ISRAEL - FREEDOM OF RELIGION FOR MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS - BUT JEWS ARE ARRESTED IF CAUGHT PRAYING AT THEIR OWN HISTORIC RELIGIOUS SITE AT TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM

MYTH:  THERE IS FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN ISRAEL. 
YES, BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR THE JEWS

Former Canadian Minister Stockwell Day 'Shocked' by Visit to Temple Mount - the most sacred Jewish site - when he witnessed discrimination towards Jews and the police ban against Jewish prayer so as not to upset the Arabs who riot and pelt police and Jews with rocks at the mere presence of Jews there.

By Elad Benari for Israel National News

Israeli policeman on Temple Mount, Al-Aqsa Mosque

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A former Canadian minister who visited the Temple Mount on Sunday was shocked to learn of the discrimination shown by Israeli police officers towards Jews.

Stockwell Day, who served as Canada’s Minister of Public Safety between 2006 and 2008, visited the Temple Mount following a coincidental meeting with a resident of Jerusalem, Yosef Rabin, who regularly visits the Temple Mount compound.

Rabin, who spoke to Arutz Sheva on Monday, said that his meeting with Day took place over Shabbat, when he visited friends for a Shabbat meal also attended by Day.

During the meal, Rabin said, he told the former Canadian minister about the situation on the Temple Mount where police, in an attempt to appease the Muslim Waqf which was left in charge of the compound after the 1967 Six Day War,  ban Jews from praying or performing any other form of worship. Police sometimes close the Mount to Jews altogether in response to Muslim riots - for days or weeks at a time - despite evidence that such violence is usually planned in advance for the specific purpose of forcing Jews out.

“When I told Day about the situation on the Temple Mount, it pegged his interest and he asked me to arrange a visit for him,” said Rabin.

After the Sabbath, Rabin got in touch with LIBA project coordinator Yehuda Glick, who accompanied Rabin and Day to the Temple Mount the next day.

"[The former Canadian minister] was shocked over how Jewish police can do these things to Jews. He did not understand how one can talk about the reunification of Jerusalem while at the same time Jews are not allowed to open their mouths on the Temple Mount," said Rabin, who added that during this particular visit, he encountered a new phenomenon whereby Jews were forbidden to speak with tourists who asked questions about the Temple Mount. Police forbade Israelis to speak with tourists about the compound, claiming it bothers the Waqf, he added.

Former minister Day, said Rabin, could not believe his eyes when he saw the long lines of Jews waiting to get in, the Arab disturbances on the compound, the conduct of the Waqf and the endless shouting. “He could not understand how the Israeli government could do this to Jews.”

Rabin told Arutz Sheva that Day is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel and would bring up the issue of the Temple Mount during the meeting.

Day, a former leader of the Canadian Alliance party which later merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to become the Conservative Party of Canada, lost the party’s leadership to Canada's current Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, in 2002. Nevertheless, he remained on good terms with Harper, who is also currently visiting Israel, and served as a minister in his cabinet before retiring from political life.

The Temple Mount is Judaism's holiest site and the location of the two Holy Temples of Jerusalem, the latter of which was destroyed by the Romans in 70CE. Despite that fact, Jewish visitors face severe restrictions upon ascending the Mount, while the Waqf works to remove any Jewish presence on the Mount and consistently destroys Jewish antiquities on the compound in a direct violation of a ruling by the Supreme Court.

Source - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176534#.Ut3zxyQWKM8

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REFERENCE
More on Temple Mount and the Arab claim to the site where Jews were worshiping thousands of years ago.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Mount.html


Brief History of Jerusalem - Its Jewish history and Muslim occupation
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=4&x_article=1355
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JERUSALEM JEWISH TEMPLE MOUNT - HOW ARABS CAN INCITE A MOB BY JUST SAYING THE JEWS WANT TO TAKE OVER OR DESTROY THE MOSQUE THEY BUILT THERE DURING THEIR CONQUEST

DANGEROUS LIES THAT ARE NOTHING BUT INCITEMENT -

ARABS CONTINUE REPEATING THAT JEWS WANT TO DESTROY THE AL AKSA MOSQUE BUILT  ON TEMPLE MOUNT, THE ANCIENT SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE

The following article is from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs - JCPA

Palestinians often hear from their leaders that a Muslim holy site in Jerusalem, al-Aksa mosque, is in danger of collapse – and the Jews are to blame. Whether printed in cartoons, preached in mosques or taught in schools, the lie is accepted as common knowledge across the Arab world. Millions of Muslims accept it as truth.

