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...orders of local intifada leaders and Muslim preachers, the Palestinian mob attacked the 45 or so police who serve as the security force on the Temple Mount. They set a nearby police station ablaze and barricaded any exits the police might have taken to escape...
Tragically, at least 19 Palestinians were killed by the gunfire; had the Temple Mount police not used deadly force, however, many of them would almost surely have died at the hands of rioters...
...also outrageously galling. Not only were the assembled Palestinians violently attacking the police force present to protect the Temple Mount, they were at the same time bombarding Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall. From their vantage point atop the Temple Mount, the Palestinians were in a perfect position to attack the unarmed, prayer-shawled assembly down below...
...claim advanced by Palestinians that their "demonstration" was in response to a Jewish attempt to lay the cornerstone for a third temple stands out as a sham as well. A group of Jews known as the "Temple Mount Faithful" does fantasize about a return to the Solomonic era, but they are a radical fringe group of Jews, an organization probably no larger than the Crimson Key Society...
...matter of public record, the "Temple Mount Faithful" did not come remotely close to conquering the Temple Mount. Earlier this month the Israeli Supreme Court, in response to the Faithful's threat to march on the Temple Mount, barred the extremists from the Temple Mount area. Shortly thereafter, the Israeli police and local government officials guaranteed Muslim clerics several times that they would enforce the Court's decision, which embodies long-standing Israeli government policy...