March 29, 2010 Monday 14 Nisan 5770 13:02 IST
(http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=172008#)
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J’lem posters call for 3rd Temple By ABE SELIG
29/03/2010
Posters leaving out Al Aksa mosque
plastered on buses with e. Jerusalem routes.
While tensions continue to simmer around the Temple Mount after riots in
and around
the capital’s Old City earlier this month, a new campaign calling for the
construction of
the Third Temple atop the holy site has made its way to the sides of 200
Egged buses in
the city, which now sport posters featuring a picture of a rebuilt temple
on the Mount,
and nothing else.
The posters, which contain the phrase, “May the Bais Hamikdosh be rebuilt
speedily and
within our days,” were sponsored by the Our Land of Israel group, which is
led
by Rabbi Shalom Dov Volpo and activist Baruch Marzel, leave out the
site’s current structures – namely the the Aksa Mosque and the Dome of
the Rock.
The campaign’s organizers chose to plaster the posters on buses whose
routes take them
through predominately Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem.
With regards to the campaign, Volpo said Israel is waiting breathlessly
for the coming
of the messiah and the rebuilding of the temple.
“The Arabs and President Obama know that the Temple will be built on the
Temple Mount,”
he said. “Instead of the temporary buildings that are there today.”
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, Marzel said it was no mistake
that
the Islamic shrines were left out of the picture.
“We’re representing the truth, in front of everyone, and saying out loud
what every Jew believes,”
Marzel said. “That the Third Temple needs to be built immediately on the
Temple Mount and that
the mosque should not be there.”
“When we reach the end of the Pessah Seder tomorrow night, he continued, “
we’ll say,
‘Next year in a rebuilt Jerusalem.’ What does ‘rebuilt’ mean? It means
with the Third temple intact.”
Marzel brushed off the furor the ads might elicit from the capital’s
Muslims, saying, “It upsets them
that we’re alive, and that we’re living here.
“If such a basic point is going to piss them off, then we mine as well say
what we truly believe and
what we pray for three times a day. That is to rebuild the holy temple on
top of the Temple Mount,
and tomorrow – not to wait any longer.”
(http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=172008#)
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