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	Arafat Too Fixated on 'Liberating' Jerusalem
		Arafat's eagerly-awaited and defiant decision prompted the Clinton Administration to suspend any further efforts during the special UN opening session to bring Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak together for talks while both are in town.
		Arafat appears willing to delay realization of a Palestinian state for the moment in hopes of also fulfilling his personal quest to enter Jerusalem at the head of a triumphant Palestinian and Muslim procession to pray at the Temple Mount once it is placed under his full control.
		Arafat's obsession with Saladin is so complete, recent press reports indicate that the Palestinian-controlled Waqf has brought in Italian stonecutters to refurbish an elevated speaker's platform originally erected by Saladin on the Temple Mount, halfway between the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/jerusalem-6.html (1229 words)

	Yasser Arafat information - Search.com
		Arafat's younger brother Dr. Fathi Arafat is rumored to have founded the Palestinian Red Crescent and was involved in the humanitarian aspect of the conflict.
		Arafat's long personal and political survival was taken by most Western commentators as a sign of his mastery of asymmetric warfare and his skill as a tactician, given the extremely dangerous nature of politics of the Middle East and the frequency of assassinations.
		Arafat's ability to adapt to new tactical and political situations, was perhaps exemplified by the rise of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizations, Islamist groups espousing rejectionist opposition to Israel and employing new tactics such as suicide bombing, often intentionally targeting non-military targets, such as malls and movie theaters, to increase the psychological damage.
	www.search.com /reference/Yasser_Arafat (5904 words)

	Muslim American Society
		Pilgrims converged on Mount Arafat during the peak of the hajj to offer prayers.
		ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, Jan 9 (MASNET and News Agencies) - Over two million Muslim pilgrims started moving at sunrise towards Mount Arafat to perform the central rite of hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
		Although some pilgrims, especially Egyptians, had arrived in Arafat the day before, the great majority flocked from the valley of Mina, to the north, where they had spent the night huddled under tents or camped out on the streets with their mats and blankets.
	www.masnet.org /news.asp?id=3094 (861 words)

	CNN.com - As tensions mount, Arafat supports cease-fire - March 28, 2002
		Arafat has said in the past that he would accept the work plan proposed by CIA Director George Tenet.
		Arafat has issued similar calls for an end to the violence in the past.
		Relations between the Sharon government and Arafat further eroded when a 50-ton arms shipment, linked to Palestinian officials by both Israel and the United States, was seized en route to Gaza in January.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/03/28/arafat.ceasefire (1185 words)

	Two million converge on Arafat - theage.com.au
		More than two million Muslim pilgrims began pouring into the plains of Arafat yesterday for the climax of the annual hajj, praying for forgiveness and for Iraq to be saved from a threatened US attack.
		Standing on Mount Arafat before sunset today is the high point of the hajj, and pilgrims who fail to make it here on time must repeat their pilgrimage in future.
		Arafat is a small plain, some 250 metres above sea level, surrounded with high mountains from all directions.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/02/11/1044725746267.html (696 words)

	Muslims make pilgrimage to Mount Arafat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 2 million pilgrims headed to Mount Arafat outside Mecca on Sunday in the culmination of the hajj, an emotional ritual that retraces the last journey of Islam's seventh century Prophet Muhammad.
		The Day of Arafat is the climax of the hajj, and is believed to symbolize the day of judgment, when Islam says the dead will rise and every person will stand before God to answer for his deeds.
		Usually, pilgrims stay and pray on Arafat from noon until after sunset, then head for the nearby plain of Muzdalifah to collect pebbles for the symbolic ritual of "stoning the devil" in Mina on Monday.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-03-04-pilgrim.htm (523 words)

	The Beginning of the End-Time Gog and Magog War Against Israel and Against Jerusalem
		Arafat and his so-called "Palestinian Authority" has become a snare in the midst of Israel which explodes again and again with many Israeli victims.
		Arafat did not agree with this suggestion since it meant that the sovereignty over the Temple Mount would remain in the hands of Israel.
		This was a result of the campaign of The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement which for 33 years has daily brought the Word of G-d to the people of Israel concerning the significance of the Temple Mount.
	www.templemountfaithful.org /Newsletters/2001/5761-2.htm (1207 words)

