Abbas' Fatah party says Israel plans to destroy Al Aqsa to build the Third Temple

Fatah spokesperson Osama al-Qawasmi said Monday that Israel was performing crimes against Islamic holy places, insulting the dignity of Arabs and Muslims and escalating violence against Arabs and Muslims, hurting  the feelings of one and a half billion Muslims in the world, and all Arab and Muslim leaders.

That's just for starters.

Al-Qawasmi, saying that the Palestinians do not want to turn this into a religious conflict, says that Israel is planning to demolish the Al-Aqsa Mosque "in order to establish the alleged Temple."

These are usually the delusional statements of Hamas or religious clerics. But now the supposedly secular Fatah has officially adopted the lie that Israel is planning to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque.

And the obvious reason it pushes this lie is precisely to incite a religious conflict of (alleged) 1.5 billion Muslims against Israel.

It sounds like incitement to violence to me, but Human Rights Watch hasn't found this to be problematic, and they follow the Middle East very closely, so I must be mistaken.

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