Sunday, June 02, 2019
Elder of Ziyon
Every Friday of every Ramadan for the past several decades, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have gone to the Temple Mount, what they call the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, to pray.
I cannot find any news story or photo describing anything close to that number of people there before 1967.
Not under Jordanian rule. Not under British rule. Not under Ottoman rule.
I can find a few stories mentioning "thousands" of Muslims rioting in Jerusalem and attacking Jews before the massacres a couple of months later, and of thousands of Muslims who celebrate the "Nebi Musa" festival, a made up Muslim festival that is calculated according to the Christian calendar to coincide with and interfere with Easter celebrations in Jerusalem.
But I cannot find any story mentioning any gathering of tens of thousands, and certainly not hundreds of thousands, of Muslims or Arabs in Jerusalem before 1967.
If you care about access to holy places in Jerusalem, including for Muslims, you should want Israel to control the entire city.
Or, you have to admit that Muslims weren't all that interested in the Al Aqsa Mosque before Jewish control of Jerusalem.
Israel has provided more access to more holy places for more people of more religions than any ruler of Jerusalem in history.
There is no other way to look at the facts.
