Once again, the Egyptian writer Youssef Zidan returned to stir up controversy and anger on social networking sites, with his statements to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan - yesterday, Sunday - about Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Zidan said - in his interview with the Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan - that the Palestinian issue has not and will not be resolved by violence and mutual hatred between the two parties, but by claims of reason, according to him, stressing that he does not mind allocating a small part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyard to build the Solomon Temple, given that Judaism A religion that Islam recognizes.

Zaidan called for Jerusalem to remain a single unit for all religions that were in the region, not only for the Abrahamic religions, but also for the Roman pagan religions, claiming that the city's Islamic history is not purely Islamic, and claiming that the saying that the Jews seek to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque in search of the Temple is an illusion that is settled in Arab countries.

In strange statements, the Egyptian novelist considered that the city was occupied by the Jews from the point of view of Muslims, but from the point of view of Christians it was occupied by Muslims, and that the city was related to the Christian heritage just as it was related to the Roman pagan heritage, the ancient Hebrew heritage, and then to the Muslims, so each side sees it Occupied by the other side.

#Yusef_Zidan: I don't mind building a synagogue in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque https://t.co/0xFxri7xG0

- Homeland Gate (@lwatanews) May 16, 2021

They call us Zidane

A number of specialists responded to Yusef Zaidan's statements, including Professor of History at Cairo University, Dr. Muhammad Afifi, who considered that Zaidan returns again to the fatwa without knowledge, adding that "whoever wants to talk about the future of Jerusalem should refer to the files of the Maps Department in the Orient House in Jerusalem, and if it is The trend is gold, silence is better. "

In a post on his Facebook page, the professor of history asked, “Why is it now keen to say that it is a city of all religions ?! Perhaps the answer will come in the second part of the declaration, where Zidan wants to ride the trend, or pass another project for the future of Jerusalem (and it is not appropriate for it to be the capital of one team. Here is the question and the answer together. "

For his part, Abdul-Ghani Hindi, a member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, said - in press statements - that the Zionist enemy takes the likes of Yusef Zaydan's words to promote that they are right.

Hindi said, "We, as Arab and Egyptian intellectuals, are calibrated because of Yusef Zaidan's statements in the Arab countries, and one of the Palestinian intellectuals taunted me personally in Palestine because of Yusef Zaidan's statements that directly and indirectly support the Zionist entity."

As for Abd al-Wahid al-Nabawi - the former Egyptian Minister of Culture - he said in statements to "Al-Watan" newspaper that Yusef Zaidan always deplores the rule of Arabs and Muslims in this region and their human achievements, and provides information that is inconsistent with reality or historical truth, and if it agrees, it is in a very small part. Without mentioning the periods of Western colonialism and the Crusader period.

The former minister explained that "Zaidan spoke in his publication about the City of Peace in fragmentary, unscientific and inaccurate terms, emptying it of its content," stressing that properly reviewing the history of Jerusalem reveals that it was not available to all religions except under the rule of Arabs and Muslims.

He pointed out that the Arabs and Muslims built Jerusalem and left the monuments and libraries that bear witness to this, while the city suffered humiliation during the periods of its fall under the rule of non-Arabs and Muslims, pointing out that what Zidan says increases the diaspora in the nation and serves other parties.

"Chicken" are hired

As for Dr. Abdullah Rushdi - a researcher in religious affairs and a former media spokesperson for the Ministry of Endowments - he chose to respond to Zaidan's words by publishing a group of tweets about the history of the city of Jerusalem, so that the "paid chicken, the beloved of the Zionists" - according to his tweet - did not know some People with history.

Rushdie recounted - through his tweets - the history of the mosque since its construction by Adam, peace be upon him, and its renewal at the hands of the prophets of God Jacob and Solomon, passing through the kingdoms that ruled him, explaining that the rule of the Jews in Palestine does not exceed 415 years, while the Arab presence there since 4 thousand years BC At the hands of the Jebusite Arabs.

This is quick information because the hired chicken, the beloved of the Zionists, does not know your knowledge of history:


first / the one who laid the building of the Holy House is our master Adam, and then the one who renewed it is our master Jacob, then our master Solomon renewed it again completely ..

- Abdullah Rushdy (@dullahrushdy) May 16, 2021

Zidan's controversial statements about the status of Palestine, and making the city of Jerusalem a city for all religions, sparked outrage among the pioneers of social networking sites who refused to raise such controversy at a time when Israel attacked the Al-Aqsa Mosque and killed civilians in Gaza and a number of occupied Palestinian cities.

