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The third destruction of the Temple |
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Written by The Spectator Magazine (UK)
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:00 |
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The third
destruction of the Temple
"...What many don’t realise is that Temple Mount, the site
of the original Jewish holy of holies on top of which the conquering Arabs
built the al Aqsa mosque, is under Arab control even though Israel re-conquered
Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War. As the review of How Dreadful Is This
Place! by Shmuel Berkovits relates, this was because the victorious Israelis,
resolutely secular as they were, did not want to be burdened with a sensitive
religious artefact in addition to the headache of staving off Arab attacks
which were bad enough anyway.
... If anyone wants to know what would
happen to religious freedom and respect for holy sites under any scheme of
‘international’ protection for Jerusalem that some believe would solve the
problem posed by that city – and if anyone believes that Israel currently
robustly defends its own heritage -- this review furnishes a most dismaying correction
to both illusions.”
See also this article at the Azure Journal: We Forget Thee, Jerusalem
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