It’s incitement to Murder!

Falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity – take your pick – can describe some of the Muslim world’s predictable knee-jerk reaction to Israel installing metal detectors placed outside at the entrance to al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf, (“the Noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem”), or as referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount – but it is far worse.

It is incitement to murder and all those hypocritical counties supporting the PA’s nefarious position – it is nothing less than complicity of the same charge.

With a pretense of “holy sensitivities” – as if God; any God – would not support an action that saves lives, the PA, and their fellow merchants of death, have come up with the argument that metal detectors are “an instrument of the occupation”.

What a spurious ‘argument’; how disturbing that it finds traction with those same countries – including the PA – that have those same metal detectors to save lives at their holy shrines and sites.

Metal detectors are not political, they are devices to save lives – the lives of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and atheists, heterosexuals, gays and our animals, who are not party to politics or religion but are all equally – creatures of God.

Whether to Laugh or Cry?

Whether to laugh at the obvious stupidity of hypocritical leadership or cry at the potential tragic results, one must ask – Why the sudden outcry?

Security bracelets attached to pilgrims at the Hajj (the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) include the passport number, name, country of origin, etc.  

Thousands of Palestinians pass daily through metal detectors at shopping malls and state institutions, such as the Post Office, Railway Stations, the National Insurance Institute, hospitals, and medical centers. They don’t complain because they know it’s for their personal safety. If they staged such protests at any airport in the world, they would not be allowed to fly anywhere – including to Mecca on Hajj!

Yes, in Mecca, the Saudi Arabia government has made compulsory the wearing of electronic bracelets by the millions of pilgrims as a security measure.

Palestinians too are wearing these bracelets without a murmur!

These Saudi bracelets, which are resistant and connected to a GPS system, contain personal and medical information that can be accessed by security and services bodies via a smartphone.

In addition to the electronic bracelets, more than 800 surveillance cameras have been installed at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca. Are those Palestinians who are ‘enraged’ by Israel installing metal detectors, similarly enraged by the Saudis’ far more invasive and pervasive measures – of course not.

Cameras in the control room in Mecca (controls over 400 cameras)

Security Surveillance at al-Madina mosque.

The only reason for the outrage is another means to galvanise support to undermine Israel.  If lives are lost, they don’t care; they invite it for they are the Merchants of Death. And the audacity to assume that God supports this murderous venture and to expect countries who all have introduced these same security measures, is beyond belief.

Who among the international community are likely to sign off on this?

• Surely not the Saudis as noted above

A special Saudi Women security force in Saudi Arabia to examine women in every public place (holding a Metal Detector)

• Surely not Bangladesh, where Security Magnetometers were placed at the entrance to the National Central Mosque in its capital Dhaka, at the end of 2016 after a terrorist attack killed 20 people.
  

  The entrance to the National Central Mosque in Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh. The Security Magnetometers was placed at the end of 2016 after a terrorists attack that killed 20 people.

• Surely not in India

Security Magnetometers at the entrance to a Mosque in New Delhi, India.

• Surely not Egypt where it installed Security Magnetometers in 2016 at the mosque in Giza due to fears of attacks against senior officers who prayed in the mosque as well as at numerous Coptic churches who are constantly under threat from attack by Islamic extremists.

A mosque in Giza, Egypt (summer 2016). In the background Security Magnetometers due to fears of attacks against senior officers who prayed in the mosque.

After attacks of Coptic churches in Egypt – placing Security Magnetometers to protect the Christian population (August 2015). 

A video of how Egyptian Muslims, in the city of Sherbin, paid to buy Security Magnetometers for the Coptic Church to guard it. 

• Surely not Kuwait which installed Security Magnetometers at the entrance to its mosques in 2015 and 2016 after numerous terror attacks that took place in mosques in the kingdom at that time.

Checking with Security metal detectors at the entrance to a mosque in Kuwait in the summer of 2015 and 2016 after numerous terror attacks that took place in mosques in the kingdom at that time.

