This is a blog post by Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
From the Muslim point of view, millions of Jews are inciting Mohammed’s followers by praying every day that the Holy Temple be rebuilt.
Arab media have made it a daily ritual, almost a prayer, to charge that the Israeli government and Jews visiting the Temple Mount are really plotting to rebuild the destroyed Temple.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has taken a tough stand against Jews who even try to utter a prayer on the Temple Mount, which boils the blood of Muslims who respond with violence, which nevertheless their clerics preach from Temple Mount mosques.
Perhaps the Obama administration is not aware of it, but millions of Jews, including those from the Conservative stream of Judaism, pray every day for rebuilding the Temple.
Arab media occasionally refer to the prayers as proof of the “plot” to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque by archaeological excavations that supposedly are carried out in order to weaken the mosque’s foundations and cause the mosque to collapse, if radical Islamic sacrilege don’t beat them to the punch and bring down the house on themselves
The next step, according to the Arab paranoia, is a construction crew entering and building the Third Temple.
Neither the Palestinian Authority nor Jordan, which is the formal “custodian” of the Temple Mount, has stated that worldwide Jewish prayers are incitement, but it may be just a matter of time.
American-Israeli journalist Maayan Jaffe wrote this week for JNS:
[Is] the current Palestinian uprising is solely political?
Not so, says Adnan Abu Amer, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the National University for Open Education. From his perspective, some worrying trends indicate, ‘we are regressing into a religious war….
‘We are seeing a politicization of religious values – people using religion for political purposes. This is dangerous.’
She also quoted Ofer Zalzberg, senior analyst with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group, as noting that “one-fifth of the Likud membership is national religious” and that Jews following “a Messianic, Temple-focused Judaism” believe they are fighting a “holy war.”
Zalzberg stated, “On both sides, eschatological beliefs are being misunderstood, abused and misused” and express concerns about the links between religious and violence.”
He told Jaffe:
What is the link between religion and violence? One is about things that because of your religious beliefs you want or even need them and therefore you would fight for them, use violence, to secure them….
The other is that you have needs or goals that are in fact not driven by religion, but for different reasons, religious leaders use religious discourse to grant them legitimacy. This is part of the dynamics we are seeing in the current escalation of the conflict.
Now that the Israeli government has more or less crushed the idea of Jews praying on the Temple Mount, radical Islamic leaders, whose existence is dependent on violence, may have to turn to universal Jewish prayer to drive their followers into a frenzy.
The traditional Jewish prayers in the morning service are preceded by reciting Biblical and Talmudic passages about sacrifices, and conclude with the prayer that may it be God’s will that “the Temple should be built speedily in our days.”
If that is not enough to rankle radical Muslims, Jews recite three times a day in the silent “Amidah” prayer:
Return in mercy to Jerusalem Your city and dwell therein as You have promised; speedily establish therein the throne of David Your servant, and rebuild it, soon in our days, as an everlasting edifice. Blessed are You L-rd, who rebuilds Jerusalem…..
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I want reparations for the murder of the Jew's in Mecca, by Mohammad and his followers.
wait a second. If the only God is Allah and his only true prophet is Mohammed, why are the Muslims concerned about the Jews praying to their false God? Uvne Yirushalayim yir hakkodesh bimhera, b'yameinu!
It is incitement. That is why I don't follow either Orthodoxy or Conservatism. I certainly do not want to return to animal sacrifice.
Does anybody else see the irony in that by aknowledging that the Jews are praying for the rebuilding of the ancient temple THEY ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THERE INDEED WAS A PREDECESSOR JEWISH TEMPLE
No, Orthodox Islam makes up its own reality. So, if it wants to say Jews are fabricating a mythical Temple, that then is the Orthodox Islamofascist supremacist position, a denial of which thereligionofpeace.com can call incitement.
You are proud to display your high degree of ignorance mixed with hate. You neither either some education or a psych. ward.
It isn't that thereligionofpeace.com takes Jewish prayer seriously and are scared God will listen to us. It's that they attack everything in the world that isn't Orthodox Islam. They're having a ball destroying ancient priceless world treasures in Syria & Iraq.
I think it's a combo if both religious and political basis. It's a scarey situation and the police and citizens have to be vigilant watching out for terrorists ready to make a move.
It is not incitement that Jews have been praying to return to Jerusalem from exile, and rebuild their Temple, for the past 2000 years. It is the desire that kept the Jewish nation together through thick and thin. We were exiled by force, but never gave up title to the land of Israel, and certainly not to the Arab invaders.
And all praying jews regardless of their affiliation (including reform) pray to the return to Jerusalem.
I pray for the rebuilding of the temple and I'm not even Jewish. But I know when that happens, the return of our Lord and Savior is very, very close!
It is right for the Jews to Pray for the rebuilding of their Temple. If that is what they are Praying for, GOD is putting that in their "Spirit" to do it. Futhermore, why is it wrong for the Jews to have their Temple? The Muslims and Arabs have Mecca and other temples and the Jews have none. I, too, have been Praying for the Jews to rebuild their Temple; And I Pray every day for the "Peace Of Jerusalem" which means I am Praying for JEHOVAH (JESUS) to return now. In fact, I stop what I am doing several times a time and "Pray" for the "Peace of Jerusalem".
Millions of Christians are also praying for the rebuilding of the temple. If the muslims think only Jews are praying for the temple to be rebuilt, they are woefully mistaken.
before i die i would love to see the third temple in my life time before i die i do not like being single on earth and would be nice to be closa to lauri asbest friends and doing things
Amen, sister.
Amen, sister, well said!
May the Temple be rebuilt!!! Praise God! It will happen and all the hatred and murders of muslims will not stop it. BUILD IT ISRAEL!!!!
The Reformies though are too busy praying for transgender marriage and equality and subsidized mutilations
Praying for the 3rd Temple to be built soon and for all the Jewish community in Israel, may God be with you Israel!
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