[bibarnes]

First, I will say something that sounds outrageous and then I will try to explain it.
Who Cares?
It doesn't matter a lick what "authority" is in charge of Jerusalem. "Holy Sites" are holy because someone way back before I was born said "this is where Jesus was buried,crucified,born etc. It doesn't matter if He was born in Bethlehem at the site of the Church of the Nativity or at the site of the current terrorist training facility. It doesn't matter if He was crucified at Golgotha or Gorden's Calvary.
It matters that He was born and that he suffered, died and resurrected. Moses tomb was kept a secret because God did not want the Jews to worship the site of his burial. Let us take an example from The Most High and stop putting so much importance on a place and more importance on Him who created all places.

[Iscool]

Let us take an example from The Most High and stop putting so much importance on a place and more importance on Him who created all places.

You are correct...He is not on the cross...He is risen...He can not be sacrificed again...

And although He has everything under His control, on can not help but want to side with His chosen in protecting their land that He gave them...We of the adoption do not want to usurp the physical inheritance...As we know, our Jerusalem will be in heaven...

[RobbyS]

Sorry, but it does matter. There is a tendency to turn Jesus into a "spirit," forgetting that he is a man, and moreover a Jew of a particular time and place. HERE he entered history and he has never left.

[kenavi]

Let us take an example from The Most High and stop putting so much importance on a place and more importance on Him who created all places.

You are right. IMO, the Israeli people would give up the West Bank in return for a real peace, because a real peace would give them access to where Abraham and Sarah are buried. Any "peace" that would deny them that access, as the Moslems denied it before, would not be much of a real peace, now would it?

[kerryusama04]

First, I will say something that sounds outrageous and then I will try to explain it. Who Cares? It doesn't matter a lick what "authority" is in charge of Jerusalem. "Holy Sites" are holy because someone way back before I was born said "this is where Jesus was buried,crucified,born etc. It doesn't matter if He was born in Bethlehem at the site of the Church of the Nativity or at the site of the current terrorist training facility. It doesn't matter if He was crucified at Golgotha or Gorden's Calvary. It matters that He was born and that he suffered, died and resurrected. Moses tomb was kept a secret because God did not want the Jews to worship the site of his burial. Let us take an example from The Most High and stop putting so much importance on a place and more importance on Him who created all places.

It is rare to see so much truth in such few words.