'To control Temple Mount is to control the political narrative'

摘要

On 26 July this year there was rioting at Temple Mount in Jerusalem as Israeli police entered the compound to find and eradicate suspected Palestinian stockpiles of fireworks and petrol bombs ahead of a major Jewish holiday. The 'Wailing' or Western Wall -the last remaining section of the Herodian-era Jewish Temple - is a holy place for Jews, and its prayer plaza was expected to be packed with worshippers for Tisha B'Av. The prayer plaza is overlooked by the mosque that sits atop Temple Mount (which is called Haram al-Sharif in Arabic).