05-21-2018, 04:42 PM
(05-21-2018, 12:49 PM)Dill Wrote: "Controlled by Muslims" but "Israeli law is also there."
That means the Trust maintains the site and Israeli police trump all Palestinian/Jordanian authority.
This just shows how little control Palestinians have over their own land holy sites. While Israelis simply rob Palestinians of their land, you accuse Muslim's of not allowing "other religions" to be practiced. Just false. Bethlehem, for example, is a center of Christian worship for Palestinian and non-Palestinian Christians. The root problem is still dispossession of Palestinians by force.
You are right that the site is contested, though. Palestinians fear that the Israelis plan to destroy the Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock to make way for a new temple.
An additional note: most Christians would not be happy if Muslims used their churches to pray. Imagine a hundred Muslims regularly praying in the Sistine Chapel or the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Jews and Muslims might not be happy if Catholics took their communion in a Synagogue or Mosque respectively. The difficulty with the Temple Mount site is that it is a place claimed holy by three religions with a history of intolerance. For Muslims, TM politics are a barometer of the Judaization of Muslim sites and culture in Jerusalem.
Israeli law is there because the Muslims will kill the israeli’s who go to pray there.... They know the Muslims can not be trusted to not just kill them.
It’s not hard to have that place be a violence free zone. Too bad the terrorist leaders of the Palestinians are interested in any form of peace.
