Netanyahu: ‘Won’t Be Another Mosque On The Har Habayis’

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Tensions continued to bubble Monday on the Har Habayis after the “Gate of Mercy” structure near the Al-Aqsa mosque was certified as another mosque, with silent agreement from Israel, despite official denials issued by Israeli authorities.

Government officials said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an order to remove equipment from the site and disallow prayer there.

The structure was recently fitted with rugs and other furnishings along with renovations. Eran Tzidkiyahu of the Forum for Regional Thinking visited the site on Monday and assessed that it would soon be used as a permanent prayer area for Muslims.

Meanwhile, the Islamic authority that oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, known as the Waqf, announced it has already appointed an imam for the “Gate of Mercy” structure and that its status would be identical to other sites of worship on the Temple Mount.

Israeli police on Sunday arrested the head of Waqf authority, Sheikh Abdelazeem Salhab, and other Waqf leaders, following violent protests last week on the Temple Mount. Salhab, who was released shortly after his arrest and barred from the area for one week, was appointed by neighboring Jordan.

From one mosque to five

If Israel does not act to reverse the trend, the number of mosques at the Temple Mount compound will stand at five.

Some 52 years ago, immediately following the Six-Day War, there was only one mosque, Al-Aqsa mosque. Over time, the Dome of the Rock was also certified as a mosque and mostly serves Muslim women on Fridays. In the 1990s, two other mosques were certified, but underground: the “Gate of Mercy” area, which some Muslims in recent days have hailed as the “fifth mosque,” was shut down by Israel in 2005 after a Hamas-linked group carried out activities there.

The new Waqf leadership, comprising officials from Fatah, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, breached the site around two weeks ago, and last Friday thousands of worshippers prayed there. Waqf leaders arrested by Israel, as stated, were released a short while later on shaky legal grounds, as the aforementioned Hamas-affiliated group that had operated there, and which served as the pretext for shutting the site down, no longer exists, and doubts emerged over the legality of the most recent closure order.

‘Strong resistance’

It should be noted that before 2005, although the compound was controlled by the Muslims it didn’t function as a mosque and people normally didn’t use it for worship.

Senior Arab-Israeli figures, among them the head of the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab citizens of Israel, former Knesset member Mohammad Barakeh, together with representatives of the Balad and Ra’am parties, visited the structure on Monday and met with Waqf leaders.

“It is the right of every Muslim to prayer at Al-Aqsa mosque. The actions of the Israeli government to Judaize Jerusalem and erode the status quo at Al-Aqsa will be met with strong resistance,” they threatened.

An Israeli government official said: “The prime minister gave instructions to enforce the court’s order without compromise. The political echelon won’t allow the site to become a mosque. This directive was passed to the police and this message was delivered to certain authorities and to Jordan as well. The prime minister has instructed the public security minister [Gilad Erdan] to remove the rugs and other equipment from the site.”

(JNS)

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Don’t see any reason to fight over this.

    The Har HaBayis is anyway going to be in Muslim hands and a major Muslim prayer site until Moshiach comes.

    The Israel-Jordon peace deal gives the Wakf custody of the Har HaBayis.

    So what NON SYMBOLIC difference does another minor mosque make?

    • 3:15, why does Har Habais have to be in the islamonazi hands at all, even before Moshiach comes?! If you are so eager to give things to the enemies, give away, until Moshiach comes, your own house and bank account to your local islamonazi. Besides, Har Habais is not even mentioned in the koran, and it was never a “major muslim prayer site” until 20th century arab-nationalism tumor. Har Habais should have been in the hands of Rabonim who would direct permissible areas to enter; instead one-eyed idiot Moshe Dayan said that Har Habais is just a bunch of irrelevant ancient history and gave it away to waqh. It is osur for Jews to desecrate Har Habais, even more so it is osur to allow Har Habais to be desecrated by filthy goyim. At the very least, don’t pretend that everything is fine and dandy, you judenrat.

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