The government's effective support for partition is perhaps nowhere more obvious than on the Temple Mount.
In Jerusalem, triumphant Muslims built the Al-Aqsa mosque on top of the Jews' revered Temple Mount.
Also Thursday, Yediot ran a story about Beck's Restoring Courage Rally beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
He would like to see a Third Temple built on the Temple Mount what the Arabs call the Haram al-Sharif.
Beilin convinced Barak to agree to the transfer of the Temple Mount and the Jordan Valley to the PLO.
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The day before, a Jewish fast-day, the main source of tension had been at Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.
Temple Mount and the western wall would become pavilions in which the strictest rules are observed and the most colourful customs preserved.
IR For months the Muslim authorities have been doing renovations on the Temple Mount, bulldozing areas that contain priceless treasures from the Jewish past.
So too, despite the government's protestations of devotion to Jerusalem, it has not lifted the bar on Jewish worship on the Temple Mount.
In 1984, authorities uncovered plots by a settler group known as the Jewish Underground to bomb Arab buses and to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount.
In rural Mississippi, he found Pentecostal Christians who are breeding red heifers for sacrifice in Israel, when (perhaps next year) the second coming reclaims Jerusalem's Temple Mount from Muslims.
There, and in subsequent desperate discussions with Arafat at Taba, Barak agreed to hand over the Temple Mount to Arafat in addition to Gaza, Judea, Samaria and a pile of money.
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Over the past six months, the religious part of the conflict seems to have waxed, not waned: Palestinians have called their latest uprising the al-Aqsa intifada, after the mosque on Temple Mount.
For its part, the Olmert-Barak-Livni government already made clear through official statements and leaks that it is ready to withdraw from Judea and Samaria and to partition Jerusalem and surrender the Temple Mount.
After Arafat rejected his offer, Barak sweetened it at Taba in September 2000, adding another 5% of Judea and Samaria, the Temple Mount, and extra lands in the Negev, only to be rejected, again.
The indictment was filed against him in 2007 following a speech he gave at a demonstration in Jerusalem in which he accused Israel of seeking to destroy the Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount.
In his speech under the Temple Mount, Beck roused his audience - which contrary to media reports was a mix of American Christians and American Jews joined by scores of Israelis - to action.
But Sharon also has to contend with a high negative rating among many Israelis, made worse by his provocative visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount two months ago, which set off the current wave of violence.
As the local and international press corps converged on Jerusalem's Old City to cover the Arab riots at the Temple Mount two weeks ago, little mention was made of the fact that Jerusalem was not the only flashpoint.
To compound Mr Abbas's problems, tensions rose this week in one of the most volatile spots in the world, the Haram al-Sharif Mosque, called the Temple Mount by Israelis, in occupied East Jerusalem, holy to both Jews and Muslims.
Last September it was Ariel Sharon's venture into the Haram al-Sharif, which Jews know as Temple Mount, that appeared to set off the latest Palestinian intifada against Israeli rule, in which hundreds of people, mostly Arabs, have since been killed.
In order not to create an international crisis, Dayan made it clear that the army would not attack the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and immediately returned the keys to the Temple Mount to the Muslim authorities.
His visit in September 2000 to a holy site in Jerusalem -- known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount -- set off clashes between Palestinians and Israelis that developed into the Second Intifada, or uprising.
The BBC's Middle East correspondent, Paul Wood, says the call by some Palestinian officials for people to defend the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount, site of the al-Aqsa mosque, comes amid rumours of plans by Jewish extremists to take control of the area.
It was triggered by a visit by Mr Sharon, then the main opposition leader, to the rocky outcrop in Jerusalem that Jews call Temple Mount, Muslims call Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) and both regard as among the holiest of places on earth.
And it is true, as Gershom Gorenberg argues in his racy discussion of the various weird cults with designs on Temple Mount, that Jerusalem does not want for religious crackpots of every persuasion who would resort to violence in pursuit of some millenarian dream.
Since Obama surely recognizes that a Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority will not accept Israeli control over anything from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the Jordan Valley, he knows that he is requiring that Israel surrender its right to defensible borders before it even begins negotiating.
The cortege remained in the house for 20 minutes, and then proceeded down towards Jerusalem's Old City, where Husseini was to be buried in the Al Haram Al Sharif (Temple Mount) complex alongside his father, the latter also renowned for his devotion to the Palestinian cause.
Israeli officials this week approved the demolition of a score of Arab homes in Jerusalem beneath the most contested ground in the occupied territories, the Old City's al-Aqsa shrine which the Palestinians prize as part of their hoped-for capital and Israel reveres as the Temple Mount.
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