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July 24, 2017
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Terror
Sparks Misguided Rage Against Israel
by Ariel Behar • Jul 24, 2017 at
5:23 pm
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After a terrorist attack killed
two police officers at Jerusalem's Temple Mount July 14, Israel installed metal detectors on the compound, which also
includes the Al Aqsa Mosque.
That's not a crazy over-reaction. But this routine safety precaution is
being cast as an unprovoked intrusion on Muslims wishing to go to the
mosque. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas broke off security cooperation
with Israel. Protests turned
violent, with three people dying Friday, and three members of an
Israeli family being murdered in a West Bank terrorist attack.
Abbas condemned the horrific attack on the Temple Mount, but his Fatah
party called for a "day of rage" over the metal detectors. None
of these actions considers that, without the terror attack that killed the
two police officers, none of this would be happening.
"It's hard to think of a worse debasement of a holy place than for
armed gunmen in the middle of a shooting spree to flee to it for
sanctuary," Bloomberg's Eli Lake wrote last week. "Add to this the fact the
Jerusalem police now say there were guns hidden in the Temple Mount complex
at the time."
For those who reflexively blame Israel, even when it suffered the attack,
such context doesn't matter.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) issued a statement expressing unease over "the
escalating tensions between Palestinians and Israeli police which led to
the latter imposing unprecedented restrictions on worship at Masjid al
Aqsa."
Similarly, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) claimed Israel's closure
of Al Aqsa was "unacceptable." In a statement released Friday, it called the new security measures
"proof Israel is using the current situation in Jerusalem as a pretext
to divide the mosque and prohibit Muslims from accessing their holy site
during certain days and/or periods."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) St. Louis chapter organized a march that cast metal detectors and
security cameras as a "siege" of the mosque and featured chants
of "free free Al-Aqsa."
"It's just another way to put [Palestinians] on a leash and try to
control them," said CAIR intern Neveen Ayesh.
Anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour took to Facebook Saturday to salute protesters and
claim that "Palestine will be free, it's not a question of if, its
(sic) when."
Friday's West Bank terror attack, meanwhile, was the first in a series.
A security officer at the Israeli embassy in Jordan was attacked Saturday evening. And Monday morning, another
Palestinian carried out an attack "for al Aqsa" injuring an Arab-Israeli man he mistook for a Jew.
There have been no condemnations from any of the groups who see metal
detectors as horrible injustices.
Related Topics: Ariel Behar,
Temple
Mount, Palestinian
terror attacks, Palestinian
incitement, Al
Aqsa Mosque, Mahmoud
Abbas, ISNA,
American
Muslims for Palestine, CAIR,
Linda
Sarsour, Neveen
Ayesh
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