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girlactionfigure · 13 days

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#Israel #Jerusalem #Temple Mount #Iron Dome #Iran

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illustratus · 20 days

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 2 months

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A week ago, a woman visited Islam's holiest spot, the Kabaa in Mecca, and unfurled a Palestinian flag while smiling for a camera.

Saudi security quickly came to tell her to put the flag away, which she did.

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That was the entire incident. But video of it caused an uproar on social media,where people claimed she was "arrested" (she wasn't.) and that she had every right to display the flag.

Haaretz reports that Saudi officials have responded:

Speaking with Al-Ekhbariya TV, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais stressed that the holy site is a place of worship where only religious slogans and chants should be heard. Al-Sudais, one of the nine imams of the Grand Mosque, said that visitors come to the site to pray and worship, not to express political views. He urged worshippers not to let their emotions distract them from their prayers, suggesting that they pray to God (Allah) for salvation over their concerns rather than expressing demands at the holy site.

This is a policy. Whether one agrees or not, the Saudis have a policy for their holy sites and are trying to enforce it.

Compare this to what regularly happens on the Temple Mount with the full permission of the Waqf:

But they do prohibit the Israeli flag from being shown.

Meaning the only consistent policy shown by the Waqf is antisemitism.

I'm still waiting to hear from any human rights group that Jews should have equal rights to worship on their holiest site.

#mecca #kabaa #palestinian flag #saudi arabia #israeli flag #waqf #temple mount #Youtube

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humusboii2thereturnoftheking · 1 month

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On the right, a Jewish Israeli policewoman. On the left, Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist who's advocated for the slaughter of Jews.

Next time someone tells you Jews are European you're welcome to show them this photo and remind them over half the Jews in Israel are Middle Eastern or North African.

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blueiskewl · 1 year

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Very Rare Half-Shekel Coin From Year Three of the Great Revolt Discovered

Recent excavations by archaeologists from the Hebrew University in the Ophel area south of the Temple Mount uncovered the remains of a monumental public building from the Second Temple period that was destroyed in 70 CE.

Numerous Jewish coins, the majority of which were bronze, from the Great Revolt (66-70 CE) were discovered in the destruction layer. This collection also contained a particularly uncommon and rare discovery: a silver coin with a half-shekel denomination that dates to around 69/70 CE.

The Great Revolt was the first of several uprisings against the Roman Empire by the Jewish population of Judea.

The revolt was in response to the Romans’ increasing religious tensions and high taxation, which resulted in the looting of the Second Temple and the arrest of senior Jewish political and religious figures. A large-scale rebellion overran the Roman garrison in Judea, forcing the pro-Roman King Herod Agrippa II to abandon Jerusalem.

A coin discovered in the ruins of a Second Temple-era building was most likely used to pay an annual tax for worship at the site; most coins of this type are bronze.

The dig was carried out by a team from the Hebrew University, led by Prof. Uzi Leibner of the Institute of Archaeology, in partnership with the Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmond, Oklahoma, and with the support of the East Jerusalem Development Company, the Israel Antiquities Authority, and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. The rare coin was cleaned at the conservation laboratory of the Institute of Archaeology and identified by Dr. Yoav Farhi, the team’s numismatic expert and curator of the Kadman Numismatic Pavilion at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.

“This is the third coin of this type found in excavations in Jerusalem, and one of the few ever found in archeological excavations,” said the researchers.

During the Great Revolt against Rome, the Jews in Jerusalem minted bronze and silver coins. Most of the silver coins featured a goblet on one side, with ancient Hebrew script above it noting the year of the Revolt. Depending on its denomination, the coins also included an inscription around the border noting either, “Israel Shekel,” “Half-Shekel,” or “Quarter-Shekel.” The other side of these coins showcased a branch with three pomegranates, surrounded by an inscription in ancient Hebrew script, “Holy Jerusalem.”

Throughout the Roman era the authority to produce silver coins was reserved solely for the emperor. During the Revolt, the minting of coins, especially those made of silver, was a political statement and an expression of national liberation from Roman rule by the Jewish rebels. Indeed, throughout the Roman period leading up to the Great Revolt, no silver coins were minted by Jews, not even during the rule of King Herod the Great.

According to the researchers, half-shekel coins (which had an average weight of 7 grams) were also used to pay the “half-shekel” tax to the Temple, contributed annually by every Jewish adult male to help cover the costs of worship.

Dr. Farhi explained, “Until the revolt, it was customary to pay the half-shekel tax using good-quality silver coins minted in Tyre in Lebanon, known as ‘Tyrean shekels’ or ‘Tyrean half-shekels.’ These coins held the image of Herakles-Melqart, the principal deity of Tyre, and on the reverse they featured an eagle surrounded by a Greek inscription, ‘Tyre the holy and city of refuge.’ Thus, the silver coins produced by the rebels were intended to also serve as a replacement for the Tyrean coins, by using more appropriate inscriptions and replacing images (forbidden by the Second Commandment) with symbols. The silver coins from the Great Revolt were the first and the last in ancient times to bear the title ‘shekel.’ The next time this name was used was in 1980, on Israeli Shekel coins produced by the Bank of Israel.”

The precious silver coins are thought to have been minted inside the Temple complex, according to a Monday statement from the Armstrong Institute.

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eretzyisrael · 9 months

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#Israel #Jerusalem #Temple Mount #1890's

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news4dzhozhar · 1 month

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Literally undermining Al Aqsa & now blocking Muslims from accessing the mosque during Ramadan, refusing Christians and Catholics access to church for Palm Sunday (and likely Easter as well) and no one makes a peep. The smallest of the 3 religions that hold Jerusalem sacred are in control by military force and no one sees a problem? I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone sometimes.

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ancientorigins · 7 months

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Temple Mount in Jerusalem might just be the world’s most contested religious site. Every year more and more Jews visit this Muslim controlled site, fueling fears of reprisals.

#Jerusalem #Temple Mount #Islam #Judaism #Mosque #Muslim

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dahliahere · 6 months

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Jews at the Wailing Wall during the Ottoman Period, photo taken sometime between 1900-1920.

#jewish #jewish history #mizrahi jews #palestine #palestinian history #west asia #wailing wall #western wall #jerusalem #temple mount #20th century

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dikleyt · 2 years

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Jews haven't had access to the Temple Mount since long before Zionism. The current situation, where Jews can ascend the Mount but not pray on top of it, was a relaxing of historic regulations that said no non-Muslims were permitted there.

The situation with the Temple Mount is separate from Zionism, since it long predates it, and the principle injustice therein is that Jews cannot pray on top of the Temple Mount, our absolute holiest site. No matter what your definition of which Jews are indigenous, Jews still can't pray there. That includes Peqi'in Jews who have been there since Second Temple times, while a white Bosnian Muslim can go pray there whenever they want.

The Temple Mount has been holy to Jews since long before the birth of Islam. Before the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, there was a Roman pagan temple, which was built on top of the Jewish one as a way of humiliating the Jews and showing the supremacy of Jupiter. The Byzantine Christians let the site fall into disrepair while keeping Jews out 364 days/year, and it became a garbage dump. Then the Foundation Stone was pointed out to the caliph Umar by the Jewish convert Ka`b al-Aḥbar, who explicitly said it was the location of the Jewish Temple. So there is no serious argument as to the facts of the situation. All the Jews of the land want is the ability to go up there and offer prayers.

Those who say that Zionism is the reason why Jews can't go up there are flat wrong. Perhaps, though, Jewish responses to anti-Zionist critiques are partly informed by the fact that Jewish desire for access to our holiest site is so frequently framed as aggressive, ignoring the aggression of building temples on the grounds of ours and keeping us from praying in the vicinity.

#temple mount #jewish temple #peqi'in jews

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oldpoet56 · 5 days

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A Few Things For Us All To Think About ( #1528 )

A Few Things For Us All To Think About ( #1528 ) 1.) There is only one place where a human can have true rest and that is in the arms of our Lord! 2.) No war is ever truly finished until you have cut off the head of the snake! 3.) It is never okay to starve the children in a war because of the sins of their parents! 4.) The Jewish Nation will never fall until Satan is sitting on His throne on…

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#Jesus #Love #Satan #Temple Mount #wisdom

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girlactionfigure · 1 year

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