors feature at all entrances to the Western Wall, controlled by Israel.

Muslim clerics on Wednesday urged the faithful to forego prayers in neighborhood mosques in the city on Friday and converge on the shrine, in an attempt to draw larger crowds. Worshippers were asked to pray in the streets rather than submit to the new security procedures needed to get into the the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.

Israeli media reported that security chiefs are at odds over the new devices. Israel's Shin Bet security service, which closely monitors Palestinian society, reportedly opposes the metal detectors as counterproductive, while police support the new measures.

Netanyahu said Israel is in close contact with Jordan, the traditional Muslim custodian of the shrine. Netanyahu said Jordan wants to "end this as quietly as possible."

"We expected everyone to help restore calm," he said.

Netanyahu rejected Muslim allegations that Israel is changing long-standing arrangements at the shrine.

"We should look at the facts and the truth — the installation of metal detectors does not constitute any change in the status quo," he said. "It is only meant to prevent a repeat of an attack with weapons."

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the key to restoring calm is to have Israel respect the "historic and legal status" at the shrine, the state news agency Petra reported.

Safadi told ambassadors from Europe and Asia that ending tensions is in the hands of Israel which he said should immediately reopen the shrine without any hindrances.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who was in China, is returning to the West Bank to deal with the crisis, his office said in a statement.

In the meantime, Abbas is in touch with Arab and international leaders to try to "prevent a deterioration of the situation," it said.

The White House called on Israel and Jordan "to make a good faith effort to reduce tensions and to find a solution that assures public safety and the security of the site and maintains the status quo," according to a statement from the press secretary. It also said the U.S. would closely monitor developments.

After last week's shooting, Israel closed the site for two days for searches. It was only the third closure since Israel captured the shrine, along with east Jerusalem and other territories, in the 1967 Mideast war.

The closure drew wide condemnation from the Muslim world. Israel began opening the site gradually on Sunday.

Jews revere the 37-acre raised platform as the site of their biblical temples. It is the holiest site in Judaism and the nearby Western Wall, a remnant of one of the temples, is the holiest place where Jews can pray.

Muslims believe the hilltop marks the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. It is Islam's third-holiest site after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/leaders-appeal-calm-protest-planned-temple-mount-dispute-n784706

 

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Everyone just needs to admit that trumpets dont cause walls to collapse, horses dont fly, and no particular place can be any more holy than another, and this shit would go away. Mental midgetry on all sides.

 

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Everyone just needs to admit that trumpets dont cause walls to collapse

I just know there's a joke in there somewhere.

Do you see it @Madmick?

 

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Such a wonderful Rosetta stone. If Hamas protests something that Israel is doing, then that means Israel is doing the right thing for their citizens despite any political unpopularity. Hamas only leverages diplomatic pleas against measure that frustrate their militaristic, terrorist goals.

I just know there's a joke in there somewhere.

Do you see it @Madmick?

I see it. Unfortunately, Trumpets don't build walls, either.

 

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I wonder if Jordan actually does its job as the guardian of these holy sites and deploy those metal detectors instead of Israel, would anyone complain?

Well, anyone else beside Hamas?

 

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I wonder if Jordan actually does its job as the guardian of these holy sites and deploy those metal detectors instead of Israel, would anyone complain?

Well, anyone else beside Hamas?

Not one fucking bit.

 

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I wish a tornado would knock the fucking thing down

 

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Also fuck hamas

 

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Jordanian parliament praises Temple Mount terrorists
Day after King Abdullah condemns attack, Amman blames the ‘occupation,’ prays for soul of ‘martyrs’
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF | July 16, 2017​

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The Jordanian parliament on Sunday praised the terrorists who carried out a shooting attack at the Temple Mount that killed two Israeli police officers, less than a day after King Abdullah II condemned the attack.

The parliament also criticized Israel for closing the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and prayed for the souls of the three terrorists who carried out the attack, Jordanian media reported.

“May the mercy of Allah be upon our martyrs who sowed and watered the pure land,” said Parliament Speaker Atef Tarawneh. “We will raise our heads through the sacrifice of the young Palestinians who are still fighting in the name of the nation.”

He blessed the families of the three cousins, Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad Jabarin, 29; Muhammad Hamad Abdel Latif Jabarin, 19 and Muhammad Ahmed Mafdal Jabarin, 19, who carried out the attack.

"May Allah have mercy on our young people, members of the Jabarin family, whose family members deserve to receive glory and honor,” he said.

Tarawneh blamed Israel for the attack, claiming that the “occupation” of Jerusalem and the West Bank justified the killing.

“The damage caused by the Israeli occupation to the holiest sites in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa are the reason for the continued resistance, we will not not bow to oppression or tyranny,” he said. “Israel’s continued and serious crimes that it commits are the reason for lighting the fire of revenge in the hearts of the generation who still receive hatred of the occupation as their inheritance.”

The parliament endorsed Abdullah’s call to reopen the Temple Mount compound to Muslim worshipers immediately, and called on the international community to force Israel to end the “occupation and protect Palestinian rights.”

The parliament stood as a prayer was recited for the souls of the “martyrs” who carried out the terror attack.

On Saturday night, Abdullah had spoken to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and condemned the attack.

According to the official Petra News Agency, the Jordanian king slammed those who “undermine security and stability” and pave the way for further violence during the call, in an apparent reference to the Arab Israeli gunmen.

The terrorists, used two Carlo-style submachine guns and a pistol to carry out Friday’s attack. One of them also tried to stab an officer.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordanian-parliament-praises-temple-mount-terrorists/

 

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Ok so fuck Jordan too

 

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