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| Libels |
Since the Palestinian Authority was established it has systematically indoctrinated young and old to hate Israelis and Jews. Using media, education, and cultural structures that it controls, the PA has actively promoted religious hatred, demonization, conspiracy libels, etc. These are packaged to present Israelis and Jews as endangering Palestinians, Arabs, and all humanity. This ongoing campaign has so successfully instilled hatred that fighting, murder and even suicide terror against Israelis and Jews are seen by the majority of Palestinians as justified self-defense and as Allah’s will.
Throughout history bogus conspiracy accusations have been used to incite hatred, violence, and mass murder. The myriad conspiracy libels concerning Israel, Israelis and Jews are an integral part of the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing hate promotion. PA libels claim that Israel conspires to infect Palestinians with AIDS, spread drug addiction, conspired and successfully murdered Arafat, and more. The PA’s goal has been to inculcate hatred to the degree that fighting and murdering Jews and Israelis will be glorified as heroic self-defense. |
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| Libel: Israel to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque |
Both Fatah and Hamas have generated and sustained religious hatred by disseminating the libel that Israel is attempting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque. With close to 100% of Palestinians identifying themselves as believing Muslims, this claim is highly
inflammatory and is often combined with the call to “defend Al-Aqsa” from the Jews. The Al-Aqsa libel includes numerous fabrications: Israel was behind a mosque fire in 1969; Israel is currently digging under the mosque in order to topple it; Israel plans to replace it with a new Temple; Israel is preparing a missile attack on the mosque, and more. This libel has been actively promoted since 1998.
This Hamas TV cartoon video depicts demonic Jews digging under the mosque in an attempt to topple it.
The following are more examples of the Al-Aqsa libel: |
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Fatah: Israel has "schemes" to "control" Al-Aqsa Mosque and remove all Arab presence from the area
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 11, 2012
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Headline: "Fatah: Occupation's schemes against Al-Aqsa [Mosque] will push the region into a cycle of violence"
"The Fatah National Liberation Movement warned of Israeli schemes to seize control of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as preparation for eliminating the Palestinian and Islamic-Christian Arab presence from this holy area, through proposed racist legislation to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews, or to convert its plazas into public parks. Fatah spokesman Ahmed Asaf said, in a press release yesterday of the Commission of Information and Culture: 'We view these laws, and the Israeli activity against Al-Aqsa and occupied Jerusalem, as blatant aggression, which we will not accept in silence.' Asaf stressed: 'The occupation government alone is responsible for the consequences of what is being done today against Al-Aqsa. The world must not remain silent at these crimes, which will push the entire region into a cycle of violence whose results no one can predict.' He added: 'The Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of the Muslim faith, not only in Palestine, but throughout the world, and it is one of our national principles for which the leader Yasser Arafat died as a Martyr (Shahid), and to which President Mahmoud Abbas adheres today.' He stressed: 'We shall defend our Al-Aqsa at all costs.'"
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PA TV guest: Israel wants to build the Temple over the Dome of the Rock
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 10, 2012
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PA TV program Good Morning Jerusalem interviews Khalil Al-Tafakji – Director of the Arab Studies Society on the topic of dividing the Al-Aqsa Mosque:
Al-Tafakji: "At one of the conferences, a person presented me [with a question]… 'Why do you not permit the Jews to build a synagogue (on the Temple Mount) in between the Dome of the Rock and the Huta Gate, in other words, in available space?'… Ten years later I came back to that person, who is from the Saudi Kingdom, and he asked me the same question. I told him, 'The matter that you spoke to me about, is already quite outdated, because today Israel does not want to build on (an empty space of) the Al-Aqsa plaza; it wants to build the Israeli synagogue or the Israeli Temple in place of the Dome of the Rock."
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Minister of Religious Affairs: "Al-Aqsa Mosque is in danger"
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 10, 2012
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Friday sermon, speaker: Minister of Religious Affairs, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Habbash
Present in audience: President Mahmoud Abbas; Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, Secretary General of the Presidential Office.
