Op-Ed: He who controls the Mount….

This Op-Ed was written in response to the  latest claim from the Palestinian Authority that the Jews have no right to the Western Wall.

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By: Yosef Rabin

The battle for the future of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel has begun! While many people are beginning to cry out against the division of Jerusalem and against a freeze on Jewish construction, it appears as if the heart and center has been forgotten. Like a human body if you kill the heart, the rest of the body will quickly wither away, and so it is with the Temple Mount and the Land of Israel.

The Holy Temple Mount is the heart of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel, and as the old saying goes, “He who controls the Mount shall control Jerusalem and from there the land”. If we have no right to the Mount then we certainly have no right to communities like Ramat Shlomo. If we have no right to the Mount than we do not even have a right to the Western Wall, for the sanctity of the wall derives from the Mount. In fact the Arabs have already begun to call the Western Wall the “Al Buraq Wall” or the wall to which, Mohamed allegedly tied his horse.

Read the rest of this article on: Temple Mount Updates