On the anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada .. Is the race for power in Israel spark a third gift?

Juman Abu Arafa - Occupied Jerusalem

On September 28, 2000, to draw the attention of his political opponents, and to enchant the eyes of Israeli voters, the then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of 2,000 soldiers, and with the approval of Prime Minister Ehud Barak. And spread to all cities and villages of Palestine, and resulted in the death of 4412 Palestinians and wounding more than 48 thousand.

Sharon increased the provocation of the Palestinians, and declared during the incursion that the Al-Aqsa Mosque would remain an Israeli area, and the worshipers expelled him with chairs and shoes, to respond to the following day with a massacre inside Al-Aqsa in which seven Palestinians were martyred and 250 others injured.

On the 19th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, history is repeating itself. A politician in the Occupying Power is making every effort to state that the sovereignty of Al-Aqsa, starting with the prime minister, ministers and members of the Knesset, is not an end to the members of extremist religious groups that have occupied a considerable area in the Knesset. It has become an effective influence on the election results and the government fabric.

Elections and the reality of Jerusalem
Israeli voters voted on January 17 for the second time in a year in the legislative elections, because Israeli parties could not form a government with the vote of most Knesset members, but the results of the second elections have so far been unable to give parties the ability to form a government. Negotiations are still going on between the two poles: the center-left led by Benny Gantz, leader of a blue-white party, and the right led by Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud.

The Palestinians are awaiting the results of the Israeli elections for their direct impact on the reality of their cause and their sanctities. Heturah is guided by the push for the expansion of the synagogues below Al-Aqsa and the imposition of temporal and spatial division.

Ala'a Rimawi, director of the Jerusalem-Israel Center for the Study of Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, expects that the expected Israeli government will not be without Netanyahu, because it is closest to the formation of the government, but speculation is about the identity of his partner in the formation (Avigdor Lieberman or Benny Gantz). Al-Rimawi assures Al-Jazeera Net that there is no difference between the Israeli right and a blue-white party in their view of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa and their continued quest to Judaize them.

One goal
According to Ziad Abu Zayyad, the Israeli government is overwhelmingly right-wing, and Gantz - albeit less right-wing - has his own goal. Abu Zayyad told Al Jazeera Net that "the government is the choice of Israeli society, which is moving towards extremism and fascism. None of the parties during the elections talked about peace or a two-state solution. All the campaigns focused on settlement and Judaization and this reflects voters' tendencies."

According to the writer, the door of the Moroccans - the entrance to the intrusions - was closed during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, but it was reopened after it ended, and a door was opened with violations against the mosque that has not been closed until today, but increased in size until the number of intruders for the current 2019 tripled from last year. The powers of the Islamic Waqf, which has sovereignty over Al-Aqsa, have fallen by nearly 40% as the occupation controls the doors and obstructs the reconstruction and restoration and encroachment on the guards, in addition to the increasing pace of seizure of the properties of the Old City surrounding Al-Aqsa.

Public schemes
Abu Zayyad says that the situation of Jerusalem has been deteriorating rapidly since the Intifada, and has never faded the Judaization, but it has been progressively within the framework of a consistent Israeli policy aimed at the reality of Jerusalem and its geographical, political, social and educational features. the government.

Abu Ziad, for example, said: "Previously, the Israeli police prevented any attempt by the extreme right to cause confusion or destabilization within Al-Aqsa, but today it publicly supports it, giving priority to settler incursions and carrying out their programs inside Al-Aqsa." For many years, Israeli society has been aware of the need to Judaize Jerusalem and establish the Temple in the place of Al-Aqsa. "

Far .. Sparks uprisings
Al-Aqsa Mosque has always been a source of Palestinian uprisings such as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the gift of the tunnel and the gift of Jerusalem. Abu Ziad warned that "Al-Aqsa is a time bomb that the occupation is not aware of the danger of playing in it, and some Arabs are not aware of or ignoring what is happening, to the extent that some Arab preachers and media played down the importance and religious status of Al-Aqsa." Blood. "

Rimawi warns that the next four years will be the most dangerous for Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, explaining the existence of a strategy related to them go to a third stage of Judaization affecting the structure of the Old City and the mosque consistently on the basis of a steady Israeli government program does not change successively parties.

Ways of confrontation
For his part, researcher Ziad Abhais recommended a return to an Arab position in support of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, away from the absurd competition to face the danger towards Al-Aqsa, in parallel with the development of a Jordanian official position commensurate with the Israeli threat to Al-Aqsa.

He also advised Abhis to reformulate the media discourse on the battle of Al-Aqsa, and support the mass movement of Jerusalem in all ways, and mass movement in the external arenas to prevent unilateralism in Jerusalem.