Top ministers to join Temple Mount activist to mark year since attempt to kill him
Activist and would-be Likud MK Yehuda Glick, who seeks to promote greater Jewish freedoms at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, is planning to hold a public event Sunday marking the one-year anniversary of a failed attempt on his life in which he was badly injured. Senior government ministers plan to attend the event, during which activists who have promoted Jewish access to the contested holy site will be honored.
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Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan — a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet — Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely are scheduled to speak at the event, titled “Survival and Celebration,” along with Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Arye Stern.
In addition to speeches, “music, dancing” and screenings of a film called “A Jerusalem Hug from Heaven,” which Glick prepared especially for the evening, the event will also commemorate the 850th anniversary of Maimonides’ ascension to the Temple Mount, according to the press release. A group called Callers of Zion “will recognize those who have strengthened and organized access to the Temple Mount.”
Senior Arab leaders continue to accuse Israel of seeking to harm the al-Aqsa Mosque and to allow Jewish prayer at the Mount, which is the third-holiest site in Islam and Judaism’s holiest. Netanyahu has reiterated countless times that his government has no intention of changing the status quo at the site, although some senior members of his party and his cabinet have called for Jews to be allowed to worship there.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/temple-mount-activist-to-mark-botched-assassination-attempt/
No one outside Israel's cadre of hardcore cheerleaders believes Netanyahu when he claims Israel has no designs on changing the status quo at haram al-sharif/temple mount. This is the same man who claims he's in favor of a two-state solution while actively bragging about everything he has done and will do to make sure no Palestinian state occurs during his lifetime.
And here are his senior cabinet members participating in a "burn the status quo to the ground" rally. Including his public security minister--whose job it is supposedly to protect Israelis--and Israel's chief diplomat.
Years of flushing Israel's national credibility down the toilet has consequences.
