Will decision to block Jewish access to Temple Mount have political ramifications? – By Eliav Breuer (The Jerusalem Post) / Apr 13 2023
Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit silent on Netanyahu’s closure of the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors
The government’s far-right flank, the Religious Zionist Party and Otzma Yehudit, have a problem.
Last year, they consistently and harshly criticized the Bennett-Lapid government for being weak on security and being controlled by the Islamic Brotherhood. But if the previous government’s hands were tied by “terror supporters” and it could not deal effectively with terror, what is wrong with the current government, whose responses to terror attacks and rockets from Gaza and Lebanon have been relatively tame – despite its hands being free?
This problem repeated itself on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing his decision to block Jews’ entry to the Temple Mount until the end of Ramadan next Friday, April 21. Otzma and RZP slammed the previous government for making an identical decision last year: What are they to do now?
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