Palestinian UN ambassador calls on Security Council to adopt resolution protecting Palestinians in Jerusalem, similar to resolution adopted after 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron.
Ha’aretz
Israel’s new ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on Friday that Israel objects to any international involvement or oversight over the Temple Mount.
Speaking at a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York, a few minutes before the start of a Security Council meeting on the escalation in Jerusalem, Danon said Israel “does not think international intervention [in] the Temple Mount would be helpful or contribute to stability.” He added that “an international presence on the Temple Mount would violate the status quo of the last several decades.”
The UN Security Council meeting was convened at Jordan’s request.
A senior official in Jerusalem said Israel believes what is needed at the moment is an effort to calm the tensions and clarify that Israel maintains the status quo on the Temple Mount. “An international oversight mechanism will in effect change the status quo, therefore Israel would not agree [to it],” the official said. “The torching of Joseph’s Tomb proves that only Israel can safeguard… the sites holy to the three religions,” added the official, referring to an attack on the holy Jewish site in Nablus early morning on Friday.
At the session, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour called on the Security Council to adopt a resolution guaranteeing the safety and protection of Palestinians in Jerusalem, similar to Resolution 904 adopted after the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in 1994, which saw international monitors deployed in Hebron.
Mansour called on members of the Security Council and the United Nations to intervene to protect the Palestinians and condemn Israel’s actions. He also called on the Security Council to pressure Israel to withdraw its forces from the Temple Mount and from East Jerusalem neighborhoods and to restore the status quo on the Temple Mount.
“We don’t trust the Israeli government’s words and promises,” he said.
Jordan’s ambassador to the UN, Dina Kawar, said that Israel is responsible for the escalation in Jerusalem, adding that Israel must keep the status quo and desist from any actions to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque. “The Al-Aqsa Mosque is a red line which mustn’t be crossed and cannot be defiled,” she said. “We reserve all the diplomatic and legal options to defend the holy sites in Jerusalem.”
Danon said at the press conference before the Security Council meeting that there is no need for another general discussion on the situation, but rather a need to hold an emergency session on stopping Palestinian incitement, which is spearheaded by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “Only yesterday did the prime minister announce again that Israel is ready to renew direct negotiations with the Palestinians, without preconditions, in order to restore calm in the region,” Danon said. “How did the Palestinians react? They again chose to avoid talks by turning to the Security Council.”
Danon presented a Palestinian banner that describes the most efficient ways to stab Jews, and added: “Instead of educating their children [and instill] values of peace and tolerance, the Palestinian leadership is managing a hotbed for terrorists. The inciting education devised by the Palestinian Authority is creating an entire generation of child-terrorists.”
‘Sides must not target holy sites’
At the start of the Security Council meeting, an aide to the Secretary General briefed the 15 ambassadors from member states on the situation on the ground. He began with a statement that said Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemns the torching of Joseph’s Tomb and calls to swiftly bring the perpetrators to justice. The aide said that the Secretary General welcomes Abbas’ announcement on the establishment of an investigative committee following the incident. He also called on both sides to refrain from targeting holy sites and to do everything in their power not to turn the national conflict into a religious one, as that would have serious consequence.
Secretary General Ban, according to the aide, said the current crisis will not be solved by military means, and stressed that the Palestinian violence is the result of anger and frustration, a bad economic situation and no hope for a better future. He said settlement construction further dampens hope among the Palestinians.
The aide added that statements and actions by Israeli extremists, joined by more moderate elements, over the Temple Mount, created the impression that Israel seeks to change the status quo.
He noted that the UN welcomed Netanyahu’s statements on Israel’s commitment to the status quo, but clarified that Israel must also take action and implement the understandings concerning the Temple Mount, reached with Jordan in November 2014.
The aide also noted that the publication of videos of terror attacks and of terrorists’ deaths has only fanned the flames, and the the footage raised concerns over excessive force by Israel. Irresponsible statements by leaders also had a part in the escalation, he added. “Both sides are to blame,” he said. “We call on leaders to calm the situation and tone down their statements.”
