Right-wing Jews and Israeli police officers physically assaulted Palestinian security guards on duty at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound early Tuesday, the director of the compound told Ma'an.Whenever something like this is reported, I look for video. I actually found one that showed scuffles on the Temple Mount:
Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani said that a group of Israeli settlers was touring the compound when they began to "deliberately" provoke Palestinians near the Cotton Merchants Gate by repeating slogans calling for the removal of the Dome of the Rock.
Al-Kiswani said that "when the guards intervened, Israeli settlers assaulted and beat them. The Israeli police backed [the right-wing Jews], protected them, and clashes erupted in the area."
The sheikh said that the Islamic trust that controls the compound subsequently intervened and Israeli police escorted the right-wing Jews from the compound.
Al-Kiswani said that one of the guards, Fadi Abu Mizr, had trouble breathing after he received blows to his chest, while guard Maher Abu Isninweh had bruises on his face. The two guards were treated in the mosque's clinic.
I count at least 10 edits in this video.
The person taking this video didn't repeatedly turn off his video camera ten times while juicy fights were happening. No, this video was edited afterwards:
To cut out every scene of Arabs attacking Jews.
That means that there are at least ten punches and shoves that we are not seeing.
The chances that the Jews started fighting with the guards on the Temple Mount this morning are exactly the same chances that they were "repeating slogans calling for the removal of the Dome of the Rock."
More fiction from the haters, who can lie without any fear of consequences.
UPDATE: Qpress' video section has been decimated since I posted this, no idea what is going on. I didn't save it, sorry.
UPDATE 2 - Got it from Facebook (h/t Bob K)
UPDATE 3: (h/t Bob K)
An unedited video:
And from The Temple Institute:
Jews involved in the altercation say they were attacked by Muslim Waqf personnel whose 'job' is to watch the lips a nd bodies of Jews on the Temple Mount to make sure they are not praying or swaying or bowing down, all expressions of Jewish faith, which Prime Minister Netanyahu, in league with king Abdullah of Jordan, has forbidden in practice, even if he cannot say so, as freedom of worship is the law in Israel.