Word: waqf
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...Israeli universities, cafes, and buses and raining indiscriminate rockets on Israeli civilians in an attempt to destroy the Jewish State, has repeatedly refused to enter peace negotiations with Israel. In Article 11 of the Hamas Covenant, Hamas “believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up.” In Article 13, Hamas rules out peace talks for it “does not consider these [peace...
...know us they will be ready to move forward.” Some observers fear that Syria will be far from the only roadblock. Jerusalem native Mishy Harman ’08, for one, says he thinks the project is entirely infeasible.“Just within Jerusalem, the Waqf [Muslim administrative body responsible for the Temple Mount] doesn’t even allow Jews onto the Holy Mount,” says Harman. The Dome of the Rock, located on the Temple Mount, is part of the planned itinerary of the Abraham Path. “It sounds like...
...swift in coming. Hamas' electoral landslide in Palestine just six months ago marked the political death of Yasser Arafat and the secular, vaguely socialist and entirely nationalist movement he represented. Hamas is fighting not to create a 23rd Arab state but, as its charter explains, to recover "an Islamic Waqf." Meaning? Territory claimed under the Islamic precept that "any land the Muslims have conquered by force ... during the times of [Islamic] conquests" more than a millennium ago belongs to Muslims forever because "the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations until the Day of Judgment...
...child of a real and great religion, has arisen. Led by two rival Vaticans, one in Tehran and the other cavebound on the Afghan-Pakistani border, it raises the banner of a militant religion that will not rest until, as al-Zawahiri pledged, Islam has retaken every piece of Waqf "from Spain to Iraq...
...archaeologists - denied permission by the Muslim authorities, the Waqf, to supervise the excavation - fear systematic destruction of Jewish relics. The debris contained pottery shards dating to the time of Solomon's Temple, according to Israeli officials. "This isn't a political dispute. It's a cultural intifadeh," says Gabriel Barkay, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Last week Barkay and other local archaeologists persuaded the Israeli High Court to temporarily bar the removal of any more debris. Israelis say that since the reconstruction, a bulge in the Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster...