Jerusalem / PNN – The Al Aqsa Foundation for the Preservation of Muslim Heritage discovered schematics that reveal an Israeli plan to build a high dome synagogue next to Al Aqsa Mosque. The purpose, reported the Foundation today, is to alter the skyline.

The skyline around Abdullah bin Omar, or Omari Mosque, will be dwarfed by the new synagogue creating the illusion that the Old City of Jerusalem is Jewish. The Foundation says this is part of the Israeli take-over of the city.

The synagogue will link to the “Wailing Wall.” The Foundation issued a report today stating, “The aim of building the synagogue which will be one of the highest points in the Old City of Jerusalem is to confuse the landscape of Al Aqsa Mosque and the Qubbat As-Sakhra (Dome of the Rock).”

The Al Aqsa Foundation for the Preservation of Islamic Heritage wrote in its report, “The occupation authorities have accelerated the implementation of its plans to Judaize Jerusalem, particularly the Old City and even more particularly the area near Al Aqsa Mosque.”

The Israeli administration is sponsoring excavations around and underneath the mosque and its compound, Al Haram Ash-Sharif, while another synagogue was placed nearby last month.

The Abdullah bin Omar Mosque was closed for more than 40 years while the Israeli administration prevented any repairs to be done. Residents nearby confirm that the synagogue is being built in an area overtaken primarily at the expense of Arab houses that existed until 1976. The vast majority were demolished and Jewish settlers moved in.

The Al Aqsa Foundation reports, “The occupation authorities consider that synagogue and the completion of its implementation as one of the most important projects in Israeli Jerusalem on national and religious dimensions.”

One of its primary funders is the Heritage Foundation.

The Director of the Al Aqsa Foundation accused the Israeli administration of being involved in “all sorts of deception, creating new facts on the ground.”

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