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Jordan condemns Israeli leaders on Temple Mount, wants UN to restrict Jewish religious freedom | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 24 Av 5784 – Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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Arabs riot on the Temple Mount, December 6, 2013.

Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has called on the UN Security Council and the international community to take immediate action to stop Israel's actions, which he considers illegal and a disruption of the historical and legal status quo at Jerusalem's holy sites.

What actions by Israel so worried the Jordanian official? The Ministry of Cultural Heritage announced on Monday that for the first time since the summer of 1967, it plans to offer “guided tours of the Temple Mount, which will enable thousands of Jews and hundreds of thousands of tourists who climb the Mount each year to learn for the first time about the Mount's Jewish heritage in an accurate historical form, free from alternative facts and false narratives written to promote an anti-Semitic agenda.”

Two million shekels ($543,000) will be allocated to the project by Culture Minister Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit). The tours are expected to begin immediately after the high holidays (Otzma Yehudit wins the fight against angry UTJ and leftists over the Temple Mount).

On Tuesday, the Jordan Times headlined at the top of the page: “Jordan strongly condemns Israeli minister’s decision to finance storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Minister Safadi stressed Israel's obligations as an occupying power on Twitter on Wednesday, stressing its responsibility to maintain the established historical and legal conditions at these revered sites.

These established, historical and legal conditions were created in the summer of 1967 by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan when he learned that Military Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren was planning to build a synagogue in a corner of the Temple Mount. Dayan wrote in his diary at the time that he would not allow the faithful in Israel to build their own Vatican in the heart of Jerusalem.

Dayan then expelled the chief military rabbi from the holy compound and contacted the Jordanian charity Wakf to hand over the keys to the Temple Mount.

Consider that for 19 years, until 1967, the Jordanians denied Jews access not only to the Temple Mount, but also to the Kotel and many other precious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. They also paved streets with Jewish tombstones from the Mount of Olives cemetery – an example of religious tolerance.

Arabs celebrate the atrocities of October 7 in Gaza on the Temple Mount:

The Jordanian minister called on the Security Council to adopt a binding resolution to prevent further Israeli violations and an escalation of the situation in Al-Aqsa Mosque/Haram Al Sharif. Safadi underlined the urgent need for swift intervention to prevent further deterioration of the situation.

In other words, the UN Security Council should declare that Jews should be denied their right to freedom of religion at the holiest Jewish site in the world!

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu wrote on the news website Srugim in 2022 that Arabs are afraid of praying Jews. They know that the prayers of Jews in heaven are more likely to be accepted than the prayers of the many Muslims on the Temple Mount.

They know that the day will come and we will sit on the Temple Mount, on the site of the Temple, and from that place we will bring much light to all of humanity. Great faith and joy to the whole world. An abundance of blessings to all the inhabitants of the world. Peace and brotherhood among all people. Justice and fairness. They know that this is also written in their Quran. They know that God has not broken His promises and will never break them. God will bring all this abundance through His beloved children, “My firstborn Israel.”
Instead of being humble and accepting God's will, they try to hurt and replace Him. They do not realize how foolish and hopeless their actions are. They will never defeat God or make Him break His Word. Just as God has kept His promises since the founding of the Jewish state and before, so He will continue to keep His promises and bring salvation to the world through the people of Israel, through Jerusalem, and through the mountain of the house of God.

For this reason, Jordanians insult innocent tour guides on the Temple Mount as “stormers,” just as they call any Jew who visits the Temple Mount a “storming settler.”

Redemption is near, and its signs are hard and bitter:

Rabbi Eliezer the Great says (Mishnah Sota 9): In the times of the Messiah's approach, insolence will increase and high costs will pile up. Although the vine will bring forth its fruit, wine will still be expensive. And the monarchy will turn to heresy, and there will be no one to rebuke them for it. The gathering place of the sages will become a place of promiscuity, and Galilee will be destroyed and the Golan will be desolate, and the men of the border will go from town to town to beg alms, but they will find no mercy.
And the wisdom of the scribes will rot, and people who fear sin will be despised, and the truth will disappear. The youth will shame the elders, the elders will stand before the minors. Normal family relationships will be destroyed: a son will dishonor his father, a daughter will rise up against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be those of his household. The face of the generation will be like the face of a dog; a son will no longer be ashamed before his father.
And what can we rely on? Only our Father in heaven.

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