As eras in human history are recounted
none is so redolent of divinity and its
worship, none so linked to Israel and
Judean heritage as Jerusalem, David's
gleaming city of light glancing from its
glorious height upon the world, where his
son Solomon built his temple twice destroyed
three thousand years ago, a virtual eternity.
Its history interrupted by the sacrilege of an
Islamic invasion re-consecrating Jerusalem
and forbidding a Jewish presence of prayer
at Solomon's Temple precincts. For Islam
claims as its own that which in its current
state is the Temple Mount, the jewel of the
Jewish state where, lest surrounding Muslim
states be offended, Jews, on threat of war
may never pray lest they defile the presumed
presence of the spirit of Islam in conquest.
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