Change the Status Quo on the Temple Mount
Jews and Muslims can share the holy place.
January 16, 2017
Change the Status Quo on the Temple Mount
Jews and Muslims can share the holy place.
Last week, a prominent Israeli archaeologist was speaking to a group of American students visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. When Islamic officials heard him use the phrase “Temple Mount” (rather than its Arabic equivalent), they immediately requested that Israeli police eject him from the area. Although the request was refused, they then approached him directly to stop using the term. To Evelyn Gordon, the episode sums up the absurdity of the current status quo at Judaism’s holiest site:
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