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Ironically, the almost non-existent threat that the Temple Mount Faithful actually pose to Arabs was used--with great success--as an excuse for more Palestinian violence against Jews...
...charge that Jews want to retake the Temple Mount from its current Muslim caretakers in order to build a third temple is not new. Monday's events bear an uncanny resemblance to the events of 1939, when Arabs used the same pretext for conducting pogroms in the course of which many Jews were murdered...
First, the sub-headline "Witnesses Say Massacre Sparked After Stone-throwing Incident" implies that the massacre was caused by stone-throwing Palestinians. This renders the extreme provocation by the extremist Jewish group "Temple Mount Faithful" marginal in the issue...
Next, the site of the massacre which you call in your article "Temple Mount" in reference to Jewish history, is also the site of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosques, two of the holiest sanctuaries for Muslims who have prayed there for over 1200 years. Your article virtually ignores the significance of this location to Muslims. Instead the article focuses on the Jewish worshipers at the Wailing Wall who are mentioned six separate times...
Israeli police opened fire Monday morning at the Temple Mount on stone-throwing Palestinians, who were angered by rumors that Jews were trying to establish a presence on the temple, the Associated Press reported. Thousands of Palestinians had been hurling rocks at Jewish worshippers marking the Succot holiday at the Wailing Wall, injuring 11 of the pilgrims before police ended the attack with gunfire...