Yom Shishee
Friday
21 Nisan 5782
April 22 2022
The Photo of the Day
A bit of tranquility amidst the chaos of Israel. Flower picking in Beer Tuvia today.
The Pathetic Quote of the Day
“The Biden Administration remains committed to re-opening the consulate in east Jerusalem. We continue to believe that can be an important way for our country to engage with and provide support for the Palestinian people.”
U.S. State Department Spokesman Ned Price
The Biden Administration is a disaster in process with inflation reaching its highest level in the U.S. in 40 years and faltering foreign policy all over the globe. Even more it has become a laughing stock because of Biden and Harris ineptitude.
But this doesn’t stop Biden and his minions from continuing to adopt the Palestinian narrative and pushing a plan to divide Israel’s capital of Jerusalem.
The Biden Administration is simply pathetic.
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis in Hevron and numerous other places in Judea and Samaria.
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza launched a missile toward Kerem Shalom that exploded on the Gaza side of the border.
Palestinian terrorists opened fire at an IDF post south of Shechem at Beta.
TODAY’S BLOG
The “Freedom of Religion” Farce on the Temple Mount
“Freedom of religion” on the Temple Mount this morning:
A call to attack Jews and destroy Israel.
More “freedom of religion” this morning on the Mount:
The images make the message clear.
No country in the world has tried harder to protect freedom of religion than Israel. Despite being a Jewish nation, Israel has bent over backwards since its re-creation in 1948 to protect the rights of all people to worship as they see fit.
Insofar as Christians are concerned, Israel is the only country in the Middle East which has had a net gain in the number of Christians since 1948.
Insofar as Muslims are concerned, Israel has made an amazing effort to share religious sites such as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
We have made this effort even though the Muslims would like nothing more than deny Jews the right to worship, and even Jewish existence in Israel–a fact made abundantly clear by the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria during the Jordanian occupation from 1948-1967.
Earlier this month, we had the absurd spectacle of our “Defense” Minister Benny Gantz making a special trip to Amman to wish King Abdullah a happy Ramadan and “assure” him that Israel is doing all it can to safeguard freedom of worship on the Temple Mount.
However, the time has come to call a spade a spade and to recognize “freedom of religion on the Temple Mount” for what it is: a license for Muslims to call for the destruction of Israel and to attack Israeli soldiers and police.
Since the beginning of Ramadan and government easing of Palestinian travel restrictions which have permitted tens of thousands of Palestinian Muslims to travel to Jerusalem from Gaza, Judea, and Samaria, the Temple Mount has become a cauldron of violence with massive political riots and demonstrations taking place all day every day.
Here’s a sampling from yesterday:
Click on this to hear what was chanted in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque last night.
In case you don’t understand Arabic, what they are chanting is: “Jihad is our way, Hamas is our movement, al-Qassam Brigades are our army, Al-Aqsa is calling you, death for the sake of Allah!”
Is this freedom of religion?
Click here to see and hear another chant on the Mount today:
The translation: Bullet after bullet, fire after fire, we are your people Sinwar.
This of course refers to the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
Click here to see and hear what happened on the Temple Mount this morning.
Finally, we have our idiotic FM Yair Lapid continuing to push the humanitarian narrative this morning. In response to the massive demonstrations and riots on the Mount, he tweeted this:
“This is the truth about what happened this morning on the Temple Mount: an Islamic extremist nucleus tried to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque. They want to forcibly remove the moderates who just want to observe the holiday routine and pray quietly.”
What a sad joke. Since when are tens of thousands “an Islamic extremist nucleus”? Exactly where are the “moderates”? And who wants to “pray quietly”?
Freedom of religion for Muslims on the Temple Mount is not freedom of religion.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.