If you have read this item here at INN, that Sheikh Salah Ra'ad is accusing none other than Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu of planning to rebuild the Temple, you might smile at the ridiculous attempt of the fanatic Islamic radical to stir up trouble.

But we've been there before.  His ranting recalls what happened exactly 80 years ago.

Between Yom Kippur of 1928 and the 18th of Av 1929, the Arabs, aided by the bumbling British, launched a campaign to do away with centuries old customs of Jews at the Western Wall as well as their historical, legal and religious rights there.  The Grand Mufti Haj Amin El-Husseini,

seeking to anchor any local inauthentic nationalist sentiment, cleverly exploited religious passions.  He would not be satisfied that the Western Wall was the object of fulmination and propaganda.  No.

He accused the Jews of seeking to rebuild the Temple.  Right then and there.  His proof?

The Zionist flag flying over the Haram A-Sharif which was the work of montage:

(see here)

If you read page 238 of this book, you'll get additional information and here, too.

After almost a year of this incitement and after taking advantage of the murder of a young Jewish boy, Avraham Mizrachi, the 1929 Riots broke out resulting in 133 Jewish dead, most of them in Hebron which forced the expulsion of its Jewish community.

Our left-wing, progressive and liberal Jews, who are always the first to jump up and point an accusing finger at nationalist Jews, accusing them of 'incitement' should do well for all mankind if they use the same energy going after Ra'ad.  It'll probably save more blood.

Have you heard of Sheikh Adel Al-Kalbani?

The New York Times had.  They did a feature on him.

A Black Imam Breaks Ground in Mecca

This caption appears under a picture on the first page:

“Any qualified individual, no matter what his color, no matter where from, will have a chance to be a leader, for his good and The king is trying to tell everybody that he wants to rule this land as one nation, with no racism and no segregation.”

That was April 10.  And what follows are excerpts from interviews with Sheikhh Adel Al-Kalbani, imam of the Al-Haram Mosque in Mecca, which aired on BBC Arabic on May 5, 2009 and Al-Arabiya TV on February 27, 2009.

"Interviewer: "Where can Christians [pray]?"

Sheikh Adel Al-Kalbani: "Christians are allowed to pray in their homes. We have no problem with them praying where they live. But for the bells to be sounded in the land of the Prophet Muhammad – that [runs counter] to the Prophet's guidance. The Prophet's guidance, by which we act, dictates: 'Drive the Jews and the Christians out of the Arabian Peninsula.' Driving them out is undoubtedly the prerogative of the ruler, but they should be allowed to live here only if their presence is essential."

[...]
     
Sheikh Adel Al-Kalbani: "[The Christian] came as a visitor. He is not a citizen. If he were a citizen... watchamacallit... a Christian citizen – maybe there would be room for debate. Maybe. But in principle, he is a visitor, a guest, who stays for some time, and then leaves. He knew these were the rules before he came here. No visitor to a country can demand that it change its rules."
  
Interviewer: "Not to change the rules, but if you, as a Muslim, were to visit a country, wouldn't you hope there would be a mosque in which to pray, regardless of whether you are a citizen or not?"
  
Sheikh Adel Al-Kalbani: "I would hope so. Undoubtedly. But Allah be praised, according to the Prophet's guidance: 'The whole Earth was made a mosque and pure for me.' Therefore, a Muslim can pray anywhere."
  
[...]"

I guess we all can't be New York Times liberal.

If you go here, if you listen carefully to the Hebrew commentary of the video (if you comprehend Hebrew), you'll be able to hear that the Temple Mount has "two parts, the Jewish and the Muslim section". Well, that's where the Pope visited according to Ynet.

I am not quite sure that definition's bad.  Sometimes, in a situation like this, fifty per cent is more than you'd expect.

And if you can actually read the accompanying Hebrew text, it reads there that the Pope, on the Temple Mount, visited

במתחם כיפת הסלע

which translates as : "in the Dome of the Rock compound."

That's even better.  No Haram El-Sharif.

Funny how ignorant journalists can make the correct mistakes.

P.S.  No video since Israel and the Palestinian Authority broadcasting companies couldn't reach an agreement on rights to distribute.  And they still expect us to make peace?

Remember the "apartheid roads" canard?

That there are "Jews only roads" in Yesha?  Part of the "occupation oppression and harrassment"?

Well, where are they?

Here are some photos I snapped Tuesday, May 5, of Arab cars, bearing Palestinian Authority license plates, on the way in to Jerusalem from Shiloh, over 30 kilometers of road:

Please, do not comment on the driving skills of the Arab drivers, or lack thereof.   A)  They are too well known;  B)  It doesn't help;  C)  Someone will call you a racist (it's enough they are calling us an "apartheid regime".

From you correspondent blogger in the field.

Welcome/Wilkommen to Israel's Homegrown Nazi Propaganda.

Is that a bit too strong a headline for you?

Well, make your own judgment.

Here's the satirical photo that adorns this morning's Ma'ariv Weekend Political Section, page 23:

That's Minister for Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman, if you have difficulty recognizing him.

His portrait is adorned in a red lipstick overlay with the words, in German, meine Liebe!, my love/mydear one, in Gothic script.

It's the creation of one "Lahav", e-mail: bigeyes.express@gmail.com.

Now, I know that the left in Israel considers Lieberman a fascist.

And I know that his name is "Lieberman".

But to draw overt attention, via the German Gothic element, to Nazi reminisces or, perhaps, to recall homoerotic memories of Max Hansen (*) of Berlin? That was his only creative graphic choice?

After all, Lieberman is Moldavian. Lahav couldn't have found a more relevant model? He just had to link up with the German/Nazi association, eh?

And while I agree, it's not Rabin in a SS uniform, it is unmistakeably intended to draw a subliminal link with Nazi art flavor.

But he's alright, that Lahav, he won't have to flee Israel like Hansen needed to flee Germany.

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In 1932, Max Hansen satirised Adolf Hitler as a homosexual with his song "War'n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt?" (Did you ever fall in love with me?).