8 posts tagged “jerusalem”
It is a shameful thing the Bush Administration is thrusting upon Israel from an Observant Jewish and Christian perspective. Not only is the Bush Administration forcing Israel to create a State called Palestine composed of people that given the opportunity would embark on a 21st century Holocaust, it is forcing Israel to divide the Holiest City to Jews and Christians alike – Jerusalem.
The Bush Administration is intent on the concept that the existence of yet another Arab nation would bring peace to the Middle East and Mohammedans would agree to live surrounding minuscule Israel in peace in harmony.
I have been a party to numerous petitions to keep Jerusalem as one city under Israeli sovereignty. I found to my dismay that many in Conservatives in Congress have also been duped into believing a nation called Palestine with the Eastern portion of Jerusalem as its capital (which includes the Temple Mount) would forge peace in the Middle East.
I received a polite email response from my Senator – Tom Coburn – saying he appreciates my concerns but does not endorse a ONE Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. This means Senator Coburn (at least indirectly) is behind the Bush Administration to give yet another Holy Site for Mohammedans to desecrate in the name of their pseudo-prophet Mohammed and their eclectically created god known as Allah. Do you know what Mohammedans do to Jewish and Christian Holy Sites? Mohammedans desecrate them (Post 1967 Desecration: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, etc.) in the name of Mohammedan Supremacism ala medieval thinking instead of Western tolerant thinking of the 21st century.
In this one case Senator Coburn is misguided by deluded conventional wisdom politics and I was steaming mad to receive such an email from him.
It is time for a Third Political Party to emerge that will diminish the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or both. I am finding myself forced to vote Republican merely because the Dems have become devoted to American cultural change of Secular Humanism with the goal of rendering Christianity and/or Christian Morality as a myth and an irrelevant faith for modern times. That is another future post some day.
The point is this: MY GOD the Bush Administration and the Israeli Center Left are committed to submerging Jewish Heritage (and so by extension Christian Heritage) to a bunch of hate filled war mongering Mohammedans that have absolutely a zero base for forming a sovereign nation.
Here are some enlightening excerpts from Arab-Israeli Conflict - Basic Facts:
NATIONHOOD
Israel became a nation about 1300 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.
Throughout centuries Jews prayed to return from the Diaspora to Israel. During the first half of the 20th century there were major waves of immigration of Jews back to Israel from the Arab countries and from Europe. In 1948 Jews reestablished their sovereignty over their ancient homeland with the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of a Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The Palestinian National Charter adopted by the PLO states this fact in the first article (See the covenant)
The area called Palestine included the territories of present day Israel and Jordan. Under Lausanne agreement of 1923 Turkey transferred all claims to Palestine to mandatory power Britain. In 1922 Britain allocated nearly 80% of Palestine to Transjordan. In 1947 UN partitioned this remaining land into two states, a second Arab state, Palestine, and Israel. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion. The Arabs in the area began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Virtually all the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.
See: The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians"
JERUSALEM
For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant.
King David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained under Turkish Ottoman Empire rule from 1517 to 1917, and under British rule from 1917 to 1948.
ARAB & JEWISH REFUGEES
The UN partition plan of 1947 was rejected by all the Arab countries. Arab leadership in Israel and in the countries surrounding Israel, planned a Jihad, holy war, against Israel and encouraged the Arabs to leave Israel promising their return after they purge the land of Jews. The great majority of Arabs left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier (see article and Arab sources that describe what happened during the war of 1948 that caused the Palestinian refugee problem).
During 1940's through 1950's nearly ALL the Jews had to flee from Arab countries to avoid persecution and pogroms. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries is estimated to be a million. This number is greater than the number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948, estimated as 343,000 (see Peters' book cited below).
Most of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries rapidly integrated into the modern society of Israel. This, despite the fact that Israel is a tiny country (about size of New Jersey) without any of the world's richest resources of petroleum in Arab countries. Today, the majority of the people in Israel are the descendants of Jews from Arab countries. (European Jews and their descendants constitute less than half the population of Israel).
The development of the Jewish community under British mandate led to economic growth in the region providing job opportunities for Arab workers. Consequently, the Arab population of Palestine swelled by the influx of Arab immigrants from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and other Arab countries until 1947 (The trend of Arab migration into Israel to find a job continues to the present day). While the British forces limited Jewish immigration, they allowed free entry of Arab migrants. The UN agency UNRWA defined a "Palestinian refugee", as any Arab who stayed in the country for two years prior to 1948. Thus, UNRWA included in their statistics migrant workers greatly swelling the ranks of so called "Palestinian refugees" (for best reference on the subject see: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters).
Arab refugee problem was created by the seven Arab countries that attacked Israel in 1948. Arab refugees were intentionally not integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the fact total territory of Arab countries is about 700 times greater than that of Israel. Out of about 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has not been absorbed into their own peoples' lands. Arab nations still maintain generations of the descendants of the refugees in so called "refugee camps" under squalid conditions with the hope that someday they will dislodge the Jews in Israel. The money spent by the Arab countries on armaments would be sufficient to build houses for all so called "refugees". Arab countries should be encouraged to care for their poor population instead of spending their richest resources in the world on armaments and development of terrorist groups such as Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia.
Since 1948, after three generations the descendants of the Arab refugees are still called "refugees" and are supported by UN "refugee" funds! With the highest birth rate in Arab countries this population has now grown to about four million. In negotiations, Arab leadership requests the "right of return" of this mass of millions into the tiny land of Israel. The settlement of millions of Arabs in Israel would immediately eliminate Israel as a Jewish state. This is the real aim of the Arab countries, to achieve by supposedly "peaceful" means what they could not achieve by unceasing violence in whole scale wars and daily terrorism.
The responsibility for keeping the Arab population who are descendants of the Arab refugees, rests only on the shoulders of the Arab countries that created the problem by attacking Israel in 1948.
Quote from Ralph Galloway, a former head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in Amman, capital of Jordan, in August 1958:
"The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don't give a damn whether the refugees live or die."
Related resources:
Jewish Communities of the Middle East and the Maghreb
Jimena - Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
Jews, almost extinct in Egyptian city Alexandria
HOLY PLACES
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest site for Jews. It was the site of the Beit HaMikdash ("Temple") built by King Solomon (950 BCE), which was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (587 BCE), rebuilt in 541 BCE, and then destroyed again by the Roman army in 70 CE leading to the exile of Jews from Israel. Al Aqsa Mosque and Shrine Of Omar were built at the site of the ancient Jewish temples. The Arabic name for Jerusalem "el-KuDS" [SlantRight Editor: or al-Quds] is derived from the Arabic name "BeT el-MaKDeS", a translation of the Hebrew "BeiT ha-MiKDaSH", the name of the Jewish Temple (see articles).
Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. Arabs recently burnt the Tomb of Joseph and the ancient synagogue in Jericho (see pictures). To this days Arab Waqf in control of the Temple Mount does not allow Jews to pray in the Temple Mount. Jews pray facing Jerusalem as the location of the Beit Hamikdash. Muslims pray facing their holy city Mecca with their backs toward Jerusalem. Throughout the ages the Arabs have ignored The Temple Mount and renewed interest only recently because of their political exigencies and not religious history (see pictures and articles).
Read the World News Daily article that inspired my ire against Western efforts to basically shove Mohammedanism down the throats of the Israelis, Jews and Christians of the world.
Yehuda Dramain has posted a similar treatise of The Land of Israel and its uncontested Capital Jerusalem in at least two Jewish Publications: YnetNews.com and Jewish Russian Telegraph. I know little of Dramain except for her obvious passion for the Land Israel.
Dramain sent this post to SlantRight.com via the Comment/Contact link and I happy to post it for her (I think it’s a “her.” I am not good on Jewish gender names)
This is a brilliant compilation of the reason that Jerusalem should not be divided and traditional Israeli land given to Arabs that call themselves Palestinians for a sovereign nation. Man you HAVE TO READ IT!
Thank you Yehuda Dramain.
This excerpt is from the One Jerusalem blog:
In an interview before President Bush's trip to Israel, Prime Minister Olmert stated that Israel must come to terms with dividing Jerusalem and giving up more land in Judea and Samaria.
Olmert's defeatist attitude is the clearest indication that he envisions Israel continuing the process of giving up precious land even though this tactic has only succeeded in bringing Israel's enemies closer to Israel's heartland.
Olmert's mindset is defeatist and will further endanger the people of Israel.
One Jerusalem’s conclusion is based on a Jerusalem Post article.
The article has Olmert openly musing that it is not reality to keep Jerusalem and discharge control of (what the West calls) the West Bank. Olmert’s reasoning is based on Liberal thinking.
Olmert believes for there to be a viable Jewish State it must create a viable Arab state. The alternative being keeping control of the West Bank and Gaza and making the Mohammedan Arabs second class citizens as they demographically grow to out number people of a Jewish heritage (i.e. religious, secular or atheistic) in a one nation situation. That is the Western Left’s current accusation against Israel.
