AFEH: Israeli companies marketing settlement outpost overlooking Aqsa

PIC

[ 11/02/2010 - 10:47 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) warned on Wednesday of the dangers of marketing a settlement project in occupied Jerusalem for the purpose of Judaizing the holy city called "Ma'aleh Hazeetim".

It said that Jewish companies were marketing the project under the rubric "feast your eyes by looking at the temple mount".

The project will be erected in the heart of Ras al-Amud neighborhood in Jerusalem, south east of the Aqsa Mosque, where Jewish companies try to market the project by encouraging Jews to purchase flats overlooking the Aqsa Mosque, and highlighting that this project will hasten the erection of the so called third temple.

Israeli companies launched an advertising campaign to market the luxurious apartments in the settlement of "Ma'ale Hazeetim" that is being built in the heart of the Palestinian neighborhood.

Moreover they added to the Ad pictures of the settlement project that is modeling one of its apartments that is overlooking the Aqsa Mosque; the Ad reads: "luxurious apartments in the arms of nature directly overlook the Temple Mount. Ma'ale Hazeetim neighborhood in Jerusalem is opposite the Temple Mount, 15 minutes away from the Wailing Wall (the Jewish name for the Buraq Wall)."

This Judaization marketing was encouraged and supported by Jewish groups working to build the alleged temple. In order to encourage this project further these bodies published through their websites remarks claiming that this project is meant to accelerate the building of the alleged temple.

AFEH charged that the settlement project constituted a threat to Jerusalem and its people, as well as posing as an impending danger against the Aqsa. It added it is very clear that this project aims to contain the Aqsa Mosque with a belt of Jewish settlements, in order to strangle the Mosque and to isolate it from the Palestinian surroundings.

The Foundation called on the Arab and Islamic world to take their roles for the sake of protecting the Aqsa.

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