NOTE: Keep reading to the end. This congressman really got an education and came away with great insight.
An American Congressman has expressed his "shock" after witnessing anti-Jewish discrimination on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, during a recent fact-finding mission to Israel.
US Rep. Bill Johnson, (R-OH) was joined by Congressman David McKinley (R-WV), on a tour of the State of Israel organized by the Israel Allies Foundation, "to see the situation there for ourselves".
The trip took them to all corners of the holy land; from the southern towns of Sderot and Ashkelon, where they met with local residents and heard their accounts of life under rocket-fire from the Gaza Strip, to Judea and Samaria, central Israel and the Golan Heights.
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| Rep. Johnson (2nd R) on the Temple Mount, flanked by his Waqf escort Dan Schneider |
He noted, for example, how in the Golan Heights Israel is treating Syrians injured by the civil war there without discriminating between the sides.
"Many of these are the very same people that on any other given day would want to kill the Israelis!" he remarked.
His visit to Judea and Samaria was extremely enlightening, he said. "When people talk about 'settlements' you think plywood and tents... but these people live just like us. There are schools, houses, shopping centers - these are real communities with real people."
'Shocking and disturbing'
But he said his experience on the Temple Mount stood in "stark contrast" to the rest of his time in Israel.
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