Joseph Rabin writes:
The Future of the Temple Mount is in our hands!
I just got a message from Rav Yeshayahu Hollander that MK’s Orlev and Cabel are reviving discussion on the “Heritage List”. Since we have a person who is in contact with Orlev we must press the petition now more than ever. It is both in Hebrew and English and I would very much like to see it reach the 10s of thousands by next week so that we can send it to Orlev and perhaps really kick start some discussion. The Mount must be included in the Heritage Lists now!Open Letter to US Jewry:
Please send this Petition asap to all your lists and stress that this is urgent.
The battle for the future of Jerusalem has begun! While many people are beginning to cry out against the division of Jerusalem and against and a freeze on Jewish construction, it appears as if the heart and center has been forgotten. Like a human body if you kill the heart, the rest of the body will quickly wither away, and so it is with the Temple Mount and the Land of Israel.
The Holy Temple Mount is the heart of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, and as the old saying goes “He who controls the Mount shall control Jerusalem”. If we have no right to the Mount than we certainly have no right to communities like Ramat Shlomo. If we have no right to the Mount than we do not even have a right to the Western Wall, for the sanctity of the wall derives from the Mount. In fact the Arabs have already begun to call the Western Wall the “Al Buraq Wall” or the wall to which Mohamed allegedly tied his horse. This situation has led to a disastrous situation.
From the very place that the Temple priests brought the holy sacrifices, Arabs now gather for picnics. From the very place that the Levites sang the sweet praises of the Lord, the Muslim leaders call for the death of our people and the destruction of our State. The place of Oleh Regel (pilgrimage) has become the place for Kadur Regel (soccer) by Arab children. The Arabs for years now have been continuing to erase any trace of the first and second Temples. They have turned the Temple Mount into one gigantic outdoor Mosque and from there they wage their unrelenting battle against us. In addition Jews are denied basic rights on the mount and are even arrested for crimes like moving lips or closing eyes in prayer. The Arabs properly understand the symbolism that goes along with controlling the Temple Mount.
The Holy Temple Mount is the heart of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, and as the old saying goes “He who controls the Mount shall control Jerusalem”. If we have no right to the Mount than we certainly have no right to communities like Ramat Shlomo. If we have no right to the Mount than we do not even have a right to the Western Wall, for the sanctity of the wall derives from the Mount. In fact the Arabs have already begun to call the Western Wall the “Al Buraq Wall” or the wall to which Mohamed allegedly tied his horse. This situation has led to a disastrous situation.
From the very place that the Temple priests brought the holy sacrifices, Arabs now gather for picnics. From the very place that the Levites sang the sweet praises of the Lord, the Muslim leaders call for the death of our people and the destruction of our State. The place of Oleh Regel (pilgrimage) has become the place for Kadur Regel (soccer) by Arab children. The Arabs for years now have been continuing to erase any trace of the first and second Temples. They have turned the Temple Mount into one gigantic outdoor Mosque and from there they wage their unrelenting battle against us. In addition Jews are denied basic rights on the mount and are even arrested for crimes like moving lips or closing eyes in prayer. The Arabs properly understand the symbolism that goes along with controlling the Temple Mount.
The Book of Haggai states, “Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying: Is this the time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house sits in ruins?” As Israel capitulates to America and enforces a building freeze in Judea and Samaria and now Jerusalem the words from Haggai ring loudly in our ears! Since the liberation of the Temple Mount in 1967 there has been an ironclad freeze on anything Jewish on the Mount. No Jewish prayer or study and certainly no building. By abandoning the Temple Mount to the enemy, we essentially handed them the keys to kingdom. If a Jew may not pray or have free access to the very place where his Temple stood, then what possible right could he have to even Tel Aviv, which is but one hundred years old. The world must also understand that if the radical Muslims can take over the ancient and sacred Mount in Jerusalem, they will have no problem usurping any other capital they like, including Washington DC.
Everyday more and more decrees are created by the Israeli police making it more and more difficult for Temple Mount activists to work. Activists are regularly harassed by police and special security agents. Emails, phones and websites are carefully and constantly watched; this very letter will most likely be read and analyzed. Freedom of speech for Temple Mount activists simply does not exist and many lay leaders and rabbis, are simply afraid to get involved for fear of persecution. I have heard this from top rabbis and leaders in Israel. If Jews outside of Israel do not begin to protest this, it will not end and will even get worse. We urgently need Jews and lovers of Israel to help us fight this battle; we must save the Temple Mount and Jerusalem along with her! The Prophet Isaiah states “For the Sake of Zion is will not be still, for the Sake of Jerusalem I will not be quite”, words are not enough we need concrete action, now more than ever! We must create serious facts on the ground, and if we cannot do that, we will lose it!
HOW MUCH LONGER WILL YOU STAND BY AND WATCH THIS PERSECUTION IN SILENCE???
Please urge your congregations, family and friends to protest this injustice loudly! The preservation of the Temple Mount and Jerusalem is the responsibility of every Jew across the world; no one can abstain from this responsibility. If we lose the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, the future generation will not forgive us and neither will generations of the long and bitter 2,000 year exile who never relinquished the hope that they might one day return. The Psalms states “Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, may all those that love thee prosper”; this is both a command and a guarantee. The command is to pray for Jerusalem and the guarantee is that those who do so will prosper.
Come and prosper with us!
Yosef Rabin
Spokesman to North America
HaTenua LeChinun HaMikdash (Organization for Renewal of the Temple)
Spokesman to North America
HaTenua LeChinun HaMikdash (Organization for Renewal of the Temple)
We can’t expect to re build the Temple until all Jews in Israel and the rest of the world are willing to go to war to win that goal. Face facts…Israel was created after the declaration by war. Israel has sustained herself through war. No great nation just appeared, but was created and grew through fighting battles and wars. Peaceniks, arab sympathisers and left wing liberals will be buried by “good” intensions.
I understand that we can win wars but can not lose a war, but Israel, today, can win a war against the Islamists. Israel, also, understands that, based on the history of the Jewish people, they will have to war over and over through the years.
Faith is the key word.
Comment by Ed D — April 27, 2010 @ 2:44 am
Holding the Temple Mount hostage (one of the Samson options):
Currently, the muslims control the Temple Mount with the consent of the Israeli “Jewish” government. That “Jewish” government goes so far as to forbid Jews on the Temple Mount from silently moving their lips, for fear that they might actually be praying.
The atheistic “Jewish” government considers Jews who believe in G-d and in the Jewish Land of Israel to be a greater “threat” than the muslims.
This situation won’t hold much longer, as believing Jews will soon come to outnumber the secularists.
If the Jews did not have such a ghetto mentality, they would realize that the Temple Mount makes a valuable hostage to use against the muslim savages.
For example, how about: no muslims on the Temple Mount until Gilad Shalit is released?
How about: every time muslims shoot a missile into Jewish Israel, Jewish Israel will shoot a rocket propelled grenade into the Dome of the Rock?
Or how about: the next time muslims attack the Jewish State, the first things to be destroyed will be the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa mosque?
But can you imagine Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, or Shimon Peres ever saying that out loud? They prefer that the Temple Mount be in the hands of the muslims rather than those of believing Jews, and would willingly allow the muslims to destroy Jewish Israel before they would lift a finger against the Dome of the Rock.
Comment by Samuel Fistel — April 27, 2010 @ 4:01 pm