The ownership and sovereignty question of the Temple Mount must be resolved before there will be peace in the Holy Land and the Middle East.
"The ownership and sovereignty question of the Temple Mount must be resolved before there will be peace in the Holy Land and the Middle East."
Pardon me for being flippant, but that shouldn't be too difficult. The only 'claim' the muslims have to that piece of real estate is a reference in the koran of a journey to a 'far distant place' that mohammad undertook at night...on a 'magic' horse that had peacock feathers for a tail...Jerusalem as such was never mentioned, that must really have been some magic horse! It covered the distance from Mecca to the Temple Mount (and back) in just one night! (After mohammad had his audience with allah, of course.) What a load of BS. But then, that's all islam is.
Building mosques on the site of other culture's temples is a strategy. The Hindu lost 3,000 temple sites in India.
Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD. See tagline for link.
Here's a link you might find interesting to read:
'Moslem Claim to Jerusalem Rests on Wobbly Verse.'
(Snip)
'A commentator in the official Egyptian government weekly, of all places, writes this week that the entire Moslem claim on Jerusalem and El-Aksa is based on a mistaken reading of one chapter of the Quran...' cont:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=news&id=48845