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NOW THE KIDS ARE DYING FROM LIVER FAILURE FROM THE KILLER VACCINE SHOTS WITH SNAKE VENOM BUILT IN THEM.
Severe hepatitis of 'unknown origin' in children being investigated in Canada-Unclear if reports linked to unexplained outbreak of more than 160 cases-Lauren Pelley · CBC News - APR V26,22
The U.S. has identified more than a dozen cases of unexplained hepatitis in children, with instances also occurring in Spain, Israel, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Norway, France, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands. (Shutterstock)-Public health officials say they're investigating cases of severe liver disease "of unknown origin" among children in Canada as global scientists race to understand a mysterious hepatitis outbreak that has affected nearly 200 youths around the world."The Public Health Agency of Canada is aware of reports of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in young children in Canada," the department said in a statement on Tuesday, in response to questions from CBC News."These are being investigated further to determine if they are related to cases in the United Kingdom and the United States. As the investigation evolves, we will keep the public updated accordingly."The latest available data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows at least 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported in close to a dozen countries, with the bulk of the reports — 114 — from the U.K. On Tuesday, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released an even higher estimate of nearly 200 cases in children around the world.The U.S. has identified more than a dozen cases across several states, with instances of unexplained hepatitis also occurring in Spain, Israel, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Norway, France, Romania, Belgium and the Netherlands.Roughly 10 per cent of the affected children have required liver transplants, WHO data shows, and at least one child has died.-Nausea, vomiting-It's not yet clear if the Canadian cases are the same syndrome seen elsewhere, says liver disease specialist Dr. Jordan Feld, a senior scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute.Affected children typically have gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, he said."But then the more severe issue is that they're developing jaundice … or found to have abnormal liver blood tests," Feld said."At this stage, it would just be prudent if children have some of these symptoms, particularly if they seem to be more severe, that they're seeking medical attention."Officials have not yet provided details on the total number of Canadian cases.The cases reported worldwide have struck children from one month to 16 years old. What's perplexing, scientists tell CBC News, is what could be causing them."Certainly a viral infection is high on the list, but is definitely yet to be proven," Feld said.-Virus detected-Various medical conditions and medications can cause hepatitis; so can heavy alcohol use or exposure to certain chemicals or drugs. But most often, inflammation or damage to the liver is caused by a virus.However, the usual family of hepatitis viruses haven't been identified in any of the cases tied to the current global outbreak, the WHO said.A liver illness affecting 169 children in the U.S. and Europe is, so far, a 'medical mystery,' says infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch, and it's premature to attribute it to any one virus or cause. 5:47-An adenovirus was detected in at least 74 cases; a common group of viruses known for causing a wide range of health issues, from gastrointestinal upset, to bladder infections to the common cold.In the U.K. officials recently observed a significant increase in adenovirus infections in the community following low levels of circulation earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. ECDC director Andrea Ammon told reporters that one theory suggests pandemic lockdowns may have weakened children's immunity because they were less exposed to common pathogens while in isolation.But it's hardly definitive, given the different rates of testing for various viruses.The virus behind COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, was also identified in 20 cases of those that were tested — while 18 of the young patients with hepatitis were infected with both viruses.In Israel, one of the physicians involved in treating child hepatitis cases suspects there may be a connection to COVID-19."After we ruled out all the various possibilities, the common denominator in all the cases we found was that all had come down with the coronavirus around three and a half months before the infection appeared," Dr. Yael Mozer-Glassberg, head of the pediatric liver transplantation unit at Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, told Israel media outlet Haaretz. "This certainly raises the question. But I don't think it's possible to say yet that all these cases are a post-COVID phenomenon."The cause may wind up being linked to an adenovirus, or SARS-CoV-2, or some interaction between an environmental exposure and a virus, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases specialist with the University of Toronto. Low hepatitis testing rates could spell big trouble for Saskatchewan residents- In trying to contain COVID-19, we could be missing spread of HIV, hepatitis C and syphilis, experts warn"We are in the middle of a pandemic — but you cannot have what we call an 'anchoring bias' where we say it's got to be COVID," he said. "Certainly might be. But you've got to keep an open mind."Given the ages of the children impacted, Dr. Allison McGeer, an infectious disease specialist in the Sinai Health System in Toronto, said one potential cause that can be easily ruled out is COVID-19 vaccination. Most young children, she noted, aren't yet able to get vaccinated.Whatever the cause, scientists are on high alert for more reports of children falling ill."Any time we see severe hepatitis, particularly in young children, it's alarming," Feld said. 18,000 Waterloo region students need to be vaccinated against HPV, hep B after pandemic delaysWith files from Adam Miller, Marcy Cuttler, Christine Birak, Reuters.
