Temple Mount Secured for Israeli Holiday (bad headline)

[tinnypriv]

Yet another buried story contained within a misleading headline. That is if it is even reported of course. Check google and see for yourself.

Temple Mount Secured for Israeli Holiday
Fox News (via AP), August 7 2003

JERUSALEM — Police prevented dozens of ultranationalist Jews from entering a contested holy site Thursday, and a newspaper reported that Israel is considering spending $95 million to bring more Jews to the West Bank.

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Hundreds of police surrounded the hilltop shrine in Jerusalem's walled Old City on Thursday to keep out about 40 ultranationalist Jews.

The hilltop, once home to two biblical Jewish Temples, is now the location of the Al Aqsa Mosque (search), Islam's third-holiest shrine. Thursday was the annual day of fasting and mourning for the destruction of the Temples by invading armies.

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On Thursday, the Maariv newspaper reported that Sharon supports a new proposal to allocate $95 million to settlements in the West Bank's Jordan Valley.

A spokesman for the prime minister refused to comment on the report, which said the money would be used to provide free housing to young couples moving to the area for at least four years. The fund would also go to college tuitions and provide grants of $2,700 to those who found jobs in the area.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94012,00.html (my emphasis)

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Comment: Ma'ariv actually says the word "Incentive" right on the front page (move there "free for four years" in effect). Any wonder they decided to sneak this utter brazen violation of international law, the Geneva Conventions, the Roadmap, UN resolutions etc. out under the radar at the same time as the prisoner release?

Luckily, the press is all over it :eyes:

[bemildred]

1. As long as you are talking about money:

Average wage falls NIS 526 this year, further drop likely

The average gross wage for a salaried worker in
Israel fell by NIS 526 since the start of the
year, representing a 7.2 percent drop, to NIS
6,787, the Central Bureau of Statistics said
yesterday.

The decline comes on the heels of a 6.1 percent cut in
salaries in 2002. Nearly half that drop came in May, when
the average wage lost NIS 221.

Another large decline is expected in July because of an
average cut of some 4 percent in the wages of 700,000 workers
in the public sector. Prior to 2002, the public sector had
seen years of wage hikes.

Further cuts in salaries can be expected over the coming
months in the wake of the government's decision to cut
salaries in the public sector, starting in July, for the
next 24 months. In addition to the cuts in their salaries,
public sector workers will not get vacation pay, usually
attached to their June salaries, until February 2004. This
will affect the average wage for the month of June, when
the figures are released.

Haaretz

[Equinox]

3. I think I'm going to convert...

...move to the West Bank and have my housing and education subsidized. Who cares who's land it is. It's no sweat off my back.

The above was sarcasism.

On a more serious note, if I were Israeli living inside Israel Proper, I would be severely tempted to pack up and move east past the green line. I mean really. Settlers get treated better than me (if I were Israeli)....why not get the same benefits they do?

Good grief, the I/P conflict is such a headache and buzzkill.

[quilp]

2. The hundreds of such stories is mind numbing.

They will just get away with it again and again and again. But let the Palestinians respond in the only way left open to them and God help them. What I really don't understand is why the Palestinians haven't broken under the pressure. Or may be they have. How would we know?

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[tinnypriv]

5. A lot of Israeli's have been going nuts about this

Wailing about how Arafat is keeping them from the Temple Mount, calling on "King Arik" to go in there and kick ass etc.

Oh, Yehiel Hazan doesn't even know school-grade level information about the Mount either, so he's probably just trying to curry favor with the small (but unfortunately growing, it appears) fundamentalist elements within Israel. Gotta throw 'em some red meat now and again. :eyes:

[Lurking Dem]

6. This article

"OCCUPIED JERUSALEM", ""presumed site of the first and second Jewish temples", "alleged destruction" of said temples is more than a tad biased but seems to basically say:

Israeli police kept a guy from doing something the Muslim population didn't want him to do.

They consider the site holy only to Muslims.

The fact that Israeli policy and actions kept a fundamentalist whackjob from praying there is immaterial - we just want to bitch that someone other than a Muslim WANTED to pray there.

[Equinox]

7. I agree...

That is ridiculous. Jerusalem should be mandated by the UN and guarantee access to all holy sites to all religions.

[Darranar]

8. Agreed, Equinox...

I assume you are only including the Old City?