Israel’s deputy ambassador to the UN, David Roth, addressed the Security Council and said that Israel is committed to the status quo on the Temple Mount, and listed the Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis in recent weeks.
According to Roth, while Israel maintains the three religions’ freedom of worship in Jerusalem, the Palestinians have refused to recognize any link between Jews and the city’s holy sites. Roth added that the torching of Joseph’s Tomb shows the Palestinians do not respect other religions’ holy places. If Netanyahu made statements similar to those made by Abbas, he said, the Security Council would have immediately convened to condemn Israel – but Abbas’ statements receive no criticism.
U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said during the meeting that the United States condemns the violence and that there’s no justification for terror attacks against innocent parties. She called on both sides to avoid inciting remarks and provocative actions. Power noted that the U.S. supports Israel’s right to defend itself but added that the administration has raised its concerns over further violence by settlers against Palestinians to Israel. Power said the crisis must end and the path of the two-state solution resumed.
France’s ambassador François Delattre said his country prepared a draft of a presidential statement by the Security Council, which stressed the need to safeguard Jerusalem’s holy sites and maintain the status quo on the Temple Mount. He said the international community must exert pressure to resume serious peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
4 thoughts on “Israel Says It Objects to Any International Presence on Temple Mount”
Hmmm
Israel objects? Tough cookies. Israel has no legal claim nor jurisdiction in Jerusalem and they know it. It is the zionist controlled media that lets Israel get away with these idiotic statements. And it bears noting the the hypocrisy in such a statement given Israel’s incessant demands to have foreign intervention in every single other country in the Middle East is right off the charts. In short Israel if full of crap and it is high time they are called out.
For how many years now has Israel been building in the occupied territories .
“Only yesterday did the prime minister announce again that Israel is ready to renew direct negotiations with the Palestinians, without preconditions ”
Israel must get out of the occupied territories without preconditions .
Bring in the UN peacekeepers and then we will see who is the aggressor .What are they afraid of?
If an international force kept the peace at the mosque, it would completely destroy a button that Israel loves to push–namely, allowing the IDF to bodyguard settlers who storm the mosque, rough up worshipers, etc. etc. Netanyahu, over and over and over again, at every point he gets at the UN or wherever, loves to forever Jerusalem as the “eternal capital of the Jewish people.” Having any kind of goyim in there would throw a wrench in their colonization and occupation of Jerusalem. Israel needs that button that it push–to harass Palestinians, say they can’t worship at the mosque, in order to trigger a reaction (like an Intifada), that they can in turn use to justify further murder and occupation. If there were an international force, expect day after of false flags or outright attacks from settlers who, straight off a plane from NY, are stricken with Jerusalem Syndrome, and see as their duty to kill ANYONE who is a goy who stands in their way of “possessing the land.” The Jews could have lived quite peacefully in Palestine, had they not wanted to wipe out the Palestinians to create their own ethnocracy. The history of the Jewish State in word: MURDER.
On October 8, 2015, Rick Gladstone, Jewish York Times foreign editor, repeated Israel’s propaganda lie about Islam’s third most sacred worship place, Al-Aqsa Mosque built on top of the so-called “Temple Mount”.
“The question, which many books and scholarly treaties have never definitively answered, is the 37-acre site, home to Islam’s sacred Dome of Rock shrine and Al-Aqsa Mosque, was also the precise location of two ancient Jewish temples, one built on the remains of the other, and both since gone.”
Even though Gladstone amended his original article after he was ridiculed and insulted by former Israeli jail-guard Jeffrey Goldberg, Liel Leibvitz, Jeremy Burton, etc. by adding “Temple Mount” after “37-acre” – it still doesn’t meet the historical and religious facts. For example, calling the two temples destroyed by Babylonian and Titus, as “Jewish temples” is ridiculous. Israeli historian Dr. Shlomo Sand has claimed that “Jews were invented only a century ago.”
The facade of the Aqsa MosqueIslam’s sacred building on the hilltop is Al-Aqsa Mosque and not the shiny Dome of Rock. Al-Aqsa Mosque was built originally by Caliph Abd al-Malik of Umayyad dynasty in 890 CE on the spot from where the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) began his journey (Miraj) to have conversation with the Mighty Allah. Al-Aqsa Mosque expansion was done by Ottoman Sultans. Currently, it can hold nearly 3000 worshippers.
