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...days at the beginning of the crisis, the American press echoed the falsehood. The Wall Street Journal, front page, reported Palestinian violence sparked by a "tunnel on Jerusalem's Temple Mount." It isn't. ABC News' Peter Jennings parroted the charge: "Muslims say the tunnel cuts under their compound and call it a crime against Islam." It doesn't and it isn't. The Washington Post explained that "it should come as no surprise that violent passions were aroused by Israel's tampering with the ground beneath the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque." No ground beneath either...
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Tadros and Al-Ississ imagine a long history of Israeli compromises to the integrity of the Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount, referring vaguely to "previous [Israeli] attempts at undermining the Islamic character of the shrine." No such attempts have ever been made. In fact, Israeli soldiers stand at the entrance of the shrine to prevent anyone wearing Jewish skullcaps or carrying Jewish religious articles from entering, so as not to offend Muslim worshippers...