{"id":4480,"date":"2011-07-19T22:03:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4480"},"modified":"2011-07-19T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:10:54","slug":"author-jim-fletcher-glenn-beck-would-broadcast-from-the-temple-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/author-jim-fletcher-glenn-beck-would-broadcast-from-the-temple-mount","title":{"rendered":"Author Jim Fletcher: Glenn Beck would broadcast from the Temple Mount?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The announcement today that Glenn Beck\u2019s previously announced, weird event at Jerusalem\u2019s Temple Mount, has been moved due to security concerns is weird,&#8221; writes author Jim Fletcher. &#8220;But welcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher\u00a0made the comment in\u00a0his Beliefnet feature: &#8220;Is It the End of the World?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why the popular populist announced in the first place that he\u2019d hold a pro Israel rally at the highly sensitive site is beyond me. I\u2019ve been there three times, but it\u2019s just as likely that I would never have been able to ascend to the place holy to three faiths. The Temple Mount\u2014Haram al-Sharif to Muslims\u2014is I believe the greatest flashpoint in our world today.<\/p>\n<p>After Israel took Jerusalem\u2019s Old City in June, 1967, Moshe Dayan gave the keys back to the Arabs the next day. Why? He said he didn\u2019t want to ignite World War III; not a small number of Israelis wanted to immediately begin rebuilding the Temple.<\/p>\n<p>Periodically, a crazy or two will \u201ctry something,\u201d although the Israeli police and army do a good job protecting the 35-acre compound. The Palestinian wakf is officially in charge, and Muslims can generally visit when they want. Not so for Christians and Jews (although few Jews visit the area, for various reasons. Some feel they will walk over the area of the Temple\u2019s \u201choly of holies\u201d and thus desecrate the spot).<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, it is hard to understand what Beck wanted to accomplish with his pro Israel rally. He has said the event will take place somewhere else in Jerusalem. Great; another security headache for the Israeli police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/#ixzz1SZjC5oc1\">CLICK HERE to read Fletcher&#8217;s suggestions of where Beck should broadcast<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Inspiration\/Galleries\/dome-of-the-rock.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">To read more about the Temple Mount, CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The announcement today that Glenn Beck\u2019s previously announced, weird event at Jerusalem\u2019s Temple Mount, has been moved due to security concerns is weird,&#8221; writes author Jim Fletcher. &#8220;But welcome.&#8221; Fletcher\u00a0made the comment in\u00a0his Beliefnet feature: &#8220;Is It the End of the World?&#8221; Why the popular populist announced in the first place that he\u2019d hold a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[334,1165,1166],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian","category-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-jim-fletcher","tag-temple-mount"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Author Jim Fletcher: Glenn Beck would broadcast from the Temple Mount?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/author-jim-fletcher-glenn-beck-would-broadcast-from-the-temple-mount\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author Jim Fletcher: Glenn Beck would broadcast from the Temple Mount?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;The announcement today that Glenn Beck\u2019s previously announced, weird event at Jerusalem\u2019s Temple Mount, has been moved due to security concerns is weird,&#8221; 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