Wednesday, March 30, 2005

THE LATEST on the proposed Revava protest on the Temple Mount:
Police to bar Temple Mt. gathering
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS (Jerusalem Post)

Jerusalem police chief Ilan Franco has decided to bar a massive Jewish pilgrimage to the Temple Mount by a group of ultra-nationalists opposed to the planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip following multiple intelligence warnings that such an event could prompt Palestinian violence at the bitterly contested holy site, police said Tuesday.

But organizers said that they were going ahead with the event, which is scheduled for April 10, setting the stage for a major show-down with police outside the Jerusalem site next month.

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It's increasingly hard to imagine a way that this whole thing could turn out well.

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