{"id":28992,"date":"2015-10-18T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=28992"},"modified":"2015-10-18T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T13:34:30","slug":"18-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=28992","title":{"rendered":"The Paranoid, Supremacist Roots of the Stabbing Intifada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Paranoid, Supremacist Roots of the Stabbing Intifada<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nKnife attacks on Jews in Jerusalem and elsewhere are not based on Palestinian frustration over settlements, but on something deeper.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In September of 1928, a group of Jewish residents of Jerusalem placed a bench in front of the Western Wall of the Temple Mount, for the comfort of elderly worshipers. They also brought with them a wooden partition, to separate the sexes during prayer. Jerusalem\u2019s Muslim leaders treated the introduction of furniture into the alleyway in front of the Wall as a provocation, part of a Jewish conspiracy to slowly take control of the entire Temple Mount.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of the leaders of Palestine\u2019s Muslims believed\u2014or claimed to believe\u2014that Jews had manufactured a set of historical and theological connections to the Western Wall and to the Mount, the site of the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, in order to advance the Zionist project. This belief defied Muslim history\u2014the Dome of the Rock was built by Jerusalem\u2019s Arab conquerors on the site of the Second Jewish Temple in order to venerate its memory (the site had previously been defiled by Jerusalem\u2019s Christian rulers as a kind of rebuke to Judaism, the despised mother religion of Christianity). Jews themselves consider the Mount itself to be the holiest site in their faith. The Western Wall, a large retaining wall from the Second Temple period, is sacred only by proxy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The spiritual leader of Palestine\u2019s Muslims, the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, incited Arabs in Palestine against their Jewish neighbors by arguing that Islam itself was under threat. (Husseini would later become one of Hitler\u2019s most important Muslim allies.) Jews in British-occupied Palestine responded to Muslim invective by demanding more access to the Wall, sometimes holding demonstrations at the holy site. By the next year, violence directed against Jews by their neighbors had become more common: Arab rioters took the lives of 133 Jews that summer; British forces killed 116 Arabs in their attempt to subdue the riots. In Hebron, a devastating pogrom was launched against the city\u2019s ancient Jewish community after Muslim officials distributed fabricated photographs of a damaged Dome of the Rock, and spread the rumor that Jews had attacked the shrine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The current \u201cstabbing Intifada\u201d now taking place in Israel\u2014a quasi-uprising in which young Palestinians have been trying, and occasionally succeeding, to kill Jews with knives\u2014is prompted in good part by the same set of manipulated emotions that sparked the anti-Jewish riots of the 1920s: a deeply felt desire on the part of Palestinians to \u201cprotect\u201d the Temple Mount from Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem in June of 1967 in response to a Jordanian attack, the first impulse of some Israelis was to assert Jewish rights atop the Mount. Between 1948, the year Israel achieved independence, and 1967, Jordan, then the occupying power in Jerusalem, banned Jews not only from the 35-acre Mount\u2014which is known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, the noble sanctuary\u2014but also from the Western Wall below. When paratroopers took the Old City, they raised the Israeli flag atop the Dome of the Rock, but the Israeli defense minister, Moshe Dayan, ordered it taken down, and soon after promised leaders of the Muslim Waqf, the trust that controlled the mosque and the shrine, that Israel would not interfere in its activities. Since then, successive Israeli governments have maintained the status quo established by Dayan.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is another status quo associated with the Temple Mount, however, that has been showing signs of weakening. This is a religious status quo. The mainstream rabbinical view for many years has been that Jews should not walk atop the Mount for fear of treading on the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the Temple that, according to tradition, housed the Ark of the Covenant. The Holy of Holies is the room in which the Jewish high priest spoke the Tetragrammaton, the ineffable name of God, on Yom Kippur.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exact location of the Holy of Holies is not known, and Muslim authorities have prevented archeologists from conducting any excavations on the Mount, in part out of fear that such explorations will uncover further evidence of a pre-Islamic Jewish presence. This mainstream rabbinical view concerning the Mount\u2014that it should be the direction of Jewish prayer, rather than a place of Jewish prayer\u2014has made the lives of Jerusalem\u2019s temporal authorities easier, by keeping Muslim and Jewish worshippers separated.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, however, small groups of radical religious innovators who oppose the mainstream rabbinical view have sought to make the Mount, once again, a site of Jewish prayer. (Here is a New York Times Magazine story I wrote about these radical groups.) These activists have gained sympathizers among some far-right political figures in Israel, though the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not altered the separation-of-religions status quo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Convincing Palestinians that the Israeli government is not trying to alter the status quo on the Mount has been difficult because many of today\u2019s Palestinian leaders, in the manner of the Palestinian leadership of the 1920s, actively market rumors that the Israeli government is seeking to establish atop the Mount a permanent Jewish presence.<\/span><\/p>\n

The comments of the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas\u2014by general consensus the most moderate leader in the brief history of the Palestinian national movement\u2014have been particularly harsh. Though Abbas has authorized Palestinian security services to work with their Israeli counterparts to combat extremist violence, his rhetoric has inflamed tensions. \u201cEvery drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem is pure, every martyr will reach paradise, and every injured person will be rewarded by God,\u201d he said last month, as rumors about the Temple Mount swirled. He went on to say that Jews \u201chave no right to desecrate the mosque with their dirty feet.\u201d Taleb Abu Arrar, an Israeli Arab member of the Knesset, Israel\u2019s parliament, argued publicly that Jews \u201cdesecrate\u201d the Temple Mount by their presence. (Fourteen years ago, Yasser Arafat, then the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, told me that \u201cJewish authorities are forging history by saying the Temple stood on the Haram al-Sharif. Their temple was somewhere else.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n

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