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Posted on 03/06/2026 7:22:35 AM PST by Morgana
Within hours of the launch of the US-Israeli assault on Iran last weekend, both the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem were shut down. Israeli occupation forces expelled worshippers and justified the closures under the pretext of wartime “preventive measures”.
There are no bomb shelters in Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, nor are there public shelters. Among Palestinians in 1948 territories, around half of the population has no place to seek refuge from air attacks, according to figures from Israel’s own state comptroller.
Preventing worshippers from reaching the mosques, and instead confining them to their homes, markets, streets or workplaces, does not make them any safer. Amid the genocidal war in Gaza, the idea that Israeli authorities are concerned for the safety of any Palestinian is not merely laughable; it is stomach-turning.
The targeting of mosques through such measures stems, rather, from a vision of religious replacement espoused by Israel’s Zionist government and the Zionist right more broadly. Religious Zionists, who have become the dominant current in Israeli society, call the Al-Aqsa complex Temple Mount.
Adherents performs a mental act of erasure upon hearing this term. The same applies to the Ibrahimi Mosque, which the Zionist right regards as the Cave of the Patriarchs.
Israel’s imposition of emergency measures to close the mosques thus aims to achieve two objectives. The first is to entrench Israel’s claimed sovereignty over these sites, marginalising Islamic administrators as Israeli forces dictate the terms of accessibility.
In each case, the Islamic waqf is reduced to the position of a spectator; a passive recipient of whatever measures are imposed by Israel.
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just blow it up & then you don’t have to close it anymore
Both those insidious structures should be razed to the ground.
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They’re no safer in the mosque than they are at home.
this article is an expression of Palestinian solidarity with the mullahs.
The problem is that the gulf arabs are now pretty anti mullah and anti palestinian—not least because the palestinians are pro mullah.
the article appeals to the divine authority of the mosque to run its own affairs.
But in saudi arabia—the royalty has has stuffed their own immans back into their jars.
the article does appeal to muslims islamists in the west however.
So this article is for western consumption but nobody else in the region.
Just maybe if their brother/sister moozlums were randomly sending rockets out of Iran into other countries and cities they wouldn’t have this “problem”. moozlums seem to like murdering other people.
What does that have to do with the price of gas at my local filling station?
truth is they closed these mosques and now the Muslims will have their knickers in a wad.
The author has selective sensitivity. The nation of Israel represents .06% of the Middle East. Israel’s greatest crime from the Jihadist viewpoint is the survival of its people. Radical Islam is a cult of death and hatred. The GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph is the God of Life and of Love.
The October 7th cheerleaders moaning about public safety.
So you are saying the local Muslims won’t have their knickers in a wad over it’s closure?
But Israel \is\ safer with the Muslims at home rather than gathered in an insurgent force in the mosque.
Simple arithmetic.
Did you bother to read the info at the link?
As for truth, a quote from William Blake..
“A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.”
Again, see my link above. Re/read the info there with fresh eyes.
I did some speed reading but I fail to see your point.
Muzzies seem to always have their “ knickers in a wad”
Absolutely!
Considering that it is a proven fact that moslems use mosques as armories, I have no problem with the Israelis emptying them of the moslems...at least until they have been thoroughly searched for hidden rooms, tunnels and weapons.
Don’t speed read. :-)
“Muzzies seem to always have their “ knickers in a wad””
that’s true too but must we make things worse?
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