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*** THE ALIYAH REVOLUTION ALBUM ***

Wednesday, August 20, 2003

What can we do?


Today is a day of mourning - at current count, 20 Jews were murdered in a Jerusalem bus bombing today. We failed to react when 7 Jews were killed since the start of the "hudna," since they weren't all killed on the same day, so they were just "minor incidents." So the terrorists had to increase the death toll to make us notice. Will we notice this time? We will temporarily notice, but then forget in a few days? How many times has the same thing happened, and how many times have we not reacted? The terrorists keep trying to wake us up, but we refuse to be awakened.

Israel was not the only place where Moslems struck a blow against humanity today. In Iraq, 20 people were killed by a suicide bomber.

What can be done? The first thing we must do is to react, to wake up to what is going on around us. We have been fighting the Al Aqsa Intifada (Arabic for The Struggle for the Temple Mount) for three years. Actually, the Arabs have been fighting this struggle. We have merely been dealing with a matzav (Hebrew for situation). It's just a situation; no big deal. We've had worse before.

Why not at least recognize the nature of the current war? Why do we need to use an Arabic word to define it? Why not translate it into Hebrew - Milhemet Har Habayit, the War for the Temple Mount.

Uri Tzvi Greenberg said, "He who rules over the Temple Mount, will rule over the land." Arafat knows this - that's why he is so opposed to Jews being allowed up. We need to know this as well, and make a strong, positive statement about our rights to our land.

You may ask: Won't this just make things worse, at a time when things are already so tense? Won't this just evoke more Arab anger?

What does that mean? That if the Arabs were really angry, they would used a bigger bomb on the bus today? If they had been really angry, if the Temple Mount had been open to Jewish prayer, then the Arabs would have killed more that the 850 Jews they killed already in this war? No - we should know by now that trying to appease terrorists by trying to conceal our deepest values does not work. In fact, it probably makes things worse, by sending the messase that we will do anything to make the Arab terrorists happy; that our values are not as important as even a short period of calm.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the Jerusalem police plan to reopen the Temple Mount to Jews by the end of this week. Hopefully this move will not be postponed due to the bombing, but rather, will be strengthened. That is a good start. But we have to respond. Jews in Israel, and those who are visiting soon, perhaps for the hagim, make a special effort to visit the Temple Mount. For more details, contact the Temple Institute, at 24 Misgav Ladach in the Old City of Jerusalem, 02-6264545.

Update: The Temple Mount is now open to visitors. Go today!






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