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19-Jul-17: The Al-Aqsa factor: Rats, snakes and chickens


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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

19-Jul-17: The Al-Aqsa factor: Rats, snakes and chickens

 
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Jerusalem: Al Aqsa, Old City walls and new Jerusalem [Image Source: AP]
The police helicopter flying over our home as we type this is a reminder of where the attention of the security services here in Jerusalem is focused tonight.

We're in the middle of another official Palestinian Arab temper tantrum. They call it something else, of course. And while foreign news media are paying scant attention, the reality on the ground here as well as throughout Israeli and Jewish news media is heavy enough to cause a rising sense of anxiety about where the Palestinian Arabs are going to take this.

Here's what we knew last night:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party called for a “day of rage”to take place in eastern Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories on Wednesday.
Additionally, Fatah’s military branch, Tanzim, determined that Friday prayers this week would be conducted in Palestinian public squares, and that sermons would be devoted to supporting the Al-Aqsa Mosque and protesting Israel’s bolstered security at the Temple Mount.  :snip:   http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/
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Muslim Leaders Criticize Israel’s Metal Detectors at the Temple Mount

By Joseph A. Klein

 

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Last Friday, three Arabs killed two Israeli police officers who were guarding an entrance to Jerusalem’s holy compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The police officers were shot with arms that had evidently been smuggled into the compound and stashed there.       :snip: 

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