	The Expulsion of the Palestinian Authority from Jerusalem and the Temple Mount - Dan Diker
		The expulsion of the PA from Jerusalem is the culmination of years of activity by Israeli security forces, which intensified in 2002 with arrests and expulsions of Palestinian security agents in Jerusalem's Old City, freeing Arab residents from years of murder, kidnapping, and extortion.
		Arafat has always seen control of Jerusalem's Temple Mount as the key to raising his status in the Arab world to that of a leader of mythical proportions, in the image of Saladin.
		Arafat had moved quickly to exploit the Rabin government's tendency to "look the other way" in the interest of advancing the peace process rather than to demand the enforcement of Oslo's provisions as they related to Jerusalem, in the face of the PA's direct violations.
	www.jcpa.org /brief/brief3-31.htm (2929 words)

	USATODAY.com - Muslim pilgrims pray on Mount Arafat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Raising their hands to the sky, about 2 million Muslim pilgrims prayed for salvation Wednesday at Mount Arafat, where Saudi Arabia's top cleric said the greatest test for the nation of Islam comes from its sons who are "lured by the devil," a reference to violent Muslim militants.
		While speaking at a mosque on the plain of Mount Arafat, Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik, the kingdom's grand mufti, referred to the violent campaign waged by Muslim militants affiliated with the al-Qaeda terror network against targets in the kingdom, attacks Saudi authorities have been battling the past two years.
		Al-Sheik said the greatest test for the Muslim nation is its own sons gone astray, and he warned them not to be used by enemies of the nation to weaken it.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-19-saudi-hajj_x.htm (685 words)

	Violence Simmers Again at Disputed Temple Mount -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jerusalem, March 3--The Temple Mount, which has been remarkably quiet for the past year, could again be on the verge of an eruption.
		Jews consider the mount, which according to Hebrew Scriptures is the site of the destroyed first and second Temples, to be their holiest shrine.
		Halevi, meanwhile, blames the Islamic clergy on the mount for exacerbating the ever-present tension.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/141/story_14144_1.html (1099 words)

	A Different Light Gives Arafat's Acts New Meaning -- Shibley Telhami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Second, Arafat is employing violence either to end the negotiations or to extract unreasonable concessions from Barak.
		The expectation at the outset of the negotiations was that Arafat could compromise on the Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount, but he chose not to.
		Yet there is a much simpler explanation that is uncomfortable for the peace camp: Arafat knew that Haram al Sharif was the "reddest line" for Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims and could transform the conflict from a manageable nationalist into a militant-religious conflict that threatens him, Barak and the prospects of peace.
	www.brookings.edu /views/Op-Ed/Telhami/20001022.htm (992 words)

	The Islamic claim to the Temple is very recent, since 1930
		Arafat resurrected this false political claim in 1967 with the same excuse that Arafat's uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini, used to initiate the riots of Hebron and Jerusalem in 1929.
		Arafat often claims that the Oslo Treaty is similar to the Hudaibiya Treaty which Mohammed violated with impunity when he was militarily stronger.
		It seems clear that Arafat and the Arab nations have taken the liberty of distorting a mythical folk tale into the substance of a false religious claim on the Jewish Temple Mount and the environs of all Jerusalem.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/templemount.html (4773 words)

	Jerusalem History
		The September 1993 Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO -- the Oslo Agreement -- represented a fundamental change in past policy, for Israel's very willingness to negotiate the Jerusalem issue, as specifically stipulated in Oslo, was not narrowly circumscribed to the religious dimension alone as it had been under past Israeli governments.
		Arafat's post-summit comments on the negotiations revealed the bottom line of the Palestinian position on Jerusalem: the PLO's demands for sovereignty "not only refer to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Temple Mount mosques, and the Armenian quarter, but it is Jerusalem in its entirety, entirety, entirety."
		Moreover, since September 2000, the Muslim Waqf closed off the Temple Mount entirely from any archeological oversight by the Israel Antiquities Authority; some 13,000 tons of rubble were removed from the Temple Mount by the Waqf that included archeological remnants from the First and Second Temple periods, so that new underground mosques could be completed.
	www.jcpa.org /jcprg10.htm (1854 words)

