Monday February 25, 2013, 11:19 pm
Isn't this so typical of these "tolerant " people? Either our way or the highway.

Monday February 25, 2013, 11:24 pm
Where are all the Jew-hating Israelophobes on Care2 and the western world ranting over the 'occupation' by Muslims of the Jews' holiest site, the Temple Mount? When Muslims invaded and occupied Jerusalem, the Jews' capital for 3000 years, they deliberately offended the Jews by desecrating their holiest site by building their al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock (which is covered in Islamic graffiti with verses of hate toward Jews and Christians) and they refuse to allow Jews to even stand on it to pray!

The last wave of Palestinian/Muslim hate and violence (intifada) was caused because the Israeli PM, a Jew, thought he should be able to stand on his people's holy site and pray - the Muslims, as is their wont, went into a violent rage for years with the support and blessings of the pro-islamist western media and so-called 'Liberals', none of whom cared one iota about the human rights abuses and intolerance and illegal occupation of this site by invading, arrogant, insensitive Muslims.

Where is the outrage?

And Obama, dhimmi supreme, will bow to these primitives' demands as he always does (after all, he said in his Cairo speech that it was his duty to defend Islam - really?), as he snubs his nose at the Jews and the desecration of their holiest site. Don't offend the Muslims because they'll riot and kill if you do. Maybe if the Jews did the same over this desecration and abomination perpetrated by the Muslim conquerors they'd get more attention and respect too. Apparently violence, hate and intolerance pay - they sure have for the Muslims.

Where is the outrage?

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 12:17 am
Noted. This will be and interesting visit to watch...

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 12:41 am
yet in 1924 muslims produced this Temple Mount Guide which states
“The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings” (2 Samuel 24:25). But, for the purposes of this Guide, which confines itself to the Muslim period, the starting point is the year 637 A.D.

“...It dates probably as far back as the construction of Solomon’s Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D.”

meanwhile back at the ranch
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem : Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam....

2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BC, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand (1000) years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 lasted no more than 22 years.

5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem , they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran.

7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.

8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.

9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: in 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left (many in fear of retaliation by their own brethren, the Arabs), without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The ones who stayed were afforded the same peace, civility, and citizenship rights as everyone else.

10. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms.

11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.

12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel , a country no larger than the state of New Jersey ...

13. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won.

14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel . Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them.

15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.

16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.

17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.

18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.

19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 12:50 am
Thanks for all that amazing info, Tommy. Israel's patience when dealing with these people amazes me.

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 2:42 am
I am sure Mr President will conform to his personal ideological dictates....mmmm?

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 4:38 am
I expect that Obama will follow his personal inclination and upbringing by dressing as a Muslim and insulting the Israelis by refusing to take any of them with him. Haram Ash-Sharif (Islamic name for Temple Mount) which is where both Jewish Temples stood as the holiest site of Judaism. This is why a fake mosque was built there and this "mosque" is regularly damaged by Muslims whenever these same Muslims have a paddy.

To try and ensure that Islam can lay claim to this lie, this mosque, known as the furthest mosque, is supposed to be where Mohammed ascended to Heaven to speak to his god, the idolatrous moon god, Allah. However, this story was written well after his death and is as fictional as the man in the moon. Islam is mostly built on stories taken from Judaism and Christianity. Many mosques have deliberately been built on the site of famous churches and synagogues to replace them in lore. It is obvious that the holiest site of Judaism would have had to be usurped by Islam.

For those who call Israel apartheid, they have always allowed Muslims to have religious control of this site even though they are known to be destroying and have destroyed many priceless historical and religious artifacts. Whilst Muslims had illegal control of East Jerusalem (under the rules of international law) after the invasion of Israel in 1948, these same Muslims refused to allow Jews to approach the Western Wall (then known as the Wailing Wall).

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 8:13 am
Yet another amongst many examples of Palestinians/Arabs calling the shots around the world, including in Jerusalem, including the President of the Unites States.

This president has been ALL TOO willing to comply with Arab demands, which makes Obama subordinate to the Arabs, which has been quite in evidence for some time now, having had hundreds of secret meetings at the White House with Muslim Brotherhood groups.

It will be very interesting to see if he complies with this, too.

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 1:48 pm
I agree Gillian, Obama will "allow" himself to be dictated to, and will follow all Muslim protocol. He has already bowed to a Muslim leader, why wouldn't he go a step further? The Muslims would be thrilled, the Israelis insulted. It sounds like an Obama plan.

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 2:33 pm
"Palestinian political and religious figures over the weekend warned US President Barack Obama that he should probably avoid ascending Jerusalem's Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel, but provided a list of instructions should he go ahead with a stop at the contentious holy site."