SNAKE VENOM ON THE LIVER-Abstract-Snake venoms are known to cause different metabolic disorders, altering cellular and enzymatic activities in animals and releasing pharmacological substances. In this study, the lethality as well as biochemical and histopathological effect of Egyptian cobra (Naja haje; N. haje) crude venom at a sublethal dose have been investigated on liver and kidney of male mice. Venom injected intramuscularly in mice with 1/2 LD50 (approximately 0.0115 μg/g body weight of mice) and the animals were sacrificed 6 days post injection. Results indicated that the injection of crude venom of the N. haje induced a significant disturbance in liver and kidney functions. In addition, results revealed that N. haje venom has a potent oxidative activity by increasing the level of reactive oxygen species with concomitant significant increase in hydrogen peroxide, lipid peroxidation, carbonyl protein and nitric oxide levels in hepatic and renal tissues. This activity was extended to decrease non-enzymatic and enzymatic antioxidant defense components such as glutathione, superoxide dismutase and catalase. Additionally, the biochemical alternations induced in hepatic and renal tissues were associated with significant alternations in the histological architecture of liver and kidney of injected mice. From this study, we can conclude that such injury could be considered among the factors that lead to death caused by N. haje venom.
Abstract-Background-Snake venoms are synthesized and stored in venom glands. Most venoms are complex mixtures of several proteins, peptides, enzymes, toxins and non-protein components. In the present study, we investigated the oxidative stress and apoptosis in rat liver cells provoked by Naja haje crude injection (LD50) after four hours.-Methods-Wistar rats were randomly divided into two groups, the control group was intraperitoneally injected with saline solution while LD50-dose envenomed group was intraperitoneally injected with venom at a dose of 0.025 μg/kg of body weight. Animals were killed four hours after the injection. Lipid peroxidation, nitric oxide and glutathione levels were measured as oxidative markers in serum and liver homogenate. In addition, liver function parameters and activities of antioxidant enzymes were determined.-Results-N. haje crude venom (0.025 μg/kg of body weight) enhanced lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide production in both serum and liver with concomitant reduction in glutathione, catalase, glutathione reductase and glutathione-S-transferase activities. Superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase activities were significantly increased in liver of envenomed rats. These findings were associated with apoptosis induction in the liver. In addition, N. haje crude venom caused hepatic injury as indicated by histopathological changes in the liver tissue with an elevation in total bilirubin, serum alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, γ-glutamyl transpeptidase, and alkaline phosphatase.Conclusions-Based on the present results, it can hypothesized that N. haje crude venom is a potent inducer of toxin-mediated hepatotoxicity associated with apoptosis in the liver.Keywords: Naja haje venom, Hepatotoxicity, Oxidative stress, Apoptosis, Rats-Snake venoms comprise complex mixtures that contain numerous different biological active compounds such as proteins, peptides and nucleotides. A number of these proteins interact with components of the human hemostatic system producing diverse effects [1].The Elapidae family of venomous snakes – found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world – includes cobras, mambas, sea snakes and coral snakes [2]. Several species of cobras are natives to Africa, among them is the Egyptian cobra Naja haje (Linnaeus) found from southern Egypt to northern South Africa [3]. The venom of the Egyptian cobra consists mainly of neurotoxins and cytotoxins [4].The venom of Egyptian cobra affects the nervous system by blocking the transmission of nerve signals to muscles and at later stages stopping those transmitted to the heart and lungs as well, causing death due to complete