@TexChik Because no one is looking for the truth. What you see in the Israeli news is fake. If you are looking for news in Arabic, you will know the truth.
Over the past few days, hundreds of Palestinians and several dozen police officers have been hurt in clashes in and around the Old City, including the sacred compound, which is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The compound which has been the trigger for rounds of Israel-Palestinian violence in the past, is Islam’s third-holiest site and considered Judaism’s holiest.
An AP photographer at the scene said that early Monday morning, protesters had barricaded gates to the walled compound with wooden boards and scrap metal. Sometime after 7am, clashes erupted, with those inside throwing stones at police deployed outside. Police entered the compound, firing tear gas, rubber-coated steel pellets and stun grenades.
At some point during the morning about 400 people, both young protesters and older worshippers, were inside the carpeted Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades into the mosque.
Police said protesters hurled stones at officers and onto an adjoining roadway near the Western Wall, where thousands of Israeli Jews had gathered to pray.
After several days of Jerusalem confrontations, Israel has come under growing international criticism for its heavy-handed actions at the site, particularly during Ramadan.
More than 305 Palestinians were hurt, including 228 who went to hospitals and clinics for treatment, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Seven of the injured were in serious condition. Police said 21 officers were hurt, including three who were hospitalised. Israeli paramedics said seven Israeli civilians were also hurt.
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout I don't support any side. You call us hypocritical, dude you live in Australia! Presumably your descended from the aborigines?
Well i'm a Tottenham fan so that's eternal disappointment easily demonstrated !
With regard to current middle-east hostilities, hard to be sympathetic to a country that thinks it's fine to invade anothers country and then call those invaders 'settlers' as if that gives it any sort of justification.
And each generation is as bad as the last since neither side learn from the lessons of history.
As a christian i believe in God's gift of the land to the jews.. So of course i support their right to live and defend themselves from surounding people who are trying to kill them .. Just as anyone deserves the right to defend themselves from terrorist.
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Stoke, lifetime of disappointment.
It was quite strange to see Israeli and Palestinian flags flying when I lived in Northern Ireland.
Loyalists would associate with Israel and Nationalists with Palestine.
IMO it was very wrong of the displaced Jews to appropriate Palestinian lands. I realize that some of them, on board the ship Exodus, wanted to make an issue of the "right" of displaced Jews to establish a homeland after WWII in the traditional homeland of the Jews...(which they had lost in antiquity).
I don't think what was done was right. The Palestinians don't think so, either.
That being said, the Palestinians have affiliated themselves with a terrorist organization, Hamas, whose sole aim is to wage war on Israel. Hamas has a lot of $$$ reasons for continuing this conflict. And the tactics of Hamas are also wrong.
I have very little respect for the way Israel handled the recent evictions in the Golan Heights, on Ramadan...the holiest day in the Muslim year. There are four locations in which Israel has agreed they will never use gas or grenades, including Mosques, hospitals, schools, and one other I can't recall...and on Ramadan they used grenades in ALL four of these types of locations while attempting to evict Palestinians.
BOTH of these groups have been wrong, and have been wronged.
But now Hamas is buying rockets from Iran, and Biden is funding the whole shebang. And I do mean BANG. He is doing this purposefully, because his Chinese masters and the drug cartels want Iranian oil, opiates from Afghanistan, and Iranian happiness...and Iran is only happy when they are funding global terrorist groups.
All in all, because the Palestinians have crawled into bed with the devil, I have to say that I support Israel and a one state solution.
But I don't say that with my eyes closed.
Biden and his allies WANT destabilization in the Middle East, and they are creating it by re-funding both Palestine and Iran.
The United States now, and in the past, has meddled far too often to obtain oil cheaply.
@AngelKrish Palestinians were praying in the mosque peacefully when the Israeli soldiers surprised them with stun grenades and tear gas. Think carefully, they are civilians and do not carry weapons, while the Israelis were equipped with weapons and bombs. And they are the ones who started throwing bombs at the worshipers inside the mosque. In the Islamic religion, fighting is not permitted inside the mosque, and this is evidence that the Israelis were the ones who started the attack.
On Hamas, I will give you an example. If Pakistan fired missiles at India and destroyed your village, would India applaud them or would it respond with missiles? This is what Hamas is doing. It defends civilians and innocent people, because there is no army or police in Palestine.
Trust me dear, the world does not love Israel and it does not have a homeland. The European countries wanted to get rid of her and told her to go to Palestine and occupy it. This is what happened when they came by ships in 1948 and committed various kinds of attacks on the Palestinians.
In addition, Israel uses internationally banned weapons, such as phosphorous bombs.
If you are suspicious of my words, you can search for the history of Palestine on the Internet or books.
On the other hand, prominent Israeli leaders, including former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and left-wing parties accused Netanyahu in recent days of stirring up violence in Jerusalem for political gain, after reports that the opposition parties were about to reach a coalition agreement to form a new government.
Israel helped my country everytime like brother whenever we need. I know they are not heartless people. Good people. They are best friends of friends and worst enemies of enemies.
I used to support Israel until I found out they were murdering British soldiers after WW2 in what was to become Israel.I can't support Palestine because it instigated by firing rockets into Israel.As a Manchester City supporter I sure don't stick up for Liverpool.
@tallpowerhouseblonde Since 1984, Israel has been attacking Palestine, killing children and civilians without mercy, and the world has been in silence. Once Palestine defended its land and fired rockets, the whole world sympathized with Israel, and this is not fair. Read the date. Israel does not have a country. In the year 1948, Israel occupied Palestine and committed various kinds of massacres. And they began to expand their area at the expense of the Palestinians.