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Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah, January 2014. CREDIT: Kobi
Gideon / GPO
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Jordan
King Abdullah called upon Israel to dismantle the metal detectors, which he
claims caused the present crisis thus “restoring the situation that existed before
the crisis’ outbreak.”
REFLECTIONS: Jordan is asking Israel to do something that they are not
willing to do themselves. Restoration! The crisis seems to me to have begun a little
earlier when the assassins used the Al-Aqsa Mosque as a den or hiding place to carry
out their attacks. That seems to be a
problem that Jordan is not willing (and perhaps unable) to reverse—that is, the
restoration of the Temple Mount to a more pure and peaceful state that existed
before its profane use to carry out violent attacks, and the Israeli’s having
to shoot the attackers on the mount. But even if they could, at the heart of the
Temple Mount is the mystery of the call for God’s house to be a house of prayer
for all peoples/nations. Moslems,
however, argue that only they alone have the right to pray on the holy site.
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