Temple Mount: tours today, Temple tomorrow!

[David Ben-Ariel]

An ever-increasing number of Torah-observant Jews are now making aliyah (ascent) to the Temple Mount, despite the misguided Chief Rabbinate ban (in colloboration with the State) against such religious pilgrimages before.

As is evident, faithful Jews have come to have a deeper understanding and appreciation of the "permitted places" the Temple Mount affords to visit without worrying about entering the Holy of Holies determined to be in the area of the occupying Dome of the Rock (where Avraham was about to sacrifice Isaac).

Such prayerful pilgrims (who first go to the mikveh and refrain from wearing leather shoes) are now properly guided by biblically knowledgable/kosher tour guides. They've found such faith in action is not only permissable but must be promoted, actually hastening the process of redemption and reminding all Israel and world Jewry of their biblical roots and reponsibilities.

These most holy tours, a bold exercise of Israeli sovereignty and a humble walk in faith, testify the Temple Mount must be restored as the TEMPLE Mount, and reveal that G-d's Holy Spirit has rekindled a proper zeal in Jerusalem's heart.

Such a growing rededication to Israel's national meaning and purpose (the trickle of tourists must become a flowing stream of life) must culminate in a national ceremony inducting the Temple Mount Faithful's Cornerstone into its proper place upon the Temple Mount: created to host G-d's royal House of Prayer for all Nations!
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[David Ben-Ariel]

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As reported on the front page of the Jerusalem Post (Jan. 8, 1996), the GSS (Israeli Secret Police) sought my deportation for ALLEGED involvement in a plot to "damage the mosques." This travesty of justice occurred during the witch-hunt that followed Prime Minister Rabin's assassination.

The Leftists were exploiting the death of Rabin to squash their legal opposition. Such Stalinist tactics were condemned by former Russian refuseniks and Prisoners of Zion. Thankfully, the regime of Shimon Peres was toppled with the election of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.

As a Christian-American member of the Temple Mount Faithful movement, I had been privileged to participate in their legal demonstrations during my 10-month stay in Jerusalem awaiting dual citizenship. Israeli television often showed me with my Jewish friends carrying Israeli flags throughout the Old City. I have also been published in the Jerusalem Post, the Traveller and other publications about the burning issue of the TEMPLE MOUNT. The Temple Mount suffers under a MILITANT MUSLIM OCCUPATION that FORBIDS CHRISTIANS AND JEWS FROM PRAYING OR READING THE BIBLE there.

This despite the fact that both Biblical Temples stood there, and it is the location where Jesus and His disciples taught and prayed. Israel has a law against such violent religious discrimination, but they're afraid or unwilling to enforce it. Such shameful appeasement rewards the Muslim aggressors and punishes the innocent!

The Temple Mount Faithful demands an end to this injustice. Meanwhile, the Muslim terrorists continue to destroy rich archaeological evidence upon the Temple Mount that proves JERUSALEM IS JEWISH! The world condemned the Muslim Taliban for blowing up a Buddhist idol, yet has remained deathly silent while JUDAISM'S HOLIEST SITE IS DESECRATED!

In my book, Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall, I've called for the Israeli government to exercise its Biblical responsibility to BUILD THE TEMPLE. I wrote that book in the United States before any of this trouble. It clearly explains that I'm not calling for any individual to remove the mosques, but rather expecting the GOVERNMENT to fulfill their historic obligations (if an "act of God" doesn't solve the problem first).

I mentioned this to the police during my six and a half hours of night-time interrogation by six different men. Later I was imprisoned in Jerusalem's rotting Russian Compound (built by the Turks) for several weeks until my heartbreaking deportation (for highlighting the plight of the Temple Mount).

As my attorney in Israel, Naftali Warzberger, has written, MY FUTURE IS LINKED WITH THE JEWS AND ISRAEL. That is why I'm confident justice will prevail. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D. Ohio) persistently presented this case of religious discrimination and political persecution before our State Department that turned a blind eye to the facts. (It's now evident why, since the former Consul General in Jerusalem, Edward G. Abington, Jr., is presently a paid lackey of the terrorist PLO! Talk about a conflict of interests that should be investigated!).

Senator Mike DeWine (R. Ohio) has inquired on my behalf to return to Zion and was informed that the Israeli Ministry of the Interior has made the decision not to grant the visa and does not offer any information behind their decision. They have since written Senator DeWine that I will not be eligible for a visa until 2005!

Gershon Salomon, chairman of the Jerusalem-based Temple Mount Faithful, assures me that a change is coming in Israel that will welcome me back and appreciate my efforts on behalf of Israel.

Check out Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall http://www.benariel.com
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