	Top Saudi Cleric Blasts Attacks on Nation
		Muslims on the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, headed to the Mount of Mercy outside Saudi Arabia's holy city.
		MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's top cleric told 2 million hajj pilgrims Wednesday that some of Islam's own son's had been "lured by the devil'' to conduct violent attacks on the kingdom and charged that the non-Muslim world was conspiring against the people of the faith.
		The pilgrims converged on Mount Arafat for the climax of the hajj, their eyes welled with tears as they prayed on the most critical day of the annual pilgrimage the faithful believe will wipe away their sins.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln101/Hajj.htm (826 words)

	Temple Mount destruction - Third Temple, Al Aqsa mosque, Har HaBayit
		The agents of Arafat on the Temple Mount are now in the midst of an intensive, violent campaign to destroy and remove all the remains of the First and Second Temples and to change the identity of the Temple Mount into an Islamic site.
		In a speech which Arafat gave in Ramallah (the Biblical city of the Hill of G–d, Givat Elohim, and was a Jewish city settled by Jews but occupied by the Arabs in 630 CE) he stated that he is ready for a war and that he is not afraid of the Israeli tanks and aircraft.
		With Jerusalem and the Temple Mount now "on the table" in the Peace negotiations, it is interesting to hear the views of a leftist leader, who has in the past been instrumental to get the Peace Talks and the gradual surrender of Israel territory to the Palestinians, going.
	www.revelations.org.za /TempleMount.htm (10644 words)

	Hajj pilgrims arrive at Mount Arafat \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Muslim pilgrims gather for prayer on Mount Arafat, the mountain of forgiveness, outside Mecca.
		Pilgrims at Mount Arafat stood in the open under the burning sun and begged Allah for forgiveness.
		Speaking at a mosque on the plain of Mount Arafat, Sheikh al-Sheik, the kingdom's grand mufti, said Muslims were facing critical challenges, among them accusations of terrorism and human rights abuses.
	www.guardian.co.uk /religion/Story/0,2763,1682666,00.html?gusrc=rss (812 words)

	Mort Zuckerman
		The Muslim mullah at the mosque on Temple Mount called for Muslims to "eradicate the Jews from Palestine." Schools were closed; students and others were bused to the Temple Mount to participate in rioting.
		Barak, after a meeting with Arafat in Paris convened by the United States, relied on Palestinian promises that their security would keep the peace on the Temple Mount.
		Arafat said, "That is not the Western Wall at all, but a Muslim shrine." Arafat's minister of information said, "Jerusalem is not a Jewish city, despite the biblical myth implanted in some minds." He added: "The location of the Temple Mount is in question.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /mort/zuckerman101800.asp (1765 words)

	The Temple Institute: MKs demand official rejection of Arafat burial on Mount
		Diplomatic officials rejected reports that PA representatives had made an official request for Arafat to be buried on the Mount.
		Arafat himself had asked his supporters to arrange his burial on the Mount in March.
		The last notable Palestinian to be buried on the Mount was Faisal Husseini, PLO representative in Jerusalem and a PA minister, in 2001.
	www.templeinstitute.org /archive/10-28-04.htm (674 words)

	CNN.com - World - Muslim faithful climb Mount Arafat on Hajj's biggest day - March 15, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Faithful Muslims began climbing Mount Arafat before dawn Wednesday on the pivotal day of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city.
		Chanting in unison, row after row of pilgrims made their way on buses, cars and on foot to the sacred hill where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have received the last passage of Islam's holy book, the Koran, during his final sermon 14 centuries ago.
		A rocky hill on top of Mount Arafat, Jabal al-Rahma (Mountain of Mercy), was quickly filled with pilgrims Wednesday as people from about 100 countries jostled for good spots.
	www.islamicity.com /recognitions/cnn/000315 (818 words)