Al-Habbash: "The Arabs and Muslims, all of them… are invited to come to Jerusalem, to come to Al-Aqsa [Mosque], in order to tell the whole world: This mosque is ours; we will not abandon it, nor will we abandon the Palestinian people in its struggle [against] the schemes to harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque. In its struggle against the schemes and the plans, which aim to alter the landmarks of Jerusalem and the landmarks of the Al-Aqsa Mosque… Israel does not want the Muslims and the Arabs in Jerusalem. Are we acceding to what it wants? Are we acceding to its [Israel’s] desire, to separate Jerusalem from its owners? The owners of Jerusalem are all the Muslims and all the Christians in the east and the west of the country. Jerusalem is today in great danger… A few days ago we heard some nonsense that has no legal or religious value. It was said by one of the Israeli MPs who wants to propose a law to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews. Simply and firmly [I say] – this is a recipe for blood, fire, and war… No one can imagine that a single centimeter of the Al-Aqsa Mosque will belong to non-Muslims, not even a single millimeter, not even a breath in the Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to someone who is not Muslim… These calls and statements are a great danger. The Al-Aqsa Mosque is in danger. These [MPs] are trying to claim a false right to this mosque for themselves … Anyone who wants to harm the Al-Aqsa Mosque will burn himself and destroy himself… These worthless calls, uttered by some of the worthless Israeli MPs – we will trample them. They have no value, they are not even worth the dust that our feet tread upon anywhere in this world."
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Israel is close to "building the alleged Temple on the ruins of Al-Aqsa Mosque"
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 10, 2012
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Headline: "[Israeli] MP submits proposed law to divide Al-Aqsa [Mosque] between Muslims and Jews, and decision by American State Department calls to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount"
"The Islamic-Christian Council for Jerusalem and the Holy Places warned yesterday of a report published by the Committee on Religions of the American State Department (sic. This body is called the US State Dept. Office of International Religious Freedom. –Ed.), calling upon Israel to make the Al-Aqsa Mosque ownerless and to open it to Jews, claiming that it is located within the precincts of their [the Jews'] alleged Temple. The Council also added that it considered this an American green light to complete the grand project of Judaization planned against the Al-Aqsa Mosque… Secretary General of the Council, Dr. Hana Issa, said: 'Today the grave situation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque has become clear, and we already cautioned many times in the past against measures of this kind and against Judaization activities.' He stressed that Israel is now close to achieving its aim of building the alleged Temple on the ruins of the Al-Aqsa Mosque… and added that what was published by the Committee on Religions of the American State Department constitutes an open and blatant declaration of US support for steps of this sort."
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Israel spreads chemicals under Al-Aqsa Mosque to destroy it, on PA TV news
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), Aug. 3, 2012
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PA TV news host: "Experts on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem issues warned that there are traces of chemicals under Al-Aqsa, which the occupation authorities are using in intensified excavations around the foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to dissolve them."
Narrator: "Israel's policies and schemes have never stopped and will never stop in Al-Aqsa's courtyards and surroundings in order to harm [the Mosque's] Arabness and holiness. What is new this time is the discovery of traces of dangerous chemicals in the Al-Aqsa foundations and [the discovery of] other solvents used to cause the foundations to crumble and collapse in accordance with [Israel's] step-by-step plans."
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PA daily: Israeli specialists put chemicals into Al-Aqsa foundations at night in order to destroy it
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 3, 2012
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"The expert on Al-Aqsa mosque structure and Jerusalem Affairs, Engineer Jammal Amr, has warned that traces of dangerous chemicals have been found in the foundations of the Al-Aqsa mosque. He also emphasized that Israeli occupation forces use substances that induce dissolving in their excavations under Al-Aqsa, in order to fracture the [mosque's] foundations and bring about its collapse... There are [Israeli] specialists spreading the chemicals at night, and removing the traces during the day. In addition, he emphasized that this [Israeli] attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque is the most audacious of the last three years, and that ever since Jerusalem was declared a capital of Arab culture in 2009, the occupation authorities have embarked on a dramatic offensive to Judaize the city and utterly erase its original [Arab] landmarks.
Ammar emphasized that the recurring incursions by settlers (i.e., Jews visiting the Temple Mount) are carried out under the auspices of the occupation government and with its blessing, and that the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa mosque is grievously defiled by functionaries implementing the schemes of the occupation."
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PLO official: Israel excavates under Al-Aqsa Mosque to destroy it
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Palestinian TV (Fatah), June 12, 2012
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PA TV program Topic of the Day on the unprecedented Judaization plans in Jerusalem, and excavation of tunnels under Al-Aqsa Mosque
Guest: Dr. Wasi Abu Yusuf, member of PLO Executive Committee
Abu Yusuf: "As you noted there's a frantic race concerning building and expanding the colonialist settlement in all the occupied Palestinian areas, on the Palestinian West Bank, and especially in the city of Jerusalem. There's a race against time to establish facts on the ground, whether in Silwan, Sheikh Jarah, the Old City, or many [other] areas in the holy city. There are also excavations that are being carried out intensively, and especially under the Al-Aqsa Mosque, with the aim of causing the foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque to collapse, and as preparation for the building of the alleged Temple in its place."
