RAMALLAH, West Bank, 12 January 2008 — The head of Islamic movement in the 1984 Arab territories Sheikh Ra’ed Salah said that the Israeli authorities are planning to build the biggest Jewish synagogue in the world inside the plazas of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Salah said in a press statement that he obtained a new Israeli document, which includes big engineering projects inside the Aqsa Mosque that will be ready for implementation within six years.
He also added, “The Zionist entity was able to obtain the needed funds for the implementation of those projects that cost $44 million, revealing that the new Israeli plan gained the blessing of Jewish leaders world-wide, especially those in the United States.
According to Salah, who was imprisoned and exposed to Israeli harassments due to his protest against the Israeli excavation near Al-Magharebah Gate of Aqsa Mosque, gates of the new synagogue will directly lead to the Aqsa Mosque. Thus, he added, the entire plazas of the Aqsa Mosque will be turned into plazas for the Jewish temple as well; describing such Israeli plan as “the last step that precedes the construction of the alleged Third Temple.”
Revealing more details about the Israeli plan, Salah pointed out that according to the plan the Magharebah Gate, one of the important and historical gates of the Aqsa Mosque, will be permanently sealed off to build a new bridge leading directly to the Aqsa Mosque in order to ensure Israeli dominance over the Muslim holy shrine.
He also disclosed that the Israel authorities intend to build a new gate directly connected to the Buraq Mosque after they close the existing gate leading to the mosque from inside the Aqsa Mosque with the aim to transform the mosque into a synagogue.
At the mosque’s Buraq Wall (Western Wall), Salah said that the Israeli authorities plan to dig new tunnel in order to use it as emergency route to storm the Aqsa Mosque and to quell any possible “violence” that might erupt there.
Below the eastern wall of the mosque, Salah said the Israeli authorities plan to confiscate the area where the Rahma graveyard, which contains the remains of a number of the Sahaba (companions of Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him), is located purposely to set up a rail station that will connect the Aqsa Mosque with the Zaiton Mount, where, according to Jewish belief, the most scared Jewish cemetery is located.
