Third Day Chol Hamoed TM News

Evening Update: (AP)Israeli police bring reinforcements to Jerusalem
— Israeli police mobilized reinforcements from across the country to secure volatile Jerusalem on Tuesday, deploying thousands of officers on city streets for fear days of clashes with Palestinian protesters would escalate.

Police Arrest Sheikh Salah for Incitement, Prepare for Riots(IsraelNN.com) Police Tuesday night arrested Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raad Salah for instigating the Arab riots that have wrought violence by Arabs in Jerusalem this week. Further riots are feared, both as a reaction to the arrest and to the planned cornerstone ceremony Wednesday for a new Jewish neighborhood in the Jabal Mukhaber area of eastern Jerusalem.

...Salah’s arrest followed another riot in eastern Jerusalem on Tuesday, when one policeman was wounded as 100 Arabs hurled rocks at officers and tried to block a road in a Jewish neighborhood.

(Debka)Israeli security forces are braced for the Islamic violence to peak Friday, Oct. 9, after the television preacher Yusuf Qardawi, spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherhood movement, urged all Muslims to mark that day by "defending Al Aqsa" against the shrine's takeover by "the Jews." His influence is enough to bring inflamed Muslims streaming to Jerusalem in Friday. [Hoshana Raba!]
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Abbas: Jews buying J'lem

Jordan to Israel: Don't let Jews onto Temple Mount

Islamic leader tells Haaretz: Temple Mount clashes won't end until occupation of Jerusalem does

Palestinian official: Israel deliberately sparking fire in Jerusalem
A senior Palestinian official on Tuesday accused Israel of deliberately creating "an extremely dangerous situation" in East Jerusalem, to trigger violence, justify a crackdown and tighten its grip on the disputed city.

"Israel is lighting matches in the hope of sparking a fire, deliberately escalating tensions in occupied East Jerusalem rather than taking steps to placate the situation," chief peace negotiator Saeb Erekat said in a statement before meetings later this week with U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy.
Raed Salah: We will pay any price to defend Aqsa Mosque

Salah, who leads the Islamic Movement's northern branch, called on all Israeli Arabs and residents of east Jerusalem to immediately make their way to the Old City and "shield the mosque with their bodies."

HOSHA NA!

This is a very, very sad day. The rabbis are trying to do good, but since they do not understand what they are dealing with, they make a chillul Hashem.

It's hard to make Jews understand the language perversion of the Yeshu "believers"---how they can use terms like "Hashem echad" and yet still be the same old Christian of yesterday.

The man says "every Christian" should make this declaration, but he does not consider himself a Christian but a "believer." This is for one reason only. He knows that the word Christian turns off the Jew. But when a "believer" in Yeshu says "HaShem", he thinks YESHU. And when he prays to "HaShem," he pictures YESHU in his mind. And when he says "echad", he means three-in-ONE.

This group of rabbis does a great disservice to Hashem and to Am Yisrael by representing itself as a "Sanhedrin" and attempting to kasher idolaters in His (and our) name.

G-d help us and save us from such a "Sanhedrin."

Second Day Chol HaMoed Update

(I have a feeling that this situation is destined to escalate. Watch for new additions throughout the day.)

Evening Update: PA: World must prevent Judaization of Jerusalem
...Palestinians have warned that the tensions flaring over access to a holy compound housing the al-Aqsa mosque, an area also revered by Jews as the site of an ancient temple, could, on the background of stalled peace talks, ignite a third uprising.

..."The Palestinian cabinet calls on all international, Arab and Muslim elements to take responsibility for the developments in Israel and force it to put off its attempts to take over Jerusalem and Judaize it," the statement read.

...Ilan Franco, Israel's police chief for Jerusalem, appealed for calm, condemning what he called some isolated people "from all sectors (who) are generating a warlike atmosphere.

Sheikh Khatib: Temple Mount events mark start of difficult era

"The recent events in Jerusalem's Old City mark the beginning of a difficult period, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic Movement's branch in northern Israel, told Ynet on Monday, "The al-Aqsa Mosque is ours, and Jerusalem is our city....

