Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' adviser on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash repeated the libel that Israel seeks to harm all Muslims by destroying the Al-Aqsa mosque.
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According to a report by Palestinian Media Watch on Tuesday, Habbash described the duty of the Palestinians as to "defend" not only themselves, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, but nothing less than "Islam, the Koran and the entire Islamic nation" from Israel.
"Jerusalem is in the most complicated and difficult situation in its history, as the occupation [Israel] wants to change its identity and character so that it will be a city without the Al-Aqsa mosque and without the Dome of the Rock," he said, as quoted in the official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida.
Habbash, according to PMW, added that "Jerusalem will only be the capital of Palestine and emphasized that Jerusalem will again be free, and that Allah's victory is approaching."
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Habbash was quoted on official PA TV in April describing the month of Ramadan as "not a month of laziness but rather a month of activity, effort and hard work, and as it also was in the life of the prophet, a month of jihad, conquest and victory."
Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.
