Never mind that the Temple Mount was a neglected ruin, mosques included, until Haj-Amin al-Husseini became leader of the Arabs in British Palestine and raised money for their renovation. Before Jews started moving back to their homeland in numbers Muslims couldn’t care less about Jerusalem.
...and for his next act al-Husseini became best buddies with Hitler and moved to Berlin for the war.
Mark Twain described Tel Aviv as “a pile of sand about 25 feet high”. Then the Jews came along and started growing oranges the size of basketballs and the Arabs cried they stole their land. Even as early as 1899, the Jewish population of Jerusalem was 20,000.