What is the Vision of Jews Who Want to Replace Al Aqsa Mosque with Temple?
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- What is the Vision of Jews Who Want to Replace Al Aqsa Mosque with Temple?
by Philip Weiss, http://mondoweiss.net/ , 10 Nov 2014
What is the vision of the Jews who want to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem? Last Thursday night in Jerusalem I went to a rally of about 200 of these messianic Jews and spoke to four of them at some length. I’ve posted three video interviews below, which express some of the ideas I heard.
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These Jews explained that when the temple is rebuilt, no Muslim holy places would remain on the Temple Mount– or Haram al Sharif, as Muslims describe the site. How the Muslim sites would be removed these Jews could not say. “We don’t know the exact detail,” said a psychotherapist who gave his name as Yechiel Israel. There are hints, he said: earthquake or war. He pointed out that a Lubavitcher rabbi advised in 1967 that the Israeli army blow up the Al Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock—and the Six Day War had been a “window of opportunity” that wasn’t taken (video above).
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Ynet reported that the demonstrators chanted in Hebrew, “The mosque will burn, the temple rebuilt.” And one demonstrator said to me that the Western Wall was merely the “wrapping” on the Haram-al-Sharif/Temple Mount, as if the plateau was a gift from God to the Jews.
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These Jews claimed to me that “all Jews” of all persuasions want the temple rebuilt. Their insistence reminded me of Islamists who claim that all Muslims support thus-and-such extremist policies. All Jews pray for rebuilding the temple at the end of the Passover seder and the end of Yom Kippur, when they say, “Next year in Jerusalem”, the activists said to me. “They are begging and requesting to God to bring about the restoration of the temple,” Michael Wolfowitz said.
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These Jews also asserted that almost all Israeli Jews agree with them. But foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that the calls for Jews to pray on the temple mount are a provocation, and some rabbis have said that it goes against Jewish law to pray on the temple mount before the messiah has arrived or all the Jews have in-gathered in Jerusalem. (It’s hard to keep all the theology here straight.)
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