…The Prime Minister holds to his policy that I support of a total prohibition on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount. Given the nature of Arab culture, it is no wonder that even the King of Jordan is huffing and puffing the party line that the Jews are aggressing against Al-Aqsa. If he were not to do that, the violent Muslims in his country and outside of it would mark him for death, for assassination, as his great-grand uncle whose name he bears was assassinated by Haj Amin al-Husseini.

The Arabs are a wild herd of untamable desert jackasses, all of them now in chorus braying their poisonous menace at al-Yahud for another trumped up charge of Jewish criminality with not a shred of evidence to support it. The word is that Israel is aggressing against the Islamic holy place of Al-Aqsa, which by the way I heard now refers not only to the grey-domed mosque on the southern end of the plateau but the whole of the Temple Mount, including the golden Dome of the Rock.

Jews asking to be allowed once again as after the Six Day to ascend their holy mount and pray in peace is experienced as an aggression against Islam and must be answered, and it was yesterday by at least once driver. Today the second driver in the Gush Etzion incident was reported to have surrendered and claimed poor driving when he ran into those soldiers near the UNRWA slum of El-Arub, not malice aforethought…