This is Don Kedel with another Israel Report and today I'm in what the international media
calls East Jerusalem.
This is where most of the Arab population of the old city of Jerusalem live and this
is the Damascus Gate just behind me and the Temple Mount is just not too far from here.
So right here is where we had some of the worst vicious attacks against our policemen,
our border policemen.
We had two border policemen murder two girls right here in the Damascus Gate.
This is part of the evil bloodshed that has been happening in the past few months now
all because, well actually technically within a year, all because Muslim uprising against
the Jewish awakening to the Temple Mount.
Jews are starting to realize that we have lost our, how to say, connection to the Temple
Mount.
We shouldn't go up there like we should, rabbis are deciding on our behalf that we shouldn't
go up on the Temple Mount and so on and so forth.
Politicians are saying that we shouldn't go up there because that's stirring up the
status quo.
Now let's talk about the status quo for a minute.
What is the status quo?
Real simply put, the status quo is saying that we're going to continue Jewish discrimination
on the Temple Mount and prevent them from praying on the Temple Mount and allowing only Muslims
to pray on the Temple Mount.
What's the problem with this?
Israel has a peace treaty with Jordan and in 1994 we made a peace treaty.
In the peace treaty it says very clearly that we need to uphold religious rights for Jews,
Christians, and Muslims up on the Temple Mount.
That's what it says.
So on this very place this has been broken, the peace treaty has been broken and not to
mention that, just recently now Israel has made another blundering mistake, diplomatic
mistake by appeasing Jordan again by releasing the Israeli security guard who shot the attacker
in the Israeli embassy.
Why did we make a diplomatic decision on that basis that if they release him to Israel that
we're going to take down the metal detectors and the security cameras that were put up
in response to the terrorist attacks up on the Temple Mount?
Why did we decide that?
Because Jordan said that they wouldn't release him unless we did that.
That's a diplomatic mistake, again why?
Because the Israeli security guard has diplomatic immunity.
What that means is that any country in the world that has an embassy anywhere in the
world, if under attack is allowed to defend itself and it's considered sovereign ground,
sovereign to that country, what Jordan did is they broke international law and they overruled
against this sovereign ground and they overruled against diplomatic immunity and they put an
ultimatum to Israel on this issue and they made this, how to say, a point of conflict.
So instead of Israel declaring to Jordan that this is a breaking of international law, instead
of Israel standing against ground to defend its citizens and to defend our policemen, let's
not forget, it's not just about defending the citizens that go up here, but the guys
that have to work here 24-7, they have to burn in the sun with all the gear, with all
their everything in order to keep us safe and then we throw them under the bus by letting
Jordan tell us that we have to take down metal detectors and we have to take down security
cameras.
So the point is what we've done is we've compromised our security.
We have compromised our right to the Temple Mount and this is an epic repeat of history
that happened in 1967, it's happening again.
And now just to throw insult to injury, just outside the Prime Minister's residence here
in the center of Jerusalem, you have leftist organizations picketing and their signs say
stop the occupation.
I'm sorry, but I think that's a little distasteful that right now, of all times, when we have
a Jewish family that was murdered in Samaria, when we have policemen that were murdered
on the Temple Mount, when we have border policemen that were murdered in cold blood just behind
me, that these guys are saying and declaring stop the occupation.
What you can see is that there's a polar opposites in society here in Israel, but the majority
of Israelis, over 77% of Israelis believe that we have made a foolish mistake by removing
the security measures to protect the Temple Mount.
And what we're doing is we're basically throwing our citizens under a bus, we're also throwing
our law enforcement under the bus and diplomatic rights as a nation in Jordan, for example.
So all in all, these have been some epic fails and I just wanted to show you real quick because
what did we get in response to all of these demands from the Muslims?
We have had riots here in East Jerusalem, we have riots at the Lion Gate.
This is the reality of what's happening here in Jerusalem, while at the same time there's
polar opposites.
When you go through the city center, you have peace, you have quiet, you have people drinking
coffee, you have people buying challah for Shabbat and that kind of thing.
So it's like these polar opposites.
So this is a quick little update of what's happening here in Jerusalem.
Thank you for listening.
We'll see you next time.
We'll see you then.
We'll see you then.
Bye.
