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When Jewish dignity was trampled on the Temple Mount

2020-02-18T20:02:55.681Z


Nadav Shragai


One miserable moment, in which the cameras yesterday commemorated Yehuda Glick as he was handcuffed and sprawled on the Temple Mount land, caused many a real shame and pain. The Israeli police could have saved it from all of us. There are things that a state simply cannot afford. One is a violation of the symbol. And luckily, for about five years, he is a sergeant.

A self-respecting Jewish state does not stop at the most Jewish place in its former MK history, which nearly paid its life for its fight for Jewish rights on the Temple Mount, just five years after an Islamic Jihad assassin was almost able to murder him for it. To the Muslims in the Temple Mount, it probably missed a vital lesson in “Jewish dignity.” Yes, there is such a concept.

The Minister of Public Security, Gilad Arden, and the last two district commanders in Jerusalem, Yoram Halevi and Doron Yedid, understand this well. They revolutionized the mountain by allowing a 700% increase in the number of Jewish visitors to the mountain in recent years, and greatly improved the conditions of visitation and treatment of Jewish visitors there.

Glick has been trying to improve these conditions in recent weeks. He goes against many restrictions still imposed on Jews on the mountain and in fact "rebels" in his conduct with the rules that the police enforce there. But from here until his arrest on the mountain, the road is long. If you are confronted with enemies like Sheikh Akrama Sabri, the ex-Mufti, and other Muslim VIPs, can be edited outside the mountain - surely the inquiry with Glick, a definite Israelite, can be conducted outside. Glick is not dangerous to the public. But for interfaith co-operation on the Mount.Other man has largely brought about the great change in the Temple Mount in recent years.

The arrest of the man, who according to the police version "went too slow," a moment after the United States incorporated a "plan of the century" clause that might allow Jews to pray in the mountain in the future, is also a self-denial. Do Americans need to do the work for us while we violate our rights - Ours there?

The current status quo on the Temple Mount prohibits Jews from praying on the Mount and allows them to visit there. This is a distorted status quo, but it is doubtful that it can be changed at this time. There is room for further relief in the conditions of visiting Jews in the mountain, but in talking to the police, as is the case with many of the mountain mountain groups of Jews. The formula is simple: the greater the number of Jewish visitors to the mountain, the closer the day when there will be, under such and other conditions, Jewish prayer. Both police and Glick understand this. They would do better if they bonded with one another instead of fumbling with each other.

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Source: israelhayom

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