Getty Images perpetuates the bull:
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| Who runs for cover toward their supposed threat? Who stands in the middle of an open throughway making themselves a perfect target for their supposed threat? Someone who is not afraid of that threat actually doing anything.
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Violent clashes erupt at Jerusalem’s holiest site
JERUSALEM – Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land’s most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict.
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The Jerusalem holy site is a hot-button issue for Muslims worldwide, and the Palestinian condemnation was quickly taken up abroad. The head of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference warned that any provocative act by Israel “would bear grave consequences,” while the Arab League called on the U.N. to “stop the Israeli aggressions.” Egypt urged Israel to refrain from actions with “negative repercussions” for the region.
The Islamic militant Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, called on Palestinians to rise up against Israel and urged Arab countries that have ties to Israel to sever them.
Nine police officers were lightly wounded and 18 protesters were detained, police said. The Palestinian president’s adviser on Jerusalem affairs and a leader from Israel’s Islamic Movement were arrested for alleged incitement, police said.
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The disputing claims to the man-made platform in Jerusalem’s Old City lie at the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It is revered as the holiest site in Judaism, home to two biblical Temples, and Jews pray at the foot of the compound at the Western Wall.
In the Islamic tradition, it is the place where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven in a nighttime journey recounted in the Quran, and is considered the third-holiest site after the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina.
Israel has carried out numerous archaeological digs in nearby areas, but has denied Palestinian allegations that the work could endanger the compound.
The Palestinians seek to make east Jerusalem — including the holy compound — the capital of a future independent state. Israel’s government says it will not share control of the holy city.
(thanks to BenZacharia and Bumr50 for the link)
(and thanks to Nevergiveup for the next one:)
Hamas: War will settle Jerusalem dispute, not talks
Following a conflagration of violence at Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal declared that “Jerusalem’s fate will be decided with jihad (holy war) and resistance, and not negotiations.”
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Arab MK: Israel provoking a billion Muslims over Temple Mount
An Israeli Arab lawmaker warned earlier Sunday that Israel was “provoking” the Muslim world by cracking down on Arab rioters on the Temple Mount in Jeruslaem.
“Israel is provoking a billion Muslims around the world, who will not hesitate to protect the Temple Mount with their own bodies,” said MK Talab Al-Sana (United Arab List-Ta’al).
As snork said, he’s admitting it is the Temple Mount and not al-Haram al-Sharif (the Nobel Santuary)? He must be one of those mythical Loyal Arab Israelis.
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Previously, at the Blogmocracy:
Um…About Those “Loyal” Israeli-Arabs
About Those “Loyal” Israeli-Arabs…
Israeli Muslim Leader Attacks Police!
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