President Joe Biden on Thursday underscored his support for the legal “status quo” of Jerusalem’s al- Aqsa synagogue emulsion in a meeting at the White House with Jordanian King Abdullah II. Biden, the King and Crown Prince Hussein had a private lunch in which the US chairman “reaffirmed the close, enduring nature of the fellowship between the United States and Jordan,” the White House said. They also both spoke with Iraq’s high minister by phone. In a private lunch with the king and Crown Prince Hussein on Thursday, Biden pertained to growing pressures around the point – reverenced both by Muslims and Jews in Israeli- engaged East Jerusalem – and reaffirmed “the critical need to save the major status quo”.
In recent times, a growing number of Jews, utmost of them Israeli chauvinists, have covertly supplicated at the point, rankling Palestinians. That’s despite a mainstream Jewish restriction on Jewish prayer in the emulsion. In January, the public security minister in Israel’s new far-right government, Itamar Ben- Gvir, entered the point, sparking an allusion of transnational communication, with Palestinians fearful of any change in the long- term status of a position they regard as a public symbol. The 5- week-old coalition under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen as the most right-sect government in that country’s history, has burned heightened perceptivity centered around the holy spots. Last month Amman summoned Israel’s minister to protest Israeli police inhibition of a visit by Jordan’s envoy to al- Aqsa. Israeli police said the envoy arrived at the point without previous collaboration. While there are no specific deliverables from the meeting, just as when the king visited the White House in May, Biden’s public repetition of Jordan’s part as custodian of the Temple Mount was seen as crucial to maintaining stability.
Responding to VOA’s question on whether Biden shares Jordanian enterprises that the Israeli government is hanging the status quo of the holy spots and raising violence with Palestinians, White House press clerk Karine Jean- Pierre said that Netanyahu has “constantly emphasized that he’ll set the policy for his government,” pertaining to the Israeli leader’s sweats to relieve fears that far-right members of his coalition will drive Israel’s political line.
