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Following the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the U.N.’s educational, scientific, and cultural body (UNESCO) over it’s anti-Israel bias, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a resolution that “recognizes and affirms the historical connection of the Jewish people to the ancient and sacred city of Jerusalem.”

NEW YORK — U.S. Envoy to Israel David Friedman has once again stoked Palestinian Authority anger by shining the light of accuracy on key Israeli-Palestinian issues, ignoring Palestinian misinformation and declaring that so-called Israeli settlements are “a part of Israel.”

Two residents of the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm were charged on Thursday with planning to carry out a shooting attack on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, similar to the one that took place in July.

On Wednesday, the international police organization Interpol voted to admit the nonexistent “State of Palestine” despite strong Israeli objections.

The former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sa’id Sabri, has been barred from entering the UK as part of a delegation organised by the pro-Palestinian group EuroPal.

A former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and current Imam of the city’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, who has a long history of anti-Semitic hate speech, is heading to Britain.

In July, a few weeks after the Temple Mount crisis had come to an end, David Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel, flew to Washington for a private meeting with US President Donald Trump.

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.”

TEL AVIV — UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited Ramallah on Tuesday, where he made public remarks about the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict and key issues related to the region.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ankara, and said finding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be beneficial to both sides.

An Israeli court on Thursday charged a firebrand Islamic cleric with incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site last month, the justice ministry said.

In a one-day “trial” next week, members of Israel’s Knesset legislature will be allowed to ascend Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the Israel Police announced on Thursday.

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas both revived the lie that a Jew or Jews were behind the 1969 arson of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by a Christian fundamentalist, which took place 48 years ago.

TEL AVIV — The Fatah movement, under the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, released a statement Monday marking 48 years since the Al Aqsa Mosque was set ablaze by a mentally ill Australian citizen, claiming that Israeli is an “occupying” country that has no sovereignty over the Al Aqsa Mosque.

TEL AVIV – Security forces on Wednesday demolished the family home of a 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed three Israelis in the West Bank community of Halamish in July while they were eating Shabbat dinner in their home.

Israeli police arrested on Tuesday a firebrand Islamic cleric accused of inciting violence in connection with deadly tensions last month at a Jerusalem holy site.

In the wake of the July 14 terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, when three Israeli-Arab terrorists shot and killed two Israeli-Druze police officers at the Temple Mount compound, several prominent Arabic-speaking journalists condemned the attack and called on the Palestinians to abandon the path of violence.

A lawmaker from the Likud party held office hours Monday outside an entrance to the Temple Mount in protest of an ongoing ban against MKs visiting the holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem, imposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

JERUSALEM – Following the Temple Mount crisis which Palestinian leadership has warned is the first of many “rounds of battle,” the Palestinian Authority’s Presidential Guard posted a message urging people to “water freedom with the blood of Palestine’s sons,” Israeli monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch reported.

The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf — the Jordanian-funded body which administers the Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount — said in a statement on Thursday that Israeli security forces did not damage or steal any historical items when they searched the hilltop compound in the days following the July 14 terrorist attack there in which two policemen were killed.

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) has been forced to apologize for its coverage of the anti-Israel violence in Jerusalem at the start of the recent Temple Mount crisis.

On August 6, Arab Israeli terrorists lit an army jeep on fire in a vain attempt to intimidate Jews living in the eastern part of Jerusalem.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Hebrew-language music video urging Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims to “tear” apart and “kill” Israeli Jews has begun circulating over Palestinian social media in the wake of the July 14 shooting death of two Israeli Druze policeman after Israeli Arab terrorists smuggled guns onto the Temple Mount complex and opened fire.

TEL AVIV – Children dressed as Islamist militants at a summer camp run by the Gaza-based Hamas terror group reenacted the recent turmoil over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by “storming” and “liberating” the holy site by “stabbing” Israeli “police officers,” new footage shows.

The official news agency of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Wafa, said Jews visiting the Western Wall during Tuesday’s Tisha B’Av fast “desecrated” a Muslim holy site.

China’s U.N. ambassador has been advocating for the international community to support a four-point proposal released by President Xi Jinping to guide Israeli-Palestinian negotiations leading to the creation of a Palestinian state.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister told 57 of his counterparts that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not give up on his quest to regain control of the Temple Mount and the Muslim world should prepare itself for the next “very nasty” round of conflict over the holy site in Jerusalem. 

Leading Palestinian NGOs — many of them backed with generous funding from European governments and agencies — have launched a new campaign in defense of the Palestinian Authority’s widely condemned policy of paying monthly salaries and other benefits to terrorists and their families.

TEL AVIV — By increasing the number of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, Israel is trying to exact “revenge” for its “failure” to take “control” of the complex, the chief preacher at the al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ekrama Sabri, claimed.

TEL AVIV – Jared Kushner let slip in a private, off-the-record conversation with congressional interns on Monday that he was not sure the Trump administration was able to add anything “unique” towards solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

TEL AVIV – Jordan’s foreign minister on Tuesday slammed Israel for the record-breaking 1,300 Jewish “extremists” who “stormed” the Temple Mount for the Tisha B’Av fast commemorating the destruction of both Jewish temples that once stood there.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli defense establishment is concerned with the deteriorating health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas following another spate in hospital last week, an analysis in the Haaretz daily said.

TEL AVIV – A new video released Monday shows the moment an Israeli pizzeria owner smashed a Palestinian terrorist over the head with a pizza tray during a stabbing attack in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva last week.

TEL AVIV – More than a thousand Jews on Tuesday visited the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem for the Tisha B’av fast commemorating the destruction of both Jewish temples that once stood there.

The Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly provided aid to Palestinian protesters demonstrating against new security measures at the Temple Mount last month.