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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 09:53 20/02/2007 Safeguarding Jerusalem By Yehuda Ben Meir It's become very clear that the clash over the construction work near the Mugrabi Gate is not a struggle against the archaeological excavations or the construction of a bridge, but part of a broader campaign for the control of Jerusalem. After all, this construction work has no connection to the Al-Aqsa Mosque nor any effect on it. Indeed, even among some of the Arab MKs - those same leaders mobilizing the war and the incitement against the construction - there were those who admitted, some through winks and nods and others more directly, that whether the work really threatens the mosque does not matter. In their view, Israel has no sovereignty in the Old City and has no right to carry out any sort of construction work in the Temple Mount environs. At the root of this war is the intensifying effort by the Palestinians and their supporters, from within and without Israel, to deny any link or rights of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount or to Jerusalem, and thus to undermine not only our right to sovereignty in Jerusalem, but also Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Advertisement We have no choice but to succeed in this struggle, and possess all the possible elements for such an outcome. The way to succeed is to show and prove, by means of complete transparency, that the deceiving claims and baseless incitements are nothing more than false propaganda. The government acted along these lines, launching a Web site with real-time, round-the-clock video footage of the excavations. Israel has finally learned to utilize the Internet. And indeed, the disorderly conduct of Sheikh Ra'ad Salah and the remonstrations of Khaled Meshal and the Islamic organizations are not having any significant effect in the broader world, and their anti-Israel campaign has failed to take off. As part of this important effort, the prime minister agreed, during an official visit to Turkey - a large Muslim country, with strategic ties of utmost importance to Israel - to meet the request of the Turkish prime minister and allow a delegation from there to evaluate the conditions on the ground. This was a smart, wise and appropriate move on the part of the prime minister, and there is no justification for the criticism against him. One needn't be a former deputy foreign minister or a seasoned diplomat to appreciate the diplomatic significance and the implications of such a move; let's not forget that the real dispute is over the sovereignty of Jerusalem. The fact that the Turkish prime minister is sending a delegation to this site - near the Western Wall and the Temple Mount - following an invitation by the prime minister of Israel, is a clear expression of support of Israel's position. After all, this is not a United Nations delegation nor one imposed on Israel by an international body, but an authorized delegation of Turkey to Israel (and not of the Palestinian Authority or Jordan). Israel really has nothing to hide. So there should be no surprise that the Arab MKs responded with anger and frustration, demanding: "What business does Turkey have with this issue?" They understood what many MKs on the right have not: that this is a diplomatic gain for Israel and a wise way of conducting an important campaign. Bookmark to del.icio.us Death's donation Israelis' willingness to donate their organs and save lives nears the bottom of the list. Fallen soldier 20-year-old Ben Kubany was killed during an IDF action in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.   1.   east jerusalem is of no use to us 10:10  |  flashman 20/02/07   2.   THE PROPERTY IN DISPUTE CAN`T BE TOUCHED UNILATERALLY 10:16  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   3.   Pragmatism will win over extremism 10:48  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/02/07   4.   Indrajaya: Muslim squatters on our Temple Mount 10:52  |  Yacov 20/02/07   5.   Jerusalem must remain Israeli... 10:59  |  Paul Henzen 20/02/07   6.   Muslims do not respect Bahá`i holy sites... 11:04  |  Paul Henzen 20/02/07   7.   indrajaya: There`s No Dispute Here: See The PLO Charter 11:15  |  Yishai Kohen 20/02/07   8.   #6 Paul: Nor do Muslims respect your holy sites 11:52  |  Yacov 20/02/07   9.   # 4, YACOV 11:53  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   10.   