Sharon saved Jerusalem
By Uri Dan
Jerusalem Post 

(October 5) - MK Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount 
last Thursday saved the Temple Mount and saved Jerusalem 
as the capital of Israel. Even if he never becomes prime 
minister, it will be recorded to his great credit that 
he was the sole Jewish leader in 2000 who, by a single act, 
put the fate of Jerusalem, in its true colors, on the 
national agenda. 

Once again, my dear friend Sharon stood at the center of 
the Zionist-Jewish struggle, as he has done repeatedly 
over the course of the last 50 years: In the Latrun 
battles to raise the siege on Jerusalem in 1948; in the 
reprisal actions, at the head of the paratroops, in the 
Fifties; in the struggle against the diversion of the 
sources of the Jordan River, in the Sixties; in the 
Six-Day War; in the War of Attrition; in the crossing 
of the Suez Canal in 1973; in the establishment of 
settlements in Judea and Samaria; in the peace 
negotiations with Egypt in 1978; in the eviction of 
Yasser Arafat and his terrorists from Beirut in 1982; 
and in other critical decision-making situations. 

This was how Sharon acted on the Temple Mount. This was 
the act of a responsible Jewish leader, as opposed to 
the common apparatchiks, who continue to spout lies 
every day while managing a Jewish ghetto in the borders 
of the 1947 Partition Plan. 

For this Sharon deserves a real medal. 

The Palestinians claim in their deceitful and malicious 
propaganda that Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount was 
the spark that lit the flame of the riots. If this is 
the case, then we should be pleased that this spark lit 
the flame and thus enabled the Israelis to see the true 
face of the Palestinian hatred: Arafat's "policemen" and 
Tanzim militia, firing on his specific orders in order 
to murder Israeli soldiers and citizens, from Gaza, 
through Ramallah, to Nablus and Jenin. 

Why is Shlomo Ben-Ami holding negotiations with this war 
criminal in order to divide with him the sovereignty over 
the Temple Mount and eastern Jerusalem? After all, with 
a single radio broadcast Arafat could halt the shooting. 

The Arab MKs screamed "provocation" against Sharon on 
the Temple Mount. Under Arafat's orders, and in coordination 
with him, they then rushed off to incite the Israeli Arabs 
and to turn the entire country into a battlefield. They 
rioted from Beersheba to Jaffa, Umm el-Fahm, Haifa, Acre, 
Nazareth, and the Galilee. 

Their real face was thus once again revealed. In their 
hate-distorted view the entire Jewish state (even within 
the green line) is the real provocation. The Israeli Arab 
violence on Rosh Hashana proved that their aim is identical 
to that of Arafat - to wipe out Israel. 

State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher was quick off the 
mark on the eve of Rosh Hashana to connect the rioting with 
Sharon's visit. Not only was this gross interference by 
Clinton's administration in Israel's internal affairs and 
its holy place, the Temple Mount, but it also encouraged 
the Palestinians to continue the violence and terror, despite 
the fact that the CIA was aware that Arafat was personally 
supervising it. 

The president of France and his foreign minister were also 
quick to accuse Sharon of responsibility for the riots. 
Jacques Chirac, who is currently involved in an odious 
financial corruption scandal, himself played the part of 
an agent provocateur when he crudely insulted Israel during 
his visit to the Old City of Jerusalem. Was his prime 
minister, Lionel Jospin, stoned in Bir Zeit University 
because of provocation or because he awarded this terrorist 
academy a French grant of two million francs? 

As usual, mentally warped Jews, including apparatchiks and 
journalists, were quick to place the blame on Sharon. They 
did not try to crucify him, but to nail him to a Magen David. 
This has also happened in other periods of history. During 
the Nazi persecution in Germany, during the Thirties, before 
the ovens started working in Auschwitz and Treblinka, there 
were Jews, journalists and politicians, who attempted to 
justify the Nazi hate by the behavior of the Jews themselves. 

In the same way, here and now in Israel there are Jews who 
are trying to explain the outburst of hate by the Palestinians 
in all kinds of ways, from the lie about Sharon's visit to the 
lie about "repression of the Israeli Arabs." These Jews with 
perverted intelligence - when they witness the Rosh Hashana 
terrorism - fail to understand this terrible hate, whose aim 
is to destroy the Jewish State at the first opportunity. 

Historians still ask, why did the Jews not awake in time to 
the danger of the Holocaust? Why did their leaders in Eretz 
Yisrael not raise the alarm, warn them? A single Jewish leader, 
Sharon, went up to the Temple Mount, of right and of his due, 
and thus sounded the alarm that was heard from one end of the 
world to the other. 

This aroused sleeping Jews, who began to realize that when 
the Temple Mount is in danger, their lives, and their homes in 
Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, and the rest of the country, are also 
threatened. 

May you be signed and sealed with happiness!