A spokesperson for
Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, is reported
to have said that the attacks last Friday on the Temple Mount were “a natural
response to Israeli terrorism and their defilement of the al-Aksa mosque."
Eli
Lake argues that this cannot be taken seriously when the leaders of Hamas
accuse Israel of defiling the holy site, while they praise the gunmen who ran
to the site during their attack.
Martin
Kramer stated that, "the usual Islamist claim” is that, “the danger to
the mosque and the shrine is from Jews….[However here] there was an actual
conspiracy to smuggle weapons into this holy place and Hamas does not condemn
it, they praise it. Who poses the greater danger to Al Aqsa?" Lake concludes that the greatest danger to
Islam’s holy site these days is “the Palestinian fanatics who claim to be
fighting for its reclamation.”
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