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April 11, 2005
Excitement on Campus
Recent events in Israel in relation to the Gaza pullout and the protests outside of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, campus here at UJ has been quite crazy lately. Yesterday there were protests at the Main Gate where they burned American and Israeli flags! Basically, it wasn't a great day to be an American in Jordan. I stayed away and didn't have any problems but I know that people are pretty angry.
Basically, what is happened is that Israeli settelers decided to protest around the Dome of the Rock because of the planned Gaza pullout. The protests supposedly ended peacefully but that doesn't really matter if you are an activist college student. It is much more fun to protest!
Check out the following articles for more information:
Jordan king warns against harming al-Aqsa
The Division or Demolition of the Al-Aqsa Mosque
ps: the second one is just for fun, full of conspiracy theories but I figured it was appropriate, enjoy!
Posted by rcollins at April 11, 2005 9:08 AM
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Wow this is interesting to hear (of course it doesn't come as much of surprise)!
I think the point should be made- as it seems that people seem to neglect mention of this- that the settlers are not trying to stir a Muslim backlash (although that may be an intention as well) but rather to divert troops from enforcing the pullout from Gaza. As we saw this weekend, 10,000 police/soldiers surrounded the Temple Mount for what only ammounted to a 31 person "demonstration".
Posted by: Josh at April 11, 2005 12:48 PM