Foiling Hamas' Temple Mount plans

WITH THE WORLD concentrating on the unfolding terror plots occurring in the streets of London and at the Glasgow airport, which has involved a bevy of highly-skilled medical doctors, an earth-shattering scenario in Jerusalem has gone almost unreported.
As radical Islam seeks to devour this planet, with the U.S. next in its crosshairs, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has turned back the Hamas from gaining control of the most sacred and coveted ground on earth.
On Monday, a senior Israeli security officer explained Hamas, considered one of the Middle East chief terrorist organizations, which now rules Gaza, had sought to infiltrate the Mount, a holy place for not only Jews and Christians, but also Moslems, who have built their shrine and mosque there.
The "terrorists" were endeavouring to gain control of the Mount by bailing out the Jordanian Wakf, which is responsible for the site.
According to the Jerusalem Post, "the wakf has been suffering from financial constraints since 2000 when the Temple Mount mosques were closed to paying visitors."
The Hamas have sought to dominate east Jerusalem by subterfuge, doling out money to pay for a library and several prayer halls in Solomon's Stables and renovating a public restroom facility on the Mount.
"Their goal is to gain full control over the Temple Mount," said The Post in quoting a high-ranking Shin Bet official on Monday. However, the security agency shut down the flow of money by arresting 11 Hamas officials based in Jerusalem, 10 of whom hold Israeli identity cards.
Shin Bet officials certainly realize the importance of the Temple Mount to world Jewry because Israel's No.1 enemy, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Tehran has stated its intention of driving Israel "into the sea," and following this up by annihilating the "Great Satan," the United States.
So in the whole scenario, the doctors' terror plot against Britain was just a stepping stone, which, undoubtedly, has raised fears throughout the world, however, the Shin Bet's stance against the Hamas should be given considerable accolades.
As a former Middle East Bureau Chief for a major news-gathering organization, I have been fascinated by the annual Joshua-like march of Gershon Salomon's Temple Mount Faithful around the planet's most controversial piece of real estate each spring.
As an admirer of Salomon and his fortitude, this investigative reporter has marched with the Faithful in the past and recall his words: "We feel that the time is short and the Temple is soon to be rebuilt on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. We hear the call of G_d to Israel at these critical times not to wait (any) more and to rebuild the Temple so that He can dwell again among His People."
Now while the Temple walls are still standing, the Faithful must have gained some measure of victory with Shin Bet standing against Israel's bitter enemy, the Hamas, in denying them any claim to the Mount.
For those unfamiliar with my friend, Salomon, he's the founder and leader of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement, but in private life he's an expert researcher and lecturer in Middle Eastern studies, specializing in the history of the national movement of the Kurdish people.
In addition, the Faithful website also details his experiences when he was injured as a member of the IDF against the Syrian Army. After being run over by a tank, Gershon faced Syrian soldiers, who were about to shoot him, but they ran away. Later "these Syrian soldiers reported to UN officers that they had seen thousands of angels around this IDF officer, and had, therefore, fled."
Salomon's bio reiterates that he "heard the voice of G_d speaking to him that He was not finished with him. He understood this as a divine call to consecrate himself to the work of the Temple Mount."
Although the Israelis would later "give" the Temple Mount area to their "enemies," after the 1967 battle, Salomon's organization is dedicated to "consecrating the Temple Mount to the Name of G_d, to removing the Moslem shrines as a symbol of Moslem conquest, to the soon rebuilding of the Third Temple there, and the G-dly redemption of the People and the Land of Israel."
In addition he said: "One day exciting pages will be written in books of history about these end-time events in Israel and parents and grandparents will share with their children and grandchildren how they were part of them and how exciting end-time godly history was made (for) them."
While the world watches the radical Islamic terror schemes unfolding in Britain, Salomon must be smiling and thankful for "friends" such as the Shin Bet, who have turned back Israel's most bitter enemy at the moment, the Hamas, from the world's most sacred site.