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PA daily: Israel plans to destroy a Jerusalem neighborhood and build “Talmudic gardens” in its stead
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 4, 2012
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"A delegation including MPs, advisors to the President of Argentina, and the Argentinian ambassador to the PA… paid a visit yesterday to the village of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa [Mosque] and the city of Hebron.
The head of the Committee for the Defense of Silwan, Fakhri Abu Diab, accompanied the delegation on a tour which included the Al-Bustan neighborhood and several sites which are in danger of demolishment and expropriation. He explained about the intention of the occupation authorities and their [Jerusalem] municipality to destroy the Al-Bustan neighborhood in order to put up projects, parks and Talmudic gardens, to serve the settlers and the fable of the alleged Temple."
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PA daily: Religious official warns of Israeli plans to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque and build “the alleged Temple” in its place
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 3, 2012
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| "President of the Supreme Islamic Court and Chairman of the Supreme Council of Islamic Law, Sheikh Yusuf Ida'is, met yesterday in the office of the Chief Religious Judge in Ramallah with the solidarity delegation from Bahrain, headed by Sheikh Ali Matar and Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Bahrain, Khaled Aref. Ida'is updated the Bahraini delegation on the dangerous new Israeli plans, targeting the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in order to destroy it and build the alleged Temple in its stead." |
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PA daily: Islamic-Christian Council of Jerusalem warns that Israeli authorities seek to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Apr. 19, 2012
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Headline: "Islamic-Christian Council warns that the occupation plans to build a new settlement in the heart of Jerusalem"
"The Islamic-Christian Council for Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Places warned yesterday of a new Israeli plan to establish a settlement in the heart of occupied Jerusalem. It said yesterday in a statement that the evacuation of the home of citizen Khaled Al-Natsheh, from the Al-Ashqariyeh area in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, in the northern part of the holy city, by occupation forces, in order to transfer it to a group of settlers, is the continuation of the Israeli policy of occupation, whose aim is to Judaize Jerusalem and empty it of its [Arab] inhabitants…
The Council emphasized that the occupation authorities and settlers are trying to seize the city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy places; to Judaize every inch of the holy city so that it will become the capital of the Jewish people and of the Jewish state; to expel every Muslim and Christian Arab from the occupied city; and – as the crowning glory of their plans – to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to establish the alleged Temple on its ruins."
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The Wailing Wall and alleged Temple are “myth,” part of Israel’s plot to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 8, 2012
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Headline: "El-Al promises to bring 'holy wishes' to Jerusalem – Israeli organization builds model of Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall) in New York, [presenting it] as the 'Jewish Wailing Wall'"
"The Israeli occupation and its affiliates have not sufficed with Judaization of the land and Islamic landmarks in Jerusalem by adopting a policy of erasing and forgery. Its long arm of forgery has now reached the USA. The [Israeli-Arab] Al-Aqsa Institute for Islamic Trusts and Heritage has reported that a Jewish organization recently placed a large-scale model of the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall), [presenting it] as the 'Jewish Wailing Wall', at a private museum in the Brooklyn quarter of the American city of New York. An official inauguration ceremony was held, with an Israeli [government] minister participating. At the same time, the Israeli airline El-Al has promised to carry over the 'wish notes' inserted in the model in Brooklyn, so that they can be inserted in between the stones of the 'Wailing [Wall]' in occupied Jerusalem.
The Al-Aqsa Institute said that the establishment of this Judaizing model, which lends weight to the myth of the 'Wailing [Wall]' and the alleged Temple, in the USA, testifies to the intensive efforts of the occupation to establish the alleged Temple in the place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
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Religious official: Israel might destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque through an artificial earthquake
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 7, 2012
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"President of the Supreme Islamic Court and Chairman of the Supreme Council for of Islamic Law, Yusuf Ida'is, warned of [the possibility of] the occupation government causing an artificial earthquake, causing the Al-Aqsa Mosque to collapse.