respiratory failure. Envenomation causes local pain, severe swelling, blistering, necrosis and variable non-specific effects [4]. Progress made over the past several decades has given rise to the identification of many of the venom components primarily responsible for these effects including phospholipases A2 and metalloproteinases. The former induces local myonecrosis and lymphatic vessel damage, whereas snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs) are responsible for local hemorrhage, extracellular matrix degradation, blistering and skin necrosis [5–7]. In addition, both PLA2s and SVMPs promote an inflammatory response that sets the stage for tissue repair and regeneration but, at the same time, may contribute to further tissue damage [8, 9]. Insights into the molecular structure of locally acting toxins has led to understanding their structure-function relationships and of the mechanisms involved in myonecrosis, hemorrhage, lymphatic vessel damage and dermonecrosis [5–7, 10–12].Reactive oxygen species are involved in the inflammatory responses, thereby affecting the cellular physiology and playing a significant role in the pathological conditions [13]. The free radicals, apart from being involved in damaging cellular components, do play a significant role in venom induced toxicity [14].Liver function test-Colorimetric determination of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) was estimated by measuring the amount of pyruvate or oxaloacetate produced by forming 2, 4-dinitrophenylhydrazine according to the method of Reitman and Frankel [16]. Moreover, serum γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (γGT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) were tested using kits purchased from Biodiagnostic Co. (Egypt) according to the method described by Szasz [17] and Belfield and Goldberg [18], respectively. Also, serum total bilirubin (TB) was assayed according to Schmidt and Eisenburg [19]. Determination of lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide- Lipid peroxidation (LPO) and nitrite/nitrate, as an indirect measure of nitric oxide (NO) production, were assayed colorimetrically in serum and liver homogenate according to the method of Ohkawa et al. [20] and Green et al. [21], respectively. LPO was determined by using 1 mL of trichloroacetic acid 10% and 1 mL of thiobarbituric acid 0.67% and were then heated in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes. Thiobarbituric acid reactive substances were determined by the absorbance at 535 nm and expressed as malondialdehyde (MDA) formed. Nitric oxide was determined in acid medium and in the presence of nitrite the formed nitrous acid diazotized sulfanilamide is coupled with N-(1–naphthyl) ethylenediamine. The resulting azo dye has a bright reddish-purple color that can be measured at 540 nm. Estimation of glutathione and anti-oxidant enzymes-Glutathione (GSH) level was determined in serum and liver homogenate by the method of Ellman [22], which is based on the reduction of Ellman’s reagent [5,5′ dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoic acid) DTNB] with GSH in order to produce a yellow compound. The reduced chromogen was directly proportional to GSH concentration and its absorbance was measured at 405 nm. In addition, hepatic catalase (CAT) was determined colorimetrically according to the method of Aebi [23]. The assay is based on catalase-catalyzed reaction of a known quantity of H2O2 with 3,5-dichloro-2-hydroxybenzene sulfonic acid (DHBS) and 4-aminophenazone (AAP) to form a chromophore, which has a color intensity inversely proportional to the amount of catalase in the original sample which can be measured at 510 nm. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity was assayed by the method of Nishikimi et al. [24]. This assay relies on the ability of the enzyme to inhibit the phenazine methosulphate-mediated reduction of nitroblue tetrazolium dye. Also, activities of glutathione-S-transferase (GST), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione reductase (GR) were determined by the methods of Habig et al. [25], Paglia and Valentine [26] and Factor et al. [27], respectively.
