TENSIONS RISE OVER TEMPLE MOUNT
| Now come reports that tensions are rapidly rising over the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reports that “the Islamic Movement warned Wednesday against the possibility that Jewish groups would try to reach the Temple Mount on Thursday (The Ninth of Av) and damage the Al Aqsa Mosque. The group’s warning follows a Supreme Court decision made earlier this week, ordering police to allow whoever wants to visit the Temple Mount during regular visiting hours on the Ninth of Av.” According to a Jerusalem Post story: “Citing intelligence alerts of possible violence, Jerusalem police announced Wednesday that the Temple Mount will be closed to non-Muslim visitors on Thursday, as the nation marks Tisha Be’av and the destruction of the biblical Jewish temples.”
As one of the lines in The Copper Scroll says, any effort by Jewish groups to build the Third Temple — or attack the Muslims sites — “could unleash the wrath of a billion Muslims against the tiny State of Israel and instantly obliterate any hope of peace.” (p. 82) Now several Islamic leaders have told Ha’aretz almost the exact same thing: “Extremist Jewish groups may damage the Al Aqsa Mosque. If this were to happen, heaven forbid, it would inflame the region.” |
There you have it.
I just started The Copper Scroll this morning.
