Will Saudi Arabia Stop Turkish Intervention in Jerusalem, Temple Mount?

• Will Saudi Arabia stop Turkish Intervention in Jerusalem, Temple Mount?
  by Erin Viner, https://www.tv7israelnews.com/ , 10 June 2020
  Speculation is deepening over consequences of Saudi involvement in the Islamic Waqf council that administers the al Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem.
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  As previously reported by TV7, Washington has reportedly been brokering clandestine talks on the sensitive issue between Jerusalem and Riyadh since December 2019. This development is said to be fueled by increasing concern by both Israel and Jordan over a surge of influence by Turkey in East Jerusalem where the mosque is located, as well as general Palestinian matters.
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  The report also comes amid ongoing efforts by the administration of United States President Donald Trump to advance its proposal to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “These talks are sensitive and clandestine and have been conducted by small teams of diplomats and security officials from Israel, the US, and Saudi Arabia as part of the Trump administrations’ Peace to Prosperity Middle East initiative,” unnamed senior Saudi officials told the Israel Hayom news outlet.
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  The 35-acre (14-hectare) compound is revered by Jews and Christians as the Temple Mount, as it is where both Biblical Temples once stood. It is the holiest site in the world in Judaism.
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  Muslims refer to the contested land as the Noble Sanctuary or Haram al-Sharif. Even though Jerusalem is never once mentioned by name in the Koran, the city has attained the status of Islam’s third holiest site in accordance with the belief of some followers that it was from this location their Prophet Mohammad ascended to heaven. Other Islamic traditions hold that he ascended from mosques in Medina, Saudi Arabia or Kufa, Iraq. The Dome of the Rock Mosque was completed on the Temple Mount in the year 692, and constructed to face toward Mecca in Saudi Arabia, considered as the holiest site in Islam.
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  Incidentally, it bears noting that all Jewish synagogues worldwide have been built for over 2,000 years to face Jerusalem.
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