JERUSALEM, Ultranationalist Jewish Israeli organizations intend to blew the shofar at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The so-called “Temple Mount” groups, has announced that their followers intend to blow the shofar, an ancient musical horn, to mark the New Jewish Year at the mosque compound.
One of such groups has submitted an application to an Israeli court, requesting a permission for its followers to play the shofar in line with previous court rulings stipulating that doing so does not provoke Muslim sentiments.
The Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry decried the groups’ intention, which it described as part of the persistent assaults by settlers against the holy site aimed at altering the longstanding status quo at and dividing the site.
It held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for provocative settler intrusions into the mosque and warned of the ramifications of such intrusions.
It urged the United States, the United Nations along with its organizations, including UNESCO, to immediately intervene to halt the ongoing Israeli aggression and creeping encroachments upon Jerusalem and its holy sites.
“Temple Mount groups”, mostly from the Religious Zionism movement, arrange incursions at Al-Aqsa Mosque and advocate for the destruction of the holy site, where they believe two ancient Jewish temples once stood, to make way for a third temple.
Such groups join other Israeli Jewish supremacists annually in the so-called “Flag March” to celebrate Israel’s occupation and colonization of East Jerusalem since 1967.
Each year, thousands of Israeli members of far-right groups participate in the march, waving Israeli flags and chanting racist and genocidal slogans, as they pass by Palestinian onlookers and businesses passing through Jerusalem’s iconic Damascus Gate, entering the narrow alleys of the Old City’s Muslim Quarter and ending at the Western Wall plaza, created by Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem’s ancient Moroccan Quarter in the first days of the occupation.
Expressing their religious as well as their ethnic hatred, the fanatical participants frequently belt out racist slogans, including “Muhammad is dead,” to denigrate the prophet of Islam and the faith of Muslims, and “Zachreni Na,” with its call for ethnic cleansing: “Palestine – May their name be wiped out!”
Israel uses the Jewish nationalist name “Judea and Samaria” to refer to the occupied West Bank to reinforce its bogus claims to the territory and to give them a veneer of historical and religious legitimacy.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency