Those who roll their eyes toward the heavens over the ultra-right's planned false innocence. You may call it freedom of assembly, here in Jerusalem we call it pyromania.
Were the Peace Now movement or the Gay Pride parade were to go through Mea Shearim, therecwould be blood.
Were Palestinian youth to march those streets there would be blood.
Casting the Temple Mount Mvt as Rosa Parks and Netanyahu as LBJ is pathetic. Ms. Parks did not aspire to through the white out and burn the bus.
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Can Arabs visit the Western Wall Plaza?
If theyr'e Jordanian - yes.
If they're Emirati - yes.
If they're Egyptian
NOT if you're a Palestinian - even one who is living a few meters away.
This is NOT about security. Everybody undergoes a serious security check.
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Palestinians are simply not allowed even to traverse the Western Wall plaza.
See the attached form folks: It's "A Request for a Pedestrian Permit" Palestinians need apply in order to set foot in the plaza.
The application is to the Police and The W Wall Heritage Fiunation
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There are several tens of Palestinians, mostly the infirm, who are allowed through the Mughrabi Ramp t Al Aqsa.
100,000s of Palestinians living nearby are barred.
So cut the false innocence and hypocrisy. This is not bout freedom of religion. Its willful incitement.
Jerusalem is a city like no other. It not be used as and-end-of days playground by those parade as human rights activist so they can satisfied their urges to watch Jerusalem erupt.
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The Talmud says:
דאמר רבי יוחנן: לא חרבה ירושלים
אלא על שדנו בה דין תורה
"Rabbi Yohanan said: Jerusalem was only destroyed because the city adjudicated cases in accordance with the Laws of the Torah."
Bava Metzia 30a
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Here is the "Application for a Pedestrian Permit" that I mentioned in tweet 4 above. It is issued by the Jerusalem Police and the Western Wall Heritage Foundation". Without a permit, Palestinians are barred from the Western Wall Plaza.
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Despair and a sense of futility are part of the zeitgeist.
But the claim that nothing will change with Netanyahu's departure is more than that. It is half true, perhaps more. Importantly true. But not entirely true.
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The deep truth? That Netanyahu's ideology has been spliced into the organizational DNA of official Israel. That ideological embrace of occupation brought Netanyahu to power, and he amplified it significant.
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Occupation needs no marching orders from an Israeli Prime Minister to sustain itself, and to metastasize. In that sense, his departure in and of itself will, as folks are saying, change nothing.
But that is only part of the story, and part of the truth.
There are a number of highly controversial issues that simultaneously converged on 2 the ultimate radioactive issues of the Israel Palestinian conflict: Jerusalem and displacement.
These issues intersect, interact and resonate.
It's worth taking a hard look how.
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This week the Irish parliament incurred the wrath of official Israel by declaring Israeli rule over the West Bank tantamount to de facto annexation.
Israel often deflects accusations of apartheid by asserting that the status of "Judea/Samaria" is temporary, to be determined.
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This dispute over "de facto" annexation and "temporary" is entirely irrelevant to Israel's position on Jerusalem.
It is Israel that asserts that the annexation of East Jerusalem is not temporary but permanent, even eternal.
Proposing that Palestinians negotiate on the basis of the Trump Plan is tantamount to requesting they turn their rights, their dignity and their very humanity into a negotiable commodity.
They said no and they we damned right to do so.
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Anything less than recognition of the parity of Palestinian equities in Jerusalem w/ those of Israel - in principle and w/ real indications of being serious -is delusional.
It there is any lesson of these last weeks: don't mess with Jerusalem.
It's even worse. The problem of the muezzin loudspeakers on the Mount interfering with the President's solemn speeches at the Western Wall was not new. There has been a longstanding arrangement between the President's office/police.
It was agreed that the volume on the two problematic loudspeakers on the Mount closest to the W. Wall Plaza would be turned down during the President's speech. It was an arrangement that worked to everyone's satisfaction.
This year, the Police showed up on the Mount and without warning, and demanded that the waqf turn down the volume on two additional loudspeakers to the east, that were nowhere near the plaza. The waqf officials refused, saying it was contrary to the existing understanding.
Thread. 1/ 1. On Monday evening, a Palestinian van driver in Jerusalem, was attacked by a lynch mob yelling “He’s an Arab, he’s an Arab”, just a few yards away from where Netanyahu was having a press conference.
2. Bruised and bleeding, the driver barely escaped with his life.
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3. In his attempt to escape the lynch mob, the Palestinian driver ran over an innocent Israeli, killing him.
4. The family of the man killed declared that the Palestinian driver was blameless, and to blame him would desecrate his memory. The ultra-orthodox mob was to blame.
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3. The Palestinian driver who they tried to lynch was detained and interrogated by the police, and released after 24 hours.
4. In spite of a wealth of video footage, no one in the lynch mob was detained.