Jerusalem police on Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5774 announced the closure of Har Habayis to all “visitors”. That is the word used in the Hebrew and English announcements released to the media, including the English Twitter message from police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

In essence, anyone who is not a Muslim is viewed as a “visitor” by Israel Police, reflecting the sad and dangerous message regarding Israel’s view of who is the proprietor of Judaism’s holiest site. While this reality does not come as news, with the Islamic Waqf Authority constantly and repeatedly defying Israeli law, it just adds substance to the argument of those who feel the modern State of Israel has given control of the holiest place in the world to a foreign entity. The Waqf continues to destroy all traces of the Beis HaMikdash while Israeli governments lend a [passive] hand to rewriting history.

As the police announcement is spread, Arabs have filed a petition with the Supreme Court challenging the Jewish right to the Machpelah, as if Israel’s secular High Court, which tramples Torah Law, has a right to rule on such a matter.

The same holds true in media reports pertaining to areas throughout Yehuda and Shomron, for when the press speaks of an Arab living in those areas it says ‘mikomi’, a local resident, as opposed to the Jews being “settlers” or other similar terms.

Once again there is no chiddush here, just an awareness of how blind to the kedusha of Eretz Yisrael state leaders and agencies are today and have been in past years and that the so-called secular Zionism is proof that with a life of Torah there can be no success.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)