Arab Normalization Emboldens ‘Third Temple’ Israeli Fanatics

• Arab Normalization Emboldens ‘Third Temple’ Israeli Fanatics
  by CJ Werleman | Sep 28, 2020, https://insidearabia.com/
  The UAE-Bahrain normalization deals put radical Israeli settlers within touching distance of fulfilling their goal of erecting a Third Temple atop of the ruins of the Dome of the Rock.
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  On the morning of June 7, 1967, the third day of the third Arab-Israeli war, Israeli paratroopers stormed Jerusalem’s Old City, making their way to the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Once there, they raised the Israeli flag and radioed headquarters, “The Temple Mount is in our hands.”
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  The flag was lowered and removed moments later after Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned doing such a thing would set the Middle East on fire and turn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a Holy War. The site was returned to the Muslim Waqf under Jordanian control but with Israeli security, a status that has remained in place until today, with Israeli Prime Minister reaffirming it as recently as 2015.
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  With Israel becoming the unchallenged regional military power, however, a growing chorus of right-wing Israeli figures and those aligned with the settler movement have not only called for the Temple Mount to be seized but also for the immediate construction of a Third Temple atop the ruins of the Dome of the Rock.
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  “I don’t want to build a [Third] Temple in one or two years, I want to build it now,” said Moshe Feiglin, the head of the Zehut Party, at a Maariv/Jerusalem Post conference in Tel Aviv in 2019.
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  The right-leaning Times of Israel characterized Feiglin’s plea as “unrealistic in the extreme,” adding that “even small changes at the status quo on the tinderbox holy site, where Jews can currently visit but not pray, have met with vociferous and often violent protests.”
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