US envoy slammed for posing with doctored image striking off al-Aqsa

US ambassador to Israel David Friedman has confronted criticism for posing next to a doctored aerial image of Jerusalem exhibiting the Third Jewish Temple changing al-Aqsa mosque.

The photograph was taken on Tuesday all the strategy in which thru a talk over with by Friedman to the Israeli metropolis of Bnei Brak shut to Tel Aviv organised by Achiya, an NGO that aids college students with learning disabilities.

Achiya apologised for the poster, calling it a « low tag political act » by a workers member.

The US embassy in Israel, which moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem closing week, also acknowledged Friedman was no longer responsive to the poster when he was photographed.

« The US policy is usually certain: we reinforce the attach quo on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount, » the embassy acknowledged in a assertion.

« Ambassador Friedman was no longer responsive to the image thrust in front of him when the photograph was taken. He was deeply upset that somebody would spend preferrred thing about his talk over with to Bnei Brak to affect controversy.

What’s lacking in this photograph of Jerusalem that US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is ? The Dome of the Rock & Al-Aqsa Mosque. Taking away the Islamic holy web sites is a prolonged-term goal of far-correct Israeli Jewish extremists who favor to erase Palestinians from Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/Y0AnKbAm2B

— The IMEU (@theIMEU) May perhaps well well 22, 2018

Other folks took to social media to criticise the doctored image, announcing it was an illicit endorsment by the US for ongoing calls by Israeli far-correct groups to murder al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock to create space for the Third Jewish Temple.

For Muslims, the Helpful Sanctuary or al-Haram al-Sharif, hosts Islam’s 0.33 holiest situation, the al-Aqsa mosque, and the Dome of the Rock, a seventh-century constructing believed to be where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.

« They’ll murder the holy Haram al-Sharif, if [US President Donald] Trump orders them too, » wrote Ali Askar, a social media user on Twitter. 

« Unless when will these unacceptable actions by the US hasten by without a real reaction from Arab leaders, » wrote Gazan Mohamed Nashwan on Twitter. 

Friedman, a susceptible lawyer for the Trump Organisation, helps the growth of illegal settlements in the occupied West Financial institution. He has repeatedly made statements in favour of Israel.

In a column published by Fox Files on Sunday, Friedman accused US « liberal media » of siding with Hamas to undermine the « salubrious and uplifting tournament » of though-provoking the embassy to Jerusalem.

The switch was condemned internationally and rejected by the UN Overall Meeting for violating the attach of Jerusalem.

Commenting on the loss of life of upper than 100 unarmed Palestinian protesters who had been shot by Israeli forces in Gaza, Friedman acknowledged Hamas was entirely responsible.

« Some 60 Gazans, the overwhelming majority of whom had been acknowledged Hamas terrorists, lost their lives due to Hamas turned them correct into a collective suicide bomb, » the ambassador wrote.

« They had been neither heroes nor the composed protesters they had been marketed to be. »