Hamas Raises Annihilationist Army to Capture Temple Mount, Judaism’s Holiest Site

It is important to point out the the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem had no importance or relevance until the early part of the twentieth century, when talk of a Jewish State became a very real possibility. The vicious and brutal leader of the Muslim world, Mufti Al Husseini, decided to undergo an ambitious project to renovate the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque in order to create some mythical Islamic claims to Jerusalem — so as to stop the Jews from establishing a state. Like the biblical golden calf, he plated the dome with gold with funds collected from India and various Muslim states. Until then, the mosque was in complete disrepair and very rarely used.

The impressive looks of the Dome greatly enhanced the status of Jerusalem in the eyes of Muslims throughout the world. Similarly, al-Husseini’s own status as Mufti of Jerusalem increased his standing as an influential Arab leader. (VJL)

There is no integrity in Islam or respect for other faiths, so such a ruse was easy for the leader of the Muslim world to pull off.

The Mufti was a devout Jew-hater who conducted several pogroms against the Jews in 1929 and 1936. He partnered with Adolf Hitler and lived in Berlin on Hitler’s dime, and aided and abetted the Nazi regime’s annihilationist agenda. The Mufti was responsible for murder of over 400,000 Jewish women and children.

Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Quran, while it is mentioned in the Jewish Bible well over seven hundred times.

The Second Temple was an important Jewish Holy Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי‎: Bet HaMikdash HaSheni) which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE.

King Solomon built the First Temple almost 3,000 years ago. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, but 70 years later Jews returning from exile built the Second Temple on the same site. King Herod refashioned it into an edifice of great splendor.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque was a built as  victory mosque. It was built deliberately on the Temple Mount, the site of the first and second Jewish temples — the holiest Jewish site, that predated Islam by over two millennia.

As one Atlas commenter pointed out, the Al Aqsa Mosque is the seventh-century equivalent of the attempted Ground Zero Mosque.

There is no moral equivalence between the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa. And Muslim leaders know this. It is why the “Palestinian Authority” has ordered the press not to use the term “Temple Mount.” Like the Dome itself, the Hagia Sophia and the destruction of non-Muslim religious symbols, Islamic supremacists seek to validate their false narrative by extinguishing and falsifying other religions by the most violent and depraved means.

“Hamas creates ‘People’s Army’ in wake of al-Aqsa clashes,” Elior Levy / Israel News, November 7, 2014

Al-Qassam Brigades official says 2,500-strong force to fight on the vanguard ‘for liberation of al-Aqsa and Palestine.’

Hamas announced the creation of a new fighting force on Friday to be prepared for a new confrontation with Israel. A senior official with the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades said that the “People’s Army” would include 2,500 soldiers.

At a graduation ceremony for recruits in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, Mohammed Abu Askar claimed the new fighters were to be the vanguard “for the liberation of the al-Aqsa mosque and of Palestine.”

Abu Askar said the new “People’s Army” was established to prepare for any possible military confrontation with Israel and proclaimed that any Palestinian over the age of 20 was free to join the new force.

Hamas graduation ceremony (Photo: AFP)

The senior Hamas official claimed that Hamas decided to proceed with the recruitment of another popular front in response to the recent clashes in Jerusalem and calls by far-right Israeli legislators to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.

Originally, the 2,500-strong force was recruited as a reserve, emergency unit – part of Hamas’ attempt to draw lessons from Operation Protective Edge.

Hamas recruits at Jabaliya refugee camp (Photo: AFP)

Another al-Qassam Brigades official declared that the group had no shortage of manpower, weaponry, or terror tunnels, despite the heavy shelling by the IDF and Egypt’s recent moves to create a buffer zone near its border with Gaza.

The official said “the people, arms and the tunnels are going well”, in reference to Hamas’s network of underground passages, hundreds of which have been destroyed by Israel and Egypt to prevent arms smuggling.

Meanwhile, the riots in East Jerusalem renewed at nightfall on Friday. There were clashes between residents and police forces reported in several neighborhoods. In one area, a Palestinian youth threw an explosive device at a Border Patrol unit attempting to disperse the crowd.

Clashes were also reported in the Old City, Isawiya, and the Shuafat refugee camp, where rocks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks were thrown towards Israeli security forces, who responded with crowd-control measures to disperse the crowd.

Palestinian rioters threw rocks and shot fireworks at Israeli security forces in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Security personnel used crowd-control measures to disperse the protesters. There were no injuries.

Beryl Ratzer, Veteran Israeli Guide and author of “A Historical Tour of the Holy Land” – in English, Russian and Spanish reminded me:

This letter was addressed to the editor of the Jerusalem Post and most of it was printed on 4th November, 2014
Sir, – Everyone is talking about the ‘status quo on the Temple Mount’, but no one really knows to what status quo they are referring. Logically, the status quo to which we should all be referring is the one which existed between 1967 and 2000.
During those thirty three years, apart from modest clothing, not only were there no limits as to who could visit the Temple Mount, everyone who did visit, after paying an entrance fee to the Wakf and removing shoes, was able to visit the interior of the Dome of the Rock and of the El Aqsa Mosque, excluding during prayer time. Guides were not hindered when giving brief or lengthy explanations while inside.
No one objected if a Christian minister or priest conducted a quiet prayer session or read from the New Testament in a remote corner of the Temple Mount. Nor did anyone object if a guide held up a picture depicting the Jewish Temple, the first or the second, which stood on the Temple Mount before being destroyed by the Babylonians or the Romans.
The Palestinian Wakf changed the status to what it is today – limited visiting hours; no entry to the Dome of the Rock or El Aqsa; a ban, enforced by the Israeli police, on even carrying a bible in one’s bag on to the Temple Mount; absolutely no prayers, which includes moving one’s lips and, in some instances, insisting that the women in the group cover their heads.
Every Israeli guide who worked during the afore-mentioned period can confirm that that was the status quo and, if they are still working, can attest to the changes.
We should all be aspiring, nay demanding, a return to those halcyon days.
Beryl Ratzer
The writer is a registered guide and author of A Historical Tour of the Holy Land

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