Comments on: IDF makes the Dome of the Rock vanish from photo, and lies about it

By: omutunde

omutunde — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:36:40 +0000

Lol, such hypocrisy among these Israel-bashing commenters….Arab/Islamist and PA (the so-called moderates) material routinely wipes out Israel from their maps….

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:44:08 +0000

I’d read the HaAretz article – I thought it was strange that it was supposedly an illustration from the second temple period, when it was clearly a modern picture showing people congregating at the Kotel. What a load of fucking shit.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:31:05 +0000

Yossi,
Your slogan “Wish you Orwell” I thought an exaggeration; I see it is not.
You are right that the greater worry is the IDF’s failure to reprimand its spokesman. These people are licensed to kill, yet ignore reality.
I fear going to the next 972 post.

By: Clif Brown

Clif Brown — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:46:14 +0000

Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, Muslim fundamentalists. They really do have a lot in common in their outlook that makes the particular religion they follow almost irrelevant compared to the similar frame of mind – there is only one right way, those who do not follow it are damned either now or later, If God doesn’t do the damning then we will act to help him.

Here we are a few hundred years past the Enlightenment and still with millions all set to repress others (if not already doing it) in the name of this or that mythology. Sometimes I wonder if Newton’s, Darwin’s and Einstein’s intellectual contributions have had any impact on the majority of humanity.

The Internet is a bright spot where the truth can come out and the fundamentals of the fundamentalists can be examined by all.

Fundamentalism continues because the young who are raised in any variety of it become adults with a mindset entrenched against reason and fully equipped with “answers”, ready to reproduce the same characteristics in the next generation.

We rightly laugh at this photo, but it’s only a mild example of what would be forced down our throats if those who produced it were given the power to do so.

By: borg

borg — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:05:11 +0000

My guess is that the original photo contained the mosques, but the waqf complained that the mosques were used for idf purposes, so the idf photoshopped out the mosques

By: Alyssa Goldstein

Alyssa Goldstein — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:14:07 +0000

I didn’t know they had solar panels and water boilers during the second temple period either! The military rabbinate should lose its photoshop privileges.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:04:08 +0000

A quick observation: Is that a fog that surrounds the temple mount, or smoke? Looks like something up there just blew up…

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:31:44 +0000

Igor and Aristeides, you two are just cynical. Don’t you know that verse blah of some book in the Old Testament specifically mentions the holy antenna masts and satellite dishes of Jerusalem? Not to mention Moses saying that electric lighting is like, well popular in the old city and no one who’s anyone uses oil for lighting as that’s stone age, yeah? Serious. Check your bibles.

By: AMIR.BK

AMIR.BK — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:11:38 +0000

BERL: The torah actually has some insightful verses regarding the pre-davidic jerusalem. most notably Avram’s meeting with Malchitsedek king of Shalem who is described as a priest of the “supreme god”. Of course the torah makes it appear as though avram and Malchitsedek both worshipped the same god which is very strange chronologically. This is off topic I guess.

By: aristeides

aristeides — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:34:20 +0000

It also has a lot of funny-looking people in the courtyard, dressed in wierd clothes that nobody wore during the Temple period.