Arabs and Israeli Police clash near Al Aqsa Mosque(Jerusalem 25 Oct 09 )

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police stormed Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday, hurling stun grenades at Palestinians who threw rocks at them, in another outbreak of violence at the holy city's most sensitive site.

A Palestinian Red Crescent medic said 18 Palestinians were injured. Police reported that three officers were hurt.

The unrest, following a similar incident a month ago, did not appear to herald any immediate slide into widespread violence that could disrupt U.S.-led efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, suspended since December.

But the confrontation between Israeli police in riot gear and rock-throwing Muslims alarmed by rumors that right-wing Jews planned to enter the site was a reminder that Jerusalem remains a cauldron of heated religious and political passions.

At the nearby Qalandiya checkpoint into the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian woman stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli security officer, police said. She was arrested.

Police, who also used tear gas in the Jerusalem clashes, did not go into al-Aqsa mosque, situated on al-Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary), regarded by Muslims as the third-holiest site after the cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

The compound is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, where the two destroyed biblical temples once stood. Israel captured the site in a 1967 war, along with the rest of East Jerusalem, which it annexed, and adjoining parts of the West Bank.

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[LSRochon]

@beepu2 what is "Jew" land ..Israel has always been a multicultural society....what was the last state that honoured racial purity?

[beepu2]

@LSRochon they can self determine on arab land. this is jew land.

[gladefoam]

Arabs are backwards.. still throw rocks.

[LSRochon]

Yes...regardless of what biblical history you dig up...it undeniable that Israel/Palestine was always multicultural based on DNA research.

[Shiftfallout]

@LSRochon Palestinian land? Do you even know who built Jerusalem? Do you know where the borders of Israel were before the Islamic Turkish empire made a huge mess of the middle east? The king of what is now known as Jordan said "No land is Palestine outside of Jordan." Palestine didnt even exist when Israel was young, in fact Palestine was a name used to refer to a small group of city states where Gaza is. The correct name was Philistine. The name Jew comes from Judah, which Jerusalem was theirs.

[LSRochon]

For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence.

- Bertrand Russell, 1970

[LSRochon]

@Shiftfallout but it only takes one to Steal Palestinian Land.

If Israel succeeds in defying the Fourth Geneva Convention and making its Occupation permanent, if an entire population is literally locked behind walls and its right of self-determination trampled, then the ability of human rights to win out over an international order founded on power politics and militarism is jeopardized. We all have a stake in ending the Occupation

- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, 2005

[XXSandStorm]

@gopore show us yourself?

[phuckizlam]

moslems = cock-whoring fuckwads.

[gopore]

israelys beat the shit out of the arabs, allways. Try to train harder, arab guys, go to the gim and make exercises, ha, ha, ha