Trump planning Temple Mount visit

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http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Zionist-Union-MK-calls-Trump-racist-adds-hes-not-welcome-to-Knesset-436769

Donald Trump is strongly considering a visit to the Temple Mount when he comes to Israel for the first time at the end of the month.

A source closely connected to organizing the trip to Israel confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that Trump's staff is looking into the logistics of visiting the holy site and point of conflict between Israel and the Arab world.

The planned visit follows Trump's call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" in light of "great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population."

Palestinians have often used Israeli politicians' visits to the Mount as an excuse for violence, falsely claiming Israel is changing the status quo.
Palestinian claims about the Temple Mount reached a fever pitch in recent months, including Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas claiming Jews' feet defile the site, and contributed to sparking the current wave of terrorism, during which police found explosives hidden in the Al-Aksa Mosque on the Mount.

MK Taleb Abu Arrar (Joint List) said of Trump's plan to visit the Temple Mount: "If Trump the racist plans to visit Al-Aksa, the holiest place in the world for Muslims, to harm the sensitivities of people against whom he incites, he and Netanyahu will be responsible.

"Such a visit will set the whole region on fire, I am warning," Abu Arrar added.

As part of his visit to Israel, on December 28, Trump will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting was planned two weeks ago.

A source close to Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the prime minister "does not agree with every statement by every candidate."

Netanyahu's spokesman confirmed that the prime minister is willing to meet with any US presidential candidate who visits Israel.

Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On called for Netanyahu not to meet with Trump, calling the meeting a "slap in the face to Muslim citizens of Israel."

"It is embarrassing that Netanyahu is willing to legitimize Trump as a reasonable candidate who is worth a meeting with a head of state," Gal-On said. "Netanyahu's willingness to meet with Trump despite his serious racist statements authorizes what the prime minister's statements showed about him long ago: That there has never been such a racist, irresponsible prime minister."

A petition among MKs, initiated by Meretz's Michal Rosin, asking Netanyahu to cancel his meeting with Trump garnered 37 signatures.

Trump has not asked to go to the Knesset during his trip to Israel, but that did not stop several MKs from saying he should be banned from the legislature because of his comments about Muslims.

The government maintains the status quo, in that non-Muslims may visit, but not pray on the Temple Mount, which is administered by the Jordanian Islamic Trust (Wakf). Jewish visitors are often harassed at the holy site, and earlier this year, a delegation of US Congressmen visiting the plaza also complained of harassment by Wakf guards.

Do you think a Trump visit to the Temple Mount is good or bad for Jewish interests?
Or maybe it depends what area of the Mount he visits .
This is a quote from http://www.templeinstitute.org/illustrated/temple_mount_holiness.htm

The Temple Mount: Sanctity
The Temple Mount was defined as the "Levite Camp." Those forbidden to enter were:
Men and women experiencing irregular emissions.
Menstruating women; Women who had recently given birth.
Lepers. (Lepers were also forbidden to enter the walled city of Jerusalem.)
Those who had been rendered impure through exposure to the dead were not allowed to proceed beyond the Soreg fence.
Gentiles were permitted to enter the Temple Mount up until the Soreg fence.

[Joe Gutfeld]

I hope he sees what's really going on there.

[angryChineseKahanist]

Will he be wearing his brown shirt?

[Debbie Shafer]

Lets see what he says about past history of Israel, the Capital which is Jerusalem,  her rights to God given land,  and whos side he takes on this.

[Joe Gutfeld]

Trump is not going to Israel because of the stink about his muslim comment.