Violence on the Temple Mount: Warning signals not to ignore

Things are heating up at the Temple Mount area in Jerusalem and since it's Ramadan time, things will get hairier. Not unusual since this place is holy to Jews and Muslims. Jews hold it sacred as it was the actual site of two biblical Holy Temples plus the Western Wall and the Muslims falsely claim it's the third most holy city for them. Their fantasy is that Mohammed is supposed to have ridden up to Allah on his steed from that place in Jerusalem.

A bit of fact here. Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran while it is written in the Tanach hundreds of times. Mecca and Medina, far off in Arabia, are the only two holy cities in Islam and their claim of Jerusalem as the third one is nonsense. They use it merely as a political and bloody battleground in order to gain control of Israel by boasting it will be their capital when Palestine attains statehood and wipes Israel off the map.

As renowned historian Dr. Mordechai Kedar writes (see here and here), Jerusalem entered Islamic lore for practical reasons:

"After Palestine was occupied by the Muslims, its capital was Ramlah, 30 miles to the west of Jerusalem, signifying that Jerusalem meant nothing to them. READ MORE