By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— The Arab League will hold an emergency session on Wednesday in the wake of the Knesset discussion on the Temple Mount, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reports. According to the report, the Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted a request to the Arab League to hold the session, in order to discuss…
By LAHAV HARKOV and DANIEL EISENBUD, JPOST— The State of Israel is pointless without the Temple Mount, MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud Beytenu) said at the first-ever plenum discussion of Israeli sovereignty over the holy site on Tuesday. The debate came on the same day as the latest in a series of rioting on the Mount…
By ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Jews on Sunday were again denied freedom of religion at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, of all places, when a near-riot by Muslim worshipers resulted in police closing the holy site to all but the followers of Allah. A Muslim mob became enraged when a small group of visiting Jews began singing songs…
By VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ 7— This is what a Christian Tea Party activist and American immigrant from India, Mario Goveia, wrote to me as the latest Palestinian crime against an Israeli civilian was perpetrated; this time by a Palestinian Arab sniper who shot a 9-year-old girl. He wrote: “It has bemused me for years that…
By KOCHAVA ROZENBAUM, ARUTZ 7— In wake of Tuesday’s decision by police officials in charge of the Temple Mount to ban non-Muslims entrance to the holy site, some two hundred protesters stood Wednesday morning at the foot of the Mugrabi entrance seeking to reverse their exclusion. The mass protest was prearranged following an announcement by…
By SHOULA ROMANO HORING, YNET— It is disgraceful that the United States, Israel’s best ally and friend, has never recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital even though it recognizes the claimed capitals of numerous brutal dictatorships and enemy nations. It is also shameful that the Europeans still call the eastern part of Jerusalem a “settlement” and…
By AARON KLEIN, WND— The Obama administration has quietly presented a plan in which the Palestinian Authority and Jordan will receive sovereignty over the Temple Mount while Israel will retain the land below the Western Wall, according to a senior PA negotiator speaking to WND. The proposed plan is part of the basis for U.S.-brokered…
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— What happened at the al-Aqsa Mosque during last week’s Friday prayers should be sounding alarm bells in the U.S., Britain and France. After the prayers, during a demonstration in support of Egypt’s deposed President Mohamed Morsi, thousands of Muslims began shouting slogans against the U.S., Britain, France and Israel. “Allahu…
By CHAIM RICHMAN, JPOST— Tisha Be’av, Israel’s day of national mourning for the loss of the Holy Temple, is upon us. The Book of Lamentations, traditionally read on the evening of the fast, establishes the theme of the day: “For these do I weep,” or, in the words of Ray Charles, “It’s Cryin’ Time Again.”…
By STEVEN PLAUT, FRONTPAGEMAG— The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest place on earth according to Judaism. It is where both Biblical Temples stood, whose destruction is commemorated this week with fasting and mourning on the Ninth day of the month of Av according to the religious calendar. The Western Wall is considered holy…