Another alternative Olmert finds unacceptable is to have one nation granting full citizenship to Mohammedan Arabs. Olmert finds this unacceptable because then the Jewishness of Israel (Eretz Israel) would be submerged again in demographics; i.e. the Mohammedan Arab population would be the majority population in a Western style democracy that would give Mohammedans the legal ability to end a Jewish Israel and eject the name “Israel” and replace it with Palestine. In essence this “Palestine” would be a Mohammedan land and Sharia Law would relegate Jews to second class citizens in their own land.
So for Olmert the only alternative to keep Eretz Israel (the Land Israel) is to disengage into a two State solution without a right of return for the Mohammedan Arabs that fled in 1948 believing that invading Arabs would eradicate Jews and restore them to their homes. At least Olmert is against the so-called “Right of Return.”
There is another solution that would be beneficial to Israel yet would bring an international uproar from the West and threats of war from Arab nations. That solution is based on what Egypt, Jordan and Syria as well as the unanimous vote of then Arab League: Create Arab refugees rather than repatriate them into the various losing Arab invaders thus creating a perpetual reason to war and find a way to terminate the Land of Israel.
Israel could unilaterally uproot the refugees that call themselves Palestinians by the brainwashing of their fellow Arabs and move them to a weak nation that could not stop such an uprooting. That nation is the current Lebanon. In justice the nations that should accept the full citizenship of the Arab refugees are the principle invading nations that created them: Egypt, Jordan and Syria. You know that is not going to happen because unofficially that would be a threat to the ruling elites of those nations and officially it would be branded as Israeli aggression against Arabs. Indeed the father of the current King of Jordan ejected the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization out of fear it would depose the Hashemite Royal Family. It was an actual battle between Arab entities for control of land in Jordan.
There are other alternatives for Olmert to take to keep Jerusalem (the city of David) as one under Jewish/Israeli rule.
The splitting up of Israel to accommodate Mohammedan Arabs will lead to another war to eradicate Israel anyway. Olmert (or another tough minded Prime Minister) just needs the cajones to move the Arabs out as King Hussein of Jordan did in 1970.
There have long been rumors that Prime Minister Olmert of Israel was willing to give up half of Jerusalem as part of the package to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen). Incidentally Abbas is as much a thug terrorist as any terrorist organization connected to the Arab movement to form a sovereign Palestinian nation.
Abbas took over the mantle of Yasser Arafat as Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) which is a loose confederation of terrorists that has inflicted murderous terror on Israel. Egypt and the Arab League formed the PLO in 1964 to create a mythological people of Arabs termed Palestinians.
You see the irony is in 1948 the United Nations (prior to becoming sympathetic to Islamist Arabs and anti-Israel) divided the British Palestinian Mandate into to two nations: Israel and Transjordan. Obviously the Jews were to be sovereign in Israel and the Arabs to be sovereign in Transjordan under the hegemony of the Bedouin Hashemite Kingdom. The U.N. even gave a largely favorable amount of land to the Arabs while limiting the size of Israel to a nearly thin slice of indefensible land.
Mohammedan Arabs could not tolerate that Jews were becoming sovereign in what they considered Dar al-Islam land (i.e. land controlled by Islam as opposed to Dar al-Harb, land controlled by the infidel).
Thus Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan and a few other minor players all surrounding Israel attacked in 1948 just after Israeli Independence. Arabs living within the borders of Israel fled prior to the invasion expecting a Mohammedan victory to return them to their homes as well as fearing Israeli reprisals on life and property while their Arab brethren were attacking.
Why am I providing a minor (and admittedly slanted) history lesson? The reason is the point there were no Palestinians in 1948. Specifically there were citizens of Israel (primarily Jews) and citizens of Transjordan (primarily Arab Mohammedan Transjordanian citizens).
After Israel spanked Egypt, Syria, the future Jordan and the Arab bit players in 1948; the Mohammedans egos were bruised. Thus instead of incorporating the Arabs into the various invading lands – Jordan in particular – it was decided by the invaders to make a group of Arabs stateless people with the appellation of Palestinian refugee to create a perpetual chaotic wedge to habitually attack Israel with the intent of destroying the Israeli nation.
From 1948 through the current day, Mohammedans have taught hatred of Jewish people and later Christians in Dar al-Islam to Mohammedan Arab children until a generation of ingrained hate exists in the Middle Eastern Mohammedan mind.
Invasions and threats of extermination have been the goal of Middle Eastern Mohammedan nations ever since 1948. Every time a Mohammedan war was executed against Israel, the Mohammedans have been spanked even though they had superior numbers. (Now tell that is not a God thing!)
One of those invasions in 1967 became a godsend for the Jews of Israel. Again Egypt, Syria and Jordan attacked Israel to exterminate the nation. This time a Six Day miracle occurred. Not only were the three invaders spanked but in six days Israel occupied Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Syria’s Golan Heights and the territory retained by Jordan after the first 1948 invasion now called the West Bank by the world and Judea and Samaria by the Israelis. Part of that West Bank acquisition is land that Jews (and Christians) have considered the land of the Jews by heritage. This included East Jerusalem, Bethlehem and burial sites of Jewish Patriarchs.
The most important of which was the unification of Jerusalem (the City of David) under Israeli control. AND the most important fact about the unification of Jerusalem is that the Holiest of site to all Judaism came under Israeli possession – the Temple Mount.
The great mystery to me was the Israeli government’s decision to allow the Jordanian linked Mohammedan Waqf to control the Temple Mount where two Mohammedan Mosques are located – the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Yes I realize Mohammedans consider those two Mosques to be the third holiest site to them. Let us think about that one; Third: meaning one, two, and three. That means the Mohammedans control number one and two – Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Mecca and Medina are actual place the pseudo-prophet Mohammed resided. Mohammed had never been to Jerusalem physically. Mohammed’s successors developed a myth from the Quran (in which Jerusalem is not named) that Mohammed took off from a Mosque in Jerusalem on winged horse to heaven and back. The problem historically is that there was no Mosque in Jerusalem that was controlled by the Byzantine Empire in Mohammed’s lifetime. Thus it is impossible for Jerusalem to be the location of the Quranic “furthermost Mosque.” To accept Jerusalem as the furthermost Mosque would prove the Quran is a lie. I seriously doubt any Mohammedan would accept that.
The greatest error in my estimation is that Israel did not take physical control of the Temple Mount graciously allowing the Mohammedan Mosques to operate for the religion of peace. I mean it is not like the Mohammedans are to stop attacking Israel to eradicate a Jewish existence in the Middle East.
Now we have come to the point in which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is preparing to transfer the 1967 miracle back to Mohammedan control, including half of Jerusalem which includes the Temple Mount.
In American terms that is like becoming a Benedict Arnold. In Christian terms that is like becoming a Judas Iscariot. In Jewish terms it is like becoming Korah, Dathan and Abiram.
Olmert is selling out his race, his faith and his nation. Whether it is to the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians or to Jordan it is treasonous and could lead to the demise of Israel as Mohammedans have stealthily armed themselves with weapons and technology from America.
Other links of interest related to the Olmert sell out from Arutz Sheva 7 (Israel National News):
Jordan Replaces P.A. in MK Elon's Peace Plan
US Presidential Candidate Endorses Elon's "Israeli Initiative"
Rabbi Elyashiv Joins Battle For Jerusalem
Islam cries for respect in their simultaneous superiority complex over everything combined with a victimhood attitude. And yet I read of Mohammedan atrocities at Christian and Jewish Holy sites constantly. The location I hear the most is the Temple Mount, a place of constant conquest and desecration ever since the Presence of God entered Solomon’s Temple.
The Jewish desecration came in forsaking the proper respect of God’s Presence in the Temple and thus they lost it to Babylon.
The Persians allowed the return of Jews to their God ordained land in which Zerubbabel’s Temple was built and later embellished upon by Herod.
I believe a combination of worldliness by the Temple Priest elites and the rejection of Christ as the Messiah led to the second destruction and desecration of the Temple about 70 AD.
When Christianity became the State Religion of the Roman Empire, the Temple area became the site of Christian Churches. Certainly the Jews felt this was another desecration.
Byzantine (East Roman) Emperor Justinian built the Church of St. Mary (dedicated to the Virgin Mary) on the Temple Mount about 560 AD.
Non-Mohammedan Persians (Iranians) and the Byzantine Empire apparently switched control of Jerusalem back and forth for awhile however the entire time this was happening Jerusalem was a Christian city with Jewish population.
Mohammedan-Arab Caliph Omar conquered Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire in 638 AD, six years after pseudo-Prophet Mohammed died. Caliph Abd El Malik built the Dome of the Rock around 691 to 692 AD. Malik’s son Abd El-Wahd transformed the Church of St. Mary built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian into Al-Aksa Mosque around 705 to 715 adding Mohammedan features to the Byzantine Church.
The Crusaders re-took Jerusalem from the Mohammedans in 1099. The Crusaders turned the Dome of the Rock into a Church and called it the “Temple of our Lord” or “Templum Domini.” The Church built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian that was converted into Al-Aksa Mosque became the headquarters of the Knights Templars.
The Mohammedan Saladin then vanquished the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 and again Mohammedanized the Temple Mount re-establishing the two Mosques.
