the limits of how many people can safely enter the mosques and the city. As I indicated, life is the very first of human rights, including the life of Jews.
Regarding your "shoe being on the other foot argument", well, Steve, the shoe has been on the other foot. For several hundreds of years when the Muslim Ottomans controlled the place Jews were very limited in what they could build in the form of houses of worship. And during the Arab control of the city between 1948 to 1967 no Jew was allowed to enter the city, let alone pray at the Western Wall or in any other part of the city. Indeed, until today Jews are not permitted by Jordanian and Palestinian laws to acquire and own land, and this is by law.
In contrast, under Israeli tule of the city and since it has become a part of sovereign Israel members of all faiths are permitted to come to Jerusalem and worship in it. |
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