Masked Palestinians were hurling rocks at Israeli police and burning tires in the east Jerusalem neighborhoods Wadi Joz, Issawiya and Abu Tor on Tuesday morning. Two Molotov cocktails were also thrown at Jewish-owned Beit Yehonatan building in Silwan.
In the Gaza Strip, Halil al Haya, speaking for the ruling Hamas said "rivers of blood must be caused to flow," while the radical Muslim leaders of the Israeli Arab communities threatened to descend on Jerusalem in force.
Abu Ala, former Palestinian prime minister and peace negotiator with the Olmert government, and Hatem Abdul Qader, head of the Jerusalem desk in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, said the Day of Rage must be the opening shot for a fresh uprising (intifada) against Israel.
In rabid anti-Semitic diatribes, they are again accusing "the Jews" of "plotting to seize al Aqsa" in order to build their Third Temple and at the same time, deny all Jewish claims of an ancestral connection to Jerusalem "as one big lie" for the purpose of rewriting Muslim history.
There never was a Hurva (Ruin) Synagogue in the Old City, say these Fatah spokesmen, referring to the 300-old synagogue, rebuilt and rededicated Monday, March 15, on the ruins of the Jewish house of worship and community center the Jordanians destroyed during their 19-year presence in the Old City up until 1967.
The structure was rebuilt stone by stone according to the photos and plans of the old building.
Palestinian leaders are taking encouragement from the Obama administration's harsh campaign against
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