AJ+, the video branch of Qatar-based Al Jazeera, recently produced a video purporting to report on the recent violence on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Shockingly, the Al Jazeera report warned that the one-sided violence being carried out by the Palestinians was a plan by the Israeli government to stage a recreation of the tragic massacre carried out by Baruch Goldstein, a Jew, in the Machpelah (Cave of the Patriarchs) in 1994.
The video begins by showing scenes of Palestinians rioting inside the Aqsa Mosque, claiming they were “trapped inside” by IDF troops. This is, of course, inaccurate. Israeli security forces had vacated the holy site entirely for the last eleven days of Ramadan, and the Palestinians unilaterally rioted, endangering Jews worshipping at the Western Wall below. When the Israeli police entered the compound, the Palestinians barricaded themselves in the mosque, attacking the police with rocks and incendiary devices they had hidden in the mosque.
Al Jazeera claimed the police actions aimed to allow Jews to take over the site.
“This is a city under occupation where Israelis have the ultimate power,” the presenter said. “And they often succeed in clearing the compound to let these Jewish Israelis in. On the surface, this might seem like just a religious rivalry, but there’s a lot more to this story. It’s about control, not just of the holy sites but of the land and the people who live on it. So we’re going to look at these people (Jewish Israelis), their goals, and how a 1994 massacre of Palestinians at another holy site by an Israeli American settler might shed light on where Jerusalem is headed today.”
The video claimed that the Palestinians in Jerusalem had been denied “equality for decades.” It should be noted that the Palestinians who live in eastern Jerusalem are classified as residents of Israel and have full rights except do not vote for the Knesset.
It should be noted that the video was focused on the gold Dome of the Rock when this statement was made. Al Aqsa is, in fact, the grey-black domed mosque further to the south on the Temple Mount Compound.
Al Aqsa Mosque (the further mosque) is referred to in the Korab as the destination for Mohammad’s miraculous nighttime journey to a further mosque. Most Muslims believe that to have been in Al Juraana, Saudi Arabia, it is deeply insulting to claim otherwise.
Al Jazeera claimed that the ultimate goal of religious Jews was to demolish the mosque on the Temple Mount, which the video described as, the “symbol of Palestinian nationhood, this sacred site to Muslims worldwide.”
The video then outlined the rising support among Jewish Israelis and the government for the Temple Mount and equal rights for Jews to pray at their holiest site.
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