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January 6, 2023

Those Loudly Condemning the Israeli Security Minister’s Visit to the Temple Mount Are Playing into His Hands

Condemning Itamar Ben-Gvir for something that is, and should be, unremarkable.

After the Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir’s recent visit to the Temple Mount, the UN Security Council called an emergency session and several Arab states issued condemnations. France, the UK, and the U.S. conveyed more generic warnings to Jerusalem, and the event got much coverage in the Israeli and foreign press. Yet, although Ben-Gvir has a history of inflammatory statements, this visit adhered to all the normal rules restricting Jewish access to the site, and was in no way out of the ordinary. John Minster considers the outsized response it provoked:

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