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Knut Rognes
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Jews may attack Mount, Barak is warned
By Baruch Kra
Ha'aretz Correspondent
Former head of Shin Bet security service Carmi Gilon and former police
commissioner Assaf Hefetz sent a public letter to Prime Minister Ehud Barak
on Friday, warning about security threats to the Temple Mount posed by
extremist, messianic groups.
"Calls made by rabbis," Gilon and Hefetz wrote, "are liable to be
interpreted as sanctions given to an attack against the Temple Mount [by
Jewish groups]." Rabbinical exhortations to "destroy the mosques and take
vengeance for the murder of Binyamin Kahane," they added, make the Islamic
sites on the Mount "prime targets for attacks by Jews."
The Gilon and Hefetz statement was sponsored by the Keshev Center for the
Protection of Democracy in Israel, which was established after the
assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. To supplement the
Gilon-Hefetz letter, the association added a report on the activities of
extremist Temple Mount groups in recent years.
According to the report's findings, tens of thousands of people have been
active in various Temple Mount groups. Though activities and ideologies
supported by these groups differ, they are united by a commitment toward
the eventual establishment of the Third Temple at sites on the Mount where
the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine stand today.
"Many of the members of these groups," the report adds, "have records of
conviction for violent, ultra-nationalist activity; these include Kach
[Kahane-affiliated group] members, and members of the Jewish underground."
In his letter, Keshev director Yizhar Be'er declared: "In the event of an
attack against the holy sites, responsibility will be accorded to Israel,
and destructive forces with apocalyptic-type intensity could arise.
Irrespective of the contents of any deal on the Temple Mount, it is crucial
that Israel cooperate with international officials while assuming
responsibility for the holy places, even if there isn't a chance of signing
an agreement right now.
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