Some two dozen or so Jewish children ascended with their fathers to the Temple Mount.There is a simple reason why the Muslims became so unhinged.
Children, not even teenagers.
Haredim.
They were surrounded by adult Muslim men and women who chanted, screamed, yelled, pushed, threatened and otherwise acted with verbal and even some physical violence. And surely psychological violence.
Because proud Jewish children threaten them more than the police or the IDF.
Muslims know that this is a long-term conflict. They see the IDF the way they think about Crusaders - outsiders who came for a while but who were eventually and inevitably going to be pushed out. All that is needed is patience.
But religious Jewish children show clearly that there is a people whose claim to the Land is older and far more authentic than theirs.
Secular Israeli Jews they can handle. They think that human rights groups and Western governments and terrorism can wear them down and force many of them to make concessions, and then more concessions, until the Muslims win. They look at Gaza and Lebanon and see nothing but Jewish weakness.
But children who are identifiable as Jews are a force that they cannot counter. The children represent a world where Jews are tenacious and dedicated, filled with love for the land and the inner strength to hold onto it. These children and their descendants are not about to give up their holy sites for mere promises and more lies.
The children represent the future, and Muslims don't like what they see there.
Just watch the video and decide - who respects their holy sites and who desecrates them?