In Boston, Jewish peace group finds cause for hope and criticism

[Classical_Liberal]

In Boston, Jewish peace group
finds cause for hope and criticism
By Penny Schwartz
The Jewish Advocate


BOSTON, Nov. 10 (JTA) — Thousands of miles from the Middle East, the promise of Israeli-Palestinian peace seemed close at a recent conference in Boston sponsored by the Chicago-based Brit Tzedek V´Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace.

The gathering attracted hundreds from around the country, including a few counter-demonstrators from a group called the New England Committee to Defend Palestine.

The conference also followed on the heels of news of the "Geneva accord," a set of understandings negotiated by out-of-office Israeli opposition politicians and figures close to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.

The accord calls for a Palestinian state in virtually all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, would divide Jerusalem and give control of the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, and is ambiguous on the Palestinian demand for refugees´ "right of return" to Israel.

http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13439&intcategoryid=4

[RuB]

1. Unworkable, will be and should be rejected completely.

Number 1: the temple mount area is Israel's holy land.
Number 2: any understanding negotiated by figures close to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat are meaningless.
Number 3: they're entitled to their opinion, wrong and it will go no where but they're entitled.

[Classical_Liberal]

2. It is holy to Islam and Judaism

What's your point. So long as they don't keep jews away fromt he temple it shouldn't matter. Most Israelis aren't religious and Israel is supposed to be secular anyway. If Israel has to have every site of religious significance to jews their can't be two states period. They already said they didn't have to have all sites of significance to them when they gave up the Sinai.

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[Classical_Liberal]

4. That is not factual, and a bit paranoid.

The Mosque was built there 600 yrs ago, when there was no israel and very few jews, owing to the diaspora the Romans caused is 79 AD. The mosque is located on the site where Mohamed is said to have ascended into heaven on a winged horse according the Koran. If anything the mosque is philosemitic in that Moslems obviously recognized the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Moses. At the time moslems treated jews much better than Christians did. It probably wasn't controversial at all and certainly didn't reflect hate. Learn some history.

[La_Serpiente]

7. That Islamic temple

is the 3rd holiest place for Muslims. There is no body of Muhammed. He drifted off into the heavens from that place.

Anyone even thinks about destoying it will face the wrath of the worlds 1.3 billion Muslims. Then you would have a major infitada.

[Gimel]

5. The Sinai does not have holy sites

Israel did not give up any holy sites by returning the Sinai, so that point is futile. The Temple Mount is a Moslem shrine, Jewish visitors are visiting a Mosque. They have only recently been allowed to visit some areas in the Mosque compound. However, it remains Judaism's holiest site.

[Classical_Liberal]

6. Mount Ararat isn't holy

The place of Moses's death isn't holy? Come now! I know my bible.

[Classical_Liberal]

8. Also those who recognize the Mount as holy

have no business going into the holiest of holies anyway. Furthermore arabs are not allowed at the wailing wall, and the descision to segregate is mutual and wouldn't be done without the complicity of the Israeli state.

[Gimel]

10. The Temple Mount

Have a look at the Temple Mount complex:

http://www.cynet.com/Jesus/Prophecy/wailwall.htm

The Al Aqsa Mosque:

http://www.islamicity.com/Culture/MOSQUES/Jerusalem/TMp82b.htm

The merit to the Moslem claim over Jerusalem:

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/Muslimscholar.html

The Temple Mount:

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/geo/Mount.html

Israel's defense minister Moshe Dayan in 1967:
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Peace/dayanq.html

[Gimel]

9. Mt Ararat is where Noah's Ark landed

Moses' burial place is unknown.

On edit: Mt. Ararat is in Turkey.

http://www.noahsarksearch.com/ararat.htm