Hamas And The Temple Monty Python (Sky News)

–  “The ramp is a temporary structure giving access to the Al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third holiest site. It is rickety and considered by the Jerusalem city council as both a fire hazard and in danger of collapse. It really ought to be demolished and a permanent structure built as in days of old. However the Netanyahu government is too nervous to do this in case it sparks Muslim outrage and a wave of rioting.

But the ramp is used almost entirely by non Jewish and non Muslim tourists. Muslims tend to enter the Haram al-Sharif from one of the other ten entrances which are currently open. Oddly enough when the wooden ramp was first built, to replace a crumbling earth ramp, the Muslim authorities opposed its construction.

How closing the ramp amounts to a ‘war on the Muslim holy places’ is beyond me, but not beyond the Palestinian negotiator Saad Erekat who believes ‘this shows their determination to judaize Jerusalem and to take over the city’s Muslim holy places.

In fact the decision to temporarily close the ramp in no way prevents Muslims from accessing the Haram al-Sharif.”

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