…when I read what happened at the Temple Mount this morning, it’s the Arab-teen action I’d be jumping to condemn if I were the Palestinian president, not the Jewish tourist/pilgrims:
Several hundred Arab teens pelted police and Jewish visitors with stones on the Temple Mount Monday morning as the nation marked Jerusalem Day, lightly injuring two Jewish visitors and one policeman, police said.
Police fired several stun grenades to disperse the rioters, and arrested a Palestinian who tried to attack a Jewish visitor, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
Police rushed reinforcements into the Temple Mount, and said that the situation was quickly brought “under control.”
Some 3,500 police were stationed in Jerusalem on Monday to prevent possible clashes.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Jewish visitors should not have been allowed into the mosque compound, the Associated Press reported.
“The Israeli government and the international community must stop these unjustified and dangerous violations. They are to prevent any friction with bad results,” he said during a tour of a Palestinian high school in the West Bank town of Ramallah.





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