CLAIM: Arafat cleared Ariel Sharon’s September 2000 visit to the Temple Mount. It was not a provocation.
RATING:
False
Arafat, and other senior officials such as Sa’eb Erekat and Faisal Husseini, all implored Sharon to call off his planned visit to the Temple Mount / Haram al-Sharif.
Source: The Jerusalem Problem: The Struggle for Permanent Status (2003) by Menachem Klein, p.98
Ariel Sharon also proclaimed, right after descending the Mount, that "The Temple Mount is in our hands and will remain in our hands. It is the holiest site in Judaism and it is the right of every Jew to visit the Temple Mount." This was seen as highly provocative, since the Muslims of the world view the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) as one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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Keep trying to invent history. The palis didn’t exist until the mid 1960s.
One other fun fact – every group, every political organization, and every government that has ever tried to destroy the Jews has been destroyed. Fun fact #2 Israel has never been stronger.