TIME TO REMOVE FABLES FROM HISTORY 11:56  |  paul harris 20/02/07   11.   #9 Indrajaya: No UN or other charter allows Muslim theft 12:04  |  Yacov 20/02/07   12.   Paul Henzen 12:13  |  Chris Linthwaite 20/02/07   13.   THE EXISTANCE OF ISRAEL MAKES KORAN AND MUHAMMED A LIE ?? 12:27  |  Bill. 20/02/07   14.   # 11, YACOV 12:32  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   15.   # 11, YACOV 12:40  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   16.   # 5 Paul Henzen 12:40  |  Edith 20/02/07   17.   flashman the squatters there are of no use to us. 12:44  |  Steven 20/02/07   18.   #14 Indrajaya: Your lies, lies, lies 12:48  |  Yacov 20/02/07   19.   ARAB lies start a riot.Whats new?The Hebron massacre started the 12:57  |  PETER SM 20/02/07   20.   # 18, YACOV 13:04  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   21.   To Bill 13:05  |  Fatih 20/02/07   22.   INDIRAJAYA BENDING THE TRUTH ON JENIN&TUTU 13:05  |  PETER SM 20/02/07   23.   THEArabs trashed theJerusalem Jewish holy sites&graves pre``67 13:25  |  PETER SM 20/02/07   24.   # 12 Chris Linthwaite - we do not recognize Al Aqsa 13:28  |  Paul Henzen 20/02/07   25.   * 21 Fatih 13:35  |  Bill. 20/02/07   26.   # 8 Yacov - You`re so right! 13:36  |  Paul Henzen 20/02/07   27.   # 22, PETRE MS 13:38  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   28.   #20 Indrajaya: No UN resolutions will justify Muslim crimes 14:01  |  Yacov 20/02/07   29.   The discussion about Jerusalem is living proof...... 14:01  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/02/07   30.   world class t v documentaries 14:09  |  Joseph 20/02/07   31.   Education... 14:14  |  Ben Azai 20/02/07   32.   INDIRAJAYA.Enclosed UN report vs Pal "claims" in Jenin.Nice try 14:19  |  PETER SM 20/02/07   33.   # 28 SWISS (DINO) 14:22  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   34.   Who owns what? 14:22  |  Sherlock Holmes 20/02/07   35.   Why Not Follow the Saudi Model and Level Al-Aqsa ? 14:26  |  Klaudia 20/02/07   36.   # 33 indrajaya 14:40  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/02/07   37.   # 28, YACOV 14:44  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   38.   #14, Indrajaya 14:51  |  JB 20/02/07   39.   Indrajaya: Islam`s call for the destruction of Israel and Jews 14:56  |  Yacov 20/02/07   40.   Calling All Muslims and Muslim Apologists ! Hypocritical Cowards 15:05  |  Klaudia 20/02/07   41.   Ben Meir Is Being Disengenuous 15:15  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   42.   # 39, JACOV 15:19  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   43.   Ben Meir Is Disingenuous on another matter here 15:22  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   44.   # 26 Paul Henzen 15:25  |  Edith 20/02/07   45.   Yakov, Hitler is not everywhere. 15:32  |  Edith 20/02/07   46.   Indrajaya: Again, your lies and distortions 15:41  |  Yacov 20/02/07   47.   HOLLOW ARAB COMPLAINT 15:47  |  abram 20/02/07   48.   prophet muhammad was just a dreamer.. 15:58  |  maria 20/02/07   49.   To Yacov: Suffering from mental retardation? 16:01  |  Fatih 20/02/07   50.   # 46, YACOV 16:03  |  indrajaya 20/02/07   51.   Yacov to Indirajaya 16:12  |  fk 20/02/07   52.   Steven to flashman 16:20  |  fk 20/02/07   53.   fk .Sweetheart Pal have a lot more than they gave the Jews 16:28  |  PETER SM 20/02/07   54.   To indrajaya and Fatih 17:17  |  Klaudia 20/02/07   55.   fk # 51 The Annexation of East Jerusalem 17:26  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   56.   Truncating the past 17:34  |  Tosefta 20/02/07   57.   hegira 622 after jc 17:44  |  jean marie 20/02/07   58.   Yes, Abram #47 17:45  |  Polybios 20/02/07   59.   52 and lies 17:49  |  Steven 20/02/07   60.   Yaakov and the status quo 17:56  |  Polybios 20/02/07   61.   fk # 52 The Right of Return 18:04  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   62.   Dear, Paul Henzen of the Netherlands 18:09  |  Akiva Patysh, Tzioni 20/02/07   63.   polybios and the Temple Mount Faithful on Status Quo 18:15  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   64.   Swiss(Dino) 18:25  |  ODP 20/02/07   65.   Dear, Paul Henzen of the Netherlands, part 2 18:34  |  Akiva Patysh, Tzioni 20/02/07   66.   This land is your land! 18:36  |  Danny 20/02/07   67.   That`s where we differ, Yaakov 18:41  |  Polybios 20/02/07   68.   We have no choice but to succeed in this struggle? 18:46  |  Fritz 20/02/07   69.   Paul #5; Akiva #62; The real crux of the matter 18:59  |  Polybios 20/02/07   70.   # 64 ODP 19:03  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/02/07   71.   polybios on rights and their exercise #67 19:09  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   72.   Tellme, polybios will you agree to permit..#69 19:26  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   73.   #61 Jeff Northridge on founding history of Israel 19:28  |  Pssd Off American 20/02/07   74.   Yaakov #71 19:32  |  ODP 20/02/07   75.   Swiss(Dino) 19:36  |  ODP 20/02/07   76.   # Edith - You are blind! 19:37  |  Paul Henzen 20/02/07   77.   Pssd off American is correct 19:41  |  Marilyn 20/02/07   78.   Yaakov #71 19:44  |  Polybios 20/02/07   79.   # 35 Klaudia. re:Saudi model???? 19:49  |  Kath` 20/02/07   80.   To Jeff Northridge 19:53  |  Lee 20/02/07   81.   ODP, just let me warn you #74 19:55  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   82.   #72 Yaakov 19:56  |  Polybios 20/02/07   83.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 19:57  |  Lee 20/02/07   84.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 2 20:02  |  Lee 20/02/07   85.   History didn`t stop with the creation of Israel 20:07  |  Joe 20/02/07   86.   # 75 ODP 20:07  |  Swiss (Dino) 20/02/07   87.   Who is feeding you these lies, Marilyn? 20:07  |  Polybios 20/02/07   88.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 3 20:13  |  Lee 20/02/07   89.   Fatih #49 20:14  |  Jane 20/02/07   90.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 4 20:15  |  Lee 20/02/07   91.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 5 20:16  |  Lee 20/02/07   92.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 6 20:18  |  Lee 20/02/07   93.   Lee re: founding history 20:24  |  Pssd Off American 20/02/07   94.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 7 20:24  |  Lee 20/02/07   95.   Joe #85. History didn`t start in 1948, either... 20:24  |  Polybios 20/02/07   96.   Pssd Off American # 73 Your Questions (part 1) 20:27  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   97.   Pharaoh of False Facts (Jeff Northridge #61 - right of return) 20:27  |  Tosefta 20/02/07   98.   The only way 20:29  |  danite 20/02/07   99.   To Pssed Off American - More Evidence 8 20:30  |  Lee 20/02/07   100.   Polybios, ah, a problem of coordination! #82 20:33  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   101.   Temple Rebuilt 20:35  |  Yedidiyah Hawkins 20/02/07   102.   Jeff Northridge #96 20:37  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   103.   To Pssed Off American - references 20:49  |  Lee 20/02/07   104.   Yaakov #100 20:50  |  Polybios 20/02/07   105.   polybios to joe, not quite true #95 20:55  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   106.   Sullivan - I see you continue to feature here at 20:59  |  Anat 20/02/07   107.   Pssd Off American # 73 Your Questions (part 2) 21:05  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   108.   To Yaakov #105 21:05  |  Lee 20/02/07   109.   #105 Yaakov 21:16  |  Polybios 20/02/07   110.   On the Right of Return 21:24  |  Tosefta 20/02/07   111.   Of course Anat, allow me to repsond to your rhetorical questions 21:34  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   112.   Lee, Jews were allowed but the configuration was very different 21:39  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   113.   Pssd Off American # 73 Your Questions (part 3) 21:40  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   114.   Pharaoh of False Facts, II re P.O. American (Jeff Northridge #96) 21:43  |  Tosefta 20/02/07   115.   Of course its contradicted, open your eyes, polybios #109 21:45  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   116.   Pssd Off American #73 21:47  |  Gee 20/02/07   117.   safegarding Jerusalem 21:52  |  youval 20/02/07   118.   Tosefta on Talmudic law and theft #110 21:56  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   119.   #85 Polybios, wrong debate 22:05  |  Joe 20/02/07   120.   Lee # various posts Thanks 22:07  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   121.   Gee on Inventing history #116 22:11  |  Yaakov Sullivan 20/02/07   122.   Focus, Yaakov, focus 22:15  |  Polybios 20/02/07   123.   #77 marylin and the usual BUNKUM 22:27  |  paul harris 20/02/07   124.   # 76 Paul Henzen 22:45  |  Edith 20/02/07   125.   *101 YEDIDIYAH HAWKINS . 22:48  |  Bill. 20/02/07   126.   Tosefta 22:49  |  ODP 20/02/07   127.   Muslims don`t study history 22:50  |  Esther 20/02/07   128.   