These Jew people – “people” – are really going for broke.
These extremists in the government are going around trying to force escalation.
Ben-Gvir is in Netanyahu’s cabinet, but he’s much more aggressive, and is trying to force Netanyahu to go along with him.
An Israeli crowd led by hard-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed Jerusalem’s most holy site today in a pilgrimage seen by Muslims as provocative.
His visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque launches a fresh challenge to rules covering one of the most sensitive sites in the Middle East – with tensions over the compound fuelling violence before.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the visit – which took place on a Jewish holiday- as a ‘provocative intrusion’ that endangered the fragile status quo regarding the Jerusalem compound.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly denied there would be any change to rules that prohibit Jews from praying at the site, which is holy to both Muslims and Jews, and rebuked Ben-Gvir, the national security minister.
‘There is no private policy of any minister on the Temple Mount – neither the Minister of National Security nor any other minister,’ Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
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Ben-Gvir, Israel’s National Security Minister, visited the site as Jews marked Tisha B’Av, a day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the biblical Temples.
It marks a day when a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem in the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 587 BCE.
The Al-Aqsa compound is revered by Jews as a vestige of their two ancient temples and is administered by a Jordanian religious foundation.
But under rules dating back decades, although Jews are allowed to visit, they may not pray there.
‘Our policy is to allow prayer,’ Ben-Gvir said as he passed a line of Jewish visitors at the site earlier today.
In video released by his office, Ben-Gvir was also seen strolling through the compound singing, ‘The people of Israel live!’ while accompanied by dozens of supporters.
One supporter yelled a Jewish prayer, which is not permitted under the longstanding arrangement in place at the site meant to ease regional tensions.
Ben-Gvir has said he is changing the policy and, despite previous assurances to the contrary by Netanyahu, he repeated this stance today.
The security minister added that ‘very large progress’ had been made to allow Jewish prayer at the site.
The Waqf, the foundation that administers the site, said some 2,250 Jews entered the site on Tuesday.
The spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced Ben-Gvir’s visit as a ‘provocation’ and called on the United States to intervene ‘if it wants to prevent the region from exploding in an uncontrollable manner’.
It sure as hell looks like the US is going to be dragged into a war with Iran.
I wonder how that will go?
I don’t know and anyone who tells you they know is stupid or lying on purpose.