Signed agreements between Israel and the PLO state:
Both sides shall respect and protect religious rights of Jews, Christians, Moslems and Samaritans to wit:So this story from AFP is interesting:
Protecting the holy sites.
Allowing free access to the holy sites.
Allowing freedom of worship and practice.
Hundreds of Israeli Jews held a rare prayers session by a mosque in a Palestinian village on the occupied West Bank early Sunday, an AFP photographer said.18 years? And when the Jews finally go - Jews who are hardly Zionist - they get attacked with a barrage of rocks and Molotov cocktails.
The Israeli army accompanied busses carrying over 300 ultra-Orthodox men, mostly from the Breslov Hassidic sect, to Younis mosque in Halhul, north of Hebron, where according to Jewish tradition biblical prophets Gad and Nathan are buried.
One worshipper told AFP it was the first time in 18 years that Jews were allowed to pray at the site, deep in a Palestinian-controlled area.
A military spokeswoman said the army and police forces accompanying the worshippers were attacked by Palestinians hurling "rocks and firebombs", with the forces responding with riot dispersal means to "prevent further escalation".
Could anyone trust Palestinian security to protect Jews wanting to worship in their holy places? Ever?
This is what "access to holy places" is like under Arab rule.
According to tradition, the graves are located inside the mosque, but the Jewish worshippers did not enter the holy site, rather held an hour of pre-dawn prayers on the road outside before leaving, the photographer said.Naturally, if there is a Jewish holy site, a mosque must be built on top of it. So Jews can't enter.