Addressing the Muslim world's mild response to the developments in east Jerusalem, Khatib said, "If people in Israel think that that the Muslims are silent, they are gravely mistaken. History has showed us that the Islamic faith will eventually erupt, and when it does there is no telling how things will end."

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Afternoon Update: Arabs angered by Franco's remarks

The Arab public was enraged Monday by remarks made by Jerusalem District Police Commander Aharon Franco, who, following recent riots at the Temple Mount say "Arabs are ungrateful".

...After a relatively quiet morning at the Temple Mount, it seems Franco's statement is only faming the flames. The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee on Monday decided to go to Jerusalem on Tuesday to visit the al-Aqsa Mosque.

..."I fear the events of 2000 may be repeated, and I hope that the government is responsible enough to make the decision to allow Muslims to enter the Temple Mount as usual, and not continue to deny entry. Denying entry is a dangerous thing that will lead to a disaster."



[Read the article in its entirety. They are taking the words right out of our own mouths!]

J'lem: Salah supporters march from Temple Mount to Wadi Joz
Sheikh Raed Salah, who was in Wadi Joz, urged the followers to come in masses to the Temple Mount and said, "We will liberate al-Aqsa with blood and with fire."
[Unwitting prophecy???] Sheikh: Tensions on Temple Mount are start of difficult era

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Palestinians throw rocks at haredim on Mount of Olives
By Abe Selig

Palestinian youths threw rocks at haredim on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives Monday, as thousands of Jewish worshippers flocked to the nearby Western Wall for the Priestly Blessing, and tensions were rising in the area surrounding the Temple Mount.

...Jordan on Sunday evening rebuked Israel for the clashes earlier in the day and expressed dismay at Jerusalem's decision to restrict entry to the Temple Mount on Monday.

Israel's ambassador in Amman, Yaakov Rosen, was summoned for a meeting with the head of Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh's bureau. Rosen was handed a letter demanding that Israel immediately stop the "disturbances" in east Jerusalem and at the Aksa Mosque.

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said that in the meeting, Rosen stressed that Israel has been handling the situation responsibly, responding with restraint despite the violent provocation by hostile Muslim groups.

Rosen explained that Israel acted legally, and that the clashes in the Old City would not have erupted had the Muslims not incited violence.

Judeh also sent a letter of protest to the ambassadors of the five permanent member-states of the UN Security Council, in which he called on the council to pressure Israel over the matter.

The Situation is Ripe

The morning of the third day of Sukkot. This situation is ripe for leading to a conglagration that will bring the nations into Jerusalem to wrest away our control of Har Habayit.

PA waging diplomatic war over Temple MountBy Barak Ravid and Liel Kyzer

The Palestinian Authority has been waging a diplomatic campaign against Israel for the past two weeks over what it terms "provocations" on the Temple Mount.

At a closed briefing for foreign ambassadors last Tuesday, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad warned that the situation on the mount could quickly deteriorate into a "loss of control" by the PA and asked them to submit official protests to Israel over its "provocations" there, a senior Israeli government official said.

That prompted Sweden, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency, to ask Jerusalem to work to calm the situation during this week's Jewish holidays.

While the PA has always conducted intensive diplomatic activity with regard to Jerusalem, it has previously focused on issues such as Israeli construction in East Jerusalem or the eviction of Palestinian families from homes in the city's Arab neighborhoods. But following the clashes on the Temple Mount last Sunday, the eve of Yom Kippur, it began warning the international community about the possibility of a conflagration there.

According to reports that have reached Israel about Fayyad's meeting with the ambassadors, the PA prime minister described last Sunday's clashes as "an assault by extremist religious settlers on the Temple Mount compound" and said it was "a provocation planned in advance that was aimed at sabotaging the peace process and derailing [U.S.] President [Barack] Obama's peace initiative."

