The rapid events that took place in the Old City and Al-Aqsa - most notably the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem, the intensification of Judaization and settlement projects, and the prominent role of the American ambassador, David Friedman, in imposing the Jewish religious agenda in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa - contributed to the gradual undermining of the Jordanian guardianship and care of the holy sites.
The so-called American plan for peace in the Middle East, known as the "deal of the century", culminated in Israeli policies and strategy in everything related to occupying sovereignty over Al-Aqsa.
This plan is considered a fundamental factor in the issue of emptying the Jordanian guardianship over the Al-Aqsa Mosque from its content, undermining its role in caring for holy sites, and besieging any presence and influence of the Hashemite Kingdom in Palestine in general, and Jerusalem in particular.
With the slowdown in the implementation of the American peace plan in the Middle East and the Palestinian consensus rejecting it, Washington, through the Israeli-Emirati alliance, discussed continuing the train of normalization and pursuing the Israeli strategy to strengthen the new alliance in the Gulf.
Israel is looking to transform the sanctuary grounds into a place of prayer for all religions, such as the "House of Abraham" model in Abu Dhabi (Al Jazeera Net)
Guardianship and pressure
The normalization between Israel and the UAE goes beyond the traditional alliance role with Jordan, and the Hashemite guardianship of Al-Aqsa and the holy sites towards courting Saudi Arabia and the UAE by luring them into a foothold for cooperation and coordination in religious tourism, and the transfer of Muslim pilgrims to Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.
Lawyer Khaled Al-Zabarqa, who specializes in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa cases, believes that Israel is actively seeking to empty the Jordanian guardianship of any content, pointing to the militarization of the occupation of Al-Aqsa and its surroundings and its interference in every small and large in the campus yards, so that a Muslim heading to the sanctuary squares feels that he is entering a military barracks Israeli.
He explained that Israel has been working for years, in coordination with US President Donald Trump, to undermine any Jordanian influence in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, in light of a systematic process aimed at building the alleged structure in the grounds of the Temple Mount, which Ambassador Friedman is pushing for.
Palestinian real estate in Old Jerusalem leaked to settlement associations (Al-Jazeera Net)
Projects and plans
With regard to the Israeli-Emirati alliance and its repercussions on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa in particular, lawyer Zebarqa believes that the UAE has become one of the Zionist tools that Israel uses to implement its projects and plans in the Arab world, indicating that the Emirati role in plotting against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa has taken a public and dangerous turn since 2014.
Al-Zabarqa indicated that the Emirati role at the time was embodied in the diversion of 30 properties in Silwan and Wadi Hilweh, which are the two southern protectors of Al-Aqsa, stressing that Emirati institutions linked to the Abu Dhabi regime played the Zionist role in Jerusalem and the Palestinian interior, as Palestinian and Jerusalemite businessmen were used to support the Emirati infrastructure.
The Emirati role was evident in the old walls of Jerusalem and at the Al Aqsa walls - as Zebarqa says - "by trying to buy a strategic property adjacent to the northern wall of Al-Aqsa at Faisal Gate, but its owner refused to do so despite the exorbitant sums of money offered to him."
With regard to the secrets of the terms of the normalization agreement between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi related to Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, Al-Zabarqa clarifies that the Emirati role is considered an assault on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, religion and Islamic beliefs, by manipulating the religious vocabulary related to Al-Aqsa, as it was defined by the tribal mosque, and to consider the sanctuary squares extending over an area of 144 Without squares, according to the Israeli-Emirati agreement, all religions are allowed to pray in them.
The Israeli-Emirati agreement reduces the sanctuary squares extending over 144 dunums of the tribal mosque for Muslim prayer (Al-Jazeera Net)
A vision, a model, and in
support of the proposal of Zebarqa, Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, vice president of the Israeli banned Islamic movement, asserts that the UAE, by following its approach and its role in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa in recent years, does not work or is active through a vision of its own insofar as it works within a Zionist and Judaizing project.
In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Al-Khatib recalled the Emirati role in purchasing dozens of real estate in the Old City of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa to convert them into hostels and hotels for Muslim pilgrims, while the sale and purchase documents presented in Israeli courts showed that the properties purchased by the UAE were converted into settlement associations that are active in Judaizing Jerusalem and pushing towards building The alleged structure.
When the "House of Ibrahim" model is discussed in Abu Dhabi with a mosque, synagogue and church, meaning that all sons of Ibrahim pray under one roof, Al-Khatib says, "This model is promoted and circulated in order to implement it in Al-Aqsa, so that it cannot be isolated from Jared's statements. Kushner, senior advisor to the US president, who requested that all members of the monotheistic religions be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount, so that they agree on the place and time of prayer. "
The occupation seeks to undermine the Jordanian guardianship over Al-Aqsa and pave the way for building the Temple in the place of the Dome of the Rock (Al-Jazeera Net)
Al-Aqsa and the Temple
Al-Khatib believes that the statements of US officials are clear and explicit calls for a change in the grounds of the Temple Mount and the division of Al-Aqsa, asking: Would this pass easily under the Jordanian tutelage, or should this guardianship be trimmed and emptied of its content?
He warned of the plan to remove the tutelage from Jordan and transfer it through Emirati normalization to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which paves the way for the surrender of the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic right to Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa under the pretext of the regional peace project, and to create conditions for acceptance of the idea of building the alleged structure.
Al-Khatib believes that Israel, in light of the unprecedented American support, Arab fragmentation, and the crisis of the Palestinian situation, is a case for imposing occupational sovereignty over Al-Aqsa, and creating a state of acceptance for the construction of the Temple in the grounds of the Temple Mount with Saudi and Emirati support and funding.
Cooperation and exception
On the Israeli side, the journalist who specializes in Arab and Palestinian affairs, Yoav Stern, ruled out that Israel is intent on transferring sovereignty over the holy sites and Al-Aqsa to Saudi Arabia or the Emirates, stressing that the announcement by Tel Aviv is its willingness to cooperate with Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to expand the circle of normalization and grant visas to Arabs And Muslims to visit Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.
Stern explained in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net that Tel Aviv, in light of normalization, is determined to impose full Israeli sovereignty in the Old City and Al-Aqsa without any partnership, which is a unilateral step and may exclude Jordan, without even coordinating with the Palestinian side, which has the right to see and partner with arrangements for Arab and Muslim visits to Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa. .
The Israeli journalist believes that the withdrawal of Jordanian guardianship and patronage over Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa is a change to the status quo stipulated in the Wadi Araba peace agreement between Israel and Jordan, more than a quarter of a century after the signing of the agreement.
Palestinian real estate in the Old City of Jerusalem settler associations have put their hands on it (Al Jazeera Net)
Collision and containment,
but Stern ruled out that this would lead to a collision between Tel Aviv and Amman or the dissolution of the agreements between the two countries, suggesting that the US administration is capable of containing any crisis between Israel and Jordan, which has an interest in having greater cooperation between Israel and other Arab countries, in order to relieve pressure on him. Because of the guardianship of Al-Aqsa and care for the sanctities.
The Israeli journalist saw that normalization and religious tourism to Jerusalem and the sanctities from the Israeli point of view is a very important shift and another step towards imposing Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, which is an indication by Tel Aviv of reconsidering its strategic alliance with Jordan, and the search for an open alliance in the depths of the Gulf. Without dispensing with the Jordanian depth and role in the region.