I'm puzzled by the sign, as pointed out in red:
But we know the only persons prohibited on the Temple Mount are non-Muslims who wish to religiously identify with the sanctity of the location and to either pray, say Psalms or otherwise display religious feelings openly - which they cannot do or face arrest or removal.
We do know that foxes is a symbol of the non-Jew who conquered the Temple Mount, as in Lamentations 5:
2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens...11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes are hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders are not honoured...15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. 16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned. 17 For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim; 18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Then again, the fox appears in the parable of Rabbi Akiba in the Talmud:
...they saw a fox emerging from the place of the Holy of Holies. The others started weeping; Rabbi Akiva laughed. Said they to him: "Why are you laughing?" Said he to them: "Why are you weeping?"
Said they to him: "A place [so holy] that it is said of it, 'the stranger that approaches it shall die,'1 and now foxes traverse it, and we shouldn't weep?" Said he to them: "That is why I laugh..."As long as Uriah's prophecy had not been fulfilled, I feared that Zechariah's prophecy may not be fulfilled either. But now that Uriah's prophecy has been fulfilled, it is certain that Zechariah's prophecy will be fulfilled."
With these words they replied to him: "Akiva, you have consoled us! Akiva, you have consoled us!"
So, again, what does that sign signify?
That Jews are the foxes?
That they agree that Arabs could be portrayed as foxes?
That they do not want Rabbi Akiva's words to mean anything?
What do you think?
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R' Akiva also rejoiced in the foxes - that his companions "rejoiced", because it is written that the foxes only go in an unsettled, wild place. And so, even though the Temple Mount had been conquered by foreigners - no alien culture had managed to settle and keep it. The Romans, and no other culture have been able to really "take" it - regardless of how many flags they planted, arches they constructed, or pigs they but upon the altar (r"l).
This is from one of the Rebbe's sichos - not verbatim - but the meaning. And I am sorry I cannot give you the exact one - I'm not well enough educated (yet) to have all of this at my fingertips. I do remember how this consoled me, when I heard the shiur.
Their sign is a meaningless flag.
May we merit the coming of Moshiach, speedily in our times...NOW.
The foxes are OUR friends - not theirs.
that site hasnt updated in years...some of their articles border on the absurd...especially the ones written before the second intifada
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