Good news! "14,000 occupiers stormed Al Aqsa mosque this year"

The Al Aqsa Heritage Foundation has released what it considers alarming statistics showing that more Jews have already visited the Temple Mount this year than in all of 2013.

According to the rabidly antisemitic group, so far this year 13,757 "occupiers" have "stormed Al Aqsa" of which 11,507 were "settlers" and the remainder were Israeli security forces who are there to protect the Jews from being lynched by the peaceful Muslims.

Last year, the numbers were 8,697 "settlers" out of 12,771. (Jews visiting from outside Israel are also considered "settlers.")

More alarming is that the number of Jews visiting is increasing as the year goes on. Over October and November, 2,708 "grave attacks" were done on Al Aqsa. They even mention two members of the Israel Antiquities Authority who visited in October. (One would think that the IAA would visit the holiest spot on the planet, routinely desecrated by the Waqf's earth moving equipment, a little more often than that.)

The biggest days were during Sukkot, October 12-14; 258 on Monday and 307 Tuesday, with the number going down to 109 on Wednesday because the Muslims started rioting.

The report also lists when prominent Israeli politicians visited, and the group congratulates itself on stopping even more Jews from visiting by instigating riots. But on the downside, awful things are happening like Israel putting up new signs that call the area the "Temple Mount," another unforgivable crime.

Just by way of contrast to the horrendous number of 14,000 Jews visiting over the year, some 40,000 Muslims visited in a single day, November 14.

One side asserts the right to worship peacefully in a sacred spot. The other demands that the entire area is cleansed of Jews.

And human rights groups refuse to condemn the would-be ethnic cleansers while Western governments only call for "both sides" to keep tensions down.

All of this just goes to show that fear of Muslim violence is the dominating factor of how most of the Western world makes its decisions vis a vis the Middle East. And the Al Aqsa Foundation's open endorsement of violence to keep the Temple Mount Judenfrei is a conscious policy to take advantage of Western fears.