The Truth about the Temple Mount "Riots."

During the time of Passover, Easter and Ramadan, three of the most sacred holidays for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, these times of celebration have been marred by violence, particularly on the Temple Mount of Jerusalem, a holy site for all three faiths.  Recently, dozens of men, many of whom carrying Hamas and PA flags, marched into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, chanting inflammatory messages against Jews, and hurled stones at the Mugrabi Gate entrance of the Temple Mount.  News outlets have referred to these attacks on Friday and Sunday as a “riot,” but it is not.  This is a carefully planned attack by Jihadists.  Riots refer to large gatherings of people that spiral out of control.  Typically, they are associated with protests that degenerate into violence, or major gatherings for events such as sports matches or music shows that gradually lose order and ultimately erupt into controlled and unplanned violence.  This is not the case with the Temple Mount Attacks.  Images show young Arab men gathering at Al-Aqsa, carrying flags of a terrorist group who have vowed to annihilate the Jewish people, and carefully gathering and storing rocks before launching an all-out assault on the Mugrabi Gate, which is the only gate that non-Muslims are permitted to go through when they wish to visit the Temple Mount.  It’s very clear that this was not a riot, but a planned attack. 

The attacks on the Temple Mount during the Holy Days are completely unacceptable and unjustified.Israel has made numerous accommodations to protect the right of Muslims to worship on the site.  They placed the site under the control of Islamic, restricting the access of non-Muslims to the site, and even forbidding non-Muslims to pray on the site or to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque as well as the Dome of the Rock.  However, the Jihadists cannot and will not be appeased.  Even if they manage to drive all the Jews and other non-Muslims out of Israel, they will continue their attacks until the entire world is under their domain, and they don’t care how many they have to kill, nor do they care about how many of their own have to die.