Archive for the ‘The Coming Temple’ Category

Is Temple Mount in our hands?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Renouncing Jewish right for Mount paves way to losing right for entire land

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The eyes of Obama are everywhere – even on Temple Mount

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Event organizers grilled by U.S. government over connection to holy site

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Israel police storm holy site to quell protest

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli police forces stormed the most contentious holy site in Jerusalem on Sunday to disperse masked Palestinian protesters hurling objects at visiting foreign tourists.

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Police on high alert at disputed Jerusalem shrine

Monday, October 26th, 2009

JERUSALEM – Hundreds of Israeli police patrolled Jerusalem’s most volatile holy site on Monday, a day after fierce clashes with Palestinian protesters turned the quiet hilltop compound into a battleground.

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Like it or not, the Temple Mount is key to Israeli-Palestinian peace

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Here we go again. As Jews celebrate in their tens of thousands the festival of Booths, Succot, religious extremists like Sheikh Raed Salah incite Palestinian masses to recapture Jerusalem with “blood and fire.” Not to be outdone, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah rushed in to pour fuel on the fire as it protests a “plan by Jews to perform religious rituals” on the Temple Mount,’ and called on the international community to “force Israel to put off its attempts to take over Jerusalem.”

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Who is really to blame for the tensions on the Temple Mount?

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Palestinian clashes with Israeli police on Sunday and on the day before Yom Kippur near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City have made foreign diplomats wonder whether Israel is enacting a new policy on the Temple Mount, which is serving to exacerbate tensions.

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Police out in force day after riots at Jerusalem holy site

Monday, October 5th, 2009

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Israeli border police detain a Palestinian man during clashes outside Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday.

Authorities contained tensions at the site, which is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram Al-Sharif. In one incident, though, police arrested 10 Palestinian youths Monday after some people threw rocks at Orthodox Jews, said Mickey Rosenfeld, spokesman for the Israeli police.

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PA waging diplomatic war over Temple Mount

Monday, October 5th, 2009

PA waging diplomatic war over Temple Mount

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Jerusalem unveils road used by pilgrims during Second Temple

Monday, September 14th, 2009

The Israel Antiquities Authority researchers said on Sunday that a stretch of road in Jerusalem dating to the Second Temple and thought to be used by pilgrims on their ascent to the temple had been cleared over the past few months.

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‘Massive’ ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

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The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it.

JERUSALEM — An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.

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