Violence by Arabs against Jews has increased in Jerusalem, Israel recently. Varda wrote how she got out there to protest this “Silent Intifada.”
Rocking throwing at public buses, the light rail system and private cars is happening daily. So I was shocked, ok I should not have been shocked, to read that Israel closing access to the Temple Mount was a “declaration of war.”
It seemed that CNN quoted and regurgitated what Arab Propaganda told them:
Tensions between Palestinians and Israelis spiked in Jerusalem Thursday as Israel closed access to the Temple Mount, a move Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called a “declaration of war.”
Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh told CNN that the decision to close off the site, which includes the al-Aqsa Mosque, was a “brazen challenge” and “grave behavior” that would lead to “further tensions and instability.”
Israeli police said they closed the Temple Mount “to prevent disturbances” after the drive-by shooting of controversial activist Rabbi Yehuda Glick on Wednesday night.
Ofir Gendelman, the Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesman for Arab media, tweeted Thursday that the closure was “temporary & meant to prevent riots & escalation as well as to to restore calm and status quo to the Holy Places.”
Later Thursday, Israeli police announced that they would reopen, in part, the Temple Mount. The site will only be open to men over the age of 50 and women of all ages on Friday to prevent demonstrations by young Muslim men, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
The police presence in the eastern part of Jerusalem has been beefed up, and security will be increased around the old city and alley ways in the area of the al-Aqsa Mosque, said the spokeswoman.
The Jerusalem complex is the holiest site in Judaism and the third holiest site in Islam. Jews call it the Temple Mount and Muslims know it as Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary).
Twice more this update mentions Israel and “declaration of war.”
Earlier, Rudeineh told the WAFA news agency, the official Palestinian news service, that Israel’s act was a “declaration of war on the Palestinian people, Palestinian religious sites and a declaration of war on both the Arab and Islamic states.”
Israeli police shot and killed a suspect in Glick’s shooting Wednesday night. An Israeli counterterror unit surrounded the house of the unnamed suspect in the shooting, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said on Twitter.
He said the man opened fire on police, who shot and killed him.
Then, just as I was ready to post a scathing piece against CNN reporting, I saw this video (language warning:word “Palestine” seems to evoke fowl language)
http://youtu.be/mjaLqEMJ5Ts
CNN is run by AIPAC and Zionists! That explains everything.
No longer is the anti-Semitic slur that Jews control the media, now media is run by Israel.
