Yesterday I noted that Palestinians were saying that Jews who were reverently and quietly praying on the Temple Mount were “desecrating Al Aqsa.”
Obviously, treating a holy place with respect isn’t desecration.
However, StandWithUs tweeted a photo that is one of desecration:
Back in time: #Jerusalem during Jordanian occupation before Israel reunited the city on June 5, 1967: when Jordan destroyed the entire Jewish Quarter of the Old City, including 52 synagogues. Pictured is a Jordanian soldier standing on the remains of Hurva Synagogue. pic.twitter.com/G7qda8GFye— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) July 3, 2019
The Jordanian soldier is inside the main sanctuary of the destroyed Hurva synagogue. You can see the mural of the Ten Commandments behind him.
And he is posing triumphantly holding an unrolled Torah Scroll, splayed across the rubble.
This is what desecration of a holy site, and holy object, looks like.
Thank God the Hurva has been rebuilt and is now a permanent part of the Jerusalem skyline. Keep in mind that the people who claim to support peace consider that rebuilt synagogue to be an illegal settlement structure.
Meaning that they are far more upset over repairing the desecration than they ever were over the desecration itself.
If Tikun Olam has a meaning nowadays, it is rebuilding the Jewish presence that was ethnically cleansed in Jerusalem in 1967.
(h/t Lenny)
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