Hey, Don't Blame Us

If the Muslims seek to blame Jewish "provocations" by attempts at prayer on the Temple Mount, look elsewhere because it isn't true:

Police make Temple Mount decisions, court says

October 8, 2009: JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Supreme Court rejected a request to allow Jews to visit the Temple Mount.

The Temple Mount Human Rights organization had filed a request asking the court to order police to open the site to Jews on Friday and Saturday.

In its decision released Thursday, the court said that police had to make the final decision.

and

High Court refuses to allow Jews into Temple Mount on weekend

The High Court of Justice has rejected a petition filed by the Temple Mount Human Rights group, headed by Yehuda Glick, who demanded that Jews receive access to the holy site on Friday and Saturday.

We aren't even there.

But this is a repeat of that 1930 commission:-

Palestinian FM wants UN to intervene in Temple Mount dispute

Palestinian foreign minister, Riyad al-Maliki, has announced that he asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intervene immediately in order to calm tensions at Temple Mount, which has been the scene of recent rioting. On a visit to New York he said, "I informed him of the escalation of Israel's policy against Palestinians and against the al-Aqsa Mosque."

I've discussed that historical link up with the 1930 international commission (here)

And here's a summary of the events:

...Sir Moses Montefiore tried in vain to obtain permission for placing benches or for installing a protection against rain there. Permission to pave the street was, however, granted. Occasionally a table for the reading of the Torah was placed near the Wall, but had to be soon removed at the demands of the Waqf (Muslim religious authorities)...In 1912 the Turkish authorities ordered the removal of a partition between men and women, benches, a glass cupboard for candles, a table for reading Torah, etc., after the complaints of Waqf.

In the period of the British Mandate there were numerous clashes around the Western Wall between Jews and Moslems...In order to antagonize the Jews, the mufti ordered the opening of a gate at the southern end of the street thus converting in into a a thoroughfare for passersby and animals. In addition the Muslims deliberately help loud-voiced ceremonies in the vicinity. They also complained again about the placing of accessories of worship near the Wall, and a partition between men and women was removed by the British police on Yom Kippur of 1928. In August 1929 an instigated Muslim crowd rioted among the worshipers and destroyed ritual objects. This unrest was followed by riots a few days later.

The British set up a committee of inquiry and consequently an international committee (consisting of a Swede, a Swiss, and a Dutchman) was appointed by the League of Nations to resolve "the problem of the Wall". It conducted in Jerusalem, in the summer of 1930, "the trial of the Wall". The commission concluded that the Muslims had absolute ownership of the Wall. However, the Jews had the uncontested right to worship and to place seats in the street, though not to blow the shofar there.

The Arabs objected, and the Jews agreed, except for the last point, considering it a humiliation. Each year nationalist youths [of Betar] would blow the shofar near the wall at the termination of Yom Kippur, which would always lead to the intervention of the British police.

And, for a P.S., let's recall that the League of Nations Mandate decision included an Article 15 which declared that "The Mandatory shall see that complete freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship, subject only to the maintenance of public order and morals, are ensured to all. No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of Palestine on the ground of race, religion or language."