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Ammon News - Experts in the Palestinian affairs have warned against the term “Al-Aqsa Compound” that western media has begun to circulate.

They stressed the importance of adopting the legal and historical term agreed upon, which is “the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al Haram Al Sharif”

Several international news agencies, most notably Reuters, the BBC and the CNN have used the term "Al-Aqsa Compound" in an unprecedented manner.

On Tuesday, the extremist Israeli minister, Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al Haram Al Sharif.

Experts considered that using the term “Al-Aqsa Compound” instead of “the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al Haram Al Sharif”, constitutes a new challenge in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

In a statement to Ammon, the former MP and prof. of political science at the University of Jordan, Dr. Mohammed Qatatsheh, said that the Israeli occupied government and the Western media “do not act in vain”, and there is no goodwill or innocence in dropping the term “Al-Aqsa Compound” through international news agencies.

Qatatsheh considered that such terminology hides many poisonous schemes behind it, and the use of “Al-Aqsa Compound” instead of “the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al Haram Al Sharif” is a dangerous indication to refer again to “the alleged temple.”

Qatatsheh warned that what is coming will be much worse, in light of the weakness of the Arab media in confrontation with the Hebrew and Western media, in addition to the internal Palestinian division between Ramallah and Gaza, and the legacy of the Arab-Israeli peace treaties since "Oslo and Camp David" until the Arab-Israeli peace agreement, in addition to all this the Security Council and the United Nations resolutions do not rise to the level of the event, and no meeting exceeds the emphasis on previous resolutions, which left Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque for last-minute negotiations, and this is what thwarted all previous peace negotiations and brought us to what we are now in a state of weakness in front of an extreme right-wing Israeli government that is dominated by a hard-line settler character, which considers that East Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and here in particular lies the danger, which is currently represented in dropping the term “Al-Aqsa Compound” as an alternative to the “blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al Haram Al Sharif.”

This is intended to end the Christian and Islamic presence as ideological religious landmarks and to Judaize Jerusalem, or to return to the program of “temporal and spatial division”, as happened in the Ibrahimi Mosque.

Political analyst Dr. Khaled Shneikat agreed with what Qatatsheh said, in a statement to Ammon, Shneikat said that there is a change that the Israeli occupied worked on, by telling the international news agencies that the so-called “Al-Aqsa Compound” is the correct term, and that the far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir “did not storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, but rather toured inside the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and this has dangerous indications and messages.

Shneikat warned that the idea of the “spatial and temporal divide” is not new, but it seems that its proposal this time comes in an organized and stronger way by dividing the Holy Mosque and allowing the Jewish extremist settlers to enter inside it freely, but the Jews will not stop except by building “the alleged temple”, especially in light of the presence of the most extremist government in the history of the Israeli occupied, by joining Zionists and extremists from hard-line parties.