Israeli police may prevent settlers from praying in Al-Aqsa

[azurnoir]

full title: Israeli police may consider preventing settlers from praying in Al-Aqsa

Jerusalem - Ma'an - Israeli police have warned against demonstrations against a planned settler march ending in Al-Aqsa Mosque where prayers will be performed, sources said Tuesday.

Settlers have said they intend to enter and pray in the Haram Ash-Sharif compound where the Al-Aqsa Mosque sits on Thursday.

Israeli police also handed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s Consult for Jerusalem Affairs Hatem Abdul Kader an official warning that accused him of intending to create a public disturbance by gathering Palestinians to demonstrate against a planned settler march.

The police said they would study the case and may only allow the group to visit the mosque and prevent prayers in the area.

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=37121


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[MADem]

1. Good grief. Why not just engage in a little naked rattlesnake baiting, or something?

What a stupid and pointless and "in your face" thing to do.

Entirely unhelpful.

And two wrongs don't make a right, either.

[aquart]

2. As "in your face" as a suicide bomb?

If we're speaking of "stupid and pointless." And wrongs not making a right.

[MADem]

5. Three wrongs don't make a right, either. NT

[IndianaGreen]

3. Let them all kill each other, Thunderdome style!

The world will be better off once we get rid of all religious fanatics, particularly those found in abundance in the three monotheistic religions.

[azurnoir]

4. Maybe we should get Hagee a oneway ticket n/t

[rateyes]

6. Nothing is so exciting as poking a stick in a hornet's nest.

What a dumbass thing to do. And, of course, when reprisals come (and, Israel knows there will be reprisals) it will all be blamed on the Palestinians. :puke:

[azurnoir]

7. Yep the Israeli police have already

"warned" Palestinian leaders if there is trouble it will their fault

[Mosby]

8. the temple mount is an important site

For muslims and jews. Other than the fact that religious settlers are involved (who's motivations could reasonably be questioned) why would anyone object to jews praying there?

Do you think jews should be able to pray at the site where their first and second temples stood?

[azurnoir]

9. The Mosque is on a holy site to Jews

perhaps some are looking to reclaim it? this is where Sharon touched off the second intifada; couldn't be the settlers hope for a third?

[Mosby]

10. The GOI enforces the ban on praying on the temple mount

so it's unlikely that a group of settlers visiting the temple mount to pray will somehow facilitate the transfer of control of the temple mount from the waqf to the settler mvmt.

afaik intifada 2 is ongoing, though with little effect, so there is no need for a third.

I find it tragic that a visit by Sharon and a large security escort to the temple mount somehow was interpreted by Palestinians (and you apparently) as justification to launch a response that has resulted in the murder of thousands of innocent Israelis. What kind of proportionality is that?

[azurnoir]

11. Thousands of Israeli's?

http://www.btselem.org/english/Statistics/Casualties.asp

but I apparently you support the settlers quest

[Violet_Crumble]

12. That falsehood set the tone for the rest of the post...

Though I do admire the sheer gall of someone who not once spoke out about the use of disproportionate force in Gaza going on about proportionality when they can't even get one basic fact right when it comes to casualties in the conflict...

[Mosby]

14. editing mistake

it should have read "more than a thousand". I took out something about the rockets and did not change the rest of the sentence, sorry.

and no I don't support the settlers "quest".

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. Sharon got what he wanted.

His goal was to provoke the Palestinians into violence, scupper the peace process and thus avoid Israel having to make territorial concessions.

I find it deeply ironic that Kadima, the political party he founded because Labour - the party of Barak, the man who scuppered Camp David by refusing to offer the Palestinians a viable state - was too dovish, is now regared as the more peaceful of the two main Israeli parties...