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Jordan calls emergency meeting of Muslim foreign ministers on ‘imminent threat of Israeli takeover of Temple Mount’

Aug 6, 2026 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams7 Comments

To understand better the threat Israel faces from the Palestinian mentality of hatred and murder: the PLO actually views Jews visiting the Temple Mount (Judaism’s holiest site) “as similar to Muslims massacring Christians in churches in Sri Lanka during Easter.” So when they exaggerate by accusing Jews of storming the Temple Mount, they mean that Jews are simply visiting their own holy site.

Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, stated:  “We warn that tampering with the status quo … could trigger a religious conflict that will reverberate beyond Palestine and Jordan into the whole Muslim world.”

What Safadi is referring to is the “status quo” agreement, which was reached after the Six-Day War in June 1967, when Israel reconquered the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan formulated the agreement. Under its terms, “the Muslim Waqf, a Jordanian religious trust, would retain control of the Temple Mount. Jews would be allowed to visit the site without restrictions, though they would not be allowed to pray there. Israel would also take responsibility for security, though its forces would stay off the mount.”

A 2022 Israel Hayom article featured Yisrael Medad, a Temple Mount activist for over 50 years, who advances the salient point that “Israel should not allow threats of Muslim violence to dictate what Jews can or cannot do on the Temple Mount. Once you accept the position that your enemy, or your rival, sets the rules, and you have no say in what those rules are, whatever you do will be wrong in his eyes.” The article also states that Jews have been praying at the site for years; and that in fact, today “thousands of Jews visit the site annually.”

The panic of Jordan et al over what they call “a July 23 incursion into the compound” was really only a visit to the holy site to Jews by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and what Jordan and other Muslims themselves described, albeit in negative terms, as an entirely peaceful demonstration: “Thousands of Jewish extremists, who entered the site under police protection, prayed, waved Israeli flags and sang the national anthem, prompting widespread condemnation from Arab and Muslim countries.”

Leftists will likely take the barbarian side as they always do, even as gays (for whom leftists claim to fight) are thrown in jail (and off rooftops), or ambushed by Muslim mobs.

Jerusalem is indeed a “tinder box,” but not because of Jews. Muslims will likely rev up attacks in Jerusalem while antisemites everywhere blame Jews.

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Jordan accuses Israel of Temple Mount changes as Arab, Muslim ministers gather for emergency talks

Ynet News, August 4, 2026:

Jordan will convene an emergency meeting of Arab and Muslim foreign ministers on Wednesday over what it describes as an “imminent” threat of an Israeli takeover of the Temple Mount, The Guardian reported.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned that attempts to alter the long-standing status quo at the Jerusalem holy site could ignite a religious conflict extending across the Muslim world.

“This is a constant threat, a dangerous threat that we’re trying to counter with every tool that we have possible,” Safadi told The Guardian.

“We warn that tampering with the status quo could trigger a religious conflict that will reverberate beyond Palestine and Jordan into the whole Muslim world.”

Safadi will host foreign ministers from Arab League states, as well as Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia and Pakistan, at the emergency meeting.

“Jerusalem is a tinderbox,” he said. “We’re trying to explain the danger. We’re protesting legally. We are trying to create awareness of the imminent danger in the continuation of those Israeli measures.”…