Our friends at the invaluable Palestinian Media Watch (PMW-Palwatch.org) have been diligently following the latest in the Palestinian policy of historical revisionism: erasing Jewish connection to the Temple Mount -- ginning up energy for the big day at the U.N.
Read full article by Janet Tassel at American Thinker.
The comments posted at the end of the article are quite interesting. Here's one.
"Religious Jews have scratched their heads and asked since 1967: "Can somebody
explain why the Temple Mount is in the custody of Muslims?" "
The Temple was clearly far more appealing in the abstract. It seems to me that too many Jews were afraid of what having a real Temple would mean for them personally and for Israel as a nation. Like maybe that God is real and He means what He says.
I had wanted to post regarding the NYT article discussing Shamai Leibowitz, the convicted spy sentenced to 20 months, but I will refer you to Israel Matzav's post instead.
A NYT article from 2002 provides insight into Mr. Leibowitz who defended Marwan Barghouti. The Palestinian leader "said he supports attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip." So, was it okay to murder members of the Fogel family including a three month old baby girl?
One of Mr. Barghouti's lawyers, Shamai Leibowitz, an Israeli, compared him to Moses. Speaking of Moses, he said, ''According to some lawyers, he should be called a terrorist, but according to Exodus, he is a freedom fighter.'' Mr. Leibowitz argued that Moses killed an Egyptian not because he hated Egyptians but because the man was beating a fellow Jew.
Mr. Barghouti smiled, but Yaakov Shemesh, who lost his brother and pregnant sister-in-law in a bombing in Jerusalem earlier this year, shouted at the lawyer, ''How dare you call yourself a Jew?''
Zvi Garfinkel, the chief judge of the three-judge panel, cut Mr. Leibowitz off, saying, ''You can read me this story on Passover, not here.''
Read full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/world/palestinian-urges-defiance-plan-to-grab-arafat-reported.html
My advice to Jonathan Pollard is to compare other terrorist leaders to Moses. Perhaps, then, your sentence will be commuted to time served.
Good post.
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