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Israel’s controversial National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the al Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount on Tuesday, a
Netanyahu emphasized that Ben Gvir does not run the country and so lacks the authority to flout the “status quo” — an arrangement in which the site is administered by an Islamic organization, which reserves the site for Muslims. Yet Ben Gvir responded with a direct challenge to Netanyahu’s authority, at the risk of inflaming not only the security situation but the fraying ties that bind the prime minister’s coalition government together.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team echoed Netanyahu’s condemnation. “We certainly are paying close attention to actions and activities that we find to be a detraction from Israel’s security, a contributor to greater insecurity and instability in the region, and that would certainly be the actions that we saw today that Mr. Ben-Gvir participated in,” State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said Tuesday.
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