Excuse me? Perhaps the President's traveling secretary should inform the "Palestinians" whichever group of murderous b*stards THIS bunch is, that the US President does not take travel advice nor orders from ANYONE. Let alone a bunch of masked pissants like these. Then tell them to go to hell.

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 2:48 pm
Wow! I guess the world has babied and coddled the bratty Fakestinians for so long that they have the unmitigated gall to say this, and Obama will probably lack the necessary morphology in his underwear to abide by it.

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 9:39 pm
Obama must do it their way or no way at all, typical of the Palestinians always trying to dictate to others.!
They should stick to farming goats.!!

Tuesday February 26, 2013, 11:27 pm
Excellent and simple chronology for the Jewish history in Israel/Judah and Jerusalem, Tommy. Thanks, but the Jew-hating Israelophobes, of which there are many here on Care2 (where are they?) don't care about facts or the Muslim desecration and occupation of the Jews' holiest site by Muslims. Their bigotry and hate is far too great to be dealt with rationally. They'll probably show up any moment and we'll all see how irrational their rants are.

Wednesday February 27, 2013, 7:52 am
Obama should not be allowed to step foot in Israel as long as US embassy is not in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel and as long as Obama gives money and F-16 to his Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, whose goal is annihilation of Israel and Western civilization.

Obama should be tried as traitor of American values, since anybody who endorses Islam and Qur'an is a subscriber of a supremacist ideology, similar to Nazi supremacist ideology, including its delusional Jew hatred which is rampant among Muslims.

When East Palestinians (Jordanians) occupied Old City of Jerusalem, they demolished synagogues and any traces of Jewish presence there. When Israel finally got back Jerusalem which was ALWAYS Jewish majority inhabitants, they not only left mostuew on Temple mount intact, but actually let Muslims imams self-rule. Temple mount had been a staging venue for terrorist attacks on Israel and Jews, and Muslims rule there should be abolished, so that Jews on the bottom Western Wall do not have to worry about Muslim youth throwing bottles and heads onto their heads. Israeli Muslims (who make up 23% of total Israeli population (unlike Arab countries which have no Jews left...who fled with their lives in 1948 to Israel) are a fifth column, since Islam teaches them to hate Jews.

Say NO to Obama visiting Israel, which may trigger another intifada and murder of the Jews and Muslims who would like to have peace with the Jews, but are not allowed, since islamists rule, with the help of Obama.

Wednesday February 27, 2013, 3:20 pm
I dont think Obama should go to the temple Mount and the Mosque He will be insulting the Jews and Christians
who know it belongs to the jews and it was where their original temple was
If he goes he is accepting and condoning the fact that they the muslims think the site belongs to them and it doesn't

Noted Thanks

Thursday February 28, 2013, 5:59 am
STop wasting our sequestered funds on travel for Obama and Michelle.

Thursday February 28, 2013, 7:18 am
Obama supports with US taxpayers money and access to the White house and with F-16 his Muslim Brotherhood, whose leader Mohamed Morsi calls Jews "descendents of pigs and apes". The stated goal of Muslim Brotherhood is "to infiltrate America and destroy Western civilization from within, and establish the only true religion of Islam to rule over all others."

Muslim Brotherhood has a BIG brother in the White house, who is giving speeches in US to subvert both US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the UN to cover up that Islam is a supremacist ideology similar to the supremacist Nazi ideology, including its delusional Jew hatred, which led to Holocaust in WWII and which Muslims around the world want to perpetrate in Israel.

The Muslim delusional Jew hatred is rampant while those in the West who claim to defend human rights engage in conspiracy of silence and defend tyrants and terrorists, led by Obama and his Marxist Islamists, Obama cannot be trusted since he is a superb liar and demagogue, using Taqiyya-the principle of lying for Islam.

Israel should just say NO to Obama and his unholy trinity of Kerry Hagel and Brennan, all followers of the delusional Jew hater Barack Hussein Obama, who had been living up to his middle name ever after getting into power in America. Yet, American Jews were fooled by his nice words that he "has Israel's back" and not only voted for him (70% of American Jews) but also helped in his victories in 2008 and 2012, because they behave as Court Jews did in the Middle Ages and in Germany after Hitler came to power. Read the article about Taqiyya to understand how Obama does it (i,.e. deceives those whom he hates): http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm

Friday March 1, 2013, 4:36 am
Easy decision, don't go.

Sunday March 3, 2013, 8:22 pm
obama will do what he always does, bow to the muslims and kiss their butts. he always stands with the muslim terrorists. he sure won't stand with the jews.