 

The message is clear: Jews seek to expel the Arabs from Jerusalem. This lie is nothing new. For the past century, Palestinian leaders have told the “Al-Aksa is in danger” lie in order to incite their people to attack Jews.

 

It is important to expose and counter this fabrication because it remains a spark that can lead to bloodshed. Nadav Shragai, a veteran journalist and Jerusalem expert, has written the authoritative study on the history of the lie. His work is presented on this site, chapter by chapter. It is also available in PDF or ebook format. Below are five facts that you should know about al-Aksa: -

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1. Political cartoons in major newspapers throughout the Arab world accuse Israel of seeking to undermine and destroy the Dome of the Rock and al-Aksa Mosque. A sample of cartoons published in Arab newspapers.

 

2. In fact, Muslim construction in an area under the mosques, known as Solomon’s Stables, endangers the foundation and destroys archaeological treasures. -

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Left: In 1999, Muslim religious authorities converted Solomon’s Stables into a mosque. An enormous pit dug in the soil of the Temple Mount caused irreversible archaeological damage. (courtesy of Dan Bahat) Right: Part of the soil containing archaeological findings that the Muslim religious authority removed from the large excavation at Solomon’s Stables. (courtesy of the City of David, Ancient Jerusalem archive) -
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3. For the past century, Palestinian leaders have denied the existence of a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and accused Israel of planning attacks on the mosques. -
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The mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, father of the “Al-Aksa is in danger” libel; Yasser Arafat denied the existence of a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount; Sheikh Reid Salah, a leading Israeli Islamist, promised to redeem Al-Aksa “in fire and blood.” -
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4. The archaeological digs that Israel has conducted over the years near the Temple Mount, far from the mosques, are a laudable scientific and cultural endeavor.

Left: Volunteers uncover the hidden treasures of Jerusalem at the foot of the Southern Wall, immediately after the Six-Day War. (Fritz Cohen, GPO) Right: Arab workers at the excavations of the Southern Wall. (Ya’acov Sa’ar, GPO)

5. Since liberating Jerusalem in 1967 from Jordanian occupation, Israel has protected religious sites of all faiths and ensured freedom of worship for all peoples.  -

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The only alleged link between Islam and Temple Mount is that it is said that their prophet Muhammad had a dream of being there.  That's all.  He was never there physically. 

Then came the Muslim conquest, the occupation, and the building of a mosque.  Today Muslims say this Jewish sacred site is all theirs, and riot at the mere presence of Jews. 

After Israel liberated Temple Mount in the 1967 war, the Israeli government handed over control over the site to the Jordanians.  The Jordanians had attacked Israel and lost the war.  Still, the secular Israeli government thought nothing of surrendering the most sacred Jewish site in the world to the Arabs as a conciliatory gesture, because of the mosque existing there. 

These days the Arabs who control Temple Mount forbid Jews from praying at the site.  Christian tourists are allowed in, but Jews are harassed and kept out for the most part.  Those Jews allowed in are not allowed to even move their lips in prayer.  If they do so they are arrested.   This violates Israel's own freedom of religion laws.  

 

Israeli authorities arrest Jews for daring to move their lips in prayer when visiting Temple Mount.  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172708#.Uv-9vpuPKM8

 

More information on Temple Mount

 

Here King Solomon built the First Temple almost 3,000 years ago. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, but 70 years later Jews returning from exile built the Second Temple on the same site. King Herod refashioned it into an edifice of great splendor.

 

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Mount.html

 

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