Ida'is emphasized that the Al-Aqsa Mosque… is facing an exceedingly fierce war that is being waged against it by the Israeli occupation government and the herds of settlers, who aspire to its destruction and to the establishment of the alleged Temple in its stead." |
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PA daily promotes libel that a Jew set fire to Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Mar. 3, 2012
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| "The [official Palestinian Authority] WAFA News Agency conducted a learning tour in the Ibrahimi Mosque (i.e., the Cave of the Patriarchs), accompanied by the head of the Department of Custodians, Sheikh Hijazi Abu Sneina, to see at close hand the main characteristics, the developments, and the changes created by the occupation (i.e., Israel) in this Islamic structure… The Saladin Podium, located on the western side of the Mihrab (prayer niche), is a rare treasure, and is one of the most ancient podiums… Abu Sneina said: 'There were three models of this podium: the one currently located in the Ibrahimi Mosque; another that was in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and was set on fire by the extremist Jews in 1969; and a similar podium created by the Jordanian government [to replace it]." |
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PA official: Israel intends to build "alleged Temple" over Al Aqsa Mosque
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 25, 2012
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| "Sheikh Dr. Tayseer Al-Tamimi, PA Chief Justice of religious court, and former Chairman of Supreme Council of Islamic Law, warned yesterday in his Friday address… that the occupation's announcement of plans for Jewish construction at the Al-Buraq Plaza (i.e., the Western Wall Plaza) and the demolition of the path leading to the Mughrabi Gate, to be replaced with a path allowing entry for Israeli armored vehicles, thousands of soldiers, and extremist Jewish groups, [will also allow] daily invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by extremist Jewish groups, for the settlers to pray (at the Temple Mount), and by members of the right-wing Likud party, headed by Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel – emphasizing Israel's intention to maintain absolute control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to establish the alleged Temple on its plaza. Tamimi emphasized that the Al-Buraq Plaza (i.e., the Western Wall Plaza) is a Muslim Trust." |
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Israel is eroding the layer of rock under Al-Aqsa Mosque in attempt to destroy it
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Al-Ayyam, Feb. 15, 2012
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Headline: "Al-Aqsa Institute: The occupation is accelerating the excavations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, [using] chemical substances"
"Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian Interior [i.e., in Israel], revealed that the Israeli occupation establishment is accelerating operations excavating a network of tunnels, which are spread under Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, using chemical substances.
He noted that the aim of using the chemical substances is to create a situation of accelerated erosion of the layer of rock which protects the Al-Aqsa Mosque, or the pillars upon which the foundations of the Mosque rest. The aim of all of this is demolition and shaking of the foundations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as preparation for its destruction, so the alleged Temple can be built in its stead." |
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PA daily: Israeli Likud party called on their supporters to invade Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 12, 2012
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Headline: "Calls to head for Al-Aqsa [Mosque] in order to thwart the attempt to invade it; the occupation turns Jerusalem into barracks"
"Occupation forces reinforced their military and police presence in the city of Jerusalem last night… in the wake of an announcement by members of the Likud extremist right-wing party as to [their intention to] break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, and a call to its supporters to invade it in order to build the alleged Temple upon the ruins of the mosque… In this regard, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Islamic Law, Sheikh Yusuf Ida'is, called upon the Palestinian people, and especially the residents of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, to head for the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to thwart the attempt to invade it… He noted that Jerusalem is the capital of the independent Palestinian state, and that the Jews have no rights to it.
Ida'is stated that the dangers facing the city of Jerusalem are real dangers. He called upon the Arab League, the Jerusalem Conference, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the UN, to do what they must to prevent these criminal and provocative acts, and to help the city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque." |
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PLO official promotes libel that Israelis seek to build Temple in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 10, 2012
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Ahmed Qurei (Abu Alaa) responds to the flyer supposedly circulated by the Likud, calling "to invade the Temple Mount and to build the alleged Temple"
"In a press release published yesterday, Ahmed Qurei [head of the PLO's Jerusalem Department] said that these renewed Zionist calls concerning the intention to rebuild the alleged Temple in place of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to the Israeli Supreme Court decision that accompanied this call, permitting Jews to pray there, are preparations for raising the idea of dividing the Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims and Jews, as a step on the way to realizing their aim – the rebuilding of the alleged Temple… Qurei called upon residents of Jerusalem and residents of the Palestinian Interior occupied in 1948 (i.e., Israel) to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday, in order to stand against the Zionist calls and to maintain the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
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Israeli excavations around Al-Aqsa Mosque could cause it to collapse
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Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 17, 2012
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| "Concerning the dangers surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in light of the continued excavations, [Minister of Religious Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Habbash,] emphasized that that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in real danger, owing to the excavations which threaten its collapse… He noted that the Arab presence in Jerusalem is now in danger, because there is a Jewish plan to empty the city of Jerusalem of its Arab inhabitants, through demolition of homes, expulsion of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and Judaization of Jerusalem." |
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