Police Clash with Protesters at Jerusalem Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Israeli police Tuesday entered the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian protesters, a police spokesman said.
The clashes came as parliament was to debate a bill calling for Israeli sovereignty over the compound, Islam's third-holiest site, which is currently administered by Jordan.
Police used stun grenades to disperse the Palestinians, Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, adding that there was "high tension" ahead of discussions expected in the Israeli parliament later Tuesday of a plan to annex the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
He added that stones thrown by the Palestinians injured two policemen while three protesters were arrested.
Palestinian medics said 15 protesters were injured by rubber bullets.
"Police remain deployed at the Temple Mount and visits by tourists are continuing," Rosenfeld said.
The Israeli Knesset, or parliament, is due to debate in the evening a bill introduced by MP Moshe Feiglin, a hardline member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, which envisages the "application of Israeli sovereignty" over the compound.
No vote is envisaged at the end of debate. Netanyahu is opposed to the bill and commentators say it is unlikely to attract much support.
The Al-Aqsa compound, which lies in Jerusalem's Old City, is a flashpoint because of its significance to both Muslims and Jews.
Sitting above the Western Wall plaza, it houses the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque and is Islam's third-holiest site.
It is also Judaism's holiest place, as it was the site of the first and second Jewish temples.
The site is in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem but administered by Muslim religious authorities.
Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.
Under a 1994 peace treaty, Jordan retained authority over all Muslim sites in Jerusalem.
25 February 2014, 13:12
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Whether you like it or not @the_roar islam will reign over all humanity and all other religions will perish in the sea of islam so it is you who does not know what reality is the jews are cursed by Allah they are lost they killed all the prophets Allah sent them and Allah turn his back on them they are promised nothing as they reject Allah they think they are chosen but they are not , go look at all the old texts of history it has always been called palestine you fool Roar
25 February 2014, 13:40
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Who is talking about elimination southern stop talking crap i said islam will reign over all religions go and look at the churches around the world and see how many empty ones there are on sunday people profess to be christian out of convenience but in reality theres more atheist than believers in christianity go and ask a christian who christ was you will be surprised at their response besides the true christ is one of the most revered in islam not the fake christ that the zionist created
25 February 2014, 17:56
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Correct watan... and this is not eliminating any other faith as southern says... some non muslims think this because they again lack knowledge of history... but islam in a span of 80 years conquered more land than the roman empire conquered in 900 years ... why because they broke down hearts not doors ... they allowed the local faiths to continue in their faith... and prosperity was long lived TILL ...the muslims them selves no longer governed well ...till they became corrupt ...and now we have modern day muslim rulers who some are tyrants like the jewish and christian and atheist tyrants they are all the same they FORGOT their faith... Some, only Allah knows who.
ISLAM is the only one true faith, Allah's message has always been one message but man Kept corrupting it...but not the message of Islam... Alhamdullah.
25 February 2014, 18:53
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Southern, once I got asked by a Shia guy if i was Shia or Sunni... he couldn't figure me out, so i told him that i was muslim like he was and left it at that...
During Mohamad's time (sws) there was no Sunni or Shia thing... so ill say the same to you i don't believe in Sunni or Shia SECTs... but only in Allah (most high) who sent down to us the final message to mankind the Quran and the Sunna of the Prophet. Peace Southern...
25 February 2014, 13:23
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Roar is a zionist go and take you zionist ideals and go to hell with your fellow zionist phil
25 February 2014, 13:30
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You have yet to prove your trinity actually existed theres no evidence you are following a fake entity zionist
25 February 2014, 13:32
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At least islam has proof the prophet of prophets existed Roar the zionist racist facist!
25 February 2014, 13:48
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When the prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was first mentioned you fool Roar he was named by Isa al masih or who you may call jesus go and look at the original texts in hebrew and he names him as the prophet who will guide all to the truth so you and you papcy theory are just that a crap theory
25 February 2014, 13:51
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@southern you call yourself southern why because you are a shia am i right?
25 February 2014, 16:17
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"why U.N resolution 242 which oblige Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories?"
Southern
1. If you read Resolution 242 it clearly states specifically and on purpose "from occupied territories" not "from THE occupied Territories"
Israel has in fact withdrawn from occupied territories (Gaza, Ramallah, Jericho etc).
By the way who/what is a Palestinian. Did you know that anyone born in the British Mandate has a Birth Certificate which states that the child born is a Palestinian, makes no difference if that child is a Moslem, a Christian, or a Jew.
By the way is there any reason that on most of your comments there is no symbol enabling people to reply.
2. If you knew what happened in 1967 Israel occupied the West Bank from Jordan, and Gaza from Egypt. It was the Jordanian and Egyptian goverments who withdrew their claims to the territory leaving it to the local population, who just happen to be mostly Palestinians.
25 February 2014, 17:41
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Southern ... Well Said!
and to the Roar & Phil.... WOW you guys have no idea what happened within the last century to Palestine... mmmm Let me see... I know! go to the local library and look up the history of Palestine ... then come back to this form and then put your 2 cents forward...
ALMOST 900 years the Muslims, Jews and Christians lived sided by side as neighbours and friends till the Zionists Came... Like Southern Said they never seem to stop crying holocaust but at the same time the commit it!!!
25 February 2014, 17:49
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Southern repeats as many do that " Israel is an apartheid state ".
A question, what is Syria? An Arab in Israel can wake up in the morning , go about his day, knowing that his children are in school getting a good education, go pray in the Mosque and come back to his family safe and sound.
A Syrian could be sleeping in his wretched house with his family when the barrels of hell are dropped on his neighborhood, he could be randomly selected at any time by the intelligence services or the Regime's thugs for a brutal and deadly investigation.
This Syrian would wish he was under the Israeli "apartheid".
25 February 2014, 18:01
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@the_roar "...papacy is who created islam..." My Allah (most high) guide you to the truth.
25 February 2014, 18:29
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zionists have committed many crimes against humanity in their process of occupying PALESTINE . DEIR YASSINE was one episode among many.
What they call Temple Mount is a holy place for Islam and what Zionists are trying to do is to remove all Islamic shrines from Palestine to prove that the land is theirs . The tunnels they dig below the Al Aqsa Site aims to destroy it while they claim searching for Abraham(alayh al salam)
grave.
25 February 2014, 20:39
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i advise the boar to read the crusades seen by arabs by amin maalouf.... it ll shut his mouth and teach him things he lacks... but a child cannot know everything....
25 February 2014, 20:41
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jews have no more right to a land than any other religions...
