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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Fundamentalist Group Plans To Break Into The Al Aqsa Mosque

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A fundamentalist Jewish group, calling itself Temple Mount & Erez Yisrael Faithful, issued a statement declaring its intention to march towards the Al Aqsa Mosque [the third holiest site for Muslims] Thursday to mark the Jewish Passover feast.
 
The group wrote on its website that it wants to march towards the Al Aqsa Mosque [on Palestinian land] and called for demolishing it in order to build the “temple in its place”.

It added that the protest comes to protest world powers, especially the United States and its President Barack Obama, for “their plans to partition Jerusalem”.

The group stated that “there is no need to wait for the coming of the Messiah, Ben David, as he will only come when the Arab-Islamic enemy the ‘desecrates G-d’s Holy Hill is removed, and the Temple is rebuilt”......

....This group is one of many fundamentalist groups operating legally in Israel and explicitly calling for expelling all Arabs and Palestinians from Palestine in order to build the “Jewish State” and to build the “temple” on the ruins of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

Israel sealed off Jerusalem, especially the Old City and the Arab parts in order to pevents Arabs and Muslims from flocking to the Al Aqsa Mosque. Full story