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Monday 10 November 2014 - 07:24

Zionists play games as they seek to destroy Al Aqsa

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Zionists play games as they seek to destroy Al Aqsa
This impression suggests that the desire to destroy Al-Aqsa Mosque is limited to specific individuals or one group. However, there are several Jewish religious groups that not only call for the destruction of Al-Aqsa, but also embark on taking practical measures to achieve this goal.

The Temple Mount Faithful group is one of the most prominent of such groups which call for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Their members play an important role in storming the mosque. It is led by the former military parachutist Gershon Solomon, who openly raises the funds necessary to demolish Al-Aqsa by fundraising from Jewish people in the United States, Canada and Australia.

Solomon insists that the Muslim holy sites are located in Makkah and not in Jerusalem, claiming that Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. His group commissioned architect Gideon Harlap to prepare a detailed plan for the construction of the Third Temple on the ruins of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Temple Institute, headed by Rabbi Israel Ariel, who is one of the most prominent rabbis of the national religious trend, is based in the Old City in Jerusalem. Since its inception in 1995, the group and the member rabbis have been concerned with creating the necessary "doctrinal rooting" in order to give religious legitimacy and add a religious cover to Jewish attempts to harm Al-Aqsa.

Ariel played a significant role in bringing about change with regards to the doctrinal issue of Jews praying in Al-Aqsa. After Israel occupied Jerusalem in 1967, the Chief Rabbinate issued a statement prohibiting Jews from praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque, claiming that the soil contains the remains of ancient Jews and therefore they may not pray in the mosque until the Jewish Temple is rebuilt.

Ariel attempted to convince a number of his fellow senior rabbis of a number of elaborate justifications that permit Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa, but failed at first. However, in early 2000, the number of rabbis who have permitted Jews pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque increased.

Over one hundred senior rabbis singed a statement authorising Jews to pray in Al-Aqsa in July 2008. This drove many Jews to enter Al-Aqsa to pray in it. It is worth noting that the Chief Rabbinate Foundation still refuses to change the original statement prohibiting Jewish prayer there.

The Temple Institution has moved from theorising to practical work. The Maarev newspaper revealed last January that a delegation representing the institution went to Rome to ask the Italian government to return parts of the Second Temple that was "looted" by the Roman commander Titus, who eliminated the political presence of the Jews 2,000 years ago and destroyed the structure.

In addition to the two previously mentioned groups, there is also Hai Vekayam, led by Yehuda Etzion, one of the former leaders of the Jewish terrorist organisation responsible for carrying out a number of killings and assassination attempts against Palestinians and Palestinian icons in the early 1980's.

Etzion founded this group after serving a prison sentence, which was only four years. He openly and publically reveals his ideas and theories regarding the future of Jerusalem, which has made him a "star" on many talk shows broadcasted on Israeli television.

In the same context, the Movement for the Establishment of the temple, which consists of a number of rabbis from the West Bank settlements and particularly from the US, works on enhancing Jewish awareness regarding the need to work on rebuilding the temple on the ruins of Al-Aqsa Mosque, describing it as the most "legitimate" religious task for every Jew wherever they are.

The movement organises forums and seminars and publishes reports, as well as distributing leaflets wherever there are Jews. Unlike the other groups, the members of which are limited to religious Jews, this movement tries to attract secular Jews as well as right-wing Christian figures in the US, on whom they depend to raise the necessary funds to finance their activities.

The movement is also keen on organising a large annual march attended by tens of thousands of Jews and Anglican Christians towards Al-Aqsa in order to demand the establishment of the temple on its ruins.

For its part, the Organisation for Human Rights on the Temple Mount, founded by Professor Hillel Weiss, one of the Zionist religious trend thinkers calls for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and for finding a religious alternative to the existing government. The leadership of the movement consists of 23 members who meet periodically in secret.

Unlike the organisations mentioned above, the Jewish Leadership organisation is a political partisan organisation and an important ideological camp in the ruling Likud party and is headed by Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of the Knesset, who is actively participating in the large storming of Al-Aqsa.

In addition to these major organisations, a number of less significant organisations stand out, such as the Women for the Temple Mount, a group that seeks to collect jewellery that will be put in the temple once it is rebuilt on the ruins of Al-Aqsa Mosque. There is also the Jerusalem Forum which is concerned with controlling the largest number of Palestinian homes in the Old City of Jerusalem as possible. This is seen as a preliminary means to enable the Jews to surround Al-Aqsa Mosque from all sides.
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