MK (Likud) Moshe Feiglin feels police failed in providing adequate security for non-Muslims on Har Habayis during Pesach, and as such, Minister of Public Security Yitzchak Aharonovich, who is responsible for Israel Police, should be ousted from his cabinet post. In his letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Feiglin pointed out how Muslims continued Temple Mount violence over the days of yomtov because they knew it would result in police closing the holy site to non-Muslim visitors. He questions why police failed to halt the violence towards permitting visitors to the site. He refers to the Islamic violence on Har Habayis during Pesach as “Hamas’ takeover of Har Habayis”.
Feiglin adds that police had adequate intelligence information that violence was to be expected, yet only once was the decision made to restrict visiting the site to Muslim males 50 or over. On that day there was no violence. On all the other days of the yomtov Muslim youths were permitted on Har Habayis and violence resulted – yet police commanders decided not to impose an age restriction on other days.
In the meantime, Har Habayis activist Yehuda Glick continues his hunger strike after police banned him from Har Habayis. He has been hunger striking for close to a month. Glick was seen wearing a Har Habayis tee-shirt walking around the Kosel Plaza on Thursday Chol Hamoed Pesach condemning mispallalim for taking part in the “Chilul Hashem, settling for the wall instead of demanding to daven to HKBH on Har Habayis, the home”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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This sounds so silly. A fellow, fasting for close to a month, meaning he fasted over Pesach, meaning he missed a mitzvah d’oraisa of eating Matzah, as well as other mitzvos, all of which are not a laughing matter.
This fellow goes around the mispalelim at the Kosel, condemning them for settling for the Kosel instead of davening on Har HaBayis. What are the mispalelim davening for at the Kosel on Chol HaMoeid? “Melech Rachamon, Racheim Aleinu, … Bnei Veischo Kvatchilo.” They’re asking from the the Only One who listens, and he wants them to demand the Har HaBayis from the government who doesn’t care.