Checking with Security metal detectors at the entrance to a mosque in Kuwait

Checking with Security metal detectors at the entrance to a mosque in Kuwait

Magnetometers are placed at the entrance to the Great Mosque in Kuwait in July 2015 due to fear of a terror attack (as described in the video) The video contains Magnetometers and the presence of rifle armed policemen. 

• Surely not Dubai which started in 2015 to install walk-through security gates with metal detectors and CCTV at all gates with a source saying at the time: “The security bodies endeavour to provide residents with security by equipping places in the Emirate with metal and explosive detectors.”

Placing Security Magnetometers at the Entrance to the Mosques in Dubai (August 2015).  

• Surely not Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population than any other country in the world and has installed metal detectors at the entrance to a Catholic church in Jakarta to protect the lives of Christian worshipers.

Placing metal detectors at the entrance to a Catholic church in Jakarta in Indonesia to protect the life Christian worshipers.

• Surely not France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe and where there was no outcry when in November 2015 manual security checks for worshipers were conducted to those entering a mosque in Paris after the combined attack in the French capital in which 130 civilians were murdered.

Police conduct manual security checks for worshipers entering a mosque in Paris (November 2015) after the combined attack in Paris in which 130 people were murdered. 

• Surely not the USA who is trying to restrict easy entry of citizens from certain Muslim countries even entering the country.

In truth, surely not any country in the world with a responsible government.

Israel installed the Security Magnetometers at the entrance to al-Ḥaram al-Qudsī al-Šarīf or Temple Mount ONLY after two Druze Israeli policemen standing guard were shot by weapons that had been smuggled inside earlier because there were no metal detectors. The tragic result was that the policemen who were looking outward were attacked by surprise from the inside. Where is the Palestinian outcry about this MURDER or the incitement that has followed with three elderly Jewish civilians being murdered in a bloody knife attack.

With the current rhetoric amongst the Palestinian leadership, such murderers – not militants – believe they have the God-given right to take the life of Jews wherever they are. Metal detectors are not “an instrument of the occupation” but an obstruction to their murderous aim of turning the holy site into a weapons cache and using it as a launch pad to carry out terror attacks against Israelis.

Is this what the PA is asking the world to endorse – the right to murder?

Lies and Deception

The sequence of events is important.

The two Druze Israeli policemen shot in their back before Muslim prayers on Friday 14th July and close to the entrance of Lions’ Gate were stationed there to ensure the safety of Muslim worshippers. However, leave it to the PA’s spin doctors who contrived to divert attention from this act of terrorism by making it appear as if the crisis began when Israel installed the metal detectors and not when two police officers were murdered.

The installation of the metal detectors, was not an Israeli initiative but a rational response to a specific terror attack to protect all people – irrespective of religion – against future attacks.

The PA, Jordan and Turkey are accusing Israel of violating the status quo by installing metal detectors. This could not be further from the truth.

The Israeli government did not take the decision to install the metal detectors to alter the status quo or stop Muslims from praying; on the contrary, they took it precisely to preserve the status quo in a secure and safe environment.

Clearly the PA views the symbolism of Jerusalem as a weapon to harness support. This was unmasked last year when the Palestinians thwarted a plan by Jordan – welcomed by Israel – to install dozens of security cameras at the Temple Mount. The Jordanians backed off from their plan after Palestinian intimidation, including the threat to destroy the cameras.

Why did they protest the plan? No brainer – the Palestinians were afraid that their violence, harassment and amassing of weapons to attack Jewish visitors and police officers would be captured on camera.

It is this same thinking as to why they oppose the metal detectors – they want to be free to murder Jews.

In the same manner as measures to secure holy sites in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia, the Emirates, France and nearly everywhere in the world, it should apply no less than in Jerusalem that has built into its name – shalom and salaam – PEACE.

The world needs to bring some sanity to the PA leaders that they are not free to incite murder!