The Dome of the Rock, built by ‘Abd al-Malik in 690Caliph Abd al-Malik also built a separate structure to enclose a large piece of rock which according to Islamic traditions was used by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to embark on Buraq (Heavenly creature that looked like a horse). The structure also covers a small cave where the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said to have meeting with prophet Abraham. A large dome, originally covered with gold-plates, was installed on top of the structure by Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi after he captured Jerusalem from the Franks (crusaders), who used Al-Aqsa Mosque as a palace in the 1100s.
The Dome of Rock has never been used as a mosque. The five daily prayers have never been conducted inside the Dome of Rock. It’s a sort of historical museum. However, visitors, including myself, have used it to be part of prayer lead by an imam inside Al-Aqsa Mosque next door.
Rick Gladstone didn’t mention the small Umar Mosque built by Arab Muslims when they took control of Jerusalem city in 638 CE under the command of Caliph Umer bin al-Khattab (as) after cleaning the hilltop which had been used a garbage dump by both Romans and Christian Franks.
Rick Gladstone also lied that no archeological work had been conducted of the hilltop, which is under the control of Jordanian ‘royals’.
American archaeologist and author, Professor Dr. Ernest L. Martin (1932-2002) had conducted archaeology work in East jerusalem. In his controversial book ‘The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot’, published in 1999 – Dr. Martin claimed that Muslim sacred places, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of Rock are not built on top of the Temple Mount ruins (here).
Several other historians in the past had made similar conclusion that the 45-acre landmass known as Haram al-Sharif to the Muslim world since 638 CE – is in fact a Roman fortress built by King Herold and the Jewish holy Wailing Wall (the Western Wall) had never been part of the second Temple of Solomon destroyed in 70 CE.
British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon discovered in 1962 that the entire City of David in the past had been only that little rock ridge on the western bank of the Kidron Valley. In early 1970s, Professor Benjamin Mazar, former President of Hebrew University too, confirmed that Haram al-Sharif was indeed a Roman fortress.
Last Thursday, in a letter to Netanyahu, leading Sephardic spiritual leader, Rabbi Shimon Ba’adani blamed the Jews for violence at the Al-Aqsa compound. He told Netanyahu that Jews are forbidden to enter the compound based on Jewish Shari’ah (Halakha), which forbids trespassing of non-Jewish worship places. Since then, Netanyahu has instructed Israeli Knesset members to enter the compound.
Hmmm
Israel objects? Tough cookies. Israel has no legal claim nor jurisdiction in Jerusalem and they know it. It is the zionist controlled media that lets Israel get away with these idiotic statements. And it bears noting the the hypocrisy in such a statement given Israel’s incessant demands to have foreign intervention in every single other country in the Middle East is right off the charts. In short Israel if full of crap and it is high time they are called out.
For how many years now has Israel been building in the occupied territories .
“Only yesterday did the prime minister announce again that Israel is ready to renew direct negotiations with the Palestinians, without preconditions ”
Israel must get out of the occupied territories without preconditions .
Bring in the UN peacekeepers and then we will see who is the aggressor .What are they afraid of?
If an international force kept the peace at the mosque, it would completely destroy a button that Israel loves to push–namely, allowing the IDF to bodyguard settlers who storm the mosque, rough up worshipers, etc. etc. Netanyahu, over and over and over again, at every point he gets at the UN or wherever, loves to forever Jerusalem as the “eternal capital of the Jewish people.” Having any kind of goyim in there would throw a wrench in their colonization and occupation of Jerusalem. Israel needs that button that it push–to harass Palestinians, say they can’t worship at the mosque, in order to trigger a reaction (like an Intifada), that they can in turn use to justify further murder and occupation. If there were an international force, expect day after of false flags or outright attacks from settlers who, straight off a plane from NY, are stricken with Jerusalem Syndrome, and see as their duty to kill ANYONE who is a goy who stands in their way of “possessing the land.” The Jews could have lived quite peacefully in Palestine, had they not wanted to wipe out the Palestinians to create their own ethnocracy. The history of the Jewish State in word: MURDER.
