Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.
The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of 4 months in jail for, allegedly, trumped up charges of ‘trying to hit an Israeli soldier’.
Israeli authorities have reopened the Noble Sanctuary upon which the al-Aqsa Mosque is situated after closing the area to worshippers and pilgrims for the first time in two decades.
The closure came after two Israeli policemen were killed by three Arab-Israeli citizens. The three Arab-Israelis were subsequently shot dead.
The reopening of the Noble Sanctuary complete with vast security barriers and checkpoints has angered locals who worship at the ancient holy site.
Israel has just emerged from its three-week high holidays, a period that in recent years has been marked by extremist religious Jews making provocative visits to Al Aqsa mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem.
Many go to pray, in violation of Israel’s international obligations. Most of them belong to groups that seek to replace the mosque with a Jewish temple. They now enjoy increasing parliamentary support, some of it from within prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party.
MEMO | October 13, 2016 An Israeli archaeological expert has asserted that there is no relation between the Western Wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and an ancient Jewish temple, Al Jazeera reported today. This will likely serve to undermine Israeli excavations of the site. Meir Ben-Dov, an Israeli archaeological expert who is author of […]
Margot Wallstrom, the foreign minister of Sweden
MEMO – January 4, 2016 A senior Israeli official called on Saturday night for the occupation of the Syrian capital Damascus based on the teachings of the Jewish holy book the Torah, Felesteen newspaper reported. During a TV show on the Israel’s Channel 2, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Bezalel Smotrich said that Israeli […]
Right-wing Israeli groups on Sunday “raided” the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces, witnesses told Ma’an.
Groups calling for the destruction of the al-Aqsa mosque compound are part of Israel’s political establishment. Oren Ziv ActiveStills
by Ilan Pappe The Electronic Intifada
By Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgThis is an excerpt from the movie "Murder by Decree" in which Christopher Plummer plays Sherlock Holmes confronting Freemason Sir Charles Warren, co-founder of the Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Lodge. Charles Warren performed the archaeological groundwork for the rebuilding of the Third Temple in Jerusale
