Today, Monday, the Zionist enemy authorities hung banners at the entrance to the "Al-Maghariba Gate", one of the doors leading to the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, encouraging the intensification of settler incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a flagrant violation of the status quo in the sanctuary.And the Palestinian News Agency said that the enemy authorities removed a banner placed by the chief Rabbinate of Zionism, decades ago, prohibiting Jews from entering the "Al-Aqsa Mosque".One of the new signs encouraging a breach of the status quo on the Haram reads, "The Directorate of Ascenders to the Temple Mount welcomes pilgrims" and "Your prayers are accepted with good deeds."
This is partially true. From Haaretz last week:
For decades, a sign warning, in the name of The Chief Rabbinate, that “according to Torah law, it is forbidden for any impure person to enter the Temple Mount because of its holiness,” stood at the entrance to the Mughrabi Bridge in an effort to discourage Jewish pilgrims.However, since being removed – apparently by pilgrims waiting to ascend the mount during last summer’s Tisha B’Av fast – the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which manages the complex, has failed to return it to its place.Instead, new and prominent signs were placed at a police checkpoint and in a waiting hall at the entrance to the bridge by the Temple Mount Administration, by an activist group, listing the rules for going up to the Temple Mount according to Jewish law, which include immersion in a ritual bath and the prohibition of wearing leather shoes.
Whoever is responsible for taking down the old sign, it is all meaningless. Jews who believe that it is allowed to visit the Temple Mount within certain specific parameters ignored the sign anyway, and those who hold that Jews cannot enter at all would not go, sign or no sign.
There was once another sign at the entrance to the Temple Mount, written in Greek over 2000 years ago:
"No stranger is to enter within the balustrade round the Temple and enclosure. Whoever is caught will be himself responsible for his ensuing death."
Stranger, in this case, means non-Jew.
Perhaps this sign should be restored at all the entrances of the Temple Mount. After all, for hundreds of years, it was the status quo.
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