SHOCK: Pfizer tried to hide data showing its COVID vax caused massive increase in miscarriages, stillborn babies-Sunday, April 24, 2022 by: JD Heyes
(Natural News) In recent weeks, big pharma giant Pfizer, with an assist from the Biden Justice Department, went to court to shield certain safety data from the general public for at least 55 years, a shocking attempt at secrecy the likes that Americans haven’t seen since the JFK cover-up.Fortunately for advocates of transparency, a federal judge ‘saw through’ Pfizer and ordered the company to begin releasing its data by the tens of thousands of pages per week.An analysis of the first batch of data released shows exactly why Pfizer wanted to keep it hidden for decades (or longer): It is devastating and, frankly, should be grounds for massive lawsuits.As noted by Celeste McGovern at LifeSite News, among the first documents turned over to the public is a “Cumulative Analysis of Post-authorization Adverse Event Reports” describing events reported to Pfizer up until February 2021.She adds:It reveals that the drug behemoth received more than 150,000 serious adverse event reports within three months of rolling out its COVID shot, but here we will focus on Table 6 of the data on pregnant and lactating women who received the shots in the first few months of the rollout, which began December 11. Most of these women would have been healthcare workers because that was who the first rounds of shots went to. As the clinical trials preceding the rollout excluded pregnant women, these would have been the first pregnant and lactating women to have ever received the vaccines.According to Table 6, 270 “unique pregnancies” were exposed to the vaccine, and of those, “no outcome was provided for 238 pregnancies,” leaving 32 with known outcomes. According to Pfizer’s report, there were 23 spontaneous abortions, a term for miscarriage, along with two premature births with neonatal death, two miscarriages with intrauterine death, one spontaneous abortion with neonatal death, and a single pregnancy with a “normal outcome.”Brighteon.TV-As McGovern notes: “That means that of 32 pregnancies with known outcome, 28 resulted in fetal death.”The vaccine maker’s report also noted that there were five other pregnancies with “outcome pending” in addition to the 238 with “no outcome provided.” However, 32 minus 28 equals four, not five.McGovern said she contacted Pfizer’s media representative to ask about the figures: “Were 28 of 32 known pregnancy outcomes actually fatal in the first 10 weeks that the vaccine became available, as their report suggests? That’s an 87.5% pregnancy loss rate? And only one pregnancy outcome was ‘normal’? Please correct me if I’m wrong about this.”She says she never got a reply to emailed questions or to phone calls.Noting that the Food and Drug Administration would have had the information by the end of April, McGovern was left to conclude it wasn’t any wonder why Pfizer wanted to hide its safety data for at least five-and-a-half decades, and maybe more.The spike in adverse vaccine-related miscarriage and stillborn births are not just limited to the United States, they are increasing wherever the Pfizer vax is used, including Canada.A retired doctor in British Columbia, Dr. Mel Bruchet, noted in November that he was informed by doulas that there were 13 stillbirths over a 24-hour period at the Lion’s Gate Hospital in Vancouver (according to definitions online, a doula is “a trained companion who is not a healthcare professional and who supports another person through a significant health-related experience, such as childbirth, miscarriage, induced abortion or stillbirth, or non-reproductive experiences such as dying”).One grandmother whose grandbaby was stillborn at the hospital claimed on Twitter: “My daughter got that damned poison vaccine one month ago because she couldn’t go to a restaurant, and people were freaking out because that she was unvaxxed. I want to sue the government.”The platform removed the message because Twitter is just a propaganda outlet for the global tyrannical regime.But what is clear, just based on the early information Pfizer has been forced to release, the vaccine should not be given to pregnant women, period.
