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The Israeli policies towards Al-Aqsa Mosque are taking a rising judaization approach, mainly aimed at a single result – “broader land and less population”. The trend in Jerusalem is different from other cities, since complete judaization in the city and the holy shrine is considered a practical refutation of the Zionist claims. Therefore, the process targets houses, street names, graveyards, mosques, buildings, teachers, man, etc. The steps against the shrine took several forms. Firstly, the Hebrew State started Israelizing the holy city by imposing full sovereignty. Secondly, in the 1980’s, it moved to judaization. Thirdly, since the launch of the peace process, the official policy has been trying to replace Al-Aqsa Mosque with the Temple and promoting the settlement activity in the surrounding areas. Consequently, Jewish groups and rightest political parties have been active in the last ten years, calling for temporal and spacial division of the holy site, so that it would become like the Ibrahimi Mosque of Al-Khaleel. In addition, a number of laws have been approved and Jewish rulings announced to demand the practice of religious ceremonies in Al-Aqsa squares, though that was previously prohibited. The Israeli government employed several factors in this regard, such as the US Administration’s stance supportive of the settlement and the Israeli plans in Jerusalem, the Arab World split, the disputes among the Palestinian and their leaders’ weakness and confusion. Nevertheless, after attempting to set the temporal and spacial division, Israel had to decline in front of the Palestinian popular attitude, which totally rejected any compromise about the holy site as an inclusive Muslim ownership. Other than the 20 martyrs who were killed by Israeli soldiers during sit-ins and demonstrations, there were pressures and advice by official Palestinian, Arab and Western parties and national security institutions. A new inclusive intifada had to be prevented, so that the cards of the region could not be mixed and the US and Israeli interests harmed.
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