On October 8, 2015, Rick Gladstone, Jewish York Times foreign editor, repeated Israel’s propaganda lie about Islam’s third most sacred worship place, Al-Aqsa Mosque built on top of the so-called “Temple Mount”.
“The question, which many books and scholarly treaties have never definitively answered, is the 37-acre site, home to Islam’s sacred Dome of Rock shrine and Al-Aqsa Mosque, was also the precise location of two ancient Jewish temples, one built on the remains of the other, and both since gone.”
Even though Gladstone amended his original article after he was ridiculed and insulted by former Israeli jail-guard Jeffrey Goldberg, Liel Leibvitz, Jeremy Burton, etc. by adding “Temple Mount” after “37-acre” – it still doesn’t meet the historical and religious facts. For example, calling the two temples destroyed by Babylonian and Titus, as “Jewish temples” is ridiculous. Israeli historian Dr. Shlomo Sand has claimed that “Jews were invented only a century ago.”
The facade of the Aqsa MosqueIslam’s sacred building on the hilltop is Al-Aqsa Mosque and not the shiny Dome of Rock. Al-Aqsa Mosque was built originally by Caliph Abd al-Malik of Umayyad dynasty in 890 CE on the spot from where the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) began his journey (Miraj) to have conversation with the Mighty Allah. Al-Aqsa Mosque expansion was done by Ottoman Sultans. Currently, it can hold nearly 3000 worshippers.
The Dome of the Rock, built by ‘Abd al-Malik in 690Caliph Abd al-Malik also built a separate structure to enclose a large piece of rock which according to Islamic traditions was used by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to embark on Buraq (Heavenly creature that looked like a horse). The structure also covers a small cave where the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said to have meeting with prophet Abraham. A large dome, originally covered with gold-plates, was installed on top of the structure by Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi after he captured Jerusalem from the Franks (crusaders), who used Al-Aqsa Mosque as a palace in the 1100s.
The Dome of Rock has never been used as a mosque. The five daily prayers have never been conducted inside the Dome of Rock. It’s a sort of historical museum. However, visitors, including myself, have used it to be part of prayer lead by an imam inside Al-Aqsa Mosque next door.
Rick Gladstone didn’t mention the small Umar Mosque built by Arab Muslims when they took control of Jerusalem city in 638 CE under the command of Caliph Umer bin al-Khattab (as) after cleaning the hilltop which had been used a garbage dump by both Romans and Christian Franks.
Rick Gladstone also lied that no archeological work had been conducted of the hilltop, which is under the control of Jordanian ‘royals’.
American archaeologist and author, Professor Dr. Ernest L. Martin (1932-2002) had conducted archaeology work in East jerusalem. In his controversial book ‘The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot’, published in 1999 – Dr. Martin claimed that Muslim sacred places, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of Rock are not built on top of the Temple Mount ruins (here).
Several other historians in the past had made similar conclusion that the 45-acre landmass known as Haram al-Sharif to the Muslim world since 638 CE – is in fact a Roman fortress built by King Herold and the Jewish holy Wailing Wall (the Western Wall) had never been part of the second Temple of Solomon destroyed in 70 CE.
British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon discovered in 1962 that the entire City of David in the past had been only that little rock ridge on the western bank of the Kidron Valley. In early 1970s, Professor Benjamin Mazar, former President of Hebrew University too, confirmed that Haram al-Sharif was indeed a Roman fortress.
Last Thursday, in a letter to Netanyahu, leading Sephardic spiritual leader, Rabbi Shimon Ba’adani blamed the Jews for violence at the Al-Aqsa compound. He told Netanyahu that Jews are forbidden to enter the compound based on Jewish Shari’ah (Halakha), which forbids trespassing of non-Jewish worship places. Since then, Netanyahu has instructed Israeli Knesset members to enter the compound.
http://rehmat1.com/2015/10/15/nyt-lies-about-al-aqsa-mosque/