Lieberman: right-wingers visits to al-Aqsa compound 'stupid'

Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has accused right-wing Israeli politicians of seeking "cheap headlines" over visits to the Temple Mount/al-Aqsa compound.

"I think that it is stupid,” he said, referring to visits by the likes of Likud MK Moshe Feiglin as “provocations.”

“I think it’s the pursuit of cheap and easy publicity and a somewhat cynical exploitation of the complicated political situation - and let’s say it this way: it’s a lack of wisdom" on the part of those politicians.

“Increasing the friction won’t bring security; it won’t bring anything,” he told Israel Radio.