The Latest Incitement over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Since taking Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, Israel has always shown caution and restraint when it comes to the Temple Mount. In particular, prayer on the Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, has been barred to Jews. In recent weeks, Palestinian leaders have been spreading unfounded rumors of a threat to the status quo—a self-evidently false pretext for mounting numbers of terrorist attacks. Recently, Israeli security discovered stockpiles of bottles, stones, and Molotov cocktails in the al-Aqsa Mosque itself. Jerusalem is on the brink of a conflagration, writes David Horovitz: