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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, 5 Cheshvan spoke to the media to send a message in response to France�s call to place a multinational force to maintain order on Har Habayis.

�Israel cannot accept the French draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council. It doesn�t mention Palestinian incitement; it doesn�t mention Palestinian terrorism; and it calls for the internationalization of Har Habayis.

�Well, we�ve seen across the Middle East � in Palmyra, in Iraq, throughout Iraq and elsewhere how the militant Muslims blast each other�s mosques to the sky. We�ve just seen it in a Jewish holy site, Joseph�s Tomb. Only Israel, Israel alone, is the guarantor of the holy sites on the Temple Mount.

�The reason the status quo has been violated is not because we changed it. We didn�t change anything. The orders of prayer, the visiting rights have not changed for the last 15 years. The only thing that�s changed are Islamist hoodlums paid by the Islamist Movement in Israel and by Hamas, who are entering the mosque and try to put explosive [unclear]and from there emerge and attack Jewish visitors to Har Habayis, and Christian visitors. That�s the only change in the status quo.

Israel will protect the holy sites, will guard the status quo. Israel is not the problem on Har Habayis. Israel is the solution�.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)