PRESS CONFERENCE

October 15, 2015

The Facts

No Change in the Status Quo

• The Temple Mount is open to Muslim prayer only.

• Muslims pray there regularly.

No Change in the Status Quo

• Christians, Jews and others may not pray on the Temple Mount.

• They may visit at specific times– Sunday-Thursday, 7:00-11:00 am– Not on Muslim holidays

• They do not enter the mosque.

No Change in the Status Quo

Israel scrupulously safeguards the holy sites of all faiths in the Old City of Jerusalem.

Palestinian Incitement

Incitement to Violence by Palestinian Authority

President Mahmoud Abbas

“They (Israelis) have no right to desecrate the Al-Aqsa Mosque with their filthy feet. ”

“We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem….”

(Official Palestinian Authority TV Channel, September 16, 2015)

President Abbas’ Fatah organization: Online incitement to violence against Israelis

President Abbas’ Fatah Organization Glorifies Stabbings:

“With our souls we redeem al-Aqsa.”

Online Incitement to Violence against IsraelisPicked up by Palestinian Social Media

Calls to stab and murder Israelis

Online Incitement to Violence against IsraelisPicked up by Palestinian Social Media

Incitement to Violence by Hamas Spokesman

Mushir Al-Masri

“The Jerusalem Intifada has been launched… We must all join the Jerusalem Intifada – all the Palestinian factions. ”

“The knife is our choice.”

Video: How to Murder Israelis

This Incitement Leads Directly to Murder

This Incitement Leads Directly to Murder

October 3th– Muhannad Halabi murders Nehemia Lavi and

Aharon Benita.– Before the attack, Halabi wrote on his Facebook

page: “There is only one al-Quds…. It must be protected.”

This Incitement Leads Directly to Murder

October 7th– Thamer Wareidat stabs an Israeli civilian in

Petah Tikva.– Two days earlier, he replaced his Facebook page

picture with one of al-Aqsa.

This Incitement Leads Directly to Murder

October 9th– Muhammad Ja’abri stabs a police officer in

Kiryat Arba.– 14 hours earlier, Ja’abri updated his Facebook

page to include pictures of al-Aqsa and a call to “fight for its liberation.”

This Incitement Leads Directly to Murder

October 13th– Bilal Abu Ghannam and Baha’a Alyan murder two

Israelis on a bus in Jerusalem.– Two days before the attack, Abu Ghannam spoke

to Alyan and suggested carrying out an attack in the name of al-Aqsa.

Other examples abound.

Terror Attacks

Terrorist Attacks Against Israelis

Palestinian terror in the past month

23 Stabbing and other attacks8 Israelis murdered

70 Israelis wounded

The Big Lies

Lie Number 1

Israel is changing the status quo on the Temple Mount

Lie Number 2

Israel is executing innocent Palestinians

President Abbas on the terrorist stabbing from Jerusalem – Oct 12

“The Israelis execute our children in cold blood, as they

did to this boy Ahmad Manasra”

Lies by PLO Secretary General Sa’eb ErekatOn Palestinian terrorists who perpetrated

murderous attacks against Israelis

“Israel is killing civilians

and children in fieldexecutions.”

He is not innocent His victim is innocent

The Truth About Ahmad Manasra

He wasn’t executed. He was apprehended and is now in Hadassah Hospital