[news] Hardline Jewish threat to al-Aqsa Mosque

Sun Jul 25 10:15:12 PDT 2004

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Hardline Jewish threat to al-Aqsa Mosque

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    Let's blaim it on the "extremist" groups sure: Israel's Public
    Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi has said hardline Jewish groups may
    be planning to carry out attacks on the two most sacred Islamic
    shrines in East Jerusalem. 

Hardline Jewish threat to al-Aqsa Mosque
by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Sunday 25 July 2004 12:36 PM GMT

Al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem is one of Islam's holiest places

Israel's Public Security Minister Tzahi Hanegbi has said hardline Jewish 
groups may be planning to carry out attacks on the two most sacred 
Islamic shrines in East Jerusalem.

Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock are collectively known as 
al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary). Originally built in CE711 (AD711), 
al-Aqsa Mosque is Islam's third holiest place, after the two Holy 
Mosques in Saudi Arabia.

Hanegbi said in a TV interview at the weekened that the goal of the 
potential attackers would be to thwart the Israeli plan for unilateral 
withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

But a former leader of an armed Jewish group that sought to bomb al-Aqsa 
Mosque in the late 1970s, told the Israeli state-run radio on Sunday the 
purpose of any "new action" would not have anything to do with the 
"disengagement plan".

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Sunday quoted officials in the domestic 
intelligence service, Shin Bet, as saying there was a possibility of 
Jewish hardliners trying to destroy al-Aqsa Mosque by crashing a 
radio-controlled plane into it.

Some Jewish groups want to see
a temple built at the mosque site

There are numerous Millenarian Jewish groups in Israel dedicated to the 
destruction of the mosque to facilitate the "rebuilding" of the "Third 
Temple" on the site.

Messianic Jews believe the destruction of the mosque and construction of 
the temple would expedite the appearance of a Jewish messiah, or 
redeemer, who would rule the world from Jerusalem and bring about the 
salvation of the Jewish people.

Ultimate red line

Muslim leaders in Palestine have warned of "unforeseeable consequences" 
and "horrible repercussions" all over the world in case "anything 
happened to al-Aqsa Mosque".

"This is the ultimate red line. If Jewish terrorists embarked on such an 
act of sheer madness, they would trigger huge fires all over the world 
... . Only God knows how the fires would be extinguished," said Kamal 
Khatib, deputy head of Israel's powerful Islamic Movement.

Speaking to Aljazeera.net he said an attack on al-Aqsa Mosque would be 
viewed as an appalling provocation by the world's Muslim population.

"If Jewish terrorists embarked on such an act of sheer madness, they 
would trigger huge fires all over the world"

Kamal Khatib,
Deputy head of Israel's Islamic Movement
"If such a thing happened, God forbid, it would galvanise the world's 
1.2 billion Muslims, and there would be a backlash and anger all over 
the world."

Khatib said the Islamic Movement in Israel remained vigilant against the 
risk of an attack on the Islamic holy places in Jerusalem.

"We send thousands of people to the Haram al-Sharif every day to make up 
for the barring by Israel of our people from the West Bank and Gaza 
Strip from accessing the mosque ... and we see to it that there are no 
loopholes in security arrangements," he said.

Security pretext?

The highest-ranking Muslim cleric in East Jerusalem, Shaikh Ikrama 
Sabri, says Jewish extremists are capable of doing the unthinkable.

"We know quite well that they are conniving and coordinating their plans 
with the Israeli security establishment," he said.

"We also know that the Israeli state uses the extremists as a 
supplemental tool to achieve its thinly disguised goals, including the 
destruction of Islam's holy places in Jerusalem."

Clerics say Israel wants to gain a
foothold inside the compound
But in the present contest, Sabri cautioned, Israel may be trying to 
gain a "foothold" inside al-Haram al-Sharif compound under the pretext 
of "ensuring the security of the place".

He said after the 1994 Hebron massacre, in which 29 Arab worshippers 
were killed by a messianic Jewish immigrant from Brooklyn, the Israeli 
army, in effect, took over the town's historic Ibrahimi Mosque and gave 
the bulk of the holy place to Jewish settlers.

The "arrangement" then was justified by the Israelis on security grounds 
- to prevent a repetition of the massacre, Sabri said.

He said the Israeli authorities knew the Jewish hardliners individually, 
but did not take action against them for political reasons.

"Look, the police know them one by one, but the extremists have strong 
allies and supporters within the government, the Knesset and the 
security establishment, so much so that it seems as if they are the real 
rulers of Israel," Sabri said.

Inspection tours?

The Israeli police currently permit religious Jews to enter al-Aqsa 
Mosque compound despite strong objection from the Supreme Muslim 
Council, which is in charge of the administration of the holy place.

Israeli officials, including security chiefs, say Jews have a right to 
visit the holy place they call Temple Mount just like anybody else.

However, Waqf officials, who are entrusted with the upkeep of the holy 
sanctuary, say trips by Zionist zealots are not simple visits, but in 
fact "inspection tours" aimed at drawing up destructive designs on 
al-Haram al-Sharif.

Their fears are hardly misplaced. On Sunday a Jewish rabbi allied with 
the messianic Gush Emunim movement which advocates the expulsion and 
extermination of non-Jews in Israel - told the Israeli army radio, Gali 
Tsahal, he fully supported the destruction of al-Aqsa Mosque.

About 5000 people can worship in
and around the historic mosque
"This is more than a positive thing - this is a desirable thing, and I 
am looking forward to seeing these mosques reduced to ruins," said 
Yehuda Tzion, who in 1980 headed the underground Jewish group that had 
planned to bomb al-Aqsa.

Tzion has urged the Israeli government to "send army bulldozers to the 
site and destroy these buildings once and for all ... and if the state 
is not willing to do so, let other Jews do it".

One of the messianic Jewish groups that openly calls for the destruction 
of al-Aqsa is the Temple Mount Faithful, headed by Girshon Solomon.

A few years ago, he told the Israeli television, with the golden Dome of 
the Rock in the background - that: "it is time this pagan edifice ceased 
to exist".

Such highly provocative statements go unpunished in Israel as long as 
they are made against non-Jews.

Aljazeera
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank

You can find this article at:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/AD9419A2-1061-48EA-A341-77ADC09047CB.htm

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