Word: mufti
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mufti of Jerusalem recently issued a fatwa saying there was no Jewish temple and no validity to Jewish claims that this was the Temple Mount. That touches a raw nerve for a lot of people who wouldn't go to this demonstration because they wouldn't feel comfortable with the sort of people who are organizing it. But they feel uncomfortable to the point of possibly not voting for Barak, because while agreeing with his stance, the response from the Palestinians has been so negative. There's growing alarm in Israel at a sense that the more compromises Israel offers...
...recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that the Pontiff could not alter simply to wow an audience. The strictly spiritual stops on the trip were interspersed with so many loaded encounters, shifting on an almost hourly basis--If this is Thursday it must be...Barak? Holocaust survivors? The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem?--that the Pope seemed like an FBI trainee in one of those fake towns with the cardboard figures, each requiring a different response, popping up one after another...
...manifested its ability to humble even the most high-minded and surefooted. For months John Paul had been anticipating a grand interfaith meeting between himself and Jewish and Muslim leaders. Originally he planned it for Mount Sinai, but the location was dropped as logistically difficult. Then Jerusalem's Grand Mufti Ekrema Sabri, the chief Muslim leader in the Palestinian territories, declined to meet with the rabbis, whom he accuses of making "anti-Muslim remarks." To provide a stand-in, Arafat promoted religious judge Sheik Taysir Tamimi from a lesser position to deputy chief of the West Bank Islamic Courts...
...nations who've yet to conclude a final peace agreement to end a half century of war. While the Palestinians are chagrined that the pontiff's hosts in the Holy City will be the Israelis, Israel is unhappy that he'll meet with the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti on the Temple Mount, a site on which the third-holiest site in Islam - the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock - is built atop the ruins of Judaism's holiest temple. "The Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to make the trip appear to confirm...