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Violence Erupts at Jerusalem Holy Site
JERUSALEM – Israeli police stormed Islam’s third holiest shrine today after hundreds of angry Islamic worshippers threw stones and bottles in an eruption of outrage over contentious Israeli renovation work at a disputed Old City holy site.
Protesters hurled rocks at police during the clashes
on the Temple Mount
About 200 police streamed on to the hilltop compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, to try to quell the violence, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Witnesses said police hurled stun grenades.
Police said several protesters and several officers were injured in the faceoff, but gave no further details.
As many as 300 protesters barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque at the compound. Police were stationed near the mosque, but did not enter it.
Due to time and diary limit I couldn’t publish this item yesterday. Today on CNN Breaking News: fights have erupted on the temple mount of the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Iran urges islamic world 'to make the zionist regime regret it'
JERUSALEM (DailyStar-Lebanon) – “The volcano in Jerusalem is threatening to erupt once again, and perhaps to ignite a third intifada,” warned an article entitled “Playing with Fire.”
“All this commotion could have been avoided. The repairs … could have been carried out in coordination with the Muslim endowments trust,” it said.
Waqf chairman Adnan Husseini said he and his colleagues first learned about the construction plans through media reports and warned the police and the city council that the plan would spark fierce opposition. “We warned them not to do it, but there was no coordination,” he said. “They didn’t tell us.”
The head of Israel’s Islamic Movement, Sheikh Raed Salah, was arrested yesterday after a dispute with officers.
Protests have continued against Israel’s excavation at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, which has provoked international Muslim anger.
Around 2,000 policemen were deployed across the Old City and around what is the most contested holy site in the Middle East on Wednesday.
Seven members of the Islamic Movement in Israel who were protesting at the site were arrested by police.
Raeed Salah, the movement’s leader, was banned from being within 150m of the Old City walls for 10 days, after appearing in court.
“It’s worse than a crime, it’s a blunder” say some.
Ha’aretz reporting 10,000 protesters have left peacefully
but there’s that other volcano. Israel has been pushing the envelope, financing Fatah against Hamas. In life the old adage be careful what you wish for.
Israel and the U.S. have been sidelined by the Saudi brokered peace and unity government deal.
Still in serious denial: Rice’s State Deptartment: New PA gov’t must meet international demands.
What kind of pablum did she have for breakfast?
ANALYSIS: New PA government creates a real problem for Israel
repuglicans like to drone on about how they are sooooo much better at foreign policy/relations than the democrats. really?
the fact that zero progress has been made in the last SIX years regarding the underlying/causal reasons for the continual Israel/Palestine says otherwise.
I guess when you’re focused on justifying your personal war for oil in Iraq and Afghanistan, it just doesn’t leave any time for this problem, the cancelled elections in Egypt, etc.
weak.