Warning that the situation on the mount was flammable and could swiftly deteriorate, he added, "I remind you that this is where the Al-Aqsa Intifada began, after [Ariel] Sharon's visit" to the mount in September 2000. "The Palestinians' popular response stems from the Israeli aggression, and we are liable to lose control over events."

He therefore urged the ambassadors to protest to Israel and "demand a change in its behavior" on the mount.

Fayyad's description of last Sunday's events bears no resemblance to Israel's version. According to senior Israeli officials, members of a right-wing Jewish organization did indeed declare their intent to ascend the mount on the morning of September 27, but police prevented them from even entering the Temple Mount compound.

Shortly thereafter, however, a group of French tourists - most of them Christians - came to the mount for a previously arranged tour, and hundreds of Palestinian worshipers, who had apparently been awaiting the right-wing activists, began hurling stones at them. Police responded with tear gas, and in the ensuing clashes, 30 people were wounded - half of them policemen and half Palestinians.

Nevertheless, Fayyad's plea drew a swift response from the United States and many EU countries, all of which demanded explanations of last Sunday's events from Israeli officials.
The United States was satisfied by Israel's explanation and dropped the matter. However, several European countries - headed by Sweden, whose relationship with Israel has also been deteriorating - sent worried messages demanding that Israel work to calm the situation.

The tensions reached a peak last Tuesday, when the Palestinians told several foreign embassies that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intended to accompany right-wing activists to the East Jerusalem village of Silwan to dedicate a new tunnel.

In fact, Netanyahu was merely planning to treat his senior aides to dinner at a nearby restaurant - an event that was ultimately canceled due to a heavy work load. Nevertheless, both American officials in Washington and the U.S. Embassy in Israel contacted the Prime Minister's Office to demand explanations for the alleged tunnel dedication, while senior officials in Sweden's Foreign Ministry demanded similar explanations of Israel's ambassador in Stockholm.

Possible new clashes

Police are now preparing for a possible new round of clashes today, when tens of thousands of Jewish worshipers are expected to come to the Western Wall to hear the traditional priestly blessing.

There were several violent incidents in the Old City Sunday, after the Islamic Movement urged Arab demonstrators to come to the Temple Mount to "defend Al-Aqsa [Mosque]."

In one incident, at about 10 A.M., Arabs from northern Israel and East Jerusalem began throwing stones and bottles at police on Motta Gur St., near the Old City's Lions Gate. Two policemen were lightly wounded and five demonstrators were arrested.

Yesterday afternoon, Arabs threw stones and Molotov cocktails at a Border Police roadblock near the Shuafat refugee camp. The incident produced no casualties.

Also yesterday, police arrested the deputy head of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Kamel Khatib, and Hatem Abdel Qader, who is in charge of Jerusalem for the PA's ruling Fatah party, on suspicion of incitement to violence.

A court released them on bail on condition that they stay out of the Old City for 15 days.

This morning, police plan to restrict entry to the Temple Mount to Muslim worshipers aged 50 or older - a move that has in the past proven effective in preventing clashes on the mount. It will also bar Jews and tourists from entering the mount, to forestall friction with Muslim worshipers.

Thousands of policemen and border policemen will be stationed in the Old City and throughout both East and West Jerusalem to protect the tens of thousands of visitors who are expected to flock there today.

Sukkot Report

It's only the first day of chol hamoed and already it's not the usual Sukkot in Yerushalayim.

Arab Threats Close Temple Mount

US: 'Don't Go to Jerusalem's Old City During Sukkot!'

Rock Attack at Western Wall

Police: No Attack at Western Wall

Border Police Attacked in Shuafat

Rock Attack in Hevron

Rock Attack near Shilo

What's Going On???

(With thanks to Urban Survival.)

And this is just what made the headlines!
See the video links..amazing!!

Sep 9 / 20 Elul
Half a years worth of rain in just two days brings deadly flooding to Turkey.