To Yaakov 112 22:51  |  Lee 20/02/07   129.   Yaakov #115 22:53  |  ODP 20/02/07   130.   Tosefta # 97 Listen Up Comrade 23:01  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   131.   To Gee Re Pssed Off American 23:09  |  Lee 20/02/07   132.   The problem isnt "Palestinians" or "Arabs" - but Islamism 23:40  |  Hal 20/02/07   133.   ODP #119 23:44  |  Tosefta 20/02/07   134.   Israel must appoint the ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY to safeguard 23:45  |  Hal 20/02/07   135.   That is a fact 23:51  |  Hal 20/02/07   136.   Tosefta # 114 The Facts 23:58  |  Jeff Northridge 20/02/07   137.   Gee, Northridge, re: founding history 23:59  |  Pssd Off American 20/02/07   138.   PO`s American 00:09  |  Angela 21/02/07   139.   To Jeff Northridge re 120 00:10  |  Lee 21/02/07   140.   Joe #118 (part 1) 00:11  |  Polybios 21/02/07   141.   Pharaoh of False Facts (Jeff Northridge #127) 00:16  |  Tosefta 21/02/07   142.   Joe #118 (part 2) 00:24  |  Polybios 21/02/07   143.   Facts vs. opinions (Jeff Northridge #136) 00:31  |  Tosefta 21/02/07   144.   Angela 00:34  |  Polybios 21/02/07   145.   # 77 Marilyn 00:58  |  ChanahS 21/02/07   146.   Lee, re: founding history 01:07  |  Pssd Off American 21/02/07   147.   POlybios part one 01:29  |  Angela 21/02/07   148.   Polybios Part 2 01:31  |  Angela 21/02/07   149.   Polybios 01:36  |  Angela 21/02/07   150.   #97, #110, Tosefta: Israel`s admission to UN 1 01:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/02/07   151.   #77 and 123 01:42  |  R, Alkalai 21/02/07   152.   #97, #110, Tosefta, Israel`s admission to UN 2 01:57  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/02/07   153.   Jerusalem: Israel must fefend Jewish History! 02:05  |  Akram Zekaria 21/02/07   154.   #97,#110, Tosefta, Israel`s admission, UN 3 02:08  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/02/07   155.   13# Chris Linthwaite.-Recognise lies.. 02:19  |  Akram Zekaria 21/02/07   156.   Tosefta # 141 & 143 And You Do? 02:30  |  Jeff Northridge 21/02/07   157.   These posts are proof that there will be no peace in our time. 02:41  |  Voice of Reason 21/02/07   158.   #156 Jeff Northridge continues to charade 03:35  |  Johnboy 21/02/07   159.   Theft in Talmud (Yaakov Sullivan #130) 03:43  |  Tosefta 21/02/07   160.   Jeff Northridge.In the 1948 Arab war,General Montgomery predicted 03:44  |  PETER SM 21/02/07   161.   Paul Henzen - I am pleasantly surprised by... 03:52  |  aristocrat 21/02/07   162.   Pssd Off American #137 04:14  |  KT 21/02/07   163.   Pssd Off American #146 04:30  |  KT 21/02/07   164.   Jerusalem of Gold 05:43  |  Eerik Tanskanen 21/02/07   165.   When? 06:20  |  Bob 21/02/07   166.   Polybios, selective history is no substitute for the truth 06:54  |  Joe 21/02/07   167.   Jeff Northridge Re Tosefta 07:00  |  Danite 21/02/07   168.   #77 Marilyn; keep on reading Pappe 07:03  |  ballistic 21/02/07   169.   #164 JERUSALEM OF GOLD 07:19  |  Elias Khoury 21/02/07   170.   BOB #165, 07:22  |  Stavros 21/02/07   171.   Call their bluff... 07:40  |  Blogowitz 21/02/07   172.   #167, Danite 08:10  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/02/07   173.   The arabs have as much right to claim Jerusalem as Budapest 09:01  |  Joe 21/02/07   174.   No respect. 09:36  |  Deborah 21/02/07   175.   Jesus is a Jew! A Tora-observant God-loving Jew! 09:44  |  Joe 21/02/07   176.   Palestinian Christians arent Arabs 09:58  |  Joe 21/02/07   177.   What America should do to help 17:34  |  Jeremy Slavin 21/02/07   178.   Joe, you didn`t anwer the questions 18:11  |  Polybios 21/02/07   179.   Mission creep, Angela? 18:17  |  Polybios 21/02/07   180.   where are you China? 19:43  |  Jerusalem awaits you 21/02/07   181.   # 124 Edith 20:58  |  Paul Henzen 21/02/07   182.   Paul Henzen 21:24  |  Judeophile 21/02/07   183.   Paul Henzen and #182 23:25  |  Howard Friedman 21/02/07   184.   Muslim Inciters Inspired by Planet of the Apes? 20:57  |  Gary Katz 22/02/07   185.   east jerusalm 16:29  |  leslie hulkower 23/02/07   186.   Safeguarding Jerusalem 18:22  |  monica telson 23/02/07   187.   Joe`s Comment on Arab`s and Jerusalem 20:37  |  Pete 23/02/07   188.   To #187 05:18  |  Joe 25/02/07   189.   JERUSALEM...THE ETERNAL CAPITAL OF ISRAEL 03:28  |  Mary Dobranski 05/03/07   190.   Muslim vandalism of the Temple Mount - this is the true outrage 19:18  |  Gila 22/03/07

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