Two Rabbis are arrested for praying and singing the Israeli National Anthem Hatikvah on the Temple Mount. [video=youtube;StoE7jPqh1c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoE7jPqh1c[/video]
Since they are contravening a security measure the israeli government currently enforces would you not expect them to be arrested?
I have no idea it seems odd to me, is that not what the Israeli Prime Minister decrees?, I would suggest you ask him. However since the israeli prime minister enforces such a ban for whatever reason with the israeli police, would you not expect the person to be arrested?
Muslims pray with their faces towards Mecca !! While doing that they turn their a$$es ( "behinds" in modern language ) to Temple Mount.
I don't get it. Two distinguished elderly Jews (one dressed like Wyatt Earp) singing (beautifully, IMO) the Israeli national anthem in Israel at an Israeli holy site. And they get arrested by Israelis!!! Someone clue me in please. Does this have anything to do with Muslims?
Nope, nothing to do with Muslim's at all according to the Chief Rabbi's. See hear http://www.timesofisrael.com/aiming-to-stymie-pilgrims-rabbis-reiterate-ban-on-temple-mount-visits/
The seventh paragraph in the article says this: "Israeli law allows Jews to visit the Temple Mount but police forbid them from praying there in order to maintain a fragile political status quo and to prevent offending Muslim sensitivities." This to me is nuts. Why prostate oneself to bullyish Muslim notions. For goodness sakes, Judaism and Christianity predate Islam by hundreds and thousands of years.
You are confusing opinion with fact, the Chief Rabbi's comments are The chief rabbis decided to reaffirm this prohibition, which has been in place since before the the state was founded and certainly before the area was captured in 1967, only because of considerations regarding religious purity laws,” a source in the Chief Rabbinate told The Times of Israel. “It has absolutely nothing to do with the political situation. It is not that the chief rabbis were worried about the Middle East going up in flames, or the way the police treats Jewish worshipers there, or anything of that sort — it’s entirely based on religious law. in the opinion of the journalist who writes the article it is because of muslim sensibility's. The journalist has the right to his opinion however the prohibition by the Chief Rabbi's is fact. Added to which the original poster stated in a thread last night that the prohibition on the temple mount was solely the responsibility of the Israeli Prime Minister and he has prohibited it.
