LIBERALS BOTH IN ISRAEL AND ABROAD FEAR THAT NETANYAHU WILL OPEN THE TEMPLE MOUNT TO JEWISH PRAYER

Muslims Warn Netanyahu Against Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount

Those who care more about what God said than the petulant threats of the Muslims are calling for the return of Jewish sovereignty at the Temple Mount.

 

By Ryan Jones 

 

Israel Today

November 6, 2022

 

Jerusalem's Muslim-occupied Temple Mount, as seen from the Mount of Olives.

 

Among the things liberals both in Israel and abroad fear the incoming religious right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu will do is open the Temple Mount to Jewish prayer.

Playing on that fear, Islamist lawmaker Mansour Abbas at the weekend issued a warning: Letting Jews pray at Judaism’s holies site will result in an “escalation.”

Muslims today claim that Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is Islam’s third holiest site, though that wasn’t always the case, and some are beginning to acknowledge that the site means little, if anything to Islam. Still, the majority have bought the lie, and as a premier Islamic holy site, they cannot accept its use by any other religion.

This prohibition against all but Islamic religious expression at the Temple Mount is what Israel calls “the status quo,” a Muslim-imposed state of affairs that the Jewish state and the West dare not violate for fear of an outbreak of Muslim violence.

“Let’s not be naive. When you’re talking about the most sensitive subject, which is the holy sites…people’s minds stop working and religious feelings take over. We’ve seen how many rounds of escalation [of violence] were sparked by provocations at Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Abbas told Israel’s Channel 12 News.

 

Orthodox Jews praying on the Temple Mount

 

When Abbas says “provocations” he’s speaking about Jews having the audacity to not only visit, but actually bow and pray to God at the Temple Mount, a site that the Bible describes as the place where God chose to place His name and from where He required the Jewish people to worship Him.

For many Jews the issue becomes who they fear more: God, or the Arab Muslim world.

Those who care more about what God said than the petulant threats of the Muslims are increasingly calling for a return of full Jewish sovereignty at the Temple Mount. And their numbers are growing, represented in the incoming government by the ascendant Religious Zionism party and its firebrand co-leader Itamar Ben-Gvir.