Bus posters replace Al-Aqsa with temple

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Rightist group posts ads on buses in Jerusalem calling to build third temple in place of mosque

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3869329,00.html

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"Two hundred Egged buses were plastered with posters Sunday that call for the construction of the third temple "quickly and in our time". The posters carry a drawing of Temple Mount without the mosques situated there.

The posters were made by an extreme right-wing group called Eretz Israel Shelanu (Our Land of Israel), headed by Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo and Baruch Marzel.

Despite the negative emotions the campaign has stirred up in the capital's non-Jewish sectors, Rabbi Wolpo told Ynet, "The people of Israel look forward on Passover to the construction of the temple and the coming if the messiah.

"The Arabs and US President Barack Obama know that the third temple will be established at Temple Mount and that the mosque is there temporarily."

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1. This is not a new idea. Back in the 60's there was a persistent rumor that Isreal...

had rebuilt the Temple of Solomon, numbered all the blocks, and had them in a warehouse just waiting for the right time to put them together. The Christian right loved these stories because they salivated for the time when God would torture every Jew in the world to death except for the the 180,000 Jewish male virgins who would convert to Christianity then fight the battle of Armageddon.

On the Jewish side, there are a number of rabid extremist groups that want to rebuild the temple to bring the Messiah (the first time since Jesus was a charlatan to them). Any attempt by Israel to rebuild the temple would lead to a war with about every Muslim in the world. I don't think that even Bibi is that crazy, but there are fanatic Jewish groups that are.

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2. Israelis are employing all tactics to justify war of expulsion

PCHR Weekly Report: 4 civilians, including a child, killed this week by Israeli forces

In its Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 18-24 march 2010, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank. 22 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and a woman, were wounded.

Also this week, Israeli forces used excessive forced against peaceful Palestinian demonstrations in the West Bank. 16 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, and two Israeli peace activists were wounded by Israeli gunfire. Israeli warplanes bombarded a number of civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli attacks in the West Bank:

During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinian civilians, including a child, in the West Bank.

On 20 March 2010, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian civilians, including a child, in cold blood in Iraq Bourin village, south of Nablus. Israeli forces intentionally fired at the two civilians from a close range.

Less than 24 hours later, Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinian civilians from 'Awarta village, southeast of Nablus, while they were farming their land.

During the reporting period, 16 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, and two Israeli peace activists, were wounded when Israeli forces used excessive force against peaceful demonstrations organized in protest of the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank.

During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 10 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Israeli forces abducted 19 Palestinian civilians, including 7 children and a woman.

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3. Did Egged accept those ads or did that group just stick them on the buses?

I couldn't work out which it was. If it's Egged accepting ads like that, then that's even worse than a bunch of lunatic extremists sticking the posters on themselves...

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4. From haaretz:

"One of the party's leaders, Baruch Marzel, said that it was "a legitimate campaign meant to convey a message to the Arabs."

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"The mosque on the temple mount is temporary," Marzel continued, referring to the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques, "and it's only a matter of time before the Temple which the entire people of Israel are waiting for will be built."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159678.html


I guess by legitimate he means that Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Ltd (subsidized by the Israeli government) must have accepted these ads being placed on their buses.

Free speech and all that.

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5. Thanks. I figured that might be the case...

Check out what I found when I looked into whether Egged ever refuses advertising.

Election posters of women banned on Jerusalem buses

(originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post)

A company responsible for advertising on the Egged bus company has refused to place a political advertisement on Jerusalem city buses showing female candidates for the city council, so as not to offend the haredi public.
The poster disqualified by...

The advertisement rejected last week by the Canaan advertising company, which is charged with advertising with the Egged bus cooperative, includes the portrait of two women and a man running for city council on a joint religious-secular list called Wake up Jerusalem-Yerushalmim. The municipal elections will take place on November 11.

A spokesman for the company stood by the rejection of the ad. All advertisements are subject to the approval of the Egged censor, Canaan company spokesman Ohad Gibli said: In order not to offend the sensitivities of a certain public, certain criteria have been defined regarding the content of advertisements. Pictures of women cannot appear on buses that go through haredi neighborhoods, Gibli said.

Egged spokesman Ron Ratner said the bus company was never asked about advertisements with the portraits of women running for the city council, and would never have nixed them: Egged never received a query on this issue and would never have rejected such an advertisement of a public figure so long as it was positive, modest and respectable, and did not hurt public sensitivities. The Egged spokesman said he thought the whole issue was a PR ploy since the would-be city councilors never contacted Egged on the issue.

It is very sad that in Israel of 2008 women suffer such brazen discrimination, which is absolutely unacceptable, said Wake up Jerusalem-Yerushalmim spokeswoman Meirav Cohen, whose portrait was one of those appearing on the banned advertisement.

In the meantime, the ads in question have gone up on bus stations, which are the responsibility of another advertising company.

http://www.religiouswatch.com/storyrw00361.htm

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6. IOW ...

...please don't offend the Haredi. Muslims not so much.