Apartheid Reporting: Excavation at Jerusalem Mosque Sparks

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Apartheid Reporting: Excavation at Jerusalem Mosque Sparks

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

sent by Simon McGuinness - Feb 8, 2007

[Apartheid reporting is back. Here is an example. You focus on the outrage
of the oppressed and, by failing to address the cause, portray them as mad.
Not one word of explanation of what action Israel has instigated in the
vicinity of a Muslim holy place is included, nor is a single Israeli voice
included to explain what they are doing there and why. It appears that
Israel and their media assets are intent on stirring up a hornets nest for
their own geopolitical reasons. That the Irish Times should now be counted
as one of those assets is regrettable. -SMcG]


The Irish Times - Feb 8, 2007
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2007/0208/1170363883909.html

Excavation at Jerusalem mosque sparks Islamic anger in Israel and Iran

MIDDLE EAST: An Israeli Islamic leader warned of "religious war" and
Iran's supreme leader urged retaliation against Israel yesterday over
new excavations and repairs in Jerusalem's Old City, outside the Holy
Land's most explosive religious site.

Raed Salah, a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and several of
his followers scuffled with police guarding labourers carrying out
preliminary work on a new ramp up to the hilltop compound known to Jews
as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, home of the
al-Aqsa mosque complex.

After being arrested and brought to a Jerusalem court, Mr Salah accused
Israel of "the crime of demolishing a part of the blessed al-Aqsa
compound" and of "pushing the whole region to religious war".

The court ordered him to remain at least 150m (490ft) away from the Old
City walls for 10 days, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Meanwhile, Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, urged the Islamic world to make Israel regret its excavation
work.

"The Islamic world's reaction to this insulting move should make the
regime occupying Qods regret [its action] . . .

"Silence over this issue is not acceptable," Ayatollah Khamenei was
quoted by the state radio as saying.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be
"wiped off the map", also condemned the excavation.

"The nature of the Zionist regime is to ruin and cause conflict," Iran's
students news agency ISNA quoted the president as saying.

Israeli officials say Islamic radicals are using the issue to whip up
hostile sentiment, pointing out that the work site is 50m (160ft) away
from the wall around the mosque complex. - ( AP, Reuters )

C 2007 The Irish Times

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