ESay
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I never denied Israel the right of existence. But you can't just take old maps and put claims on some areas pretending there never was 2000 years since then.Pretext? It seems you are walking the edge of transgressing item #4 on our list of Arab extremist beliefs: denial of the connection of the Jewish people to their homeland. Also, remembering that religious and ethnic rights are collective rights. They belong to the people in their entirety. You can't disconnect people from their ancestors and use that as an excuse for denying the rights of the collective.
It is not "taking over property", especially not with the implied ending of that thought, which is, "taking over property which belongs to Muslims". It is a shared Holy site. Shared. This implies it is property over which no party holds claims to ownership. There is nothing to "take over". It already belongs to all of us.
There is no shared place. Once, it was a Jewish place. Now, it is a Muslim place. The only thing it 'shares' is geographical coordinates. The Jews have no more rights to it, than the Christians do to the Hagia Sophia mosque.