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A mass rally is scheduled to take place Friday night in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority administration, to celebrate their application for statehood.
The day saw several rock-throwing incidents at the Jerusalem Qalandia checkpoint and arrests in Jerusalem and Temple Mount. In the early morning, police detained four Palestinians carrying pipe bombs at the Beqaot checkpoint.
Israeli police and soldiers are on high alert for major disturbances, equipped with crowd dispersal equipment.
Source: debka.com
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Israel mobilizes 22,000 police, thousands of troops, for Palestinian disturbances
Israeli police have mobilized 22,000 officers and border police alongside thousands of soldiers as the country's forces go on the highest level of preparedness ahead of Palestinian prayers and demonstrations Friday, Sept. 23, in support of their application for UN approval of statehood.
Beefed up police and troops are preparing for the rallies to turn violent and surge out of the Palestinian towns. They are also deployed at mixed population centers of Jews and Arabs up and down the country to avert clashes and concentrated on the Green Line enclosing the West Bank and the approaches to Jerusalem.
In defiance of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' directive for rallies to stay within the limits of Palestinian towns and remain orderly, the PA's Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud Habbash secretly instructed the imams Thursday to turn up the volume of their loudspeakers at Friday prayers and keep on shouting Allah is Great!
This call coming from Al Aqsa on Temple Mount aims at reaching every Muslim in the West Bank and Israel.
Israeli security chiefs are treating this call, characteristic of suicide bombers, as a war cry for stirring up riots.
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The Al Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount
A Wall, that is all that separates two titans from a clash of civilizations, a 7th Century Islam against a 21st Century Judaism. Two monotheistic religions, both claiming to be derived from the same Patriarch Abraham and to be able to co-exist, find themselves in modern times on a deadly collision course.
All that contains the conflict is a wall, the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Many significant events took place at the top of this mountain: Tradition says that the world was created here. Later, Abraham brought his son and was willing to sacrifice him as an offering to the God of the Hebrews.
The Holy of Holies, the center of the First and Second Temples, stood here.
Today, Muslims control access to the area, Jews are forbidden to pray—even silently—and a person whose lips move in silent prayer will be arrested. This said, most Jewish people refrain from ascending to the area to avoid possible sacrilegious contamination because of a lack of absolute certainty over the location of the Holy of Holies.
Millions of Jews and members of other religions visit the Western Wall every year. As it ascends 19 meters (62’) into the air, it showcases 28 stones, starting with larger stones and ending with smaller ones. The different sizes are indicative of the eras when they were placed. It is customary to write a wish on a piece of paper and place it within the stones, and people of all religions do so.
There is another wish others attempt to deposit in this holy place. They are not as careful to place their “note” in between the stones. On the contrary, they amass a large quantity of stones of various sizes and throw them over the top of the Western Wall onto the many people praying in the plaza below. Their intent is to maim and kill, cause a provocation, do evil.
They are often instigated by the religious elders to incite hatred of the Jews and Israel. Their wish is singular: to see the destruction of the Jewish State and the completion of the Final Solution, the extermination of the Jewish People from earth. They are unabashed in words and actions, yet they enjoy full autonomy from the Israeli authorities.
Thus, several years ago, they excavated 300—400 truckloads of archeological artifacts from beneath the Temple Mount and dumped it unceremoniously in a ravine, like garbage. Why would anyone do that?
This destruction is designed to remove any connection between the Jews and their holy place, between the Jews and their history, and between the Jews and their capital. This is just another step in the delegitimization of the Jewish state. History erased, evidence removed, as they intend to do with Israel and wipe her off the map of the nations.
Imagine if anyone were to do such damage in Mecca or Medina. Actually, there is no need to imagine, as no one would remain alive. In Israel, it seems, everything is permitted.
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