Reply #2: why should they have to

[sabbat hunter]

hire someone from the waqf? this repair work isnt on the temple mount but on a stairway leading to the temple mount. it is in danger of collapsing completely.

and now we have this from Hamas "This is a great danger. We can't remain silent," said Nizar Rayan, a Hamas leader, at a celebration of a power-sharing agreement Hamas signed with the rival Fatah faction in Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

"We ask God to unite the Palestinians, with their rifles and tunnels, to be able to cleanse Al-Aqsa of the ... excavations," Rayan said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/09/jerusalem.cla...

so basically he is calling for riots, attacking jews.

he obviously either knows nothing of the situation or is deliberately lying about it by calling it "excavations".

additionally, over the years, the waqf have excavated under the temple mount, which has endangered the western wall and could be damaging valuable archeological findings.