Stripping Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship would trigger 'outbreak of violence', expert says
A US-Israeli plan to strip the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan of its historic custodianship of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex would lead to an “outbreak of violence” in the Middle East, Israeli-American attorney Daniel Seidemann told Middle East Eye. “What starts in Jerusalem doesn’t stay in Jerusalem," said Seidemann, who is also the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, a non-governmental organisation that tracks the development of Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
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