• Tel Aviv working alongside US and right-wing groups to declare compound ‘multi-faith centre’ • Israeli settlers torch two mosques in occupied West Bank HARDLINE Israeli officials and radical right-wing politicians are working with the United States to alter the longstanding ‘Status Quo’ at the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, pushing a highly inflammatory campaign to usurp the exclusively Muslim site, BBC News reported. Recent media reports indicate the Israeli government intends to formally designate the compound as a “multi-faith centre”. This brazen move flies in the face of centuries of tradition, under which even some Jewish groups forbid their followers from praying within the mosque’s premises.