--------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- <FONT COLOR="#000099">Best friends, most artistic, class clown Find 'em here: </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/8014/1/_/163550/_/966065684/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>- ===========RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY=========== >From Ru Mills, Editor in Chief This was just posted on the Forum by Data Junkie -- Thank you Data Junkie -- we missed this one. Ru ### Rumor Mill News Agent's Forum Rayelan Was Right About Riot at the Wall! Posted By: Data_Junkie Date: Friday, 11 August 2000, 12:46 p.m. We heard it here first folks! Way to go Rayelan!! Wish you were wrong though, as I suspect you do as well. Anyone who missed Rayelan's post Wednesday about the significance of this scuffle at the wall, I beseech you to folow the hot link at the bottom of this post. Run, don't walk! ============================================================ http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/08/11/News/News.10809.html Friday, August 11 2000 07:39 10 Av 5760 Temple Mount closed (again) on Tisha Be'Av By Etgar Lefkovits and Ap JERUSALEM (August 11) - The Temple Mount was closed to Jews and tourists by Jerusalem police yesterday morning, after dozens of Palestinian youths, led by PLO Jerusalem representative Faisal Husseini and MK Ahmed Tibi (Arab Renewal), reportedly hurled insults at members of the Temple Mount Faithful. Jerusalem police chief Cmdr. Yair Yitzhaki decided to close the Mount to visitors out of fear the verbal slurs would flare into physical violence on Tisha Be'av, the day that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples. As several Temple Mount Faithful activists, led by movement head Gershon Salomon, reached the Mugrabi Gate under police escort, the Palestinians met them with chants and of "God is great" and "With blood and sweat we'll redeem you, Palestine." The Jewish group responded with its own chants. "Today the true battle on the Temple Mount begins," Salomon said. "Enemies of the Temple Mount ... will disappear like dust in the wind." "Some extreme Israelis who mix religion and politics are trying to enter this place, so we are here to prevent that, if the police do not," Husseini said. "They know very well that if they make such a move, it is the end of any hope for peace in the Middle East." In the early afternoon, about 200 Palestinian youths converged on the Temple Mount chanting "Allahu Akbar" or "God is Great." Police pushed them toward Al-Aksa Mosque and restored calm. Yitzhaki met with Wakf leaders and made it clear that if the Moslem religious authority did not allow members of the Temple Mount Faithful to ascend the Mount during normal visiting hours, then the Temple Mount would remain closed to all tourists. Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said it appears the Wakf will not allow the group's members to enter the site, and so the police have decided the Mount will remain closed indefinitely to non-Moslems. To some Israelis, the fact that the Temple Mount became off-limits to Jews on Tisha Be'Av was especially symbolic and poignant. "One can imagine the outcry of the Arabs if the Israel Police would have declared the Temple Mount off limits to Moslems during their holy month of Ramadan," said Esther Alexander, who had come from across town to say a prayer at the Wall. "When Moshe Dayan gave the Wakf officials the keys to the Temple Mount, who would have thought that Jews would not be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount, their holiest site," asked Herzl Cohen. The threat of violence has closed the Temple Mount on Tisha Be'av before. Last year, Salomon ascended the ramp to the Mugrabi Gate dressed in sackcloth to commemorate Tisha Be'av, but found that the Wakf had closed the Mount to visitors for the day following a scuffle between Arab and Jewish worshipers. During the scuffle the night before, police arrested three former Kach activists for throwing leaflets into the compound calling for the "expulsion of all aliens." (To hear interviews with the Temple Mount Faithful, click on http://www.jpostradio.com) Rayelan's Post -- MUST READ http://www.egroups.com/message/RuMills/777 ============The Uncensored National Rumor=========== THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST!!! http://www.rumormillnews.com P.O. Box 1784 Aptos, CA 95001 Tel: 831.462.3949 Fax: 831.462.2545 Want to Join or Leave the RMNews Mailing List? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to help support RMNews? Use Paypal.com or X.com to send a monthly donation. Click on the banner on the http://rumormillnews.com page. Send the donation to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Thank you for helping us continue the work. Rayelan & Ru RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TELFAX 831 462 3949 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com
