Oh good. That surely won’t massively escalate things.
It needs to be administered by a secular peacekeeping force.
The mosque was built over the Jewish temple. Both groups have a historical claim to the site… and neither can be trusted.
Interesting you should say that. I’ve visited there and it’s a remarkable place. At the time I was reading a Tom Clancy novel and he had the same thought for all of Jerusalem. To make peace, he wrote, it should be protected by the Swiss Guard from the Vatican
So the Christians should take control?
This meme seems oddly relevant to this discussion.
That was Clancy’s idea of the best of alternatives
Remind me, what religion was Clancy?
Don’t know. Religion doesn’t have much to do with it I think. The Swiss Guard are basicly Swiss mercenaries.
Riiiiiiiiight
I’m sure there’s no bad blood in the area from the last times Christians tried to take Jerusalem.
I remember they can’t even decide by them selves :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznFT4-2dKI
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre’s keys have been in the hands of a Muslim family for centuries to prevent Christians from different denominations from murdering each other, so there’s already a precedent for it.
Is this related to the ladder?
Just put some Buddhists in charge of it. They’ve got zero skin in this game.
This was actually the original plan in the first UN Partition Plan, that Jerusalem would become an international city administered by the UN. The Jews that would go on to form Israel accepted, while Palestinians rejected it, war broke out, and here we are.
The US should just blow it up and end the stupidity
Israel’s far right is out of control and using the Gaza war for cover to recruit and radicalize. If Israel doesn’t figure out how to shut them down it won’t matter if they win the war. The country will be doomed.
I lived in Israel for 11 years. The government has been slowly but surely progressing the goals of the religious right. To keep it simple they believe the Messiah will come and march on Jerusalem to retake the temple mount and erect the Jewish temple where it once stood. Some modern interpretations I heard in yeshivah simply talk about taking back temple mount and demolishing the Muslim temple to erect the Jewish Temple.
There are a lot very rich and influential Jews who have been using their money and influence to further the ultimate goal of rebuilding the temple. Check out the Jewish National Fund.
