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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (176541)	10/13/2003 6:35:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585830

Didn't some bomber blow himself up because of his visit? No. A riot. *********************************************************** guardian.co.uk Rioting as Sharon visits Islam holy site Special report: Israel and the Middle East Suzanne Goldenberg in Jerusalem Friday September 29, 2000 The Guardian Dozens of people were injured in rioting on the West Bank and in Jerusalem yesterday as the hawkish Likud party leader, Ariel Sharon, staged a provocative visit to a Muslim shrine at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Surrounded by hundreds of Israeli riot police, Mr Sharon and a handful of Likud politicians marched up to the Haram al-Sharif, the site of the gold Dome of the Rock that is the third holiest shrine in Islam. He came down 45 minutes later, leaving a trail of fury. Young Palestinians heaved chairs, stones, rubbish bins, and whatever missiles came to hand at the Israeli forces. Riot police retaliated with tear gas and rubber bullets, shooting one protester in the face. The symbolism of the visit to the Haram by Mr Sharon - reviled for his role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinians in a refugee camp in Lebanon - and its timing was unmistakable. "This is a dangerous process conducted by Sharon against Islamic sacred places," Yasser Arafat told Palestinian television. Mr Sharon's second motive was less obvious: to steal the limelight from the former prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who returned from the US yesterday and could become a challenger for the Likud party leadership after Israel's attorney general decided not to prosecute him for corruption. But that ambition was overshadowed by the potential for serious violence at Haram al-Sharif, the point where history, religion and national aspiration converge. Palestinian protesters followed Mr Sharon down the mountain, chanting "murderer" and "we will redeem the Haram with blood and fire". They narrowly escaped clashing with Orthodox Jews who shouted "go back to Mecca". Although the Haram is part of Arab East Jerusalem, occupied illegally by Israel since 1967, Jews revere the esplanade, which they call the Temple Mount, as the site of a temple destroyed in AD70. The 35-acre site is the single biggest obstacle to peace and, as Mr Sharon asserted yesterday, an inalienable part of the Jewish state. "The Temple Mount is in our hands and will remain in our hands. It is the holiest site in Judaism and it is the right of every Jew to visit the Temple Mount," he said after his descent. Palestinians and Israeli liberals denounced the visit as a dangerous provocation. "The timing and the decision to visit the Haram was taken to flare up the area and to burn up the place," said a blood-splattered Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arabmember of the knesset, who suffered a broken wrist in the scuffles at the shrine. "He wants to see more blood and more killing. He wants to kill the peace." The protests inside the Haram were extinguished, but not before two screaming riot policemen were rushed down the mountain on stretchers, and at least five Palestinians were injured. Later in the day, clashes broke out on the main commercial street in Arab East Jerusalem, and outside the West Bank town of Ramallah. Mr Sharon was unrepentant, claiming he had been on a mission of reconciliation. "What provocation is there when Jews come to visit the place with a message of peace? I am sorry about the injured, but it is the right of Jews in Israel to visit the Temple Mount." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------