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Fast Forward UN Official Warns Of ‘Catastrophic’ Escalation Of Temple Mount Crisis
United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned on Monday that a solution was needed by Friday to the Jerusalem mosque crisis, which threatens to have “potential catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the Old City.” “It is extremely important that a solution to the current crisis be found by Friday,” he told reporters…
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Opinion How Israel’s Temple Mount Crisis Became A Showdown — Between Government And Generals
On Saturday evening, July 22, the eighth day of the Temple Mount crisis, Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett, head of the religious-nationalist Jewish Home party, made a condolence visit to the family that had lost three of its members in a horrific stabbing attack the day before. It was not exactly a shiva call, as…
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Fast Forward Clashes Continue Over Temple Mount Metal Detectors
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least one Palestinian man was killed in clashes in Jerusalem between Israeli security forces and Muslims demonstrating against metal detectors installed at the Temple Mount. The most serious clashes on Saturday took place in the evening after Muslim worshippers held a prayer service outside the gates of the Temple Mount, which…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Calls For ‘Moderation And Dialogue’ After Temple Mount Violence
ROME (JTA) – Expressing trepidation and urging prayers for peace, Pope Francis appealed for “moderation and dialogue” in the wake of recent violence in Jerusalem centering on the Temple Mount. Addressing crowds who braved fierce heat to gather for his Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said he was “following with trepidation the grave…
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Israel News Young Palestinians Barred From Temple Mount Riot In East Jerusalem, West Bank
Tensions over the Israeli decision to put metal detectors and other security equipment on a Jerusalem site holy to both Jews and Muslims exploded into deadly clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the city and the West Bank on Friday in the worst outbreak of violence there in recent years. As simmering outrage…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinians Killed As Jerusalem Erupts Over Temple Mount
Three Palestinians were killed in clashes between rioters and police in Jerusalem and the West Bank over the Israeli government’s decision to keep in place indefinitely metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount, the Palestinian media reported. Thousands of Israeli soldiers and troops were deployed in eastern Jerusalem following riots Thursday, which resumed…
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Opinion Let My People Pray At The Temple Mount — It Will Teach Palestinians A Lesson
This past Wednesday, I ascended to the Temple Mount, as I have done many scores of times, and, following the police security check, was permitted to enter the compound Muslims call the Haram A-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. The precincts were empty, totally so. I did not see more than a half-dozen Muslims there, except for…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Rethinking Temple Mount Metal Detectors Amid Palestinian Rage
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing whether to remove metal detectors at a Jerusalem holy site whose installation after a deadly attack last week has stoked Palestinian protests, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Thursday. There have been nightly confrontations between Palestinians hurling rocks and Israeli police using stun grenades in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem since…
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