T. Belman. Pay attention to how this plays out. I don’t like it. I also don’t like the fact that Israel has agreed to the installation of video cameras on the Temple Mount without insisting that Israel have unfettered access to the videos.
Internal Security Minister says there will not be a limit on Jewish visitors to Temple Mount, despite police announcement to the contrary.
Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan denied on Monday night that Israeli police are limiting the number of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount to a certain quota, and further limiting entry via registration in advance.
The Headquarters of Temple Organizations reported on Monday morning that Jewish visitors to the holy site were surprised on Sunday to receive an announcement from the police, according to which the status quo on the Mount is to be changed starting Monday.
Only 45 Jews will be allowed to enter the site in the morning, and another 15 in the afternoon, according to the police announcement. Additionally, the police decided to prioritize the entry of Jews who had registered in advance with them.
But Erdan later on Monday denied this was the case, saying on Twitter, “There will not be a limit on the number of visitors to the Temple Mount.”
“The police will do its utmost to facilitate the entry and secure as many visitors during the opening hours of the Mount,” he added.
“In order to remove any doubt,” explained Erdan, ”there is no obligation to schedule a visit to the Temple Mount in advance. The police simply recommended to coordinate the visit in advance just to save unnecessary waiting time at the entrance to the compound.”
The Headquarters of Temple Organizations, for its part, posted a photo of the sign that was hung at the entrance to the Temple Mount, written on Israel Police letterhead, and which stated that visits to the Temple Mound must be arranged in advance by phone. The organizations said that the meaning of this is that the police are not conducting themselves in accordance with the instructions of the Minister as they arise from his tweets.
The step joins another controversial move at the site taken in response to the latest wave of Arab terror. Last month Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to install cameras on the Mount, in a move approved by Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett, who likewise stated his support of the Jordanian Waqf’s ban on Jewish prayer.
However, Jordan’s King Abdullah II made clear that the footage from the cameras will only be accessed by Jordan, which will then decide what segments to share with Israel.
So, now we have the unbuilt houses from 2010, having gone through various announcements, serving as a reason, a cover, a deception to mask BB giving concessions, gestures to the pals. Now, BB seeks a meaningless and irrelevant gesture from the americans in order to cover up his real agenda to give concessions while being stabbed.
BB has always said that “everyone knows the major blocks will be kept” and yet he now presents a need for US approval to build in the jewish ghetto even.
More importantly, BB has moved the “public struggle” against the forces of anti semitism to a place where there is no real struggle. BB will now portray himself as the big hero who got the americans to “back down” in the big war to build inside the boundaries of the Jewish ghetto. That struggle should have been for YS…. which has now been lost because BB got Israel to forget jewish settlement in YS outside of existing Jewish ghetto boundaries. In the end there is no accomplishment to building in the major settlement blocks that no one can give back. BB is not under pressure, he gets the foreigners to make noise over nothing so that everyone forgets he does nothing. He is the caretaker for that time when the right is fully neutered and they give up on a right wing gov……
See, Ted…. even Benett is repeating what I said… that there is no right wing coalition gov. the status quo is to keep things from reverting when the people seek a right wing gov; they know that people tire of their own “right wing gov” who does not advance the right wing agenda and then ultimately stop voting so the left comes in. Everything that BB does is left wing but he pretends to be right wing to get in power. His job is to destroy the right wing from within.. and he has been very successful.
There is no reason to be surprised by BB’s “under the table actions” once one realizes that “under the table” is his natural home. Everything follows logically once this is understood. He means well, he is just leading the peons to a better place,…. as he sees it. HIs perspective is guided by his “under the table” understandings with the gulf arab states and their proxies.
erdan is part of BB’s inner group who do his bidding. He jusmped with Yaalon,Bb and Rivlin in complete collaboration with the intentional lynchmob of Jewish settlers using the arab false flag arson as the fig leaf for Jewish opposition incarceration. One should expect no less of erdan than to be scrupulously implementing BB’s covert policies. It is what BB does under the table which tells the real story of “what BB wants”
It is likely that the advance notice is to give the wakf the ability to protest and bar those the wakf labels as “jewish extremists” as requested in a letter the Jordan and the wakf sent to the Police.
Whenever we see BB lying he fades to the background and says nothing… pretending that his works are the works instead of his chosen minions. Therefore, BB says nothing about the cameras except to portray them as good for Israel while at the same time covertly removing the only part that would be good for Israel. It is obvious to me that for BB Jewish settlers and Jews to the Mount are a pain in his butt which interferes with his greater designs
Hence his big flurry of announcements of re announcing the same units that were approved in 2010 and still have not begun to build…. and he now he is able to get more mileage out of the unbuilt houses by using those unbuilt houses as a fig leaf for his concessions to the pals…given in the midst of their stabbing war on Jews. He wants to give concessions but even he knows how ludicrous that is while Jews are being stabbed. Hence, what better way than to give the Jews something meaningless and irrelevant.
Neyanyahu is part of the process and what develops there was surely approved by him.