Israel’s far-right national security minister made a controversial visit to a sensitive holy site on Tuesday. Now, the country is lobbying against calls for an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council.
that any unilateral changes to the way the religious site is run could spark violence.
Israeli police secure the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday.An Israeli diplomatic official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications, tells NPR that Israel's Foreign Ministry instructed Israeli embassies to lobby countries against any moves the Security Council might take.
Elham Fakhro, a Bahraini research fellow at the University of Exeter, says public opinion in the Gulf is largely opposed to Israeli actions against Palestinians, and is skeptical that formal ties with Arab states can change Israel's policies. "They're trying to use their influence," she says of the UAE."Whether or not Netanyahu is going to be a willing partner in that is a different question."
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