Tefillah on Har HaBayit

Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, of the Temple Institute, led a group of Jews to the Har HaBayit today to pray at our holiest site. Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa naturally attacked the rights of Jews to pray there.

From Arutz Sheva:

[Moussa stated]"For the first time since '67, Jews are holding prayers in Al-Aksa during Ramadan in violation of international law, and we condemn it." He called the prayer "a hard blow to the [Muslim -ed.] holiness of the place, with no connection to it being during the month of Ramadan or another day."

Why is it that when Arabs and Muslims choose to condemn the Jews they always invoke non-existent international law? There is no international law banning Jews from Har HaBayit at Ramadan, or any other time. Muslims would do well to remember that they even have access to their mosques due to the policies of the Israeli government.

When a political or religious body denies the Jews access to their holiest sites for contrived reasons that are purely based in racism toward, and hatred of the Jewish people they themselves demonstrate they are unworthy of having access to the site themselves, the Jewish blood they have on their hands aside.

When Jordan joined the Arab armies in invading Israel in 1948 they divided the city of Jerusalem for the first time in its history, forcibly evicting the entire Jewish population to the western side of the city. Our holy sites were desecrated and Jews were of course forbidden to enter. Now the world stupidly believes the Arab lie that there were never any Jews in Jerusalem, and that there was never a Temple.

When Israel forced the Jordanians out of Judea and Samaria, Jewish lands the Arabs claim as "Palestinian," Jerusalem was reunited and the Temple Mount reclaimed. But even in victory, and in the face of this miraculous event, Israeli leaders decided to kowtow to the Arabs and give the administration of the Temple Mount to the Muslim Waqf.

Now the Arab League invents the new lie of a fictional international law preventing Jewish worship on Har HaBayit.

When will we have leadership in Jerusalem that will remove Waqf control? It is an afront to HaShem that we have given over this place to the Muslims who seek our death. No prayer on Har Habayit? A synagogue should be built there as the first steps to rebuilding the Temple.

While we wait Jews should pray on Har HaBayit. They should go in greater and greater numbers. How can we merit rebuilding the Temple when too many of our people are afraid to go there, when the leadership of Israel will most likely allow Jews to be assaulted for turning out in great numbers to pray there?

The Torah teaches that one must not do what is hateful to oneself to others. The corollary to this must be that one who treats others with hatred, racism, and contempt, should not expect to receive kindness and respect in return. I expect the Muslims to gnash their teeth, spit, and curse when a Jew takes their rightful place on Har HaBayit for tefillah. It is hateful to me that the government of Israel serves as an additional obstacle to Jewish prayer. Let the Waqf be banned from there and let the Muslims petition us for permission to come to a place that is not even mentioned in the Koran.

!הִתְעוֹרְרִי הִתְעוֹרְרִי, קוּמִי יְרוּשָׁלִַים