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...away at the Western Wall, revered by Jews as the place of prayer closest to the site of their biblical temple. That abrupt transformation from worship to violence--it occurred in a flash last Friday--is sparked by the power that emanates from the place Jews call the Temple Mount and Arabs know as Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary. These 35 acres, blocked in by ancient walls and topped by the glittering, gilded Dome of the Rock, are a strange and holy place, splattered all too often with blood. "It is," says Rabbi Nachman Kahana, who runs...
...strange, then, to find this silence so regularly broken by screams and sirens and shots. But the problem with the Temple Mount is that it is so holy that it transcends politics. The pilgrims drawn into and around this sacred area include some of the most religious Muslims and Jews--precisely the people who are least likely to believe that there is any worldly solution to the question of who should have sovereignty over God's Mount. It is a question that some of the young mullahs and rabbis who study in the shadow of the Mount sometimes feel...
...weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount, at least 80 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured, mostly Palestinians...
...violence that has swept Israel and the occupied territories since the visit of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount two weeks ago reignited yesterday after a brief period of respite. Two Israeli reserve soldiers seeking shelter in a Palestinian police station in the West Bank town of Ramallah were killed by a mob of Palestinians; in retaliation, Israeli helicopter gunships used rockets to destroy the police building, a security forces headquarters and a radio and television station the Israelis accuse of having incited violence...
Palestinian leaders say that a visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon precipitated the clashes, but Israel's government has alleged that the forces of Yassir Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority, used the visit as a pretext to attack Israelis and Jews...