Israeli police stormed the compound containing the al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest places in the world to Muslims, sparking a clash with a growing number of protesters at the site. Several people were injured in the raid and at least 18 were captured, reportedly arrested for resisting the raid. A top Israeli Arab leader was also arrested for “incitement,” though it does not appear he was present at the clashes.
Muslim protesters gathered inside the compound today after a group urged Jews from across Israel to gather at the mosque’s compound. Officials have sealed off the mosque, which itself sparked more clashes in Jerusalem’s old city. Police have vowed to use a “strong hand” against the protesters.
The violence has sparked outrage across the Muslim world, with several officials across the region condemning Israel for what they called “provocation.”
The rally which sparked the protests was held later in the day, with several rabbis present urging the Israeli government to “reclaim sovereignty” over the site, and called for the construction of a Third Temple there.
The Second Temple stood at the site of the al-Aqsa mosque, but was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago by Roman forces. It was replaced with a temple dedicated to the Roman god Jupiter, and later a Christian church. Al-Aqsa was built there in the late seventh century.
On ya go Israel…spark another Intifada…break up protests and crush the will of the Palestinians – The Western world is somehow behind you!!! Go nuts!!
Zionist propaganda lesson # 43
This is not a conflict between the large and strong Israel and the weak and small Palestinians, rather it is a conflict between the large and strong "Muslim world" vs the small and weak "jewish state"
so when a conflict breaks out, it is not oppressed Palestinians, fighting political, social, and bureaucratic abuse aggression, rather its radical religious extremist killing because of this or that holy shrine being defiled
A conflict between the strong Muslim World vs the small and weak Jewish State – full of hundreds of nuclear weapons, a very talented army, hundreds of jets and bombers and tanks and artillery…and the full support of the Western world with even more weapons and of course the weapon of choice, VETO POWER!
p.s. Oppressed Palestinians protest all the time – and when they do they are locked up in contradiction of international laws…Another Zionist propaganda lesson to be learned paulBass??
Relax and wait while the terrorist state of Israel self-destructs. When the U.S. is bankrupt and no longer able to prop up the Zionists, they will reap what they have sown from their terrorist beginnings and the original theft of land.
The biblical injunction that those who live by the sword will perish by the sword will be fulfilled in Israel, and yet another black period of human degradation will end.
No worries.