For more than two decades, hundreds of Palestinians have taken to the streets of Israel and Judea and Samaria to stab, run over and shoot Jews, after being incited to believe that 'Al-Aqsa is in danger.' The security establishment, which in the past reported on this dominant motive in the Palestinian madness – the false libel that generates terror attacks and spills blood, in the name of "defending Al-Aqsa" – has recently refrained from doing so, for fear of "contagion" and "copying," which will further increase the murderousness. For the same reason in recent years, security officials have refrained from calling the child by his name: "Al-Aqsa terrorism."
Palestinians outraged: Jew blows shofar on Temple Mount // Arab networks
In recent weeks, however, nothing seems to have happened. It is no longer just a constant concern about the rise in the level of terror attacks during the holiday season. The concern this time is that what is happening on and around the Mount will radiate not only on the permanent circles such as East Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and Israeli Arabs, which constitute a problem in itself, but also on the borders from the south and north.
The security establishment likens any effect of an unusual event in the mountain region – whether from the Muslim side or from the Jewish side – to ripples that spread circles across the water, after a stone has been thrown into them. But here we are not talking about quiet water, but real flames of fire, which may reach more distant circles.
It should be emphasized that this is not the product of a provocation or change taken by Israel, as the Arab networks claim. Many more Jews visit the Temple Mount during the holidays. This is not new, and Jews pray in the eastern part of the mountain, silent and unprovoked prayers, with the approval and supervision of the police. That, too, is already old.
Salah al-Arouri, senior Hamas figure. Looking for an opportunity to set fire to the area, photo: Anadolu Agency via AFP
Nasrallah. "Real flames of fire, which may reach more distant circles," Photo: AFP
What is new is that Hamas, like its conduct in 2021 (the year of Guardian of the Walls), is not satisfied with terrorist attacks, and together with Hezbollah seeks to drag Israel into a confrontation by stirring up tempers around the Mount. Perhaps again, by conditioning quiet in return for the cessation of Jewish visits and prayers there.
The defense establishment is concerned that the remarks made by Salah Arouri, one of the leaders of Hamas (which currently enjoys Hezbollah's sponsorship), are preparation for this. In an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, Arouri said: "In the Israeli cabinet there are those who are thinking about steps such as taking over and dividing the Al-Aqsa Mosque... Knowing that this would lead to a regional war." Nasrallah's recent warning that "any attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem will be met with a regional war" (courtesy of Memri), also corresponds with this false message sheet.
These voices resonate within Israel as well. The supreme instigator, Sheikh Akrama Sabri, talks about the ongoing damage to the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which he says "goes up in flames regularly." Sheikh Kamal Khatib, former deputy head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, defied: "You fools, you want a religious war in Al-Aqsa?..." Hamas spokesman in Jerusalem, Muhammad Hamada, clarified: "Our people are united in defending Al-Aqsa and call to confront Israeli aggression. We will not leave Al-Aqsa alone." (Yossi Eliezer, 301. Arab World on Telegram).
Became a hotspot for planning murder, shooting and grenade throwing. Border Police officers at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound// Photo: AP,
Border Police officers near al-Aqsa Mosque, archive, photo: AP
To these can be attached dozens of videos of severe incitement, including an explicit call for the murder of Jews using all types of attacks. In one, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades chanted, among other things: "O heroes of the West Bank, stab; O heroes of Hebron, Darso; O heroes of Nablus, kill; Oh heroes of Jenin, blown up; Oh heroes of Jerusalem, the land is your land, what are you waiting for? It's time to kill the Jews. Carry out your revenge... Fight the enemies of Allah."
This process, which is liable to gain additional momentum, is not the product of one Israeli conduct or another on the Temple Mount, but mainly a derivative of the enemy's decision to take advantage of what it sees as unprecedented internal Israeli division and weakness in order to create an escalation against us. "The defense of Al-Aqsa is in danger" is, like countless times in the past, the false but ultimate religious excuse.
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