The Biden administration has again condemned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount, while Saudi Arabia called the visit a “provocation to all Muslims around the world.”
Back in January, Senator Ted Cruz ripped Biden’s condemnation of an earlier Ben-Gvir visit to the Temple Mount, stating an undeniable and simple truth:
A visit by a minister from Israel’s government to a site inside Israel is not a change in any status quo arrangement, and it should not be controversial for a Jew to visit the holiest site in Judaism.“
Then in May, the Biden administration again “expressed deep misgivings with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s ‘provocative’ visit to the Temple Mount,” accusing Ben-Gvir (not the Palestinians) of “inflammatory rhetoric and politicizing the holy site.”
This time around, on Thursday, Ben Gvir was joined by an “estimated 2,000 Jews, including lawmakers….on the holiday of Tisha b’Av, when Jews worldwide mourn the destruction of the first and second Holy Temples in Jerusalem.”
Going back to when Ben-Gvir first visited the holy site back in January, right after taking up his ministerial post only a week earlier, the Islamic world went into a frenzy, while the United Nations (which is now nearly indistinguishable from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) held an emergency Security Council session over Ben-Gvir’s visit to Temple Mount. Israel’s UN Ambassador, Gilad Erdan, slammed the session and “argued that Israel had mistakenly agreed to the status quo in 1967 to alleviate the conflict and said the Palestinians were attempting to deny Jewish ties to the site.”
The Biden administration is doing the same as the Palestinians: “denying Jewish ties to the site,” while the Saudi Foreign Ministry has just categorized Ben-Gvir’s most recent “walk-through of the site” as a “flagrant violation of all international norms and agreements” and a “provocation to all Muslims around the world.” The gloves are coming off for “reforming” Saudi Arabia.
Many remain ignorant of Islamic history, which includes the fact that Ottoman South Syrians ultimately were renamed “Palestinians” only in the 1960s. These Muslims from the surrounding region were displaced by the fall of the Ottoman Empire; they continue to advance the lie that they have an ancient historic claim to the land of Palestine.
The holiest Muslim sites are in Mecca and Medina. The Islamic supremacy that is declared over Jews and the Holy Land goes back many centuries, as Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, points out:
In the seventh century, the Damascus-based Umayyad rulers built up Jerusalem as a counter-weight and hajj pilgrimage alternative to Mecca, where their political rivals were. This is when the important Muslim shrines, the Dome of the Rock (691 CE) and, later, the Al-Aqsa Mosque (705 CE), were intentionally built on the site of the destroyed biblical Jewish temples –– a time-honored practice to physically signal the predominance of Islam.
The “status quo” agreement was reached after Six-Day War in June 1967, during which Israel reconquered the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan formulated the agreement. Under its terms, “the Muslim Waqf, a Jordanian religious trust, would retain control of the Temple Mount. Jews would be allowed to visit the site without restrictions, though they would not be allowed to pray there. Israel would also take responsibility for security, though its forces would stay off the mount.” But it hasn’t been that simple in the face of Palestinian violence. Aside from praying, Palestinians don’t even want Jews to visit the Temple Mount, which is contrary to the Status Quo Agreement, which should not have been concluded in the first place, given Jewish history and the Jews’ rightful claim to the Holy Land. Although Dayan formulated the agreement in order to pacify hostile Arab forces that were bent on obliterating Israel, his decision does not alter the reality about Jewish rights or about the violent outbreaks on the Temple Mount.
Heedless of the ongoing jihad against the state of Israel and denial of the rights of its citizens to worship on the Temple Mount, the Biden administration has drawn its own line in the sand, as it condemned Ben-Gvir’s visit again, saying it “stands firmly for the preservation of the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites in Jerusalem. Any unilateral action or rhetoric that jeopardizes the status quo is unacceptable.” Reminder: the status quo allows visits, and to be realistic, no rational person would expect that Jews would not pray silently when visiting.
Like the Biden administration, “the Gaza-based Hamas terror group said Ben-Gvir’s visit was a dangerous escalation,” but went further to pledge to “defend the identity of the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque and protect its Islamic and Arab character at all costs.”
Ben Gvir has made the compelling case that “the absence of Jewish visitors on the flashpoint site would mean fewer Israeli police officers stationed there, “which will create fertile ground for massive demonstrations of incitement to murder Jews and even a scenario in which stones will be thrown at Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall.” He added that “when terrorism strikes us, we must hit back with tremendous force, not surrender.”
The Palestinian “resistance” has become a central Democrat issue. Biden’s own ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, stated: “I spend 60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people.” To add to the Biden administration’s demonstrable hostility toward Israel, the Squad — Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush — boycotted Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s recent speech to Congress.
Ben Gvir and supporters of his visit to the Temple Mount are essentially taking back what should never have been surrendered in the first place to appease Muslims.
Pray Hard says
What isn’t a provocation to all moslems? Death to islam.
Pray Hard says
And this is somehow the Biden regime’s business? In what way?
Deepthroat says
If there were to be an example there are plenty more in India where ultra Islamists do not want Hiondus to get back what belonged to them. Islamists of the Mughal and earlier dynaties have targetted Hindu places of worship destroyed them and built mosques to enable the spread of the unholy Islam. They are today squatters without an iota of any right to hold the property that they grabbed. Islamists never give up stolen property and thats more than proven in their resistance to hand over former Hindu places of worship. and so is Ben Gvir, yet another, this time for the Jews.
