Jewish activists and Palestinian Authority Arab protesters shouted slogans at each other in a counter demonstration outside the entrance to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday morning (August 9).
The Jews held prayers at the rally, calling for Israeli Jewish control over the site, which is considered to be the holiest place on earth in the Jewish faith.
In Islam, the site is believed to be the third holiest place in the world.
The Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque where Muslim worshipers hold prayers on Friday mornings (the Islamic Sabbath is on Friday) are also incubators for incitement to violence by Muslim clerics.
It is within these houses of worship that imams exhort their followers in fiery sermons to ensure that no infidels contaminate the purity of the site and sometimes also urge them to carry out “jihad” — holy war — against Israel as well.
