Peloni: Israel is often falsely accused by the likes of the latest Hashemite scion as failing to enforce freedom of worship for its Arab inhabitants, most notably with these libels being focused on the Temple Mount. The unfortunate truth is that Israel has failed to enforce the freedom of worship, but for its Jewish inhabitants, not the Arabs, and specifically on the Temple Mount. While the purpose of Abdullah’s repeated libels on this point are intended as a call to violence, Ben Gvir’s attempts to highlight the truth of the situation on the Temple Mount are intended to undo the injustice which was systematically installed by Moshe Dayan’s post-67 War folly. The promise of supporting all faiths in the Jewish state should not be isolated from including the Jews, and yet it is.
By Hugh Fitzgerald | May31, 2025
Seth Mandel has just written about Jerusalem, the city the Muslims call Al-Quds and that they claim belongs to the Arabs and Muslims, for it is from Jerusalem, and the place known to the Western world as the Temple Mount, that Muhammad made his Night Journey (miraj), on his fabulous wingèd steed Al-Buraq, going up to the Seventh Heaven and back within 24 hours. The connection, then, of Muslims to Jerusalem is one based purely on religious belief. The connection of the Jews to Jerusalem does not require any religious belief. It is history, not fantasy, that connects the Jews to Jerusalem — a history that goes back some 3500 years. “The Jews Are Jerusalem’s Only Hope,” by Seth Mandel, Commentary, May 26, 2025:
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