Wellington says
I expect the Saudis to hold Israel to a double standard whereby Muslims are accorded all kinds of rights but Jews are not (e.g., Jews, or for that matter any non-Muslim, cannot visit Mecca but Muzzies can go most everywhere—including to Rome, which is “last” on their list of traditional Christian centers that must be taken over and made Muslim as Alexandria, Antioch and Constantinople have been). But what I don’t want, and have every right as an American not to expect, is an American Administration emulating such Saudi criticism, but then, of course, we have now with the despicable and pathetically influenced Biden (who will parrot anything he is told, whether on fossil fuels, vaccines, MAGA Republicans, “gender-affirming care,” etc.) the same damn hypocrisy, the same double standard, and an equivalent malevolence.
Yes, it’s one thing to expect regular rot from Saudi Arabia. Standard stuff and all that. But when rot emanates from America, as it surely has in sundry ways over the past two and a half years, this certainly means that what is left of the free portion of the world is “out of joint.” As a side note here, may I once again “thank” all those who ACTUALLY voted for Biden in 2020 for the immense harm they did to America, to the West, to all the world. Fools all.
In closing and on an extra specific note, if one is a Jewish- American and still voting Democrat and yet nonetheless describes himself as a supporter of Israel, such a person is failing not only their heritage but himself. And denial of self is arguably the greatest error of all.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I had adapted a wait & watch attitude towards to Saudis after 2017, when they initiated some interesting reforms within their country. Now that is over, and I’m back to condemning them, along w/ every other islamic country like Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan… as an enemy
As far as Biden goes, we’ve gone from a situation where the muslim world was divided in a 3-way fight on who is to lead the world’s 1.8 billion muslims – Saudi Arabia or Turkey or Iran – to a coalition contrived by the likes of Beijing and Moscow, which is now united against US. To make things worse, we are openly hostile to countries that they threaten – Israel, Armenia, Greece, Cyprus and India
If somebody had a deliberate plan to destroy this country and any support that it had overseas, they couldn’t have done a better job than this administration
James Lincoln says
࿗Infidel࿘ says,
“If somebody had a deliberate plan to destroy this country and any support that it had overseas, they couldn’t have done a better job than this administration”
Very tragically true.
Bexarkat says
That’s right, Biden the antisemite-in-chief would agree with the Muslims that a Jew cannot visit the Temple Mount.
somehistory says
If memory serves, just a few weeks ago, a member of the Jewish clergy also condemned the visit.
The present society is chock full of bossy, arrogant, know-it-all, hypocritical, busy=bodies and so many are in some position of governmental *authority.* Every one of them insists on his way or the highway, but then turn and tell others what they can and cannot do.
So very tiresome. the minister could tell biden that the buffoon has no business going to a Catholic church; that he’s not following the policies of that body and his visits are *condemned.*
If a Jew doesn’t have a *right* to visit the Mount, no one does.
mozlums certainly don’t. Thieves are not supposed to profit from their thefts.
Deepthroat says
Well said
John1 says
Every time a Muslim sets foot in the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople it is a provocation to all Christians. Got that Saudi mofo?
tgusa says
If it appears to be Antisemitic it probably is. Democrats, antisemitism, what a surprise. Always remember the democrat favorite slogan, diversity is our strength! As a democrat, trust me, I’m telling you the truth. Lol.
Joe1 says
“though they would not be allowed to pray there”. With that clause every knows that religion has nothing to do with it. How can Islam, or any other religion, demand such a clause?
Tatanka says
Serems like the only way to peace with Islam is to turn every muslim country into a glass parking lot
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.
As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003 published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young men from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islaami Foundation.’ The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “
Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE , in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”
So with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread , influence and infiltration of the Western nations ,this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of America or any other country of the West.
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia in no friend of any Western nation, Saudi Arabia is best defined as a kingdom of Islamic hate.
As one Arab scholar who had lived in a Middle Eastern country, for many years revealed “Saudi madrassa notably teach hatred and condemnation of the West and non-Muslims” and “The Saudi Government also provides free textbooks to Islamic schools throughout the world . many of the Saudi- Issued textbook’s contain wording that encourages hatred and intolerance for non-Muslims.” [1]
Saudi Arabia in many ways is no better than Iran.
[1] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel, page 106
Brigitte Gabriel is the founder and head of http://www.actforamerica.org
Walter Sieruk says
The Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not an innocent nation when it comes to the subject of promoting Islamic terrorism by setting up Muslim brainwashing centers in which impressionable Muslim youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of Quran based jihad violence with much killing of people who are not Muslim for the advancement of Islam. As the Quran instructs, for example 2:191., 5:33. 9:5,111,112,123 47:4,89.
One scholar, Brigitte Gabriel, who is an from the Middle East had in her book with the title of THEY MUST BE STOPPED informs her readers on page 114. “Saudi Arabia is one of the leading financial contributors to Islamic terrorism worldwide. Part of that contribution is made by funding madrasas throughout the world and the brainwashing of Muslim children with intolerant teaching towards anything non-Muslim.”
Likewise, a former Muslim, Ibn Warraq, in his book which has the title of THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM on page 353 reveals that “Saudi Arabia has spent millions on Islamic propaganda and on building madrassas.”
Further on the subject that there are Muslim mind control and mind programming places where Muslim males are thoroughly indoctrinated into the strong but blind and unquestioning faith in Koran with all non-watered down; hard core Islam with its militant jihad. Those places, “schools,” are called madrasas. In those Islamic mind programming centers young Muslim male are ingrain in the mindset Koranic dogma of the use of violence and killing for the advancement of Islam. As the Koran instructs. As in, for example, in 2:191. 9:5, 123. 47:4. Many of those who of such center are so much damaged that they are literally dangerous to self and others. As seen many times in jihad suicide, homicide bombing/attacks. For the Koran instructs in 9:111. “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.”
In short, Saudi Arabia is very guilty of promoting Islamic terrorism as Iran