Status woe: Temple Mount is an enduring thorn in Israel’s ties with Jordan-Israel nixed a US-proposed committee with Jordan to iron out disagreements on flashpoint site after 2021 war; now, those unresolved issues have come home to roost-By Jacob Magid Today, 2:16 pm
The swearing-in of the new Israeli government last June marked a fresh chapter in Jerusalem’s relations with Jordan, which had frayed significantly during Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure as prime minister.Meetings between Jordan’s King Abdullah and senior Israeli ministers became a regular occurrence, after years of disconnect that were perhaps best exemplified by Amman’s refusal last year to grant access to its airspace for Netanyahu to travel to the UAE, ultimately preventing the visit from going forward.But while a certain spirit of good will seems to have been restored at the leadership level, disagreements regarding the Temple Mount, where Jordan maintains a custodial role, remain.Recognizing that the dispute cuts deeper than fleeting personal animus, the Biden administration proposed establishing a trilateral committee of Israeli, Jordanian, and American representatives that would settle disputes regarding the status quo on the Temple Mount, and discuss ways to rebuild Israeli-Jordanian ties more broadly. But Israel deemed the informal proposal unnecessary and rejected it, a former senior US official told The Times of Israel.“You can’t rebuild relations overnight, and another dispute over Al-Aqsa was inevitable, so we thought a joint committee would be a way to address issues pertaining to the status quo so that the sides could get in front of things,” the former official said.The idea of the trilateral committee rose and fell last summer, soon after May’s 11-day Gaza war, that erupted following heavy clashes between Palestinians and Israel Police at the Temple Mount, known by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. Then, as was the case over the past month’s escalation at the site and in previous years, the Palestinians’ overarching narrative was that their rights to the site were being threatened by Israeli authorities.“Some of this has to do with fake news on Palestinian social media, but there also have been shifts to the status quo that have gone unaddressed and have fueled the fire,” said the former US official.The Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the record, but an official in the ministry denied that a formal US offer to form such a committee had been made. “Israel manages its relations with Jordan at the bilateral level,” the official said, rejecting the need for American interlocutors.The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.-The unwritten ‘status quo’Israel has long insisted that it maintains the status quo on the Temple Mount, a policy that was summarized famously by Netanyahu in 2015. “Muslims pray on the Temple Mount; non-Muslims visit the Temple Mount,” Netanyahu said in a statement after meeting then-US secretary of state John Kerry, Jordan’s Abdullah, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, for talks aimed at calming yet another round of tensions sparked by clashes at the site-Israel has continued to reaffirm that position — that Jews are forbidden from praying on the Mount — as recently as this week, but the reality on the mount tells a slightly different story. For at least the past several years, journalists have regularly documented instances of prayer conducted quietly by Jewish visitors on their own and in groups, as Israeli police and even officials from the Jordan-backed Islamic Waqf look on.While Foreign Minister Yair Lapid dismissed claims of a shift in policy during a briefing with Israeli reporters last week, Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai became the first Israeli minister to publicly acknowledge the change, which Palestinians say gives credence to their fears of an effort to gradually remove them from the site.“There are many more Jews going up to the Temple Mount. There are now those who are stopping and praying as they make their way through — something that was not allowed. There’s a certain escalation, a certain deterioration of the status quo,” Shai told the Kan public broadcaster on Saturday.For his part, Lapid noted in his Thursday briefing that Israel had reduced the number of Jewish groups allowed to visit the compound from two to one over a daily three-and-a-half-hour period, while arguing that a rise in Jewish visitors did not in itself constitute a violation of the status quo.Therein lies part of the problem, as the sensitive policy is unwritten and to Palestinians encompasses a much larger range of issues than it does to Israel — from the conduct and supervision of visitors to construction and security at the compound.“Israel has a very narrow understanding of the status quo, focusing on Jewish prayer, which it says it does not allow, whereas the Palestinians and the Jordanians have a much broader understanding and feel that Israel ignores it,” said a diplomat familiar with the matter.More Jewish visits-Thus, to Palestinians, as well as to their backers in Amman, an increase in Jewish visitors is itself a status quo violation.Over five days of Passover last week, 4,625 Jews visited the Temple Mount, almost double the figure from three years ago, according to the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, a Jewish group that encourages such excursions. In 2014, just 650 Jews visited the site considered the holiest place in Judaism. The site is the third holiest in Islam, while also being a central symbol of Palestinian nationalism.Jordan also pointed to an increasing presence of Israeli police in the compound and a deterioration of the Waqf’s authority. In public statements over the past week, officials in Amman have called for a return to a pre-2000 status quo, when the Waqf had more authority over the vetting of Jewish visitors.The Temple Mount was closed to Jewish visitors that year after then opposition leader and Likud chairman Ariel Sharon carried out a controversial September visit — a visit that Palestinians say sparked the Second Intifada. Israel, for its part, says Sharon’s walkabout was seized upon by the PA’s Yasser Arafat as a pretext to launch that onslaught of terrorism, deflecting president Clinton’s assignation of blame to Arafat for dooming his administration’s peacemaking efforts.When the Mount reopened in 2003 to Jewish visitors, Israel unilaterally shifted much of the authority over the entry of Jewish visitors from the Waqf to the police.