The Ra’am Party, which is part of Israel’s current governing coalition, has claimed that “the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in its 144 dunams, is solely the property of Muslims, and no one else has any right to it.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s new government is cozying up to the globalist EU and the “progressive” agenda in hopes of garnering support, but globalists will never abandon the Palestinian “resistance.” This foreign policy demonstrates the Israeli leadership’s obliviousness to the fact that Islamic doctrine is hostile to Jews, as is reflected in the Palestinian imperative to destroy the State of Israel and no matter what. This is reflected in the fact that the Palestinians are also supported by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The Islamic supremacy declared over Jews and the Holy Land goes back many centuries, as Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, points out:
In the seventh century, the Damascus-based Umayyad rulers built up Jerusalem as a counter-weight and hajj pilgrimage alternative to Mecca, where their political rivals were. This is when the important Muslim shrines, the Dome of the Rock (691 CE) and, later, the Al-Aqsa Mosque (705 CE), were intentionally built on the site of the destroyed biblical Jewish temples –– a time-honored practice to physically signal the predominance of Islam.
The Ra’am party is merely staying true to normative Islamic doctrine. But should such a party be part of Israel’s ruling coalition?
“Ra’am: Al-Aqsa Mosque ‘is solely the property of Muslims,'” by Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel, July 18, 2021:
The Ra’am party condemns the ascent of hundreds of Jewish “settlers” to the Temple Mount this morning in observance of the Tisha B’Av fsat.
“The Al-Aqsa Mosque, in its 144 dunams, is solely the property of Muslims, and no one else has any right to it,” the Islamist party says in a joint statement with its parent organization, the Islamic Movement.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam. But the Temple Mount is also Judaism’s holiest site, as the two biblical temples were said to be built on the hilltop. A fragile status quo prevails at the flashpoint sanctuary, with Jewish prayer officially forbidden.
Authorities “allowed officials and Knesset members to storm Al-Aqsa, perform prayers, perform religious rituals, and declaim the Israeli national anthem Hatikva in the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Ra’am says, listing a number of actions its members consider to be provocations.
Israeli police were said to clear out Muslim worshippers in advance of the Jewish pilgrimage, which happens yearly on Tisha B’Av. Palestinians threw stones at officers, police said this morning….
“The events that may result from it could inflame the situation in Jerusalem and the entire region, leading to a catastrophic religious war,” Ra’am says.
Wellington says
“…solely the property of Muslims, and no one else has any right to it.”
Actually, this is the Islamic position about every last acre of real estate on planet Earth.
mortimer says
Too true.
Since Islam was created and developed in ‘Greater Syria’ (Arabic: Bilad al Sham), Islam is particularly focused on this region, e.g. ISIS. No one but Muslims are considered the legitimate ‘owners’ of any place in Sham.
One of the theories used by Muslims to lay their claim is the conquest by Omar ibn al-Khatab who took Jerusalem from the Romans. The Muslims have this idea that ‘Muslim territory’ cannot be ‘un-conquered’. It doesn’t seem to have a firm basis in the Islamic source texts.
One hadith says that Mohammed had the keys to the riches of the world and Muslims were appropriated those riches for Mohammed.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
Kesselman says
”The Ra’am party is merely staying true to normative Islamic doctrine. But should such a party be part of Israel’s ruling coalition?”—Of course, not!
The current Israeli government is back on the bad track copying the Labor Party of the sixtieth. Now the old play can continue btw the two antagonist parties. Did the policy accomplish anything back then—other than stalemate?
mortimer says
Agree with Kesselman. It’s similar to having a Nazi Party in the Knesset.
Cathryn Paradise says
Trying to keep the Third Temple of Bible Prophecy being built. Same reason they walled up the Eastern Gate. They think the God of the Bible is just as impotent as Allah.
Infidel says
W/ such a weak hand, there is only one trump card that prime minister Bennett holds, and that is to threaten to pull down his own government and hand power back to Likud. Nothing short of that will end all that blackmail either from the Joint Arab List, nor from the Euronazis
Since Bennett has fulfilled his ambition of becoming prime minister, his next job should be to read his coalition partners the riot act: something he can do since his party is to the right of even Likud. And if he does something tough against the Palis or Iran that even Bibi didn’t do, Likud would be hard pressed to explain why they shouldn’t support him over Bibi
gravenimage says
I would not hold my breath, Infidel…
Keith O says
These clowns claiming the temple mount as their own is ludicrous at best.
Yes, the Al-Aqsa mosque may belong to the mudslimes but the ground underneath it is still Jewish land.
It would be like me building a ceremonial circle in the middle of St Peters square and then saying that it belongs to only the Pagans.
Maybe the Israeli’s should reclaim the land that the barracks stands on?
James Lincoln says
Keith O,
Maybe the Israelis should build a Jewish synagogue in Gaza – just to see the reaction…
gravenimage says
Israel: Islamic party says Temple Mount is ‘solely the property of Muslims, and no one else has any right to it’
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This is what supremacist Muslims always do. Isreal should tell them to take a long walk on a short pier…
Et si... says
To be forwarded to Bennet and to this new “government” which should never have seen the light of day!
Herzl must turn around in his grave and regret making you rediscover the ancestral land of the Jews! Either ERETZ ISRAEL whom you have flouted!
Wkipedia says: Extract
“But where are the Israelis? Would they have become as cowardly as the Europeans? the “Al-Aqsa mosque” well and truly named and mentioned in the Koran was not that of Jerusalem but could designate a mosque located near Mecca37 It would therefore be a historical Koranic error since during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad, who died in 632, the mosque did not exist and had not yet been built before the conquest of Jerusalem by Omar in 638. This conceptualization of Masjid as a sacred building – like a pagan temple for example – is not consensual and could relate to an open space of prostration For some ancient sources, Masjid means the sky where Muhammad would have gone35 However, from the earliest times of Islam, this place will be associated with Jerusalem and the Esplanade37, “for no reason” other than ” seems to have been a tendentious interpretation.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_al-Aqsa
Impossible to copy a text on this 2nd link! It must be translated because the information is very accurate. But you also have the so-called “Old Testament” Bible ….. GOOD READING
https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_2002_num_63_1_3695
To be forwarded to Bennet and to this new “government” which should never have seen the light of day!
Herzl must turn around in his grave and regret making you rediscover the ancestral land of the Jews! Either ERETZ ISRAEL whom you have flouted!