Attempted Murder and the Temple Mount

Yehuda Glick, PA Religion Minister and Keeping Jews off the Temple Mount

Rabbi Yehuda Glick , the Temple Mount activist who miraculously survived an assassination attempt, is recovering at home. For his efforts of trying to obtain equal rights for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, their holiest site, a Moslem terrorist shot him point-blank with four bullets. Adding insult to his injuries, there is an Israeli court order preventing him from going up to the Temple Mount!

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Religion announced on PA television that Israel “plans to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque, destroy it and build the alleged Jewish Temple.”

The Palestinian goal is to incite the Arab/Moslem population to riot and attack Jews and in the process ban Jews from the Temple Mount altogether. It seems like much of the world, including the Netanyahu government, is joining in the fray, trying to maintain the status quo where Moslems may pray on the Temple Mount, but Jews are prevented from praying there.

Why this obsession with preventing Jews from visiting and praying on the Temple Mount, even from within the sovereign Jewish government itself? It’s not a new problem, but one that goes back almost 3,000 years  as we’ll see in the “Words of Torah” in this post.