Israel isn't the only entity that wants to keep foreign peacekeepers off the Temple Mount. Sheikh Ikhmara Sabari, head of the High Islamic Council of Palestine, on Monday rules that foreign security officials could not serve on the Temple Mount.

“Muslims do not agree to the Judaization of Jerusalem, which has been a Muslim property for many generations,” Sabari wrote. “Anyone who assists in this is committing a sin. There is a consensus for this among all Muslims.”

As an institution, the United Nations is naturally inclined towards Jews, said Sabari, so anything connected to the UN – including peacekeepers on the Temple Mount – was not permitted, he added. “What applies to the Temple Mount applies to all of Jerusalem,” he added.

Earlier Monday, the Foreign Ministry summoned French Ambassador to Israel Patrick Maisonnave to be rebuked over the French proposal to the UN Security Council calling for international observers on the Temple Mount.

Maisonnave's summons is meant to express Israel's keen displeasure at the proposal that was made in opposition to its stated position, and which ignores the way in which Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount is being used to incite Arab terror.