Israeli 🇮🇱 far-right extremist politician and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir @itamarbengvir broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem 🇵🇸 on Thursday morning, surrounded by a large number of Israeli troops who also barred Palestinians from visiting the… pic.twitter.com/Jt5wSNd67c
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Ultranationalist Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir desecrates the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/m6Fb3fXyn0
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People think Bibi is nuts.
They have no idea.
He’s surrounded by complete whackjobs.
That’s a big part of what’s happening in Israel: these men who are around him are egging him on, pushing him to go further.
This guy did this thing just to cause Moslems to commit violence for the purpose of disrupting any attempts by anyone to cool off the situation.
Israel’s extremist national security minister has visited the holiest Muslim site in Jerusalem, recording a video saying he went to pray, in a provocative move as he seeks to disrupt ceasefire talks.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist and champion of the settler movement, recorded footage at al-Aqsa mosque compound, also known as the Temple Mount, a site holy to Muslims and Jews.
In the shadow of the Dome of the Rock, Ben-Gvir spoke with his personal security visible behind him and an armed member of the Israeli border police patrolling nearby. He said he had come to the compound to pray for the return of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian militants in Gaza “but without a reckless deal, without surrendering”.
He added that he was “praying and working hard” for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to resist international pressure to sign a ceasefire deal and instead continue a military campaign in Gaza. Israeli attacks have killed more that 38,000 people in the strip since the attack by Hamas militants on 7 October last year.
It’s really unserious to keep using that number.
I don’t know what the real number is, but it is more than twice that number.
His visit immediately drew condemnation from the Jordanian foreign ministry, a powerful force within the body administering the holy Islamic compound, which called it “a provocative step” and a violation undertaken by “the extremist Israeli government”.
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Al-Aqsa mosque compound is a highly sensitive site, where efforts by a faction of extremist Jewish settlers to pray there are seen as a violation by Muslim worshippers and observers, symbolising efforts to bring the mosque compound and the divided holy city of Jerusalem under total Israeli control.
Israel absolutely has the ability to just completely seize the site, which is what he is threatening with this “visit.”
He’s also threatening Bibi, really – telling him that the plan is the plan and there is no backing down from the plan.
The plan is to keep pushing, until there is a US war with Iran, and until all of Palestine is called “Israel.”
Here is a video of Ben-Gvir pulling a gun on someone in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/bL0Z9wD3ez
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