GHook20
Platinum Member
Your understanding is wrong. The Jews have already conceded that the 3rd temple will not be built, and unlike Muslim Extremists in other countries like Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, the Israeli government protects the Al Aqsa Mosque. There are zero plans to harm even any of it. Even a few years ago when Israel was going to renovate some land close to it the Palestinians rioted.As I can understand about this matter, the most important question about Jerusalem is who controls the Temple Mount. The Muslims want their mosque to be there and the Jews want their temple to be restored there. And I cant see any compromise possible in that. There is no win-win solution. One of the sides should lose and agree with the demands of the other.RE: PM: Jerusalem is the exclusive capital of the Jewish people
⁜→ rylah, Penelope, et al,
I have not seen our friend "Penelope" for some time. I hope she is OK...
PM: Jerusalem is exclusive capital of the Jewish people
At Jerusalem Day ceremony, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says, "Jerusalem is the secret to our existence ... We will not divide it and we will not hand it over to foreigners" • Clashes erupt between Jews and Arabs during annual Jerusalem Day march in Old City.(COMMENT)It was a capital, and it is, just never of an Arab state.
I've been thinking about this a little deeper in recent times.
I think that the fate and future of Jerusalem is in the hands of the Israelis. Five years ago, when Penelope started the discussion, I was not sure who would control Jerusalem, but I think that it is pretty much settled now. For all intent and purposes, the citied (East and West Jerusalem) is united under a single sovereign power.
But it is not beyond the realm of possibilities that the Israelis would open a Sector of the City - a new kind of political subdivsion (a miniturized Autonomous Oblast), that would grant the Arab Palestinians some control. Similarly, the Israelis could create a new kind of Joint Restoration and Preservation Activity that would be responsibile for the Management of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif. Maybe the Israelis might see the establishment of a New Kind of Religious Body that would represent the three Abrahamic Religious having an interest in the protection and future.
There are all kinds of possibilies and alternatives once the Arab Palestinians renounce the violence against the Jewish People.
I'm not so sure that the question of → "Jerusalem is the exclusive capital?" → is correct; but rather, → What will the future of Jerusalem be?
Most Respectfully,
R
No the key is the unification of the Jerusalem under it's one and only clear leader Israel.