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Opinion: With Ben-Gvir visiting Temple Mount almost immediately after taking office, the new Netanyahu government appears set on declaring war on 1.5 billion Muslims, seeking to change centuries-old status-quo

The Israeli Prime Minister’s new coalition includes members who would enforce religious prohibitions over democratic liberties.

The Biden administration declined to defend Israel at a UN Security Council meeting on a Jewish minister visiting the holiest site in Judaism.

Members express concern about rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions, days after new right-wing Israeli government took power 

US blasts ‘unilateral actions’ during emergency Security Council meeting called after far-right minister toured flashpoint Jerusalem holy site; Palestinians warn of 'uprising'

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan told the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that when he heard it was holding an emergency meeting on a government’s minister’s “quiet, orderly and uneventful” visit to the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – he thought world peace had broken out.

The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting on Thursday at the request of the Palestinians and other Islamic and non-Islamic nations to protest the visit of an ultranationalist Israeli minister to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site and demand an end to Israeli extremist provocations and res

Ambassador Gilad Erdan noted that Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir entered through the only non-Muslim entrance to the Temple Mount, at one of the limited designated times for Jewish admittance and made no attempt to pray.

NEW YORK: “Listen carefully to me,” Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador said to his Israeli counterpart sitting across from him in the UN Security Council chamber. “This council should stop you,” Mansour continued. “It is their responsibility. It is the responsibility of all states to uphold international law and the historic status quo (of Haram Al-Sharif.) They

US ambassador to the UN said Washington expects Israel to preserve the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque