by arabnews.com
AMMAN: The importance of Al-Aqsa for Muslims, Christians and Jews means that Israel’s current forceful measures to maintain control of the sacred site has caused considerable strife.
Ministers from Arab and Muslim nations, who held an emergency meeting in Amman recently, warned that Tel Aviv’s actions at Al-Aqsa Mosque risks dismantling its historical and legal status quo, potentially igniting a wider religious confrontation and threatening regional security.
The warning was issued amid growing concern over restrictions on worship, incursions by extremist settlers and what many have described as attempts to weaken the authority of Jordan.
Jordan currently holds the title of custodian of the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, a role that gives Amman administrative responsibility through the Jerusalem Awqaf Department.
Israel has been seeking to establish temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque, under which different groups would be allocated separate times or areas for access and worship.
This is a development that would fundamentally alter the longstanding arrangements governing the compound and transform the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a political and territorial dispute into an explicitly religious one.
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said: “An occupying power has no sovereignty over occupied territory.” He accused Israel of violating the sanctity of the sites and restricting freedom of worship.
Mohamed El-Orabi, the former Egyptian foreign minister, told Arab News Israel was a serious threat to the existing status quo. He warned that continued violations could lead to a “more catastrophic situation,” particularly if the international community fails to respond.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the world’s third-holiest site for Muslims. Jews refer to the area as the Temple Mount, claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in antiquity.
Claire's Observations: I would politely suggest, that the current junta in Tel Aviv wants to promote religious strife, then plans to swoop down on the site militarily, declaring it a Jewish Worship-only facility.
Should Israel do this, they would have to feel certain in their hubris, that no other regional country in its right mind will challenge them, because at this very moment, only Israel has the nuclear bomb.
That assessment, in light of certain circumstances, however, may be only partially correct, and only for a short period of time.
Now, let's see.... which Middle Eastern country has been recently invaded and bombed by the US and Israel, with Israel having assassinated its leadership and their family, including the guy who issued a religious "Fatwah" or declaration, that his country shouldn't be making a nuclear bomb, and which, as late as January of this year, was declared by the then-director of National Intelligence to NOT be making nuclear weapons?!?
YES, that country is Iran!!
Now to the next question: which Muslim south-Asian country DOES have a nuclear weapon?!?
YES, that country is..... (drumroll please) PAKISTAN!!!! And although Pakistan is NOT a signatory to the NPT (which India hasn't signed either), Throck, my AI, shares the following: "Pakistan also participates in international efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear materials by implementing export controls that are intended to be consistent with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540, which requires states to prevent non-state actors from acquiring weapons of mass destruction"
Please review that last sentence.... and how it emphasizes "non-state actors".
Throck also mentions that "...With a total population of roughly 250–260 million in 2026, even the lower end of the estimate (15%) means Pakistan has one of the largest Shia populations in the world.
Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi is generally considered the country's most prominent national Shia political-religious leader. Many Pakistani Shias look instead to international grand ayatollahs—most notably Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, while others follow senior clerics based in Iran".
So what happens, hypothetically, if Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian, sends word to these Ayatollahs, begging Pakistani's secular leadership to release the details of the information which would give Iran a nuclear bomb as quickly as possible, potentially sending Iranian nuclear technicians (who have been making radioactive isotopes for medical treatment) to Islamabad for training?!? How long do you think such a process would take?!?
OR, what if China, which desperately relies on Iran for its oil, decides to train Iran's technicians in Beijing on how to make and duplicate nuclear bombs?
These are the very real possibilities Israel is unleashing by attempting to start a "holy war" against Muslims for the Al-Aqsa Mosque; repercussions against this could be both massively unexpected, and global in their breadth and reach.
