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To: meyer; tang-soo
I wanted to post to you and tang-soo the other night about Palestine and Jerusalem.

During the Ottoman Empire, up into the early 20th century, Arabs and Jews lived pretty much peacefully together in Palestine. Generally there were areas mostly Arab and others mostly Jewish - clanish but not hostile.

Interestingly, the mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem were not held in any particular distinction. It is easy with a search to find pictures of the Dome of the Rock, looking a bit seedy with piles of rubbish around it; similar can be said of the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount.

In other words, Muslims acknowledged their importance but paid little attention to their eminence. With the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the coming of the British mandate after WWI, Muslims began to fear a Jewish domination of Jerusalem and regenerated the religious significance in Islam of the Temple Mount site.

36 posted on 10/10/2023 8:42:49 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

Interesting, Bob. Thanks!


87 posted on 10/10/2023 11:50:17 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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