"..This year we have seen things escalate to the
point of war. What happened this time? On
September 28, 2000 Ariel Sharon made a visit to
the temple mount, and this visit was approved by
the PA security service director, Jibril Rajoub.
The only stipulation was Mr. Sharon was not to
enter the Muslim mosque, which he of course would
not do, nor was he to cause any demonstration. He
had every right to visit the temple mount, and he
had Palestinian approval. While there may have
been some heckling and shoving, there was no
serious violence during Sharon´s visit.

Now on the 27th of September, students of various
ages were told that classes would be canceled on
the 28th and were encouraged to go to Jerusalem to
"Defend the Al Aqsa mosque." Then, by September
29th, at a sermon given at the Al Aqsa mosque, the
many worshipers were told that the Jews were going
to destroy the mosque to make way for a new Jewish
temple. The Muslims were encouraged to "Eradicate
the Jews from Palestine." So as these Muslims came
streaming out of the mosque, they began throwing
rocks and bricks, that were transported up to the
temple mount earlier, and they were hitting the
Jews who were praying down below, at the Western
Wall.


Thus, to try and stop a potentially lethal stone
throwing by these Palestinians, the Israeli police
stepped in, and the uprising began and continues
to go on, with many being killed or injured. Now
you can´t blame the Jews for trying to stop this,
we would hold the police accountable in this
country if they did nothing!

The cry by the Palestinians was that this was a
spontaneous action due to the persecution of the
Palestinians by the Jews. Not so! Charles Sennott
of the Boston Globe, from October 7, 2000 wrote:

"A senior Palestinian official acknowledged that
yesterday´s protest was orchestrated. The rock
throwing youths...quit the protest quickly after a
request to do so by the same Palestinian official
who encouraged them to demonstrate...After the
[Sabbath mosque] service, Israeli police had a
normal presence around the mosque and appeared to
be showing restraint. But hundreds of Palestinian
youths - at the direct encouragement of Faisal
Husseini, the Palestinian Authority´s Minister for
Jerusalem Affairs - began throwing rocks on
Israeli police near the plaza of the Western
Wall...The cycle was in motion... All day, rock
throwers - referred to in Arabic as ‘shebab,´ or
‘the boys´- - were provided with wheelbarrows full
of rocks that came from inside the Al Aqsa
compound."

The Washington Post reported that "There is
evidence to support the claim by Israelis that the
Palestinian leadership has orchestrated the
militia, as well as civilians and armed
Palestinian police, in the rioting." And yet, the
western media tends to play the Palestinians as
David, fighting against the big, mean, evil giant,
Goliath, Israel. Nothing can be further from the
truth!

And all of this was born out of a failure of the
Camp David II meetings where Barak was encouraged
by President Clinton to give up the Jordan Valley,
which is a buffer zone between Israel and the Arab
tank armies to the east. He gave Arafat control of
the old city of Jerusalem, he gave away a united
Jerusalem. He gave away 90% of the west bank and
Arafat rejected all these offers that Barak put on
the table, the temple mount and a return to the
pre-1967 Jerusalem boarders...""