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The attacks on Ben-Gvir’s Temple Mount excursion defy reason

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Melanie Phillips
Jan 06, 2023
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Two Jews storming Temple Mount (…joke!!) From Twitter

Those scratching their heads over the way western liberals have lost all connection with reason over issues of race, gender and western “colonialism” might usefully look at the reaction to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount this week.

Here was a Jew walking for 15 minutes on the site t…

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