Temple Mount
With regard to “Temple Mount crisis ‘coming to an end,’ says Liberman” (July 30), Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for days of rage to get the metal detectors removed from the Temple Mount. After they were removed, there were further calls for days of rage.
We won the 1967 war and our soldiers shouted “The Temple Mount is in our hands!” But then the government took it out of their hands and gave control to the Jordanian-controlled Wakf Muslim Trust. Today, it’s the same government – only the names have changed. It gave in to the Muslims’ demand to remove the metal detectors, cameras and security that are badly needed on the Temple Mount, yet the more we give, the more they demand.
It is way past time that our government stood firm and used deadly methods of riot control. It’s time we showed the Muslims that rage will not help, and time we showed the world that Jewish blood is not cheap. Pride! Let us show some pride!
CHAIM GINSBERG Ma’aleh Adumim
I am not Israeli. I do not live in Israel. I have not served in the IDF. I am just a guy who cares about Israel enough to spend as much time as possible in the country where close friends and family members live and serve in the IDF and contribute to the country’s taxes and welfare.
But have the Israeli government and security agencies taken leave of their senses? Is the current government of Israel as myopic, naive and reckless as the one that handed over the Temple Mount lock, stock and rocks to the Wakf post-Six Day War?
Something deranged, dangerous and delinquent is afflicting the State of Israel. Its backbone is battered. Its resolve is weak. Its policies are muddled.
LEVI J. ATTIAS
Gibraltar
I would like to thank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the money I keep winning. When Israel has any interaction with the Arabs, such as the recent controversy regarding the metal detectors and cameras on the Temple Mount, my friends and I bet as to what he will do. I always bet that he will capitulate and surrender.
Thank you, Mr. Netanyahu. I have never lost money on you yet. But my gain is Israel’s loss.
In the American military they say “Lead, follow or get out of the way.” It’s time for our prime minister to get out of the way.
ALEX STERNBERG
Herzliya