February 9, 2007
Today’s report on clashes, as well as yesterday’s report of Arabs protesting repair work near the “holy” Al-Aqsa mosque, replete with declamations like “With our soul, with our blood, we sacrifice ourselves for Al-Aqsa,” “The soldiers of Satan want to turn Al-Aqsa into a synagogue,” as well as previous history of violence emanating from this so-called “holy” site (“The compound, which houses both the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is where the second Palestinian uprising erupted in 2000 after a controversial visit by then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon. In 1996, more than 80 people were killed in three days of Palestinian riots after then Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened a new entrance to a controversial archaeological tunnel near the holy sites.”) again begs us to find answer to the question of what is “holy” – the question I asked (and, I think, answered) many months ago in my Greeks, Arabs and stones.
As reports indicate, the murderous “holy” nonsense goes on…