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Thursday, July 27, 2017
Arab League chief warns Israel risking ‘religious war’ at Temple Mount
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe head of the Arab League warns that Israeli actions at the highly sensitive Temple Mount risk igniting a “religious war.”
Israel’s actions are “playing with fire, and will only ignite a religious war and shift the core of the conflict from politics to religion,” Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit says at an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on the latest violence in Jerusalem.
“I invite the occupying state (Israel) to carefully learn the lessons from this crisis and the message it holds,” Abul Gheit says in a televised speech.
“Handling holy sites lightly and with this level of arrogance seriously threatens to ignite a religious war, since not one single Muslim in the world would accept the desecration of Al-Aqsa mosque,” he adds.
— AFP
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