While the public in Israel is polarized and divided on the question of legal reform, more and more indications show that the next five weeks until the month of Ramadan (and perhaps also Ramadan itself) will be marked by attacks and attempted attacks.
The Palestinian narrative will connect to them the well-known and false blood plot "Al-Aqsa is in danger".
The attack yesterday at the gates of the Temple Mount is probably the first swallow that foreshadows this.
This means: repeated tilting of the conflict in the religious direction (in combination with the national one of course).
In all five of the last attacks, the perpetrators were terrorists from East Jerusalem, which has become the focus of incitement regarding al-Aqsa (in three of them, boys aged 13-15).
Palestinians riot in Tor (archive), photo: Reuters
In the first three attacks, photos of the terrorists against the background of the Dome of the Rock were published almost immediately, whether they were taken there originally, or whether it was done in a photomontage.
It is likely that the photos of the two terrorists from yesterday will be attached to the Al-Aqsa story in the coming hours.
ISIS compatible organization
In recent weeks, Israel is once again portrayed, mainly on social media, as planning to destroy the mosques, either through artificial earthquakes, or through bulldozers, explosions, archaeological digs or fire-breathing dragons that star in horror cartoons.
Al-Aqsa Mosque itself is presented these days once again as Al-Aqsa that is "captured" by Israel and as a holy Muslim site that the "invading settlers" are desecrating it and its Islam.
Those behind the renewed campaign, among other things, are members of Hamas and members of the Hizb al-Tahrir (Liberation Party), which enjoys a lot of support in East Jerusalem, and whose ideology, at least partially, is a twin organization to ISIS.
Hizb al-Tahrir talks about returning Islam to the days of Muhammad and establishing a global Islamic caliphate.
Clashes between Palestinians and the MGB (archive), photo: Reuters
It is not clear why, despite terrible and terrible inflammatory words against Jews and Christians by some of the organization's members, including talk of slaughtering Jews - the organization, which was outlawed in the countries of Jordan, Sweden, Denmark and Germany, has not yet been outlawed in Israel.
"It's red blood"
The involvement of child terrorists in the recent attacks in Jerusalem takes security officials back to 2015, when the rate of child terrorists in attacks in the capital was relatively high, as was their involvement in disturbances.
Even then, Al-Aqsa Mosque was at the center of terrorism.
In those days, Abdel Karim Lafi, former chairman of the Central Parents' Committee of Mizrah Ha'ir, explained that "Al-Aqsa is a religion and not politics.
Maybe it's hard for the Jews to understand," he explained, "but we believe that if you are killed while defending your mosque, you are a 'martyr.'
you are chosen
For children it can be very attractive.
Al-Aqsa Mosque, it is not a red line.
It's red blood."
The false plot
A security official who referred me to this old text yesterday expressed a fear that we are at the beginning of another wave that may turn out to be "al-Aqsa terror" in retrospect.
He noted that some of the terrorists who carried out attacks since the previous month of Ramadan were also incited to action, at least partially, by the spreaders of the false plot.
Palestinians confront IDF forces in Yosh.
How many focal points will the riots spill over to? Photo: Reuters
The source estimated that Israel would have to provide a cure for Mecca and stop the instigators of "al-Aqsa in danger" in advance, whether they are clerics in mosques or whether they are "network operators or rake fish that operate in this seemingly virtual space."
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