Saudi Arabia Wants a Role in the Temple Mount … By Negotiating With Israel

• Saudi Arabia Wants a Role in the Temple Mount … By Negotiating With Israel
  by https://www.saudi24.news/
  Israel Hume newspaper reported on Monday that secret contacts have been taking place between Israel and Saudi Arabia, since December 2019, about Saudi Arabia obtaining a role in occupied Jerusalem, by including its delegates to the Islamic Endowments Council on the Temple Mount.
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  The Israeli newspaper said in a report translated by “Arab 48” website, that these contacts between Saudi Arabia and Israel come in parallel to the US President Donald Trump’s proposed “deal of the century” plan for an alleged settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and for the Israeli plan to annex areas in the occupied West Bank And including the Jordan Valley.
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  The newspaper quoted the diplomats as saying, “These are sensitive and confidential communications that take place in light of the blackout by a small team of diplomats and high-level security officials from Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia as part of the contacts to advance the deal of the century.”
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  A high-level Saudi diplomat told the Israeli newspaper that Jordan, which has a special position in the management of Islamic endowments on the Temple Mount, was strongly opposed, even months ago, to any change in the composition of the Islamic Endowments Council in Jerusalem, “but the change in the Jordanian position came in the wake of Intensive Turkish interference in East Jerusalem in general and the Temple Mount in particular.
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  According to the Saudi source, the Palestinian delegates to the Islamic Endowments Council in Jerusalem allowed a “foothold” for Islamic-Turkish organizations on the Temple Mount, through associations, which the Turkish government pumped tens of millions of dollars to, at the direct instruction of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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  In the aftermath, the source added, “The Jordanians sent letters to Israel and the United States that the royal family in Amman was ready to soften its position with regard to the inclusion of Saudi delegates in the Awqaf Council.”
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  And the Saudi source added that Jordan stipulated its agreement to include Saudi delegates in the Endowment Council not to harm Jordan’s position on the Temple Mount, and provided that Saudi Arabia pumps millions of dollars as a donation to Islamic associations that operate in East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount and exert diplomatic and political pressure to expel Turkish Islamic organizations that are active. Under Palestinian auspices.
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