“I’m not sure if it has to do more with the Israelis thinking it’s a non-issue or with the fact that the coalition is too fragile to show more sympathy to the Jordanian understanding of the status quo, but it hasn’t really been addressed seriously over the past year,” the diplomat familiar with the matter said.Last Thursday’s visit of Jewish groups sparked particularly intense clashes as police sought to clear Muslims from the path designated for non-Muslim visitors.“My concern is what happens the day after Ramadan because if you have constant attacks on Jewish visitors, you will have a de facto temporal division of the mount even if nobody wants it,” said Danny Seidemann, who heads the Terrestrial Jerusalem research institute.“There will be times when Muslims will be shoved aside and it’ll become a ‘shared’ Jewish-Muslim site, like the Tomb of the Patriarchs,” he added, referring to the Hebron holy site that also houses the Ibrahimi Mosque, which was sectioned off by Israel after the 1967 war.“The Palestinians have a growing sense of threat and violation because Israeli policies are not shrinking the conflict but rather shrinking ‘Palestinian space,’ those places that are their own, and where they feel safe,” Seidemann added.Lapid on Sunday insisted that Israel has “no plans to divide the Temple Mount between religions,” adding that the latest clashes were caused by “terrorist organizations [seeking] to hijack the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order to create an outbreak of violence in Jerusalem.”-Anger in Amman-Tensions with Amman began boiling over last week as Jordan summoned Israel’s top envoy in the country for a public rebuke over police conduct during clashes at the site. Jordan’s Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh went on to hail the Palestinians hurling stones at the “Zionist sympathizers defiling the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”That infuriated Israel, which accused Jordan of playing a “double game” in its responses to unrest in the capital — haranguing Israel in public while speaking more reasonably behind closed doors.“They tell us that this is the way that they keep those calling for Jordan to sever its ties with Israel at bay,” a senior Israeli diplomatic official said last week, speaking on condition of anonymity.More than half of Jordan’s population is of Palestinian descent, and its 1994 peace treaty with Israel is heavily unpopular, particularly during periods of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.“I’m prepared to accept this double game up to a certain point,” the Israeli diplomatic official said, adding that Jordan had gone too far in the past week and that Jerusalem had passed along stern messages to Amman making clear its disapproval.-The US tries again-Meanwhile, the Biden administration has renewed efforts to mediate between Israel and Jordan, after the rejection of its joint committee proposal last summer.Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr have been in the region since last Wednesday for meetings with Jordanian, Israeli, Palestinian, and Egyptian officials, aimed at restoring calm.One more modest goal set by the US is pushing Israel to make a subtle but important change to its rhetoric regarding the Temple Mount status quo.While Lapid and some other Israeli officials have stressed their commitment to the status quo, the more common talking point has included a commitment to protecting the “freedom of worship” of all three major religions in Jerusalem.While seemingly trivial, the point is interpreted by many Palestinians in the context of the Temple Mount and seen as part of a gradual Israeli effort to legitimize Jewish prayer at the compound.A similar phrase caused a diplomatic fracas last July. Then, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett thanked police for “maintaining freedom of worship for Jews on the Mount.”The statement, which was put out in English and Hebrew, sparked immediate uproar in Amman, Ramallah and Istanbul. A debate ensued over whether Bennett had simply misspoken or intended to announce a major shift in the status quo, given his national religious background. Ultimately, the prime minister dispatched an anonymous official from his office to issue a statement insisting that despite his remark, Israel was committed to maintaining the long-held policy under which Jews are not allowed to pray on the holy site.Cognizant of how talk of “freedom of worship” can be interpreted by the various players at hand, US officials have sought to encourage Israel to avoid using the phrase in talking points and instead focus solely on affirming their commitment to the status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites, the diplomat familiar with the matter said.The effort appeared to have made headway as Lapid held another briefing on Sunday, this time with members of the foreign press on the situation in Jerusalem, using the opportunity to employ the same phrase used by Netanyahu seven years ago.“Muslims pray on the Temple Mount. Non-Muslims visit,” the foreign minister said, with no added line about Israel’s commitment to protecting “freedom of worship.”
