[Eleutheria5]

Heavens, no! A museum?! We are on a slippery slope. If we allow anyone to pray or sing there, next thing you know they'll rebuild Solomon's Temple that was never there, right after they make a museum./s

[PATRIOT1876]

The Bible tells us that the temple will be re-built.
This news is not a surprise.

[apillar]

Hey Moozies, you last few “wars” against Israel haven't worked out so well, but feel free to try again...

[Bobalu]

Jews should have taken total control of this place after the Six Day War....what were they thinking!?

[mountn man]

ping

[svcw]

Go right ahead, and see what it gets you.

[driftdiver]

How about Saudi lets Jews and Christians go to Mecca to pray?

[MeganC]

I doubt that anyone in Israel gives a rip what some retard in Saudi Arabia has to say.

[reg45]

Question: How many rounds of 120mm does it take to level the Al Aqsa Mosque?

[familyop]

Maybe the Israeli government should build especially hard and efficient garrisons/labs tactically close to the Mount.

[zeugma]

[Gargantua]

Bring it, diaper-head.

One of the last major End Times Prophecies awaiting fulfillment before Christ's glorious return (depending on how one interprets End Times Scripture) is the all-out assault on Israel.

Please, please, PLEASE, make this the best Christmas ever. Go ahead and attack Israel. Really. I want to see it.

;-\

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This is Israel’s fault, for not nationalizing all holy sites, to dispel any notion that any other nation, or even religion, has a claim to them. While they can be generous with lease terms of holy sites, those leases can and should be based on good behavior.

In fact, by doing so, the Israelis could do something that the Saudis do.

Currently, the Saudis have their holy sites managed by the Wahhabi sect, that truly wants to overthrow the Saud family and make Saudi a religious state like Iran (but Sunni). But when they get too annoying, the Saud just suggest that the Wahhabi can lose that management, and it can be transferred to a different sect, the Sufi sect.

This threat scares the poop out of the Wahhabis, so they behave themselves.

Importantly, Wahhabis also control the al-Asqa mosque, and Israel could and should make the same threat. If Israel nationalized al-Asqa, and took it away from the Wahhabis, and offered it to the Sufi, you can be that the Sufi would be the nicest, friendliest, most pleasant tenants for the next 100 years, at least.

And the Wahhabis would effectively be kicked out of Israel. They would lose enormous amounts of “face” in Islam. It might even create an opportunity for the Saud to do the same in Arabia, which would overnight change the entire character of much of Islam.

All because Israel finally did something that most other countries have long done: declare that their territory is their territory, no one else’s.