Appropriating the sacred sites of other peoples is a hallmark of Islam throughout its history. Look at Hagia Sophia, the Cathedral of John the Baptist in Damascus, thousands of Hindu temple sites, and much more.
“PA wants religious war, calls to fight Jerusalem flag parade,” by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch, May 29, 2022:
…Today Israel celebrates Jerusalem’s liberation in 1967 from nearly 2000 years of foreign occupation which ended with Jordan’s illegal 19-year occupation (1948 – 1967). For over 30 years now, tens of thousands of Israelis have celebrated Jerusalem Day by marching and dancing across Jerusalem waving Israeli flags, entering the Old City through the Lion’s Gate, and more recently the Damascus Gate. The Flag Parade ends at the Western Wall Plaza to celebrate with music and dance.
Mahmoud Abbas sees this event as a great opportunity to incite violence and terror in the “name of Islam” against Jews celebrating the liberation day – an opportunity that hopefully will serve his other goal: to distract the Palestinian people from his failed leadership….
The posted text had the same message:
Another Fatah Facebook post and video was also explicit in its call for violence in the name of Islam. The video called for Israelis to leave “because you have no history in our Jerusalem, and it is not your homeland.” It also called for “blood” and ended with the chant Allahu Akbar = “Allah is greatest” repeated four times.
The video included Arabs rioting in Jerusalem and repeats the words:
Narrator: “O coward, you must leave because you have no history in our Jerusalem, and it is not your homeland”
A crowd chants: “With spirit, with blood, we will redeem you Al-Aqsa Mosque… Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar [“Allah is greatest”][Facebook page of the Fatah Commission of Information and Culture, May 28, 2022]…
The official PA daily ran a column attacking the Israeli flag march in which it repeated two fundamental Palestinian lies. First, it claimed that a Palestinian nation existed for 5,000 years with Jerusalem as its capital, and second, it claimed that Jerusalem was never Israel/Judea’s capital. In another distortion, the PA daily column continued to promote its Islamic ideology, claiming that the Western Wall of the Temple Mount belongs only to “believers of the religion of Islam”:
“The [Palestinian] leadership… [must ] defend [Jerusalem’s] Palestinian-Arab identity and character, and to wave Palestinian flags… it has been Palestinian since it was established 5,000 years ago… and to inform the entire world without exception that Jerusalem is Jerusalem of the Arab Palestinians, and that the Al-Aqsa Mosque – including the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount) – belongs only to believers of the religion of Islam… and also to expel from it the Zionist herds who are stealing the Palestinian land and Judaism to their lairs, until it will be liberated peacefully or through other means of struggle (i.e., violence and terror).”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 26, 2022]…
The official PA daily both on Friday and yesterday repeated the calls for Palestinians to prevent Israel’s flag parade, using Islamic religious terminology calling for “Ribat.” Ribat is a term for religious conflict in defense of land claimed to be Islamic, and can range from passive resistance to violent terror and murder:
Headline: “Fatah: Our people will stand against the provocative ‘flag march’ and will not allow changing the status on the ground”
“The Fatah Movement called on our people to stand against the provocative [Jerusalem Day] ‘flag march’ in occupied Jerusalem and to come to the holy city, to carry out Ribat there (i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic), and not to let the settlers violate it, and it warned that this will lead to an explosion of the situation.”[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 28, 2022]
Headline: “Palestinian calls to stand against the settler flag march”
“The Fatah Movement in Jerusalem called on our people to stand against the [Jerusalem Day] flag march.
Fatah urged our people to carry out Ribat(i.e., religious conflict over land claimed to be Islamic) at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and increase the waving of the Palestinian flags in the alleys and streets of the Old City of Jerusalem.”[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 27, 2022]
gravenimage says
Palestinian Authority claims that Western Wall ‘belongs only to believers of the religion of Islam’
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Does it matter that the Western Wall was part of the Jewish Temple? Of course not.
Fitna says
+1
mortimer says
Archeology confirms what the Bible says: Jerusalem was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel and the capital city of Judaism.
Fitna says
Israelis: “we must share the Temple Mount with Muslims so everyone can share the site equally.”
Arabs: “Death to Israel, Temple Mount is only for Muslims! Allah Akbar!”
Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? Who in their right mind thinks the Israel strategy is going to work? One side is totally delusional and has utopian fantasies, the other side are working to achieve their goal.
Even a child could figure this out. Muslims want one state and to drive the Jews into the sea. You can’t have a 2 state solution if one side wants it all.
Obviously the only answer is that Israel should do the same thing and demand Jerusalem for Jews only and expel all Muslims/Arabs from all of Israel, solve this idiotic problem once and for all.
Fitna says
*pray on this site equally…
Fitna says
and if the Muslim world explodes over this let them, Israel has nukes.
somehistory says
Like bunny rabbits and rattlesnakes. Bunny rabbits, warm and cuddly and have extensive warrens. rattlesnakes…cold-and cruel and have no way to keep warm without the assistance of the warm and cuddly bunnies in their warren.
As soon as the snakes do not need to keep warm any longer…the winter has passed and the sun is hot on the rocks, the snakes eat the cuddly bunnies.
mozlum snakes “steal, kill and destroy.” Just as Jesus described the “the thief:…a.k.a. satan the devil. Christ said, “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy.”
The “pa” make this claim, and they lay claim to all of Jerusalem and all of the Land of Israel….but when the leaders become ill or are injured, they run to the Jews who are doctors and have built hospitals and know how to help the sick and injured. Once the snakes have healed, the sun is hot on the rocks and the snow has melted, it’s time to “steal, kill and destroy.”
Fitna says
Good point SH…the Jews foolishly allow their Arab enemy to use their facilities to get healed. I recall there was a female terrorist and after she was healed in the Israeli hospital, she went back to terrorism and if I recall correctly she tried to kill people in the same hospital that saved her.
Israel needs to stop trying to prove how good they are to their enemies or the so-called international community because most of them are anti-Semites, so your good will is completely wasted on them.
You shoot your terrorist enemy on the battlefield but then let them heal in your hospital. What kind of insane logic is that? Either you kill them or let them kill you….why fix them so they can try again and again? Madness.
Fitna says
correction: a female terrorist who was injured…
Westman says
Sometimes you just have to pity child minds in adult bodies, ready to follow anyone promising to, “defeat the Jews”, and shouting for help from an invented diety. It seems only the smart ones move on to real opportunity. Islam, lived in the bellicose manner of Muhammad, is a failure.