The Times of Israel reports: Jordan condemned a visit by two Jewish lawmakers to the Temple Mount on Tuesday, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to allow a one day “trial” for Knesset members to enter the flashpoint holy site for the first time in nearly two years was “irresponsible.”
“The decision of the Israeli Prime Minister to lift the ban on visits by members of the Knesset to the Al-Aqsa Mosque is an irresponsible decision that will increase tension and lead to an escalation in this place that is holy for all Muslims around the world,” Jordanian government spokesperson Mohammad Momani said in a statement carried by Jordan’s official new outlet Petra.
MKs Yehuda Glick (Likud) and Shuli Moalem Refaeli (Jewish Home) visited the compound earlier Tuesday, marking the first Jewish lawmakers had visited the site since October 2015, when the government barred MKs from going there as part of an attempt to reduce tensions amid a wave of terror attacks against Israelis that was linked to the flash-point site.
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