Jordanians Criticize Palestinian Authority’s Rejection of Temple Mount Cameras

Withdrawing the Israeli card from the Palestinians means that they will not be able to move or enter the occupied 1948 lands, which are now under Israeli authority.

Despite firm proposals for Palestinian statehood in nearly all of Judea/Samaria, all of Gaza and half of Jerusalem in 2000, 2001 and 2008, Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has refused to negotiate for all but two meetings in one week in the past six and half years.

Mogherini, who has met with both Abbas and Netanyahu these last days, said she hopes to bring the Mideast Quartet (US, EU, United Nations and Russia) representatives to the region to establish trust-building steps. Netanyahu said Haj Amin al-Husseini, a Muslim Palestinian leader at the time, “went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here'”. “It is untrue and baseless”.

On Tuesday, rights watchdog Amnesty global said Israeli forces had unlawfully killed a number of Palestinians using lethal force without justification in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Palestinians are angry over what they see as excessive use of force by Israeli police and soldiers.

During the past week, the US government has worked closely with the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians to ease the tensions across Israel and the West Bank through constructive solutions aimed at ending the violence.

Netanyahu has said the violence is the result of incitement by Palestinian leaders, including Abbas, as well as social media.

The Al-Aqsa mosque compound is in a mostly Palestinian area that was annexed by Israel from Jordan in 1967 and is a powder-keg for tensions in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Abbas, in his speech in Geneva, “chose once more the way of propaganda and incitement, instead of the dialogue proposed by Israel”.

Abbas also called on the United Nations, “more urgently than any time before, to set up a special regime for global protection for the Palestinian people, immediately and urgently”. “We consider the matter evidence that Israel wants to install cameras that only serve its own interests”, said Waqf. He did not elaborate.

The controversy has added fuel to a political firestorm raging for more than a month, since rumors began spreading that Israel was planning to take over one of Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy sites.

Numerous youths behind the attacks are also from the city. Israel denies such claims. Abbas said there will be no peace and security in the middle east until the Israeli occupation ends.

“Muslims and Arabs can visit the mosque in a very quiet and normal way without violence, but the Israelis are inciting and provoking”, he said.

Highlighting the situation in Jerusalem, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, al-Quds and al-Ayyam reported that dozens of Jewish settlers forced their way into the mosque compound and that Israeli police withheld the identity cards of Palestinian women who were allowed access into the mosque. Known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, it houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the gold-topped Dome of the Rock.