Jews must demand rights to the Temple Mount
During a 1995 Root and Branch conference in Jerusalem, Professor Nahum Rakover, author and later Deputy Attorney General of Israel, publicly agreed with me that It is not It is illegal for Christians or Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, although the police forcibly prohibit it.
He had expressed the frustration that we (the Faithful of the Temple Mount and fortunately now many others) feel when we follow the law, receive the necessary police permits for our legal demonstrations, and even obtain written approval of our actions from the Supreme Court, only to be denied “freedom of access” to our most sacred place, the Temple Mount, and harshly treated with contempt for even attempting to exercise our democratic rights.
I asked Deputy Attorney General Rakover why the Israeli government was, in effect, encouraging people to act outside the law (which they know we’ve never done, unlike other groups who feel why bother wasting their time trying to reason with corrupt officials) , as well as rewarding militant Muslims for their terrorist threats of riots and violence (if Israel really did abide by its 1967 law guaranteeing, in writing, “freedom of access” to the Temple Mount) and strangely punishing people who respect the law denying them entry to the Temple Mount. . Why not eliminate the threat? Isn’t that logical? Isn’t that legal?
Professor Nahum Rakover basically said that today we are in this situation because NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE WANT TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT to that religious site – the Temple Mount!
Why should Israel change the status quo when it is under no pressure to do so? It has been said that politicians do not see the light until they feel the heat. The fault is ours! As I wrote in a letter published in the Jerusalem Post, The Temple Mount is not in our hands, because it is not in our hearts and minds.
I was later unjustly deported for highlighting the plight of the Temple Mount under Nazi-Muslim occupation in an article published in Jerusalem and Israel, calling for the restoration of the Temple Mount as the temple Mount, a house of prayer for all peoples, which the High Court of Israel dismissed as dangerous ideas.
Why should Jews continue to pray at the Western Wall, a site designated by the Turks for Jewish worship instead of the Temple Mount, and continue to submit to such a Gentile decree instead of obeying the biblical command to ascend the Temple Mount ?
Why obey men before God? Isn’t that idolatry? Isn’t it immoral? Isn’t God the King of Israel, the only Spouse of Israel? Who are the nations that dictate what God’s wife should do?
Why are the Jews gathering at the sorry Western Wall to mourn the destruction of the Temple? Do something constructive and DEMAND the biblical and legal rights of the Jews on the Temple Mount.
Fortunately, the Third Temple is coming soon!
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June 27, 1967
1. The Holy Places will be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything that may violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings regarding those places.
2. a. Whoever desecrates or violates a Holy Place will be punished with imprisonment for a period of seven years.
B. Whoever does something that may violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings regarding those places will be punished with a prison sentence of five years.
3. This Law will add and will not repeal any other law.
4. The Minister of Religious Affairs is responsible for the application of this Law and may, after consultation with the representatives of the religions concerned or on their proposal and with the consent of the Minister of Justice, regulate any matter. related to said implementation.
5. This Law shall enter into force on the date of its adoption by the Knesset.
Levi eshkol
Prime Minister
Zerach Warhaftig
Minister of Religious Affairs
Shneur Zalman Shazar
State president