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Posted by: ekklesiawarrior 2 years, 9 months ago9 Feb 2007- Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli police in Jerusalem over building work being done at disputed holy site.
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ekklesiawarrior
Feb. 9, 2007, 6:16 a.m.BBC UPDATE:
11:07 GMT
There are reports that a number of protesters have barricaded themselves inside the mosque.
The protest was sparked by renovation work on Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif.
Palestinians say it could damage the foundations of the compound.
The Israeli authorities say renovations are needed to safeguard the ancient site and have guaranteed that there will be no structural damage to the area.
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ekklesiawarrior
Feb. 9, 2007, 7 a.m.BBC UPDATE:
11:55 GMT
Violence has broken out at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque after Israeli police moved in to break up crowds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters.
The BBC's Matthew Price in Jerusalem - the sensitivity of this site that it has the potential to trigger much greater violence elsewhere.
There have been widespread protests among Palestinians and the wider Muslim world since the excavations began on Tuesday.
The compound area has been a flashpoint for violence since Israel captured it during the 1967 Middle East war.
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NeoCon
Feb. 9, 2007, 7:16 a.m.Oh give me a break these people are so backwards! I am sure the left will say its Israels fault.
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cherev
Feb. 9, 2007, 7:56 a.m.Interesting. For all the years the Wakf was illegally trashing the Temple Mount and destroying Jewish artifacts, there was no news. The Israelis are rebuiding a ramp that collapsed and the world is up in arms.
Gee...what a shock.
There are, no doubt, a number of Jew-haters who will respond with their various theories. I've blocked most of you so don't be surprised if I don't respond to your rants.
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slate
Feb. 9, 2007, 8:11 a.m.No Doubt about it,,,,, those that hate Israel and Bush never pass on the chance to do so, no matter what the subject matter. In fact they seem to have the ability to connect ANY subject to them, it's very obvious in most of the threads.
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allseeingeye6666
Feb. 9, 2007, 8:19 a.m.If the Islamic authorities do not allow the Israelis to carry out the repairs and strengthen the foundations of the mosque there is a chance this very old mosque could collapse of its own free will.!
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BigIan
Feb. 9, 2007, 8:43 a.m.hey, how about getting militant Muslim construction squads to lay the foundations for the buildings at Ground Zero?
Holy sites are important places, not just for your own religions. People should have mutual respect.
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sue2008
Feb. 9, 2007, 8:49 a.m.We are only hearing from one side. I can't say who is right or wrong. But am sure whoever makes the changes is going to favors their own religion. It would contaminate the holy place it is not just "regular renovations". If Muslims were going to do the renovations Jews would have complained too. It is a war zone. I don't think it would ever end.... Maybe on JUDGEMENT DAY!!! Ooh not even then because that is where it is all going to start.
I think one person from each religion (Christian, Jews and Muslim) should be present on site to make sure it is just "regular renovations to the foundations" and nothing fishy is going on.
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brothers
Feb. 9, 2007, 9:02 a.m.It is only obvious that it doesn't matter what religion you belong to. You will always have someone disagreeing about something being done to improve something or to have some understanding. Its like the saying goes "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up".
Maybe it would be better to just demolish everything all around the place then there would be nothing to fight about. Then again you can't win either way.
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zembel
Feb. 9, 2007, 9:11 a.m.The 34-month old Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out in September 2000, in the wake of a provocative visit to the mosque by the then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister.
Since then, Israeli police in the occupied east Jerusalem has banned issuing permits to Jews to have access to the mosque.
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ningyo
Feb. 9, 2007, 9:21 a.m.its not the renovations the islamic fascists are really upset about..its the archeological work being done under the site--these islamic monsters have said that jews were not anywhere in the middle east before 1949--what if evidence is found under the mosque of the jewish temple that was on the site before the muslims detroyed it..hmmm..another zionist conspiracy i guess--backed of course by bush somehow--that sounds crazy to me but i know this will be supported here on libscape
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sue2008
Feb. 9, 2007, 9:42 a.m.cherev,
if i put what you just said in my own words would be
Isreal doing that on prupose as a revenge for what Jordanian did 1948 -1967. but you understand Al-Aqsa mosque is not Jordanian
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cantfoolme
Feb. 9, 2007, 9:49 a.m.Pity the Muslims didn't prevent the Taliban from blowing up that beautiful Budhist shrine in Afganistan. What goes around comes around.
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Natureboy
Feb. 9, 2007, 12:03 p.m."Can anyone put all these Palestine trouble maker on the train"
Sorry, Auschitz and Bergen-Belsen are closed for business.
You and Cherev are soulmates!
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joeblowe
Feb. 9, 2007, 10:01 a.m.If SOMEONE would just PLEASE totally destroy these old buildings, maybe this would FINALLY go away. Do they REALLY have nothing better to argue about than this? Yet another bit of evidence that they are clinically insane...
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joeblowe
Feb. 9, 2007, noonI refer to ANYONE who spends time worring about an old building, or something that (supposedly) happened thousands of years ago. Move on. Get over it. Come On Down to the 21st century. Get a (modern) life. It looks like the ONLY way any of that will happen is if all these old building disappear. Regular dust or radioactive dust -- doesn't matter, long as they are gone. Wouldn't hurt if Mecca disappeared either...
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DoubleEdgedSword
Feb. 9, 2007, 10:09 a.m.Has there ever been a region more miserably misnamed than the "Holy Land"? Its very name is a curse, for if it wasn't thought of as Holy, it wouldn't be so fiercely contended as it has been, over the centuries. I prefer to think of the place as the a**hole of the Mediterranean.
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jumpmaster
Feb. 9, 2007, 10:39 a.m.I have an idea, but it is a little off topic.
How about if we hire the muslim suicide bombers to work in our coal mines and strip mines. They could just march into the deep recesses of the coal mines and blow themselves up.
It seems like a very logical match of skill set and job requirement.
Just an idea.
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royal-m
Feb. 9, 2007, 10:50 a.m.If anybody truly wishing for peace in the world had a magic lamp than granted three wishes to obtain that, two of them would have to be to eliminate ethnicity, culture and religion as human concerns...I guess we'd have to get another lamp to eliminate politics, greed and lack of imagination
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jumpmaster
Feb. 9, 2007, 11:02 a.m.I have another.
I wish that all muslims were contained in one geographical region and we would give them five years to Darwin down their population to a manageable size.
Now don't get all PC on me. Hear me out. No external forces would be allowed. They could all do it to each other. They love to kill stuff and if they don't have infidels to kill, they WILL kill each other.
No colonialism, no external forces, just a self directed population doing what they do best.
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Poulenc
Feb. 9, 2007, 11:27 a.m.Cerev, to block, which is to say, CENSOR, the comments of others is, in effect, to rewrite history--and thus to forgive it.
Let people have their say, if for no other reason than to help people see what some people think, PARTICULARLY if reprehensible. The truth will out.
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