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Israeli apologists (including senior officials) are claiming that the ‘visit’ by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir to al Aqsa Mosque on the morning of 3 January was a routine visit and not a violation of the status quo. The provocative visit by an Israeli official whose party’s platform, calls for the change of the status quo, on Islam’s third holiest mosque, is tantamount to trying to cover the sun with a sieve. It is true that the radical Jewish leader did not pray on the grounds of the holy Islamic site, but the visit nevertheless violated both the spirit and the letter …