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2019-02-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Palestinians celebrate victory after Israel capitulates, again, on Temple Mount
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[IsraelTimes] As in the 2017 metal detector controversy, Jordan and the Paleostinian factions have made a significant achievement, taking over the Gate of Mercy after 15 years.
The latest flareup at the Temple Mount flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem over the reopening of the Gate of Mercy, a section just off the Al Aqsa Mosque plaza, has been making headlines in the Arab and Paleostinian media.
The media attention is focusing on what is being hailed as a knockout victory for the Paleostinian and Jordanian side in the battle over the site. A prominent Paleostinian analyst, Nasser al-Laham, was quick to adopt the victory narrative and wrote that it was a message to Ramallah and Gazoo on how the struggle with Israel should be conducted.
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The Gate of Mercy, or Golden Gate, known in Arabic as Bab al-Rahma, was sealed by Israeli authorities in 2003 because the group managing the area had ties to Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, and it has been kept closed to stop illegal construction work there by the Islamic Waqf, the custodian of the site on behalf of Jordan and the Paleostinian Authority. Israeli officials believe the work led to the destruction of antiquities from periods of Jewish presence in the area.
Tensions had escalated in recent days at the contested compound, with protests early last week turning into scuffles with police, and forces arresting 60 Paleostinians Thursday overnight suspected of "causing disturbances."
Police accused the Waqf of trying to "change the status quo" at the sensitive site by convening in the closed area.
The Temple Mount, the location of the biblical Jewish Temples, and now of the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock shrine, has in recent years become an epicenter of friction between Israelis and Paleostinians.
Even before the particular question of the Gate of Mercy area was decided, the usual pyromaniacs could already be seen sniffing out the fuel vapor and trying to inflame tensions.
Chief among those is the Hamas terror group, which emphasizes the issue of the Temple Mount in any way possible, in addition to Fatah operatives in East Jerusalem and former Tanzim fighters who had battled many times with Israeli authorities during the Second Intifada (uprising) last decade.
On Saturday, MK Ahmad Tibi of the Hadash-Ta’al party visited the location, fully understanding the site’s explosive potential and its significance in these days of election campaigning. It is worth noting that it was Tibi who gave the Second Intifada its Arabic nickname, the Al Aqsa Intifada.
It turns out, however, that those trying the most to escalate the situation with the latest events on the Temple Mount are the Jordanians. Last week, they decided to bolster the central committee of the Waqf. Instead of 11 members, it now has 18. All seven new members are senior Fatah and PA members.
This looks like a Jordanian attempt to signal unity with the PA and its president, the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
 ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, regarding control over the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, coming ahead of plans by US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s administration to unveil its peace proposal, the so-called "deal of the century" that Abbas has made plain he intends to reject.
The committee members are among those who prayed last week in the Bab al-Rahma section, despite it being closed for 15 years. That step led Israeli police to seal off the area with a gate, lock and metal chains. After that, Paleostinians held daily protests at the site and even broke the lock in one incident.
Paleostinian demonstrators break open locked gates at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on February 18, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
Police reacted by blocking the entrances to the Temple Mount, but that decision was quickly reversed following growing Jordanian and Moslem pressure. Police ended up removing the lock and chains, with hundreds of Paleostinians immediately entering the Gate of Mercy, cleaning it up and celebrating their great "victory." Pictures of many worshipers flocking to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound were shared everywhere.
For Fatah and PA members in East Jerusalem, it was another important achievement in their struggle with Israeli authorities, following the battle against metal detectors Israel installed at the entrances to the Temple Mount in July 2017 after two Border Police officers guarding the site were murdered by a Paleostinian gunman. That incident ended with an Israeli capitulation to Moslem pressure after less than two weeks.
Likewise, in the current case: After 15 years that Bab al-Rahma was closed, it has now reopened following a display of power by Jordan and the Paleostinians.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly given in, again, walking away with its tail between its legs.
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