	World Tribune.com: Israel
		The officials quoted Clinton as saying that he told Arafat that Israel cannot concede on sovereignty over the site, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims.
		Arafat flew to Egypt on Monday night and held a two-hour discussion with President Hosni Mubarak.
		The officials said Arafat is willing to go as far as replacing Palestinian sovereignty with Islamic sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/Archive-2000/ss-israel-09-13.html (616 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Pilgrims descend from Mount Arafat
		More than two million Muslim pilgrims have descended from Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia after the central ritual of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
		At sunset wave after wave of pilgrims, many on foot, made their way to Muzdalifah after a day of prayer and asking for forgiveness at Mount Arafat, the site where Prophet Mohammad delivered his final sermon 14 centuries ago.
		Pilgrims who have performed the day of prayer and reading from the Islamic holy book, the Koran, at Arafat is believed to be cleansed of their sins.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/678561.stm (479 words)

	Dean's World - Suspicions Mount Over Arafat's "Real" Illness (Joe Gandelman)
		The suspicion on Yassir Arafat's illness: it's AIDS -- and it would explain a lot of the deepening mystery over what is happening.
		Loftus said the CIA has known this about Arafat for quite awhile and that as a result the US has encouraged Sharon not to take Arafat out because the US has known Arafat was about done.
		In his memoirs "Red Horizons," Pacepa relates a conversation in 1978 with Constantin Munteaunu, a general assigned to teach Arafat and the PLO techniques to deceive the West into granting the organization recognition.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1099811339.shtml (1277 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - International - Muslims flock to Mount Arafat for Day of Judgment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		MILLIONS of pilgrims converged on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia yesterday for the central ritual of the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca made by able-bodied Muslims once in a lifetime.
		Mount Arafat is where the Prophet Muhammad preached his last sermon in AD 632, three months before his death.
		Fatima Farouk, another Nigerian who was performing the hajj for the first time, said that despite the demanding journey, she was thrilled "because after Mount Arafat, you’re almost promised heaven".
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=125132004 (685 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		PLAIN OF ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, January 31 (IslamOnline.net and News Agencies) - More than two million pilgrims descended Mount Arafat on Saturday, January 31, and began readying themselves for the stoning of the devil a day later.
		Standing on Mount Arafat, where Prophet Mohammad delivered his last sermon 14 centuries ago, before sunset is the high point of the hajj, and pilgrims who fail to make it here on time must repeat their pilgrimage in future.
		Arafat is a small plain, some 250 meters (yards) above sea level, surrounded with high mountains from all directions.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2004-01/31/article01.shtml (669 words)

	Hajj climaxes today at sacred site
		MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) - More than 2 million Muslim pilgrims from 178 countries prayed for salvation today at Mount Arafat, Islam’s most sacred site, where Saudi Arabia’s top cleric declared the West was conducting a "war against our creed."
		With hands raised to heaven, the mass of pilgrims converged on the mount, not far from Mecca and the site of the last sermon by Islam’s 7th-century prophet Muhammad three months before he died in 632.
		Two years ago, 244 people were trampled to death when the crowd panicked during the ritual stoning of the devil, which happens tomorrow.
	www.columbiatribune.com /2006/Jan/20060109News024.asp (492 words)

	Muslim pilgrims pray at Mount Arafat for safe hajj - Turkish Daily News Jan 10, 2006
		More than two million Muslim pilgrims thronged holy Mount Arafat near Mecca on Monday, praying for a safe hajj after a hostel collapse and warnings of a possible spread of deadly bird flu.
		Many pilgrims, weary from the night's trek to Mount Arafat from Mena, outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, lay on the sidewalks to rest and pause in prayer.
		Muslims believe God will hear their prayers if they are made within the sacred zone of Mount Arafat, the site of Prophet Mohammad's last sermon 1,400 years ago.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=32993 (703 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - The Hajj
		MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia -- Heavy rains accompanied by gusty winds at the Mount of Mercy and Muzdalifa on Sunday night clouded what has been the most organized Hajj to date.
		There were chaotic scenes as pilgrims tried to rush out of Arafat immediately after sundown as ordained by the Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him.
		The police, manning Arafat's borders with Muzdalifa and Mina, refused to allow anybody out before the sun had completely set.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/hajj/stories/notebook.03 (591 words)

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