The Mohammedan Saladin then vanquished the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 and again Mohammedanized the Temple Mount re-establishing the two Mosques.
From 1187 until 1967 the Temple Mount was managed by Mohammedan control. When a massive invasion of Israel occurred in 1967 by Egypt, Syria and Jordan (primarily), the Arabs decisively lost and Israel regained much of the land of their heritage from the invading nations. Most importantly Israel united the City of David – Jerusalem – under Israeli sovereignty which includes the Temple Mount.
One of the greatest mistakes of the Israeli government was to allow the duality of Mohammedan management and Israeli sovereignty of the Temple Mount.
Here is the reason for the huge error of allowing Mohammedans to manage the control of the Temple Mount: Mohammedan outrageous intolerant superiority complex is driving the Waqf to destroy archeological evidence of the dominant years of Jewish control of Mt Moriah** on which the Temple of God was built. In terms of years Mohammedan control has been less. Their conquering Caliphs built Mosques in the area merely to have something physical to match their erroneous Scriptures in the Quran and the Haditha about Mohammed taking a trip to Heaven on a winged horse.
And to confirm the misplaced gesture of peace by Moshe Dayan, Ehud Olmert is preparing to give up all of the 1967 victories in order that a sovereign Palestinian State will exist peacefully next to Israel. I am guessing Olmert is not a great student of history.
**Editor Note: This link is an evolving link. You can reference the link by reading the Temple Institute information I posted at the the end of this article at SlantRight.com. OR for reference purposes you may wish to check the archives of TempleInstitute.org.
The Christian Right’s and religious Judaic Zionist’s greatest fear is about to happen according to Arab media outlets and Slanted Left Israeli Dr. Guy Bechor: Olmert is dividing Jerusalem between Israel and the pseudo-nationality known Palestinian-Arab.
I hold little trust in Arab media reporting; however this Bechor individual is purported to be a respected Leftist in Israel.
You know something is bad when a Leftist highly criticizes the division of Jerusalem in the name of peace. This trade for peace has proven dubious in the past in that it leads to further violence with the goal of the destruction of Israel. Personally I trust this paradigm has not changed.
If indeed the future of Jerusalem has been imprinted in writing as Bechor indicates, then Olmert may go down in history as Israel’s version of the American Benedict Arnold – a sell out traitor to the future of his nation and people.
There is the clandestine appearance that Prime Minister Olmert is preparing to sellout Judaism by giving up the holiest jewel to Mohammedan sovereignty – Temple Mount.
You will read that Israel currently has sovereignty over the Temple Mount but has allowed a Mohammedan entity known as the Waqf to control the Temple Mount. Israel regained the entirety of Jerusalem including the Temple Mount after defeating a combined Mohammedan attack in 1967. Israel’s victory over foreign aggression meant the spoils of war were the West Bank from Jordan (which included all of Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria. Victory meant the regaining of the Holiest of Holies – the location of the Jewish Temple.
For some reason which I will never understand, Israel failed to secure control of the Temple Mount and agreed to have the Waqf manage the area. The Waqf manages two Mosques built on the ruins of the Temple Mount: Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Both are declared the third holiest site due the Mohammedan traditional faith that the maniac Mohammed ascended to Heaven on a white winged horse from the location.
I say tradition because the event is not recorded in the Mohammedan’s holy book known as the Quran. It was a myth fabricated later as part of the Dar al-Islam concept of Mohammedanism; viz. that all land acquired by Mohammedan conquest and forced to accept Mohammedanism as their religion, then the land is considered Mohammedan forever. A Caliph in the 700’s AD reinforced Dar al-Islam by building a Mosque perpetuating the myth that Mohammed took off to Heaven there.
The Israeli government mistake was not taking total control of the Temple Mount after the victory before World opinion took hold favoring the Mohammedans. I am convinced it would take some kind of military victory over Mohammedan aggression to regain control to the Temple Mount to overcome Appeasement minded world opinion in the West. Naturally global Mohammedan opinion would never be changed.
I am going through all this because it is rumored that Prime Minister Olmert is preparing to deliver sovereignty to the Temple Mount and half of Jerusalem to Palestinian-Arabs presuming the Mohammedans will keep promises to allow Jewish access to the Temple Mount.
If the rumors pan out, Olmert is insane. Mohammedans in the Middle East have not kept ONE PROMISE, especially the PALESTINIAN Terrorist organizations that have governed autonomously the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Land for Peace concept will end up either in the destruction of Israel and another Jewish holocaust or the USA will be forced to militarily deliver Israel from the dementia of