Reaching ‘Gates of Damascus’ – Israeli Minister Celebrates Israel’s ‘Triumph’ at Aqsa Mosque

Israeli Minister Shlomo Karhi (Photo: Hagar Cohen, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

Karhi’s remarks astir the “gates of Damascus” travel arsenic Israeli forces beforehand into confederate Syria, present wrong little than 40 kilometers of the Syrian capital.

Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, citing spiritual texts, claimed that the aboriginal of the “gates of Jerusalem that illuminate our path” is to scope the gates of Damascus.

In a station connected the X platform, Karhi added that pursuing the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by extremist settlers, helium prayed contiguous successful the tunnels beneath what helium referred to arsenic the Western Wall and prayed for the instrumentality of each detainees.

Earlier today, Palestinian media reported that extremist settlers, nether dense extortion from Israeli concern forces, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and performed Talmudic rituals connected the 4th time of Hanukkah.

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Palestinians person agelong accused Israel of intensifying efforts to Judaize East Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to erase its Arab and Muslim identity.

Karhi’s remarks, referencing the “gates of Damascus,” travel astatine a clip erstwhile Israeli forces person precocious into confederate Syria, present astir 40 kilometers from the Syrian capital, according to section sources.

Following the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad authorities by Turkish-backed and Arab-supported factions, Israel has precocious escalated its airstrikes connected subject infrastructure successful Syria and the remaining Syrian subject installations. This determination besides expands Israel’s concern of the Golan Heights.

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In caller days, Israel besides declared the illness of the 1974 disengagement statement with Syria, efficaciously occupying the demilitarized buffer portion successful the Syrian Golan Heights—an country it has controlled since 1967—as good arsenic Jabal al-Sheikh. Israel has besides precocious into the Daraa countryside, a determination condemned by the United Nations.

Full Translation of Karhi’s Post connected Platform X:

“This morning, I had the privilege of entering the Western Wall tunnels, traveling backmost successful clip done excavations beneath the Western Wall plaza, and praying astatine the beatified tract corresponding to the Holy of Holies, courtesy of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation.

“I offered a supplication for the occurrence of the radical of Israel, for the instrumentality of our soldiers adorned with the crown of salvation and the wreath of victory, and for the swift instrumentality of our beloved hostages to their homes.

“In these days, arsenic the soldiers of Israel triumph successful each fronts, I callback the words of the Midrash: “The gates of Jerusalem volition yet scope the gates of Damascus” – the spiritual spot of Jerusalem illuminates our way and unites america together.

“May it beryllium God’s volition that, done the merit of this beatified spot and the airy of the Chanukah festival, we volition witnesser miracles and wonders, conscionable arsenic He did for our ancestors successful those days astatine this time.”

(The Palestine Chronicle)