Sep 14-21 / 25 Elul - 3 TishreiOne week and two feet of rain in Atlanta, Georgia and surrounding area

Sep 23 / 5 Tishrei
Dust Storm in Australia

Sep 26 / 8 Tishrei
The Philippines government says 240 people have died in severe flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana. The disaster has also left more than 450,000 people displaced.

Sep 29 / 11 Tishrei
A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa, flattening villages and sweeping cars and people out to sea, leaving at least 82 dead ...

Sep 30 / 12 TishreiMore than 1,000 people are feared dead after a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia.

Interesting article: Two quakes in the same region in a day - coincidence?

WAKE-UP! SEEK THE ROFEH CHOLIM!!

There is something very wrong when a group of religious Jews dedicated to the Land of Israel can't seem to recognize a clear and present danger to themselves and their country. I'm referring to those who view themselves as the creme de la creme of Israeli society---the "settler" population.

At one time, I bought into this myth---that those who put on guns, served in the army and went out to settle the ancient hilltops were model Jews. I visited yishuvim from the Golan, to the Shomron, to Gush Etzion and Gush Katif, searching for my future among them. And I did live among them for two years. I found some rottenness that has silently and insidiously spread until I now fear the whole is corrupt beyond repair. Much less than being the model for the entire nation to emulate, they have become a stumbling block to our continued presence in this land. Do you wonder that "settlements" have become the source of the world's problems???

This is your wake-up call from Shamayim. Why won't you listen???

A self-confessed missionary and his brood of eleven children have been living off and on in Israel for the last six years, each year bringing other missionary volunteers with him to "harvest" the souls of Israel. This year he brought 100 people with him and they have been welcomed into the yishuvim with open arms despite pleas and warnings. Jewish pride and Torah law thrown out in exchange for "friendship" and free labor!

Recently, former Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee was in town. The same people who eagerly lap up the sweet, but poisoned, Xian "love," fell all over themselves to heap praise on this celebrity "Lover" of Israel (and to be seen in photos with him). And now, it is being suggested that Sarah Palin be invited to meet with the female settler leadership.

This is some kind of sickness of soul that I am ill-equiped to diagnose---this awe of goyische celebrity and pathetic, neurotic need for "love and friendship" that causes Jews to self-destructively fling themselves under the tracks of the Xian tanks about to run roungh-shod over their very homes.

What more can I do or say to convince you? Why can't you see for yourself? For some it's the "love," for others, it's the money, for still others, it's the kavod, but for many, it is the perceived need for numbers and strength to fight the "common enemy"---Islam. What!?? Is our G-d's arm now too short to save us from Islam? You say, we have to do our hishtadlut? By allying ourselves with idolaters and allowing them to corrupt our land and our children with their idolatry??

Oh, I see. You explain it away by deluding yourself that Xianity is not idolatry, despite the FACT that it is a dead Jew that they are praying to and calling lord, G-d forbid! and it is a dead Jew that their book (NT) calls the Creator and Sustainer of Creation, G-d forbid!

THEIR GOD IS NOT OUR G-D!!!!!!!!!! THEY PRAY TO HASHEM AND THE NAME THEY ENVISION IN THEIR MINDS IS YESHU!!!

The very evangelicals which you have made common cause with for the sake of battling Islam, will eventually come for YOU!!

(With thanks to the blogger of The Word and the Warriors and hat tip to Geulagirl who sent it to me.)




See also The New Crusaders and Radical Xians in Iraq.

Washington Times: Israel New Leader of the Free World

A clear sign of impending redemption?

Washington Times Editorial: Leader Of The Free World No More

Israel is looking like the new leader of the Free World. The previous leader, the United States, resigned this role last week at the United Nations to take the position of global community organizer. This was made plain by President Obama in his speech, titled “Responsibility for Our Common Future,” in which he heralded “a new chapter of international cooperation.” By contrast, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a blunt and forceful call to action in the central challenge facing free people today. This is the struggle of “civilization against barbarism” being fought by “those who sanctify life against those who glorify death.”

(H/T YWN)