Some observers accused Zaidan of exploiting the escalating international interest in the Palestine issue to broadcast his lies in the service of Zionism, while some described his statements as a failed attempt to win the Nobel Prize he dreamed of.

Most of the observers agreed to reject his vision in which he tries to twist the historical facts in a dialectical manner, to influence a stable international legal situation, with Palestine being occupied Arab land, whose people have the right to defend it and expel the Zionist occupier.

We are not only facing the Zionists on the ground, but we are also fighting the Zionists of literature and the media.

Yusef Zidan does not let the mutant state kill alone, but rather supports it morally, media, humanly and religiously. # GazaUnderAttak # Normalization_ Betrayal #SavePalestine #Gaza_Under_Attack pic.twitter.com/udIEx3qEMg

- mari (@ mari243) May 17, 2021

Youssef Zidan, you will not take a Nobel if I even have the star of David on the verge ... Fraih stayed 😠 pic.twitter.com/E9z1P4EZhk

- Hany saad (@ hanysaad76) May 17, 2021

What does it mean to be a capital for a certain team, Yusuf, Zidane. Someone told you, “We will answer Muslims from Indonesia who rule it, for example !!!!”

Jerusalem is an Arab city in which Islamic and Christian sanctities are held..and it is a Palestinian land, whether it is Muslim or Christian, and under Palestinian Arab rule regardless of religion..Your words are disgraceful and serve the Zionists unfortunately https://t.co/7tDedHep6O

- PPop (@ _abdElwahab18) May 16, 2021

The first thing that Youssef Zaidan knew was in his statement about Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, when one of the most despicable figures in the history of humanity said about him, Zidane a dirty fake of Islamic history.

- Rajeh ||

🇵🇸 (@yahoo_devil) May 17, 20

According to the newspapers, Yusef Zaidan calls for building a synagogue in Al-Aqsa Square.


Ok, what do you think, if we let them build a temple in Al-Baqi in Medina?


Perhaps miracles will come to us tomorrow, that the Jews have historical rights and property in the city


or in the pyramids plateau, on the basis of their enslavement of the Pharaoh.

- Mohamed Mowafi (@mmowafi) May 17, 2021

Yusef Zaidan repeats that the builder of the Dome of the Rock is Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, as


if you came with a lost and hidden


good. Take this: the infidels of Quraish built the Kaaba, and Abdullah bin Al-Zubair rebuilt it.

Does this mean that the Kaaba has no sacredness or is it just stones?

Or does that deny that Adam built the Kaaba and then Abraham rebuilt it anew?

- Mohamed Mowafi (@mmowafi) May 17, 2021

Whoever wants to know the true position of the Arab and Islamic regimes on the Palestinian issue, let him read the thinker Yusef Zaidan.


After that, he will not be surprised at the audacity and daring of the Jewish entity to Judaize Palestine and desecrate the sanctities of Muslims.

Yusef Aamer (@yosefer) May 16, 2021

Oh God, do not collect hallucinations of old age and sedation!


(The great thinker) Yusef Zaidan does not mind building a synagogue in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque! # Al-Aqsa # Al-Aqsa rises up # Normalization_a betrayal pic.twitter.com/oVqMlLpaaN

- Ahmed Mahad Al-Ma`shani (@mashani) May 16, 2021

God willing, we got a practical masterpiece solution.

Youssef Zaidan believes that the problem is about the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in order to solve the issue in a practical way, as he put it, he proposes to build a small Jewish temple 200 square meters inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque yard, and to transform the city of Jerusalem into a city of international influence, and thus peace prevails and everyone laughs and returns to his home!

https://t.co/ZcZw7MPWr8

- Ali Dawood (@aliallawati) May 16, 2021

The events in Palestine erupted after the resistance factions in Gaza bombed Israeli areas in response to the Israeli attacks in the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem, as Israel responded with intense air strikes as well as artillery and gunboats' shelling of the Gaza Strip since last Monday.

And the Ministry of Health in Gaza stated that the number of martyrs - since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Strip - reached 197, including 58 children and 34 women, while 1235 were wounded.

In addition, the number of buildings that were bombed by the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip reached 90, including 6 residential towers, 3 of which were completely destroyed.