So?
Shame on you for becoming so personally insulting. Quit the scurrilous name-calling.
I tell you that the Qu'ran does not mention Jerusalem once by name and your response is So? Let me ask you something. If Jerusalem was a holy site of Islam don't you think that it would be mentioned repeatedly throughout your book rather than to be completely absent? Why do you think that Jerusalem is not mentioned in your Koran? It's not mentioned because Israel has nothing to do with Islam. The mosque you see in Israel has no business being there. Israel is not a holy site for Muslims. It's time you admitted it. It's time the WORLD ADMITTED IT.
If a Mosque has stood there for over 1300 years, longer than the current St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, I think it qualifies as a holy site to the adherants of the religion of Islam, and is probably more holy than a Hellenistic retaining wall that supported a military fortress, that some Jewish traveller mistook for the remnants of a temple. You are right, however, Zionist Israel is not a "holy site" for Muslims. Palestinians do have the right to claim Jerusalem as the capital city of their state.
That mosque and dome were both neglected and nearly in ruin. It was not a major attraction to pilgrims.
Mark Twain said Israel was like a barren wasteland when he visited, void of human beings, vegetation, life. It wasn't until the Jews returned that everything was restored to its former beauty. Once the Arabs saw the Jews return and make the land beautiful it suddenly become theirs as if they ever had a claim to it. They do not.
How would they feel if the Jews went to Arabia and said Mecca is our 3rd holiest site. Move that rock. That is our Temple Site and you will no longer be permitted to come and pray here. I wonder what they would say about that?
You mean this?
" barren hills, sometimes surmounted by three or four graceful columns of some ancient temples, lonely and deserted---a fitting symbol of desolation that has come upon all ...... in these latter ages. We saw no ploughed fields, very few villages, no trees or grass or vegetation of any kind, scarcely, and hardly ever an isolated house............. is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures, or commerce, apparently."
By the way, Mark Twain was traveling in the area months after the Christian-Druze war ended, it would barren and certainly, in the summer, Mediterranean countries tend to be dry and arid.
However, the best exposition of how the Zionists brainwashed much of the West is handled very deftly in the documentary film "Seeds of Conflict 1913". Excellent documentary written by an American Jew, who once believed the propaganda and was so overwhelmed at the depth of the deception after studying the conflict, he produced this excellent work. Perhaps the most poignant revelation was the photo of the Zionists on sand dunes where Tel Aviv was to be constructed. The documentary shows them to beach sand dunes and that turning the camera 180 degrees one would see Christian and Muslim owned citrus orchards and greenery and the busy port of Haifa, an Arab city.