Arabs hurl stones in Temple Mount
Police arrest 18 suspects in connection to riots in Jerusalem's Temple Mount Compound
Arab Rioters Stone Temple Mount Tourists after Muslim Incitement
Dozens of Arab stone tourists and police on the Temple Mount, a day after a former Muslim Mufti warned of a possible “break-in” by Jews.
Arabs stone police, tourists on Temple Mount
Israel news photo: Flash 9 0 (archive)
Dozens of Arab stoned tourists and police on the Temple Mount Sunday morning, a day after a former Muslim Mufti warned of a possible “break-in” by Jews.
Police arrested three of the stone-throwers, and no one was injured. The holy site remains open to visitors.
Police closed the Temple Mount to non-Muslims one day last week after an apparent political prank that featured posters of Jewish Leadership faction leader Moshe Feiglin calling for the destruction of Arab mosques on the Temple Mount and building the Third Temple.
Sunday’s violence may have been prompted by a sermon on Saturday by former Jerusalem mufti Ekrema Sabri, who warned that alleged Israeli extremists “might implement their threats to break into the Al-Aqsa mosque tomorrow (Sunday) morning.”
He urged all Arabs and Muslims to save the Al-Aqsa mosque and support the people of Jerusalem in dealing with what he called the “Israeli conspiracy against the city and its holy places.”
Ekrema Sabri was appointed by former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat as the Mufti of Jerusalem and also served as the supreme religious authority in the PA.
During the Al-Aqsa or Second Intifada, also known as the Oslo War that began in 2000, Sabri expressed support for terrorist suicide attacks, and police questioned him a year layer after he met in Lebanon with Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Anti-Jewish incitement by the Palestinian Authority has increased markedly in the past year as the PA continues to try to claim sovereignty over the site, the holiest place in Judaism.
Many Muslim clerics have preached that Jews have no connection to the site and that the First and Second Temples never existed.
The Palestinian Authority has removed tons of dirt from the Temple Mount compound in an effort to prevent discoveries that would reveal artifacts from the era of the Jewish Temples. source:
“There was some provocation going on,” Feiglin told The Jewish Press. “Someone published a flyer in my name calling for the destruction of the mosques (on the Temple Mount) and before I managed to do anything about it, the entire world media was there basically, including al-Jazeera and many European and Israeli media, and the police got scared so they closed the mountain.”
“I think the situation where Israel is walking on egg shells in everything that has any connection to the Temple Mount just shows that the Temple Mount is not really in our hands, and because of that, we are losing the rest of the country,” Feiglin said. “The Temple Mount is the core, the key, it is the heart of the body of the land of Israel. That’s why it’s so important to keep our connection to the place and full Israeli sovereignty over the place.”
Feiglin, who earned 25 percent of votes in the Likud party primaries on January 31 against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, goes up onto the Temple Mount every month on the 19th of the Jewish month. He urged police to investigate the making of the posters.
Watch: Arabs hurl stones in Temple Mount
Police arrest 18 suspects in connection to riots in Jerusalem's Temple Mount Compound
Arabs stone police, tourists on Temple Mount
*Police arrested a total of 18 people suspected of hurling stones at security forces and tourists at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem on Sunday. Watch a video documenting the violence: source:
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